Here's the "after"-shot:



I was ahead of schedule for the Q1 $60k target ($20k so far) so I treated myself to a good chair as well as a new desk.

I'm impressed with the desk. It only cost about £95 (from Ikea) but is really useful. I wouldn't usually buy a corner unit "designed" for a PC, because they try to give you a place for everything - sliding keyboard shelf, mouse pad shelf slides out from that, LCD plinth, and none of it is quite where you would want it to be and you can't move it because they only produced it with that in mind. This one is just a good flat expanse of corner-desk with a shelf underneath for the tower, and then shelves/racks up high. It also Includes the whiteboard I've been wanting so that I can pretend I'm House MD when trying to figure something out.

Holdem is going well and I'm still running good - $20k in only about 12k hands so far mostly at 4/8. Heads-up Omaha isn't going quite so well, but I think that was to be expected since I knew how bad I was at flips. That's why I've never had any urge at all to gamble at a casino game. I think that focusing on the whole quarter will help me get more hands in over the next 2 weeks, and the novelty of the new chair/office can't hurt either.