Bad Hair, Bad Beats & Bills Bills Bills

Running like dog dump atm both in poker and life. Not only am i getting bum raped on the tarbs but i have a shit load of bills to pay plus things keep fucking breaking in my flat and need replacing. Further to this, some cunt of a 'hairdresser' inflicted yet another bad beat on me yesterday afternoon when he hacked off most of my barnet leaving me looking like more of a twat than usual, sigh.

I fucking hate going to get my hair chopped off, mainly because i usually leave feeling unsatisfied and unhappy with the damage the mother feckers have done. In fact i reckon i am happy with about one of every say five or six cuts i have. Maybe i should fork out an extra few quid like my housemate Scotch and get it cut at Toni & Gays, although my current crop cost me £20!! I dont know why that ginger fish bothers going to Toni & Gay anyways i mean he is ginger ffs, he's fucked for life imo. That's Scotch in the pic btw :-)

I always feel slightly uncomfortable sitting in a barbers aswell, kind of on edge. You just sit there and basically pray that the fucker does at least an alright job. I'm not really into all that small talk bullshizz either. You going out tonight? Going anywhere nice on holiday? The weather is cold, etc etc blah blah blahhh. You know the hairdresser aint really listening or even gives a shit and has prolly had the same convo about 20+ times already that day. All i want is for the gruffnut with the scissors in his/her hands is to stfu and concentrate on giving me at least a semi good trim lol. Its not the worst cut in the world tbh, i am ofc exaggerating somewhat and it should look ok in a week or two.

Onto poker now and this month has been one of my worst for a while and i have dropped a further $1k ish in the last few days. I decided to invest a bunch of $$$ into some proper mtt's and not the gay 45 manners and i have been getting shafted all over the place. I havent played great in certain spots either and the beats have sort of tilted me abit into making some poor decisions. Been losing all the key flips and getting two and three outered all over the shop. Despite the lack of progress i have still enjoyed playing the mtt's again, its a buzz. I might do another $500 ish in buyins today before starting a fresh tomorrow.

The lack of recent income is abit worrying what with all the bills i seem to be forking out for right now. I mean i still have a decent sum of dosh tucked away but poker has always had more of an edge to it since i quit my job over a year ago. Its pretty sick relying on winnings from poker to live when you think about it lol. The cost of living is reeeedic, i dont think alot of my mates who still live at home with their parents realise the shit you have to pay out for. I think Scotch lives on another planet tbh. That fish gives me £400 a month (used to be £200) and is always skint. He works full time in a decent job and has no outgoings except social and a few mickey mouse bills, and he dont even drive! However, its not like he is the only one its almost fucking impossible to have a mortgage unless you have a well played job or are a poker 'geeenius'

My dishwasher blew up the other day, the boiler is still dodge, my coffee tarb is resting on one leg, the tv is old and needs replacing, my bed is abit creakay and unstable after rumping Kally on it a while back, Scotch breaks the toilet seat every other week and even this laptop is abit fucked. I had to completely wipe it for about the third time the other day because it is riddled with viruses. I am thinking about buying a new computer tbh just for poker and stuff and keep the lappy for my pimpbussing exploits. Oh, thats another thing, my wireless connection has gone aswell so if i ever want to enjoy abit of internet porn i cant take my lappy to my room for a sly wank and instead have to have a quick danger bash in the living room and hope Scotch dont catch me, It adds to the thrill thou obv!

I didnt buy a new car the other day because Peugeot wouldn't finance the deal because i dont have a proper job lol. Its abit scaray tbh, thats why i should be pummelling the tarbs and earning as much as poss before the games get to tough etc. Im keeeping my current car which is in decent shape anyways but i have to pay £2.7k to keep it permanently , fml. My car insurance is sky high aswell because i drive like a knob and have pranged the bastard thing a couple of times. What else, errrrrr oh im currently paying £82 per month for gas loooool. Please let me ship some big wins next month ffs, the heat is on, its on the street, the heat is.......... on.

Lack of Material

Got no idea wtf i am going to write in this post, i just feel the need to blog.... Been plodding along for the last few days, nothing that exciting goin on. Still undecided as to whether to go to Thailand or not. Thing is it will only be for one week now and im not sure if its worth going all that way for just 7 days, its a fucking mission especially as i have to go via Bangkok. I feel like i need a month in Thailand tbh. Thats what i need a month abroad with a few mates going crazy. Just read on the Blonde forum that a bunch of the lads are going to Vegas for a month or so in June, fair fucking play. I wish i knew more people who were in a position to do that, i would love it.

