Hey guys,

First off...Its not like I'm a total newbie or anything, I have seen 100s of these posts before which is why I feel real awkward writing one.
Some of you might know me from stars / pXf, others might not. Just a lil about me... Been playing poker for quite a while now and have just become a long-term winning player... Basically stopped playing in October 2006 just as I couldnt afford to play anymore.

History
Came back to the tables in April of this year and found my game has improved 10-fold. When I came back to the tables, I subscribed to a staking site, Neverbeg.com (just to clear things up as I know this is going to be bought up somewhere, I ran a big series of tournaments where people had a certain amount of shares in me... I ran very bad and the originally funding went totally out of the window so I added more to the funding myself... At this point, a lot of members started giving me hassle, and me being as (stupid?) I am decided what the hell, its my money, and left the site. Since then I have paid back way more than the Heeb had when I left the site, but still get regular abuse from people who were not even involved.)

Anyways...

Neverbeg got me back on the road and I do still have a number of "fans" at the site who have messaged me on several other sites I use, so I appreciate that.

I subscribed to PXF in June of this year when I was a small profitting player... a week or so after I joined, I took down my 1st biggish tournament on stars, the $20k at noon. I was so confident after this, and I knew it was just not a "1 off"... I mean, I've had 1 offs before, coming 4th in the 100k on full tilt about 18 months ago now and various other reasonable wins here and there... but this felt different. I made a £50 bet with my step-dad that I would earn at least another $3k in the next month... he took it... I won the $20k guaranteed on the wednesday and then on the friday got 6th in the $50 25k guaranteed for $1600 and 4th in the $45k guaranteed, 11 rebuy for $3500 at the same time.

The following night I came 4th in the $100 deepstack tournament for another 2k. Since then i've had some other big finishes, notably an unlucky 4th in the stars $320 on saturdays, deep runs in the Million and Warm-Up aswell as numerous satellite wins / omaha final tables...

things have been going good. I am now ranked in the top 500 on OPR.

I have not long to go at work before my notice period is up and I turn pro... (btw this is not a decision that has been taken lightly, I can afford it, have no real attachments etc.).

Looking for...

I'm not hunting anything too serious, ie. Im not gaying to pay anyone for coaching me...

Hell im not even looking for a coach! All I want is just someone there to discuss poker with... Its very unlikely I'm gonna get a top 100 response to this, but a few of them have spoken to me at tables / messages on sites, and have really complemented my play which I really do appreciate! Anyway anyone interested please feel free to PM me or reply, im obviously gonna bump this later on during the peak times in america.

Thanks if you have read this far.

Matt.