2010 It's now or never

Hello to all of my imaginary readers... it is that time again, blog time, and even though my cup runeth over with work I shall devote at least 30-60 minutes to this entry in order to connect that with my well deserved lunch hour.

It was the year of our lord 2004 I got invited to a 32 man tournament at a friend's house, see I was a "bit" of a sports gambler, and he had one spot open so he rang me up, and I told him I was "Poker Fodder". I had never played live texas hold em and my expierence consisted of TV examination... So fuck it let's do this, it was a 10$ buy in... Long story short... TOOK IT DOWN for 200$ NICE!!!! and thus I was hooked. In retrospect I ran good that day but still made a couple of moves which led me to believe I had some natural skill.

On 2006 I started playing online on Pacific Poker, playing only freerolls got up to 650$ (I didn' have a job back then) and then went on to lose it all on a sick month, A year later I did it again this time on Paradise poker freerolls alone got up to about 400$ transferred 200$ to PokerStars... turned that into 1200$ plus about 600$ which I sold to different friends. Then something happened a good friend of mine made a BIG score of 5K which basically threw me off my game for good... I had been playing Solid poker for 3 years, rarely playing outside my limits and doing well and he in one night had achieved what I couldn't in such a long time.

Since then I haven't been able to get my groove back, which sucks. Anyway I'm down to 267$ and a month ago I got married and time for poker is scarce... how scarce? well let's just say Alan Harper's sex life scarce...Plus my internet connection isn't up at my new place so whenever I do get time, I can't actually play so what I'm doing is watching more and reading more about Poker of course.

I think I have decent skills but I don't cope with losses well... at ALL. This next year is big, money is going to become an issue and if I can't produce real results I may have to quit. So with that in mind I've decided to set some realistic goals for 2010.

1.- I need to change my appproach, it's a business now, so my goal is to produce 100-200$ a month to be sold in the "Black Market" (If its a source of income, the wife won't complain... TOO MUCH).

2.- I need to increase my "Base Bankroll" (OBVIOUSLY) to about 3,000$ by the end of the year.

3.- I "WANT" to qualify to ONE international tournament the LAPT and UKPT are the most realistic cause of their low buy in (500$-1000$)... My dream is to play in the EPT and WSOP one day, However this particular goal is probably for 2011

4.- I will play more cash games and less tournaments, this helps with the time restraints, plus I think my game is suited for cash games more than tourneys.

5.- I want to play the Sunday Million (215$ buy in) at least 5 times this year, qualifying through a Satellite OF COURSE. (I qualified a couple of times last year but didn't play... PUSSY)

6.- I want to end the year as a steady (more than 6 months) Silver Star and reap the Rewards. (I played 2 months as a Silver Star last year)

Finally I know you're thinking this is farfetched... and it is, however in order to obtain these goals I need to make about 10 bucks a day. No i'm not going to come out ahead EVERY DAY... but I'm not going to quit while I'm ahead 10$ for the day... again.

Thanks for reading... if you did, wish me luck

Tan