2010

been getting deep in a lot of stuff recently when i have played which has not been often. i do tend to get a little lazy and complacent after a win which i think is natural but i will start ramping it back up again.

last night was my first session in a long while and i got beat up pretty good for the most part early. i played a session starting at 6pm which is a little earlier than usual and only reg'd up till 7:15. by 10pm i was 1 tabling the $11 20k guarantee (that gets like 35k i think) so i also fired up 3 tables of 100nl full ring on stars. managed to do the run good on that and made 3 buyins while i played the next hour. by 1am i was back 1 tabling and pretty deep but eventually bounced 24th/3200ish in an unfortunate flip. i had about 35bb's and min-raised a short stack shove w/ AKhh and funny enough i get flatted by the bb. flop is 8hi with my flush draw, there was a ton in the pot plus side pot so i shove and he calls w/ a slo played QQ and i bricked off. (fav on flop!)

i did have a final table last week when i came 7th in the $11 1r1a on stars for like $850. generally im pretty disappointed with a final table that results in a poor finish but i got it in pretty bad twice when i was ninja'ing a 6bb stack and got A7 thru A9 on a 9 hi flop and binked a set with 22 vs QQ. so even though i had the chip lead at one point at the final table i can't be to disappointed with the finish.

i also got deepish in a $10r on stars that had like 3500 entrants and busted 95th or so but that tourny had like a 15k first prize and 5 figure scores for the every spot in the final table.

on to 2010 and my goals are as follows:

• have fun playing poker
• stick to mtt's
  
• win tournaments and make money
• play in some live events

i think that's about as specific as a part time mtt player can get. i pretty much know right now that i won't once again play a wsop event this year which is kinda a bummer but ok at the same time. i will however aim to possibly play in some NAPT tournaments since pokerstars is the nuts and have created this tour with affordable main events (for some, not for me) but also put together a series around it with lots of low buyin stuff so hopefully i get the chance to travel to one of those this year. i'm eyeing mohegan sun in Connecticut (April) but i dunno.

tg