Happy New Year!!
Overall 2010 was a success. I quit my full time job and worked from home the entire year, working part time for FTR and playing poker part time. I ended the year with almost the same amount of life money in the bank as I had at this time last year. My bankroll is bigger, though, which is cool.
The year itself had its ups and downs, including tons of downs where poker is concerned. By August, when I stopped playing cash and started playing donkaments, I was up ~$150 from poker the entire year (including cash, tournaments, and some bonuses). I lost almost $9k playing tournaments from August to the end of October, and then between the end of October and the end of December won around $27k. In the end the net is around +$19k playing poker which I am quite happy with.
I am extremely excited about 2011. I probably won’t get to travel as much as I had hoped because of my personal life, but I’ll still be going to the Bahamas and Scotland for sure. I hope I can at least go to Vegas for the WSOP ladies event, although I’d like to play a few other $1k events if I can afford it. I’m sure PokerStars will have more ladies events to satellite into next year, too, and I fully intend on making it into every single one.
My main online poker goal this year is to play at least 4k tournaments. Along the way I’d like to push my average buy-in up a bit, and I’d like to be improve my multi-tabling a lot. I’ll be playing 4 days per week, usually Thursday through Sunday.
I upgraded my monitor yesterday, getting rid of my 19 inch for a 27. I wanted a 32 but they’re more than double the price of a 27… not worth it.
I played 25 tourneys today and dropped almost $800 on a typical Sunday. Bad start to the year, IMO. I’m excited to play again this week, though, mostly because my monitor is so sexy.
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