Happy New Year
Tuesday, January 08, 2008
By: Acevader
Happy New Year everyone and all the best for 2008 (yes, yes I know it's a little late!). For this post I'm not going to bother rehashing my previous musings on how I intend to operate in 2008 as my goals and aspiration are pretty obvious from recent posts. Hopefully 2008 will go something like this: Make money, take trip to Vegas, make more money, get married, make lots of money ... the end.
Prior to publishing this post I looked back at my first post of 2007 to see what I had to say for myself a year ago. It made for interesting reading and I was also delighted to see that in principle I achieved most/all of my targets from last year. The flat is finished (pretty much), I now play poker for a living and, in general, I'm happier even though I'm worse off - we'll get to that! Where I have failed has been in general fitness and body weight but this comes down to a very bad December. I had actually lost a fair bit of weight and improved my fitness from Aug-Nov but I have been eating like a complete tit since then. If my eating discipline were likened to poker discipline then I'm playing 90% of all hands, chasing all draws and basically never raising or playing aggressive. I've been a dieting fish for 5-6 weeks and by god does it show in my results.
I have now been playing poker for a living for 5 months and it really has been a tale of two halves. The first 3 months were a disaster as I started off on my biggest and worst losing run in 4+ years of poker across every measure of a bad run ($ value, no. hands, no. hours). I switched to Full Ring in late October and have clawed back my losses and made some profit but as yet it hasn't been enough to match what I would have banked in my previous job. In fact, over the 5 month period I'm around $10,000 worse off, which is bad news. However, my 70k hand FR sample carries with it a win rate that, along with rakeback, far exceeds what I earned per hour so hopefully with some application I can recover that deficit quite quickly. In order to do this I really will have to increase my hours given that in the 21 weeks since I started I've averaged just 12.5 hours a week, half of my target. I want my next 6 month average to be 25 hours and for that to include some time off; hoping for 11 days in Vegas but it depends on money.
I'll ramble no more; thanks for the comments in regards to the previous post and I'll try and keep you posted on my progress in 2008.
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