So here I am ... 31 years old, an IT security professional, hooked on poker and tired of working.

I feel like I'm in a quarter life crisis or something .. I have it all, 2 houses, a beautiful wife and a great job. But it's not what I want ... I'd rather sit on my lazy ass all day and do nothing. But we're not that rich. Although .. not righ enough to do it here in Holland. We are now seriously thinkning about taking a 1 year break somewhere far away. Somewhere warm and relaxed, where we can find rest and get to ourselves again. This world is too crazy and hectic sometimes ...

We need a serious break from the fast lane ... 

Wow ... am I good or what ?  I'm playing so good lately I can hardly believe it myself. From the 8 tourney's I've played in the last week I made 2 final tables, cashed 3 times and went deep 6 times. I can probably discount the 2 where everything went wrong as they were at the very start of the series of games I played.

With the money from a $2 rebuy tourney, I have gotten myself a copy of Poker Tracker and am planning to thoroughly review it here later. So stay tuned for that ... so far I have it setup mining the 5c/10c cash tables at Full Tilt so I will hopefully have some stats on the players there after a few days. I hope by that time I will have enough info to sit down at a table and have stats on a few players. This way I will be able to do some quick table selection and make an easier profit than before (hopefully).

I think I should actually concentrate on MTTs right now as my game in those has vastly improved lately and online cash games I have never been very succesfull at. The cash game at our house has been skipped for 2 weeks with it being my birthday and all.

I got a free $45 bankroll at Action Poker and since it's windows only software, I was running it on VMware on my Macbook.  Now today I tried to start the software, and after it had updated itself, it now refuses to run on VMware. It barfs out an error saying 'this software cannot run on a virtual machine'.

Now I don't know who was the master brain at Action Poker who thought of this, but it sure doesn't help me. I guess they want to prevent people from messing around with the software, or maybe they have had people with virtual machine farms harvesting all those free bankrolls or something.

Anyway, I will now have to grab my Wintell machine in order to rid the donks at AP of their money !