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Joe Czech Republic. Jan 11 2010 23:35. Posts 5987 | | |
First off, I decided to stop posting monthly results in this blog and I dont intend to start with it again. I actually thought I will just stop blogging at all here, but I got several requests to write a new blog entry, so here it is, although a bit different than what I used to post. It mostly wont contain specific results.
2009 bilancing
I set myself some goals for 2009, so lets go over them and review how I did.
I wanted to become a high stakes online no-limit regular (was a 5/10 reg in the beginning of 2009) playing everything from 5/10 up to 25/50. I think I accomplished this goal enough. I consider 10/20 NL to be my base stakes now and I play 25/50 NL when the games are good.
Then I of course set myself some monetary goals. I do not want to say specific numbers, but my 'ideal' goal was quite daring compared to what I made in 2008 and even my 'minimal satisfactory' goal was to make more than in 2008, which was a successfull year for me as well.
Well, I am happy to say that I exceeded my 'ideal' goal by quite something, so I accomplished this part too.
But, to go into a bit more details, I can divide my poker income into 3 main categories: online poker, live poker and swaps/deals.
At online poker I actually won a bit less than what I hoped to win in the beginning of the year. Also, what surprised me in the end was the fact, that rakeback + bonus deals made up for almost 25% of my total online poker income.
At live poker though I won way more than what I expected. I went deep in 4 big live tournaments (23th/2650 in a WSOP $1,500 NLHE event, 5th/168 in 5,000€ WPT Barcelona, 3rd/450 in 1,500€ Unibet Open Prague and 13th/750 in 5,000GBP EPT London) and cashed in couple more. I also played quite some high stakes cash games live, mostly NL $30/$60 (approximately) in my country and I won a decent amount in those games.
At swaps/deals I was actually a bit down most of the year, but in December my friend won the EPT Prague and I had a small share swapped with him, which was still quite a decent amount of money from the first place prize.
Another goal was to put in enough playtime, which I think I accomplished so so, I definately could have played more, but I still played enough to consider that ok. I think I played little over 300,000 hands online. No idea about live.
Then I wanted to connect poker and travelling as best as I could. I think I definately travelled quite some, but I want to add a little bit more this year.
Yet another goal was to find a good balanced poker lifestyle. I have to say I am not really satisfied, I definately have a lot of space for improvement in this area.
2010 goals and ideas
I will start off with monetary goals. I would be very very satisfied if I managed to make the same (or more than) I made in 2009, but tbh I dont expect it to be very likely, I am giving it maybe like 30% chance tops. Other than that I didnt set any exact amount of money which I want to make, the more the better I guess 
The plans for this year are basically to try and push my poker skills as far as I can, to try and find a balanced, funny and at least somewhat fullfilling lifestyle while poker is my main focus and to travel as much as I can.
I think I will do decently enough in first and third parts, but I am not sure about the second part, that one is difficult. The rate of success in that area will influence it the most (alongside other factors like income of course) how much longer I will be pursuing poker as my main focus, it may be 5 more years but it may be just 1-2 years I cant really say now.
I think I already wrote enough, hope it will satisfy those who asked me for a blogpost, I posted it mostly because of these requests.
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tapatapaz Brasil. Jan 12 2010 00:04. Posts 1279 | | |
congratulations on your good year and glgl |
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sounds good, I think a VERY important key to become a high stakes regular in the online game (10/20+) is having a diverse bankroll and having access to as many sites as possible, there was a week on stars where there was 10+ 10/20 games running non stop, sometimes theres good games running on party all day long etc... I;m under the impression you mostly play on prima? having more tables to choose from should greatly increase your expected hourly rate |
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milkman United States. Jan 12 2010 01:37. Posts 5719 | | | |
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chipsOwner Czech Republic. Jan 12 2010 03:07. Posts 529 | | |
gg, at se dari |
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gratz did you have a 7digit year? |
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sweetbread Czech Republic. Jan 12 2010 03:57. Posts 159 | | |
congrats man, best of luck to you this year.
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Joe Czech Republic. Jan 12 2010 09:47. Posts 5987 | | |
Tom - yea you are right for sure. I actually do have money on all the big sites, but I just find it so much more comfortable to play on just one site, where I have lots of info, history with players etc. that I simply dont do this enough. But I will try to improve in this area and cross-site select more. So far I really only play on Prima and a tiny bit on FTP.
lostacc. - no, not even close, my expectations werent that high though, so I didnt need to end up as greatly to have a good year |
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