6 Month Review

This is a little late given that it's now almost the end of July but here a quick update on how I stand at the halfway(ish) point of the year.

Pokerwise, as has been the case for the last three years running, I've had a killer first three months and a terrible second three. April and June were exactly break even and May was a loosing month. There's no real excuse for it, although I'm sure there are plenty of reasons. Some of those will include, overconfidence and complacency after a winning streak; fewer bad players playing in the spring/summer than during the winter; and general bad play by me.

My poker goals at the beginning of the year were:

1. Make $25,000. I’m not on target for that at the moment. About $6,000 as it stands.
2. Achieve an hourly rate of $30. I’m off the pace on that one too: It’s a shade under $20/hour right now.
3. Play in at least two decent sized live events: none so far. I’ve got over £1,000 of DTD tournament comps, but as I only get 2 weekends off out of every 5, I’m unlikely to get up there more than once more this year.
4. Have a decent sized tournament score. I came 4th in a £20 event for £86. Does that count?!
5. Go to Vegas: not happening!

Of those, realistically, I’ll probably achieve between zero and two of them ;-)

Other aspects of life are going well this year.

I'm getting on well in the new(ish) job. It's keeping me very busy and I'm seeing less of Mrs Pink, which is no good thing, but on the whole it's going very well.

I'm keeping well to my fitness regime. The plan at the beginning of the year was to run a marathon and I had pencilled in the Istanbul one in October. At the moment it's a toss up between that and taking part in a relay run/cycle from London via Paris to the South of France. Either way I'll be getting some fundraising links up here soon, so get your credit cards ready!

I can only apologise for the lack of updates here. It's a far cry from this blog's early days, when I had plenty of time as a student to write something vaguely interesting. Unfortunately, I haven't made the time to post regularly, and on top of that, there's less for me to write about than there used to be. There are plenty of great stories from work, but those won't be appearing here!

Now go back to reading something more interesting ;-)