Back online!

I had been promising to get a website up and going again for quite some time. It was always in the works but poker was just taking up too much of my time to get it together so I kept putting it off. I have always had a website presence where I posted my general thoughts with the last one being TheINClan website which I webmastered for a couple of years. That website was very popular for quite some time amongst the Warcraft 3 community as well as the wider gaming community.

Recently I stumbled across Blogger.com and found that you can publish your blog directly to your FTP site which I didn't realize was possible. That took away the whole chore of coding news and comments scripts which gave me the motivation to go ahead and start posting again quickly and easily! This site can be got too from the url's :- http://www.tillerman.org, http://www.iaingirdwood.com and the ill-fated http://www.expectsomething.com which was meant to have been my new site after TheINClan.com shut down.

As anyone who knows me will know I quit gaming after the 2004 World Cyber Games (around 18 months ago) to take up poker full time. I have been very successful in that time progressing to quite a high skill level in a relatively short period of time. You measure poker success by how much money you earn and in that department I have done well enough to take it up full time with no other source of income for the past couple of years.

However to do that I had to sacrifice gaming, giving poker my fullest and most obsessive/compulsive attention in exactly the same way as I approached Warcraft and Starcraft. In other words I played like a maniac, putting in 12 hour days of poker non stop for 6 months. Things have quietened down now giving me some more free time where I can do some other stuff such as post this Blog daily! I am much more relaxed about poker recently, generally only playing 3-4 hours a day maximum.

I know a lot of gamers who switched from gaming to Poker, I could name 30 probably just off the top of my head so there must be hundreds and hundreds of them who have switched since I started. It was obvious that top video gamers would make top poker players for the most part, even more amazing is that fact that how good you were at gaming seems to correlate roughly to how good you are at poker. This is probably due to the character traits of some top gamers :- Obsessiveness, Drive, Competitiveness and of course some semblance of intelligence. And of course with Internet poker, ex gamers have a huge advantage, being able to Multi Task 7-8 poker windows very easily compared to someone without that same experience who can struggle with 2 or 3.

I am probably going to talk about poker for 80% of my blog but it certainly won't be limited to poker. I still have interests in a lot of other things including gaming which will also be fun to talk about, just like the good old days =) !