My Poker Resume

This is it, my poker resume for Nick Rainey. I understand that many resumes will be sent in by all the members at PokerVT, as well as the competition for the available spots will be very intense and the decision to select a few this first time very difficult for Nick. So I will as best I can make this short precise and to the point. If Nick for some reason loses all his senses and selects me to be chosen among the many for consideration to become one of the few, then I also submit my blog address, http://falenangel-davidb.blogspot.com/ which was created just a few days ago, and basically with the goal of improving my game, if you ever get the time.
I have never taken notes before now, I have never used computer software focused on poker but am now going to begin looking into that. I have been using a dinosaur to play online which in turn has prevented me from previously expanding on to other poker sites.
I want to be Nero, my dead cat has pointed out that the topic of my blog is "No more excuses, the time is now!", and I have to take his advice and make the best effort that I can. I will now give you a brief, falenangel version of brief, overview of all the information you have requested in your post on the forum for this opportunity of a Lifetime.
To start off, yes I am a PokerVT member and have a membership that is paid full until Jan, 2010. So I will not be leaving the training site for some time, nor do I have any plans to leave. My forum name is, falenangel.
I am 35 years old, have 3 boys (that I know of), I am married and live in Ontario, Canada. I was born in Toronto and have spent the majority of my life in this area. As a teenager I travelled to British Columbia for 8 months to experience life, and then moved all around Canada for 2 years. I returned to Ontario and started College at the age of 21, after never completing a High school education, and dropping out of grade 11. I then received my 2 year diploma with honours in Early Childhood Education, followed by a 2 year diploma for Social Service Work and Community Outreach. I have been working as a Resource Teacher for children with special needs and intellectual difficulties aged 2-6 years old. I have only been playing poker for about 3-4 years and have never been involved in any form of improvement other than playing experience and reading a few poker books each year. My usernames at the poker rooms online are as follows: FullTilt: username: dafalenangel, Pokerstars: username: dafalenangel, Betfair: username: dfalenangel, MansionPoker: username: falenangel, Tigergaming: username: falenangel, if you need to ask any questions please use my e-mial dave.butcher@sheridanc.on.ca or I will see you in the forums.
A brief list of my poker wins worth mentioning are, again noting this is all from memory with no notes having been taken so I may be omitting some events but all stated events are factual:
Online I have won over 100 MTT's and countless SnG's, I believe my ITM ratio is extremely high but have no facts to back it up. I would be curious to know what a site like sharkscope has to say when my usernames are typed in. I have never bothered to go look. Another form of a leak in my game forced on me by my ignorance with computers and not upgrading my system prior to my eyes being open wide by yourself and the many others involved with PokerVT.
Sooo tournaments that I have cashed in live: Mind that the most ever paid for a buy in was $100 SnG at Brantford and only because I had won $900.00 that day at the cash limit 5-10, and the tourny needed 1 more to play. Lucky me! Otherwise the max buy in I have played in live or online was $30.00, until that experience at Brantford, and for an unknown reason never since...
Local Bar in Brampton - Oscar's weekly tournament. Winners get invited to Tourny of Champions. Multiple time winners get extra starting chips. I came in 2nd the first ever Tourny of Champions and took down $900.00. The following year I came back for the Title a nice gold bracelet (for my first and only bracelet to date) and $1500.00 with free re-buys for next 4 months of tournaments. I cashed in 50% of the tournaments I played at this bar, paid top 5 with 36 entrants 2 times a week. Tournament of champions ran every 4 months. That was a fun year or so of my life. I actually believe my strength is in live game play, I have had to adapt to the internet which is way more difficult to get a read on your opponents.
Brantford Charity Casino: Ultimate Poker Championships $100. SnG, satelight victory seat into 1K buy in of the 5 day events.
Ultimate Poker Championships 1k buy in tournament, place I think it was 6th, and got over 6K. I then bought into the 2k buy-in. (I know reckless but I felt lucky)
Ultimate Poker Championships 2k buy in tournament, place in 22nd and got over 4k
Online largest victory: I didn't take records but I have won over $2k one time and over $500. at least 5 times in MTT tournaments with buy ins of $10-20. If I remember any other large events I will edit it in in the future.
I do know my largest cash game win at a casino was $2300. and my biggest loss was $900.00. That is when I was playing regularly live and hadn't had any positive experiences with internet poker.
I will be sending this e-mail on Sunday February 22nd, with the intention of starting my 100 $3, 90 man SnG challenge this comming Monday February 23rd in the evening, eastern time.
What I might do, as suggested by you know who, is play 100 $1 SnG 1 table first to see how many table I can play at a time and how fast I can pump out 100 games. Maybe even 200 games, then when I feel good about my pace and amount of tables best for me I will attack the $3 on FullTilt. I can currently manage 6 tables at 7 my head starts spinning and I make mistakes I wouldn't if I were playing 5 or 6.
I was going to also include a tidbit about my family and history which brought me to becoming the man I am today, however I know that Nick is very busy, and I think what is more important is the man I have become and how I proceed in my endevours from here. I also know that infact I will succeed in this current journy... it is just a matter of how soon or how fast. I have sub-consciously put a lock on the door in front of the journy and Nick has opened it from the inside, I just have to walk through it...
I also know that this will in turn improve my game as I take each next step, and begin to expand my whole outlook, thought process and eliminate those aspects that hurt my chances of being a winning player.
I am grateful that the god of the turn has continued to watch over me with my dead cat always the loving railbird, lookout world falenangel's coming to town!
Thank You Nick, Thank You Very Much!