2009 poker goals/ambitions

[TightEnd]

Just one.

For blonde Poker to survive.

[The_duke]

Just one.

For blonde Poker to survive.

We could all help that one to come to pass-- I for one add one more goal -- play at least twice a week on Blonde Poker

[Longy]

Just one.

For blonde Poker to survive.

Ugh, in your honest opinion how likely is blonde to go under in 09'?

[TightEnd]

Just one.

For blonde Poker to survive.

Ugh, in your honest opinion how likely is blonde to go under in 09'?

Perhaps I should have said "to survive and prosper"

It's a real battle, that's for sure, currently and as we all know the overall economic environment both for our corporate clients/potential sponsors/potential advertisers and our members/players is exceedingly tough


(that's as far as I am gonig to answer!)

[jakally]

Rich,

For many businesses, the 'prosper' bit can wait for another time - surviving the next 12 months or so will likely be an achievement.
Good luck, and keep reminding us how we can do our bit.

[riverdave]

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!
Be just slightly less degen

[julian]

find that looser/oh i'm all-in w 7 high gear again,
watch & learn more from the young guns,
spend more time locked in a room reviewing hands, watching cardrunners, thinking & reading rather than just random surfing/dossing on facebook,
have a deep run in the wsop main event,
discover a way to avoid those 2 or 3 hours of darkness that follow an exit - that doesn't involve abusing my liver/monging out.

[julian]

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!
Be just slightly less degen

what the hell are you doing up at 8am?

[david3103]

learn to stop calling on the river when it's obvious the opp has made a bad call on the turn and hit that gutshot...

learn to ripple chips

[riverdave]

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!
Be just slightly less degen

what the hell are you doing up at 8am?

Obviously being a degen and having an all night session before my flight to Galway. Sleep is for trains and planes but don't tell Tikay that.

[DaveShoelace]

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!
Be just slightly less degen

Thinly veiled "I know Barry Carter" post imo

(I don't write for Cardplayer btw)

[riverdave]

Obv predicting your 2009 goal of jumping ship like Tiffany 

[DaveShoelace]

Obv predicting your 2009 goal of jumping  Tiffany 

FYP

[kinboshi]

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!
Be just slightly less degen

Thinly veiled "I know Barry Carter" post imo

(I don't write for Cardplayer btw)

Thinly veiled "I am Barry Carter" post imo

[blonde17]

Just one.

For blonde Poker to survive.

?
If you guys can`t survive .......what chance the rest?
Worrying really everything considered. Perhaps a change of business model may help?