2011 in review, 2012 here we come (Deep Sunday million run)

Well 2011 has been a odd year all in all

Started off poker wise pretty bad, I was self doubting at every corner about my game. I started to work even harder on my game and started to work with Andres.

Something clicked, I am not sure what but thinking deeply about the most minute aspects of the game helped a ton. Throw in some run good and boom I started FT things all the time, and hit a few good scores and everything seemed set.

My wife (most amazing woman ever) sat me down early April and said look, your obviously good at this, you love it and I know you would like to do it full time. Well you can, I wont stop you I will support you. All you have to do is make sure you have 1 years life expenses put away and a back up plan should it not work out.

2 weeks later whilst in china with work black Friday hits and the world as I knew it changed. Funnily enough 3 days after this I shipped a MTT in my hotel on my day off hungover after the legendary macua night with Derby (he shipped 4k euro mtt).

Anyway post BF my backing deal ended, I was back playing micro stakes and getting low on bankroll and even started playing $2 180 mans to get me back on track. I really thought maybe this poker gig was dead!

Then randomly a old contact from a cash game study group messaged me on Skype asking if I was still looking for backing (it was on my profile). I said yes we talked, he started backing me for av buy in of $20. I did well made the monies, and actually put him in touch with andres who was starting another project.

Skip forward a few months, I was crushing hard building a roll and actually giving in notice at work to play professionally. I joined Sng protege a great site that I had long admired, private coaching took off as well with a number of students really starting show solid improvement and results.

Funny old year really and I can only see it getting better next year. My wonderful wife is pregnant with our second child and my little girl is growing up to be super cute so it shoudl be even better!



So above is the graph for 2011, its missing about 8k from FTP post BF about 1k on UB and also about 1k on 888. So prob around 50k this year from mtt's, throw in the 5k or so i made live and also 6k i made in cash games and its been pretty good at around 65k. I don't track RB (I prob should) but I guess that's added another 20% at least to my bottom line.

So for a low volume part time player I am pretty happy with it.

2012 I am very optimistic, in fact the very first Sunday of playing I had a super deep run in the Sunday million finishing 19th for 3.5k. At the time I was gutted to go out when I did, but I had been the short stack from 30 players down and just didn't get any spots to chip up. In fact with 100 or so left I ran pretty badly actually, so on another day maybe I would have gotten a shot at the $200k+ for first.

But with two 13th places, a 5th place and 19th all in huge Field mtt's on a Sunday definitely feel like getting back to my best.

2012 goals, well I dont set money goals I think its a bad idea but here's what I posted on sng protege. Maybe ambitious (cash goal for sure) but aim high and work hard!

Consistently beat mid-high stakes mtts
start playing more cash - get up to NL600 and beat it
Put in 80 hours a week into poker from march when i play full time
have one of my student hit a 5 fig score
Learn 2-7 triple draw for 'fun"
Find a new hobby as poker was it, possibly learn to cook some fine dining classics
play cricket/football during the summer
get more exercise in general
play in UKIPT
give up drinking (not to sure about this one!)

gl all for 2012 especially my american freinds, really hope online poker comes back for you