Merry Christmas!

Just like the title suggests- merry christmas everyone! I hope you all have a good time, and spend some quality time with your family. At least, that is what I have been, and will be doing during the upcoming days.

I still need to reach supernova, got like 3k left. This should be done in 1 or 2 (short) sessions!
When this is done, I will prepare and rest out for next year!

From next year on, I will start adding 200$ 18s as well.

In short, the 2011 recap has been as following: I decided that I wanted to invest into my game, and study a lot more about my game. I definately achieved this- I think my overall level game has elevated a lot and is so so much better than at the beginning of the year! In terms of volume I have had some rough times, because of motivation and dedication.

The route to my targets (reaching mid/high stakes) has gone way differently than I imagined- I am very glad though that I went through a rough patch to reach what I'm at. I have said it before but it's gotta happen to every pokerplayer that you experience a rough time in your career, where you have to decide what you want to do. Do you either switch plans/career, or pursue your long-term plans where you want to improve.

In short: I had to quit moaning ,and start grinding. Because in fact, that is what I forgot to do- I was worrying too much about my short-term variance, in both positive as negative ways. I have had plenty of sessions where I experienced "positive tilt", as in quitting sessions where I was up. I will definately try to limit these a lot next year. Overall I am very satisfied about the last too months (november in particular) where I have shown that I've got the heart to go all the way in terms of value and mental state.

2012 targets:

-Less wasted time behind my screen! I spend far too much time in the lobby, just railing pointless games and/or wasting time browsing. I am not saying that I want to quit this, but I certainly gotta limit this a lot
-At least 2500 games per month, especially during the period that I will have practically no uni (march-sept)
-Succesfully beat 60-200$ 18s and up my ABI
-Start transitioning to other formats as well, to up my ABI. That includes fifty50s (beat them pre rakeback), 9max (KO) and eventually 6max. I definately gotta work on my 6max (bubble) game.
-Less affection with daily results and learn to really look at the bigger picture. In theory I practice this very well. At the tables though the length of my sessions still depend too much on results other than a planned idea.
-If the first months go well, go for SNE. However, this is NOT an explicit target, but more or less the result of my hard work and dedication. The same goes for money targets: in my head I want at least 100k profit over the year, although that may have its negative consequences. Therefore, I do not mark them as explicit targets.
-Start to coach and make my students successfull
-Being ready for highstakes SNGS at 2013


This will be it for now!

Best regards and cu in 2012!