It's a late boy but it's here!

Hey, hey, hey! Happy new year guys! As always it's been a while so time to update on how November and December went and make some targets for 2011. Since my last post I have seen loads of people who say they regularly read my blog, that's awesome, massive LAD's!

I played a huge 53 hours (27,913 hands) in November. I did have a nice end to the month and won $2k on the last day of the month all at $1/$2 and finished November with a total $5559 profit. It was another solid month and I learnt a lot about playing at the higher stakes and how important table selection is and that it can be far more profitable to play different stakes game selecting well rather than 'just' playing $2/$4 for example!

December went even better than November and I made $6742 in 49 hrs (29,465 hands) with a nice hourly rate of $137 p/hour. I cruised the month with only one losing day. The games were amazing but as usual I just put no volume in. I kind of wish I played more in December because it was my biggest cash month to date and could have been a five figure month with more volume! But the times I did play were high quality so I'm still very happy with the month, can't grumble at nearly $7k!

At the start of December I moved into my new flat with Bobby, a man known for that fact he is a poker genius and also a very destructive chef! It was sad leaving Nathan 'Plasters' Masters place and I miss his little face. I'm all settled in at the new place now and enjoying it. I have been talking through hands with Bobby and I'm starting to learn a huge amount from his analysis.

Here's a few pictures of the new pad as requested:











I had a good Christmas with my family and friends. Was great to see Dave who was back from Afghanistan for a few weeks for Christmas. We had a good few drinks Christmas eve and then a sweet random boozy night after Christmas too with Dave, the Magic Man, Jazzy Fizzle and Jezza! New Years eve was quality. Me, Jezza, Magic Man Matty V and Wilson went up to visit Langdown in London for his birthday and New Year. Langdown was the sickest host, we had a Nandos and then smashed a bottle of goose before meeting him at the club in Leicester Square where he had a table for us with two bottles of vodka and 2 bottles of Champagne and unlimited Jager bombs. We had an amazing night, well as much of it as I can remember! lol! If I'm right I think I ended up in the restaurant part of the nightclub and got 'escorted' out and then Magic Man was 'escorted' out too! We went to get the tube home but went the wrong way cos we were so boozy and then ended up getting a taxi back. I left my phone in the taxi and we had to drive an hour back to get it the next day, Wilson you're a hero for that...LAD!


(Me and Langdown NYE)

So, my first year playing poker full time came to an end. I have learnt a huge amount in 2010 and look forward to big things in 2011! I hit stop loss countless times, went over it even more times, had days were I wanted to cry and days where I was on top of the world but it's all worth it when you stack those papers ;-) Here's my final graph for all hands played online in 2010:



On to the new year 2011. I have some goals for January. I'm hoping to play 100 hrs this month, do lots of learning, talking through hands and watch lot's of bluefire videos. My daily schedule will involve going to the gym Monday to Friday with the muscle shark Jez, playing 5 a side football Monday, Thursday, Friday and 11 a side on Saturday. I am going to try and play 5 hours of poker every evening and I'm gonna flick in the odd weekend evening too as they can be very profitable. I need to work very hard this year. I want to get my head down and play lot's of hours and get some money saved. So far I have played 35 hours this month so I'm well on target for the 100! I did have a bad losing day going well over stop loss this month. I ran really bad but stop loss is there for a reason and could have saved me a few buy ins. I hadn't hit stop loss for a while and so got a bit complacent. Anyways, I won the next few days and won $3k last night cause I'm a massive geeza! lol. I'm up a little bit this month now but time to keep the volume going and grind out some big months.

Hope everyone has a good 2011 and good luck to Toby down to last 48 of the PCA, $2.3 million ftw! I'm on the online rail, but would love a double boozy Bahamas rail though!

GL at the tables!