Gawuss   Poland. Feb 06 2010 08:43. Posts 2336
2009 ended over a month ago but I haven't summarized it yet. I'm well aware of my laziness and being a procrastinator and I didn't really do anything about it during the last year. I got coaching from D_Zoo (we still have one session left) which made me think more while playing but the number of hands I put in (about 160k) was too little of a sample to see any huge improvements (plus I obviously underestimated the knowledge I had been given and didn't use it for long - the reason for this is naturally my lazy nature and ignorance...god I hate myself for that). I made a few attempts to move up in stakes which could have gone a little better but I failed and I'm still a 2/4eur NL regular.
I do regret having played only 160k hands but I don't regret (most of) the things I did when I was not playing. I spent a great deal of time with my friends, which made me realize how awesome they are, I visited many cool places like London and Amsterdam, I finally turned 18 and started playing on accounts registered to my name and I partied a lot due to the super-sweet-18-parties wave - I must have been to at least 30. I definitely grew up as a person but this could have been done without passing on progress in poker.
That's why I'm going to completely change my attitude towards it in 2010. I've already started analyzing my game, watching coaching videos on a daily basis and playing more. I'm about to graduate from high school (I've already had my prom night - pics in the next update) and pass the final exams called 'matura' in Poland. I'm in the middle of my driving course and it's very likely I'll have my first chance to pass the driving test in 2 weeks.
The current year started great by me going to the Bahamas with my cousin (update soon) but I lost some money on that trip which was not so cool. Luckily I had my best day ever (+3,3k eur = $4,5k) and ended down only ~2k eur but that's just because of the money I had withdrawn in January. Oh, I forgot to mention that December 2k9 was the best month I've had so far: +10k eur. I'm going to beat that multiple times in 2010 though .