2010 Recap and 2011 Goals

I haven't been the best at keeping this updated, and I apologize to the two subscribers for not posting anything for two months, I'm sure you're heartbroken and I promise thats the last thing that I want. Last summer Addicted19 and I took on coaching hughezy1 for the 90mans. He was a recreational player who wanted to learn how to play poker semi-seriously. Hughezy1's progress and results can be found here. Through lots of three hour hand history reviews and lots of hard work, Hughezy1 was able to post some great numbers. Moving from a complete fish playing the 3/90s, to beating the $13 sngs in just two short months. Personally, he has been an inspiration to me by proving that, although poker may not be fair, the harder we work, the more often we will be putting ourselves in great situations. Thanks Hughezy1 for being such a great first student.

We've picked up 2 more students since the summer and would like to continue adding more as the year progresses. I will be making a page for one of them soon. We are also looking to pick up another student in the next day or so once we figure out the details.

I didn't have a great finish to the year, but it wan't bad either. I didn't put in as much volume as I would have liked, but I was still making (a lot) more than I was losing, so I can't complain. I was even able to cashout enough to fund my entire snowboard trip to Park City Utah during hte first week of Jan. I also cashed out enough to play live two nights before we left for Utah, and did well enough to treat myself to a goPRO HD video camera that took some amazing footage of every run in Utah.

When I came back my bankroll was running low and on top of that I was coming off a two week period without playing. I broke even for the first few hundred games of January and I was really getting frustrated with poker... But thanks to Hughezy, January has been my highest profiting month, and I've only played half the number of games that I have in previous months.

Here are my 2010 sng results on ftp. Keep in mind that I didn't switch to fulltilt until late June, and I played cash for two months as well as playing some live with great results.



I recently switched to a new game, just to try out this year and I'm in love. I know I'm running well, but I'm also playing very well at the final table, which has led to some deep runs and some very solid profit in just the two short weeks I've been playing them. Here's the last two weeks:



I kept telling myself at the end of last year that this was probably my last year to play poker seriously. I'm probably not going to pursue it as a profession, but I will always use it for some extra spending money. That being said, my goal this year is to make $25,000. To accomplish this, I'm going to need to play at least 800 games/month all year. 2011 is my year, and I am ready for whatever is going to be thrown my way.

Good luck at the tables,

LUCKBOX