First Blog!

I've pretty much been putting off starting a blog for over a year now and finally decided that the majority of my poker friends have one so I need to stop slacking and get on it. This blog will follow a lot of my poker progress along with a few other topics such as sports and traveling. I will be the first one to admit that I am not a great writer so bear with me as I try to get better.

I just got back from a week long trip to Wisconsin to see my family and had a great time over the holidays. It was nice getting together with family and friends that I haven't seen in a while since I made the move down to Florida about 7 months ago. The second I got back to Florida tho a few buddies and I made the 2.5hr trip from Naples to Tampa for New Years and to head to the Outback bowl since one of my buddies is a huge Penn State fan. It was a pretty epic weekend other than the fact that my Alma Mater Wisconsin Badgers lost in the Rose Bowl in a heart breaker. I still feel Wisconsin was the better team but was destroyed on the coaching end the whole game. Awful clock management, going away from the run, and bad secondary play lead to a loss that shouldn't of happened. At least we made it back to Naples in time to watch the Packers win a tight one vs the Bears and head into the playoffs as the 6 seed. Next weeks game at Philly should be the best game of the weekend I think. The Packers have already gone into Philly and beaten them once this year but that was when Sir Vick was not in god mode and only played the second half after Kolb got hurt. Should be interesting.

Poker wise I ended up having a decent year at the tables but fell short of the few goals I had set for myself before the year started. I know personally the reasons were because I really slacked to get in volume the last 4 months of the year. I did take a month off for a few friends weddings and bachelor parties but it was still no excuse for the other few months. The first 8 months went amazing making up basically everything I made on the year but then I hit a big downswing which I guess I really wasn't ready for. It made me want to play less which caused me to not always be playing my A game. I can understand taking a break for a little bit during a downswing to maybe go over a few HHs and see if anything is wrong or just to clear your head but to not play as much just because your scared you may never come out of the downswing is ridiculous. There is no excuses for it if you want to make good money at poker, you need to just ****ing man up and continue to grind it out and get better every day. If your a great player volume is the key to everything, it really is that simple. I did end up grinding it out pretty hard at the end of November to lock up supernova status on pokerstars which will get me a decent amount of money in bonuses. I am looking forward to playing more live poker in 2011 once I find a car in Florida. I learned the game playing live and still feel I am a better live player than online so I would like to start grinding more cash games and good tournament series throughout the year. I plan on traveling to West palm beach for WSOP circuit events mid Feb, then head to Vegas for a few weeks in April for the Venetian deepstack and possible head back out during the WSOP depending on how things are going.

I will try to come up with a few goals for 2011 in a next blog. Peace!