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Happy New Year to everyone, hope you all had a great time. =]

This post is mainly about what I hope to achieve over this next year, outlining aims I hope to have achieved by January 2011.

2009 wasn’t the worst year. I graduated University and made an OK amount on the poker scene, however, it all comes down to the thing I lack the most. Volume. I’ve compiled my results from 2009 over all the sites i’ve played on.

SNG Stats

screenshot courtesy of Sharkscope (http://www.sharkscope.com)

MTT Stats

screenshot courtesy of Official Poker Rankings (http://www.officialpokerrankings.com)

screenshot courtesy of Official Poker Rankings (http://www.officialpokerrankings.com)

I also played a little bit live and thanks to Dave Collins and Steve Wills from Newcastle Poker Forum I played in the £250 Grosvenor Poker Tour side event where I finished fourth for my biggest live score to date. Here are the full results:

screenshot courtesy of Grosvenor UK Poker Tour (http://www.grosvenorukpokertour.com/)

The next tournament I played I took down which was the £20 Grosvenor Friday tournament in around August where I took £600. The next and final tournament was the Newcastle Poker Forum Championships which was a quality day out, managed ~25th from 90 in this.

Reflecting on all these results i’m not too dissapointed. For the first half of the year I was into my second semester of the final year of my university degree so had work for this to do too despite trying to put it off for as long as possible. However I haven’t had anything to do for the final half except to look for a job which hasn’t been the greatest search ever but have applied to a few companies with no success so far.

As mentioned earlier in my blog posts I started a staking deal in September at Pokerisk. After four months at these I have managed around 750 games which should have been alot more with me not having anything else planned. This is one of the things I am definately going to improve on in this next year and hope to start making a steady profit once I increase my monthly games. I will be mainly playing 6-12 tables and hope to be able to grind 5-10 hour days no problem during the next few months.

Some realistic goals I hope to achieve this year are:

- Play 8,000 games on Betsafe
- Profit $15,000 on Betsafe
- Win King of The Hill Final
- Play the main event of a national poker tour
- Keep my blog up to date with at least two updates per week

I also want to go to Vegas this year but that depends on other things that may occur later in the year, for example, if I end up getting a job then this may prevent such chances so can’t put it on this list. Also some time in the year I want to go to Dusk Till Dawn after reading reviews of people who have been.

I could make some more aims but i’ll just leave it at a short list for now as I don’t want to over complicate things. I’ll probable extend on some points in later posts, but i’m off to load up my first games of 2010.

Thanks for reading,

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