2010 Review / 2011 Goals

Just a quick post on my 2010 pokerwise and my aims/goals for the new year.

2010 Review

Online
Online started out badly. I had a fantastic finish to 2009 cashing for just over $30k in the last 3 months of the year for spent the first few months of 2010 playing the high stakes MTTs ($55-$200) with minimal results. This was a learning curve and something I won't be doing again, to top it all off I failed to qualify for the £500 CBMPT event in Bristol so bought in :( Again, I shall not be doing this again in a hurry and was stupid for doing so. Although It didn't kill me financially I would class myself as dead money in the £500 event, I played very tight and just didn't/couldn't play my A-Game due to the fact I bought in direct with £500 hard cash (with no backing). Lol to buyin to £500 events comfortably I'd need a £100k role (200 bi BR Management rule) which I don't have.

With that said I refocused and started studying the game again and playing well. Some of my decent MTT results from 2010 are listed below:

* 1st out of 211 players ... $44 (4-Max) - $2,450
* 1st out of 320 players ... $27.50 (4-Max) - $1,750
* 1st out of 210 players ... $22 (Heads-Up) - $1,350
* 1st out of 308 players ... $22 (Big Antes) - $1,260
* 1st out of 307 players ... $22 (Big Antes) - $1,255
* 1st out of 248 players ... $12 (Rush) - $710
* 1st out of 233 players ... $12 (Rush) - $670

other results include...
* 52nd out of 1,573 players ... $640 (Party Million) - $2,600
* 4th out of 271 players ... $109 ($20k) - $2,300
* 23rd out of 4,691 players ... $215 (Sunday Warm-Up) - $2,300

So overall once I'd put the poor start to the year behind me it turned out to be a very consistent year in terms of results. As a part time player I'd now like to build on this in 2011 and start increasing my buyins and hopefully scores :D

Live
It turned out to be a poor year in terms of live events. I played 2x UKIPTs and 2x CBMPTs.

The first was the £200 CBMPT event in Bristol, I busted out with a boat. Flop came down J92, I was holding JJ. Turn was an A and river was a 9, we get it in on the river (which boated me up) but the lady I was up against had pocket 9s.

The £500 in Bristol didn't really warrent anything report worthy, as mentioned I bought in direct which rendered me dead money.

The UKIPT in Nottingham was a fun event and I made it deep into day 2. I got it in eventually preflop with pocket Queens against a serial raiser who held AK, A on the flop and game over 10 places short of the money.

UKIPT Coventry saw me bust late in day one, this time with me holiding AK against QQ and I failed to bink.

2011 has started well and I'm registered for the £100'er Grand Prix at Dusk Till Dawn, I also have 2x £500 UKIPT seats bagged for the event in Nottingham which allows me to realx a little.

2011 Goals
Basically I'll keep it simple...

• Add 2 live cashes to my Hendon Mob page.
• Go to Vegas during the WSOP Circuit and cash.
• Try and play/satty into a £1k+ live event.
• Get 2x five figures scores during the year.
  
• Cash for over $30,000 online.
• Play at least 1x Sunday Major a month.

The goals above are fairly moderate and I feel I can nail all of them this year. It's all relative when it comes to goals but the goals are based on playing 100-150 hours a month and playing 5-10 live events.

I haven't really started playing properly online this year, I had my first session online last night cashing for $400 for a 3rd place finish in a $75 45 Man on Tilt, as well as a few min cashes in the $12 rush tourneys but thats about it.

Let's Get Ready To Rumble.....

Let 2011 Begin !