Well 2008 was a real mixed bag for me live was on the whole a huge success, won the £500NL at the vic no chop ditto the Norweigian PLO. Made first GUKPT ME final in Thanet although disappointing 5th. Also had a 10th in WSOP in Vegas and made first WSOP final table in the PLO in London. Vegas poker wise other than that was 6 weeks of hell and torture which equalled first losing and cut short trip in 3 years. 25 other MTTs and single tables without a cash adds up and after having done $14k trying to win a $10k ME seat and bubbling the final live multi the night before i couldn't take any more. I somehow owned blackjack for most of the trip which led to comped suites and poker almost becoming secondary but it's a game i'd quite happily never play again. I also crushed 2/5 and 5/10 PLO around town but dumped off those winnings and the BJ ones in the 25/50/100 game in the Rio to the Texan Tag Team which was nice.
Finished the year European No.1 in PLO and i think No.5 overall.
Online was mostly an unmitigated disaster. Crushed the online PLO MTTs but my OPR shows my first ever losing year in NLH MTTs on Stars, only -1% ROI but in terms of effort and time FML. Did my brains chasing Supernova on Stars that was fun might do it again, mostly $25/$50 PLO spins gone wrong, plus side was i played a hell of a lot of HU NL and PLO sit and go's and turned my sharkscope around from a massive fail to a slightly smaller fail . Had one huge spinup on
Full Tilt whilst in the well on here some of which made it's way to Vegas with me but apart from that i'd be a rich man if i got back 10% of the money i lost on there over the course of the year.
Started with Bad Beat in September mostly for PLO cash and had a massively successful first 6 weeks winning $100k then went on a sick downer that saw me do $75k back in 3 weeks, last couple of weeks of the year saw a return to minor winning ways.
Goals for 2009
Make another WSOP final table in any game
Win a PLO bracelet
Win a GUKPT ME
Play some more EPT's and make an FT
Start winning or relearn how to win online again overall or quit and get a job
Return to building from small $ online and not reinvesting large chunks of offline winnings particularly on FT
Sattellite into every major event i can online
F**k the European rankings
Start exercising again and lose about 2 stone
Not do any more Cardplayer interviews for
Barry Carter cos it was an almighty bokk!
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