Just randomly had a chat with my ex bird Kelly which was abit strange. We were chatting shit for over 2 hrs on fb chat which was nice. She is a top bird and is off to Lanzerote tomorrow and actually invited me out there to join her, im pretty sure she was serious aswell lol. We'll meet up when she gets back anyways and who knows. We used to get on great but kinda split up a few yrs ago mainly because of poker back when i was abit of an addict on the cash tarbs and also had a full time job. Its abit different now though, fuck knows what the future holds for Mr Amatay.

Had a good night on the lash on Saturday, met up with all the boys at Nicks birthday/house warming partay, it was good to catch up. Also brought a knew motor aswell, part exchanging my current car for a black Peugeot Sport 1.4, vrrooom, vrrrooooooom. I've always been a complete spastic with cars, they dont interest me at all.

Poker going shit atm. When i can be bothered to play im basically breaking even which sucks massive cock, I need a new plan for Feb. Actually i have a plan i just need to stick to it. Booked my trip to Newcastle the other day which is good and im looking forward to it. Gonna drive upto Oxford and then get a lift from Scouse and go out on the lash Friday night, then its the team poker tourn all day Sat and Sun. Most of us are staying in the same gaff for only £45, its prob gonna be messy. The full team is... me, Cogs, Snake-eyes, BurnleyMik, Knightmarenick, dD, Hammerheid, Scouse, Ant and Bullmeister, should be a good crack. Laters.

I need a rump

Badly! Any offers?

Waster

Had a really crap week this week and been more lazy than usual. Feel fucking shit tbh, need to sort myself out, i will. Only good thing i've done this week is go to the gym three times lol, felt good though. Apart from that i dunno where the week has gone?? When i have been playing poker i have either been making a small profit or losing, but overall its been a losing week, its fucking sick. I've not lost much but im down on the 45 manners, the normal mtt's and even played some $1/2 and $2/4 cash like the old days but jizzed off a few hundred there aswell. Started looking for teaching jobs the other day lol. It would do me good to be working 2-3 days a week as im fucking bored of poker, i have no balance in my life. All i have to do is set myself a time where i play 6-8hrs 4-5 days a week but as easy as that sounds it has always been a problem for me. If i could do that then i would make a healthy $5-12k profit per month plus i would be able to accommodate other people to my lifestyle. If i had a bird and kids and stuff it would be different but because i haven't i'm a complete bum with little responsibility lol. Perhaps that's the way forward, meet a bird and get her preggars?? I'm completely writing this month off, erasing it from my mind, im starting the year again in Feb. There is still a chance i could actually be in Thailand this time next week. Animal is gonna be out there from the 25th-7th. If i can get my shit together and sort my head out in the next few days i might go and meet him for ten days. I need to freshen up big time, i feel very stale right now, arrrrgh sort it out Jones you CUNT! :-)

Freezing My Tits Off!

Spent a couple of days/nights in Brighton this weekend with that massive fish Cogs which was quite a good crack although it was fucking freezing down there. Its also been ice cold back at my flat in Watford aswell because whilst i was in Brighton i received a call from my housemate Scotch to tell me the boiler was broken. Why is it every time i leave that ginger cooount on his own for five minutes something breaks ffs? jhjyhfhrdfgk. So, i've spent most of the week freezing my tits off and its also been pretty cold on the old poker tarbles aswell...

On Monday i ran golden online making a bunch a moolar in double quick time which was nice, however i have been losing a few quid since. Tuesday, i don't think i played a hand and instead took part in a 5 a side footy knock out cup comp which we didn't end up doing that great in. On Wednesday i had my coldest ever run on the $26 45 manners playing 23 in total without one single cash lol, redic. Drove down to sunny Brighton on the Thur and me and Cogs had planned to play in the £100 GUKPT side event at the Grosvenor but it was full so we played the £50 down the road at the Rendezvous. There was about 20 left and i had just doubled through with pocket neufs when i decided to make a redonklious move on the very next hand. I raised the button with 87o and the sb min raised me. I had seen this particular fish do a couple of decent things in the tourn so i thought he may have been making a move. In my stupid little mind i felt that his small faggot re raise either meant he had AA/KK or air and that he had left enough behind to fold to a shove which in hindsight he probably didnt and he was probabaly comitted to the hand regardless, doh. Anyways, I decided fuck it and went with my gut instinct and schummied all over him and my read was spot on because he snapped me off with the booolets, nh, gg, wp, fuck you!

