Introduction

Hello and welcome to the inaugural post of my blog.

For those who don't me (how you came upon this blog is beyond me then) my name is Josh and I recently graduated from NYU with a degree in physics. The purpose of this blog is to chronicle my trials and tribulations as a professional poker player, recording not only the swings and bad beats that I take in any given day but also the nomadic life style that I currently live and the strange ways in which playing poker for a living affects my daily life.

I currently live in Pittsburgh with my brother and play at the local casino (Rivers Casino). The current plan is to stay in Pittsburgh until the end of September at which point I hope to return to New York for ~one week. After that I will move to Vegas for the rest of year or so and then hopefully to Canada. All of that is, of course, subject to change.

The blog itself is currently a work in progress as I work to make it much more snazzy. I play about 8 hrs/day and it takes me about 1 hr each way to get there so please excuse me if it takes a little while to get the blog up and running to its full potential, especially considering that I only take Mondays off at the moment.

I meet quite a number of strange and fascinating people in the course of my life; my hope is to make a continuously updated section of "interesting people" or some such that chronicles them.

My apologies in advance to the poker illiterate among you who read this blog, but there will be quite a bit of poker terminology that you probably will not understand.

Thanks for joining me, it should be one hell of a wild fucking ride.