For some, playing poker is an acceptable expense because they simply enjoy playing the game for fun. It's fine to have that approach if you have it reconciled in your own mind that you are prepared to spend money in exchange for entertainment as you might do watching your favorite sports team, visiting the theatre, etc.

However, if your primary concern is showing profit rather than just splashing around in a few pots, then you need to be taking things much more seriously. If you have money continually passing in and out of your hands it pays to treat your whole operation as seriously as you would if you were running your own business. Successful businesses have regular meetings during which they review performance and explore new ideas to help drive the company forward. It helps if you have friends with whom you are able to talk poker; even if you don't, it's still worth taking the time to hold the equivalent of your own one-man board meeting and taking a look at how you're doing.

The Polish Grzegorz Gosk was the happy winner of ESPT Ibiza. He also received the impressive amount of €92.100. In second place ended the Spanish player Alvaro Santamaria with €58.600 followed by another Spanish poker player Carlos Simon Martinez with the juicy amount of €32,500.

In fourth place ended Jeff Zsolt Soros who was rewarded with €25.500, Manuel Martinez ended fifth with €19.550 and Raul Paez sixth with €15.800. When the final Heads Up started the Spanish player had an important advantage but due to an early All-in, the things considerably changed. This way ends the second season of Estrellas Poker Tour (ESPT).

The 2011 PokerStars Australia New Zealand Poker Tour Darwin winner is Jack Drake. He won the champion title and the AUD$36,480 first place prize. A total of 64 poker players paid the AUD$ 2,200 buy-in creating a CAD$ 128,000 prize pool at the Skycity Darwin Casino.

Among the notable players participating were Brendon Rubie, Aaron Benton, Michael Guzzardi, Ryan McKay, Octavian Voegele, Grant Levy, Leo Boxell, Jesse McKenzie and Danny Chevalier. In second place finished Brett Dannevig with AUD$24,960 followed by Fotios Manolakos with AUD$16,640

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Hello! My name is Aaron and I've been an online poker pro for over 5 years. I first got into it for fun, but I quickly found out there were lots of people out there doing it for profit, and I wanted to be a part of that. I'd like to open with a quick summary of my poker history:

I received a free $5.00 bankroll around New Years of 2005. By the start of 2006, I had a bankroll of about $6,000 and decided to start playing full-time. I was playing $3/6 limit on Party Poker, at a time where 6-max games had just overtaken full-ring as the most popular games, and players were scrambling to learn this new format. I worked hard throughout 2006 to improve my game, but the truth was I was earning more in rakeback than in winnings, and I was struggling to find a big edge in limit games.