On Friday i played the £10r and my starting table was sooo bad it was pure comedy although the problem was they were all ultra tight so it was hard to get chips. I only had 5.5k after the add on period when on the very first hand i get dealt the AK of demons with blinds at 100-200. However, the utg fish makes it 1k to go lol and has me slightly covered. Ut oh i thought, bust out time. I know this plum has a hand and its prob something like 77-JJ or something stupid where he doesn't want to see a flop out of position. I make it 4k to go and miraculously the utg fish tanks for a whole 20 seconds which is 20 seconds longer than they ususally do before declaring to the table that he knows that he is crushed but he cant fold and sets me in for my last 1.5k. I was like ffs what a stupid thing to say, you can easily fold you bastard lol. I really didnt wanna bust because i didnt want have to wait around for that donk Cogs to bust out. The fishee's reasons and justifications for their plays all night were soo funny but its ok i dont blame them, its just shit when you bust live and cant fire up another game. Anyway he set me in and i obv call and he shows AQ which in that spot, in that level of game with such shallow stacks in the first hand of freeze period is ahead of nothing and is at best maybe racing versus 1010-JJ imo. Anyways the mother fucking queen pops on the turn and im busto. Luckily it only took that fish Cogs 30-40mins to donk his chips off and we headed out into town. The pair of us ended up smashing our way through quite a few drinks and spent quite abit of dosh in a few bars and Oceana. I felt ruff as fuck on the Saturday and could barely move and didnt do to much on Sundays either except watch the mightay hammers crush Fulham to go 8th in the prem.

Got quite a busy week or two ahead of me which is good i suppose. Gonna try and play a ton of poker because i got a few bills that need paying this month. Looking at getting a brand new motor which needs insuring and stuff not to mention a new fooking boiler. Also gonna be hammering the gym which started off well tonight and im also meeting up with a few old pals including my ex bird which is abit random but she's diamond so its all good. Looking to play at least one more live game of poker this month and might be meeting up with some geezer who writes for Betfair for beers galore and live pokes. I really gotta stop meeting these random men i chat to off the internet lol, people might start to talk. I am also going a small trip to Swansea at the end of the month which will be something different although i might still go to Thailand for 2ish weeks to meet that fish Animal who said it would be ok? I need to chat with that poker addict again and make a decision. Right im off to snuggle up with Scotchay, its the only way we can keep warm in this fucking ice box, laters.

The Pitfalls of Multi Tabling

Since my last post i have managed to win myself about $1.2k which is quite nice and i've also started to play proper mtt's again with my best finish thus far being 25/478 in an $8r with $2.8k ftw. However, despite this moderate success i found myself in a rather unfortunate and somewhat slightly awkward position the other night which underlines some of the disadvantages of of multay tarbling...

One of the well documented pitfalls to playing many tables simultaneously is of course the fact that your concentration levels and ability to play your very best poker significantly diminishes with each added table. Despite these well publicised problems of multi tabling a further and much less written about issue concerns the lack of breaks in play and more specifically a lack of toilet breaks. I found myself faced with this problem the other night when needing to take a massive dump whilst nine tabling the $26 45 manners on ftp. Usually i just sit out a few blinds and quickly nip to the bog to do my business, job done. However, i had stacks in about six games plus i was at the final table of two of them so i couldn't really afford to miss a hand. I also kinda had the feeling that this particular shit wasn't gonna wait for a few minutes and also that it wasn't going to be one of those nice 1-2 minute clean breaks jobbie's either. So, i had no other option than to take all nine tables off my wide screen monitor and move them onto my laptop and take my lappy to the throne with me so i could have my poo. To my relief i got to the shitter just in time complete with my lappy and quickly pulled down my pants sat down and started to take my dump whilst continuing to play poker. However, in my haste i hadn't popped my cock into the actual toilet bowl and ended up pissing all over the floor, my jeans and even sprinkled some on my laptop, fuck my life!!! So there i was sat in this precarious position taking a shit and covered in my own piss whilst my laptop was furiously bleeping at me lol. It all ended well though as i managed to ship a few of the games for a tidy little profit, next time i will be more careful. Beware the pitfalls of multi tabling!

Online Speed Dating

Been feeling a bit down in the dumps today but had another conversation on msn with that sick fuck Joppa which perked me up abit. He was on some online speed dating thing on Facebook at the time. Here is what the fish had to say for himself, read with caution...

Joppa says: bored out my tiny fkin mind

Joppa says: i have met the most filthy cow on here who wants to meet up at the weekend...am talking pure filth

Amatay says: lol

Amatay says: where abouts

Amatay says: online dating or summat

Joppa says: just off speed date on facebook...its a little gold mine....I have about 3 dates lined up for the weekend but knowing me will blow them all out

Amatay says: how u get on there

Amatay says: i might give it a go lol

Joppa says: go to face book and type in Speed Date in the search and add it...its only a trial thing but still allows you to send messages...you dont get all the options...but some real filth on there...here is an example

Joppa says: this woman is going on to me about how she let her best mates bf do her up the arse while her mate was asleep upstairs....then in the morning got her mate to cook her a full english...quality

Amatay says: sounds nice

Joppa says: wants to meet up on Sat night...been chatting all of a day....these fkin women..shocking

Amatay says: how old

Amatay says: let me av a go pls

Joppa says: you wouldnt want this....take a look at parts of our convo (dont post em ffs)

Amatay says: ahahaha

Joppa says: bustylil says: ill let you into a little secret the first time i ever had sex was anal

Joppa says: she is rough

Joppa says: but i like it

Amatay says: Jops

Amatay says: im on speed dating now

Amatay says: wanna chat lol

Joppa says: lol...got anything sorted?

Amatay says: how do u spk to them lol

Amatay says: click their pro pic?

Joppa says: this woman is fkin filthy I am chatting to...I dont think you can unless you pay for the full version...you just flirt with them...and they reply back...you could also try social me

Amatay says: how do u flirt

Amatay says: u paid for full ver then ?

Joppa says: nah i aint...i just clicked on the flirt part next to their pics and then they mail me back and get chatting from there when I hand out my msn addy

Amatay says: ahhh genius

Joppa says: is it working?

Amatay says: do u click on the wink???

Amatay says: bottom right of their pic
Joppa says: thats it...but flirt lets you send messages....you will get the occasional person coming up and chatting live

Amatay says: i recognise some people on here lol

Joppa says: lol

Joppa says: i cant beleive the difference in women, mad...some are just pure filth

Amatay says: man

Amatay says: i cant seem to woork it

Amatay says: i want some flith god damn

Joppa says: this one I am talking to is too much filth

Amatay says: 3way convo imo

Joppa says: she has had em...fkin hell..she has asked if she can bring a cucumber, eat out my bum then fuck me with it as she gives me a bj until i cum in her mouth, then she will take out cucumber and eat it

Joppa says: you do not have permission to print that lol

Amatay says: ur in trouble m8

Anyways after figuring it all out i got chatting to a few birds on there and one of em seems proper keen lol. 30 yr old blond from Leeds who works as a counsellor lol. I was like fuck i could do with some of thats esp after the horror beats i just took tonight. Here is what i just wrote in an online poker only diary i have been keeping on RTR....

The last 4 days have been a nightmare tbh. I can't get going at all. Feel really down today. Running super bad imo, infact i havent run as bad as this in 5-6 months at least. Lost $473 tonight which isnt much and i've lost that and alot more plenty of times but the way i have lost it has been sickening. As a result i prob played a few hands poorly and should have given them more thought but even so the things that go through peoples tiny brains baffles me. How i am not already up about $3k+ this month i dont fucking know. Instead i have just about an $800 profit which is shit. Feel really gutted, bit sick actually.

After reading that back and reflecting on it $500 ish is fuck all and it is maybe abit of a slight over reaction. I think im pissed off more so cause i must have played well over 20 hrs in the last 4 days and during that period im slightly down. Argh whatever, its no big deal i suppose, thats my problem im such a fucking nit. I hate losing even a few hundred and thats the reason why i will probably never be able to comfortably play alot higher. Oh well nevermind i've always got Online Speed Dating to mess about with now.

Got Myself a Horse

Decided to stake Doomswitch 550 bucks tonight to play a bunch of $12 90 man turbos on Stars. Doom's a regular poster on RaiseTheRiver who has always impressed me with his knowledge of the game but he has always played relatively low buyin mtt's. So i decided fuck it, seeing as i don't bother to make any money myself i might aswell let some other fish make some $$$ for me. Things started off very well tonight as Doom took down one of the seven games he played in for something like $270. The deal is 50/50 on any profit plus stakeback, so happy days for me and Doom so far.

In regards to my poker exploits i have actually put in quite a few hrs for me the last 3 days and have ran pretty shit imo. I've managed to win a few hundred doll but it could so easily have been a few thousand doll if it wasn't for the odd beat here and there and being on the wrong side of a few big coinflips either just inside or outside the money spots. Profit so far for Jan is $1.3k.

Outside of poker, i feel kinda content atm. I went to the gym on Monday which felt good and played footy with the boys tonight. The plan is to just hibernate and go to the gym for the next week or so then i'm going to Brighton to meet up with Cogs to play in a GUKPT side event on the Thursday and then out on the piss into the gay capital on the Friday, i can't wait! Just ticking along really atm. I'll probably end up getting ball bagged somewhere this wkend, although its sooo fucking cold outside and everyone is usually skint and depressed this time of year. Fuck getting up for work in the mornings, i can't believe i used to work for a living, argh horrible thought. Lucky im errr living the dream as a professional poker player lol, laters fish.

Poker Bum

As you can tell from the title of this blog things are errr going well so far this year on the volume front lol. I have played about 7-8 hrs in total during three days which is fucking shit. I have managed to make just over $1.1k during this time but that ain't the point, im a lazy fuck! I also spend waaaay too much time pissing about on the internet. Here are some examples of some earlier msn conversations with three random poker fish that i have never met, i mean wtf?? Seriously, FUCK MY LIFE!


Joppa says: do you know what porn is big in Japan?

Joppa says: Wheel Chair Felatio

Amatay says: WTF

Joppa says: yep....

Amatay says: lol

Joppa says: love it

Joppa says: and sex with people with casts on

Joppa says: im moving there

Amatay says: lol

Amatay says: jap porn is awful

Joppa says: all censored....guys tend to have tiny dicks too...(not that Im looking at it for that) but even so

Joppa says: never slept with an oriental woman ...always wanted to

Amatay says: yeh, nothin i like more than a big meaty cock in a porn vid

Amatay says: i dont find em attractive at all

Joppa says: i do...

Amatay says: my mate Dan loves em

Joppa says: in a naughty kind of way

Joppa says: school girl type thing

GreekStein says: i spend enough time browsing forums and blogs n shit

GreekStein says: might as well have one

Amatay says: yeh, i waste alot of time doing that

Amatay says: potential earning time

GreekStein says: yeh

Amatay says: addicted to the internet

Amatay says: blogs forum porn msn fb lol

GreekStein says: i normally have 6 tables running overlapping each other just so i can have pokertube up at the same time

Amatay says: pokertube or redtube

GreekStein says: they should combine the two

GreekStein says: have like Phil Ivey fucking Amy Reid n shit

Amatay says: yeh, raymer n jameson 69er

GreekStein says: whilst she floats his flop bet with ace high, peels a double gutshot, calls a second barrel before leading with air on the river

GreekStein says: then phil hellmuth comes in on raging tilt and does her up the wrongun

Amatay says: lol'dddddd

Amatay says: u need to get out more m8

GreekStein says:ha

EvertonYorkie says: seriously mate, you should start playing mtts again and just fucking grind

EvertonYorkie says: but you wouldn't because you can't be bothered

EvertonYorkie says: red tube is there after your session ffs

Amatay says: lololkijuhygtfrde

Amatay says: $1.1k prof is ok so far

Amatay says: i get bored m8

Amatay says: its different when its ur job

EvertonYorkie says: yeah ok, but $100 says you don't play tomorrow

Amatay says: i used to get home from work and play 8hrs+

Amatay says: lol

Amatay says: 100 bucks

Amatay says: lol

Amatay says: i will play

Amatay says: keep ur 100

EvertonYorkie says: i'm not talking about a shitty little 10 min session while you tug one out to 2 fat lezzas, i mean a decent sized sesh

Amatay says: ahaha how did u know about my fat lez fetish??

EvertonYorkie says: you used to like liebert ffs!

Amatay says: what u mean used too? shes a beautay

EvertonYorkie says: lol

EvertonYorkie says: you should find something that you can do while you play, apart from redtubuing if you get bored.

NOTE TO SELF...

STOP WASTING POTENTIAL EARNING TIME WHEN YOU ARE LOGGED ON YOU FUCKING PRICK JONES. ITS OK IN MODERATION BUT WHEN YOU ARE ONLINE PLAY POKER FFS!

My biggest problem is that i don't strive to make more money and i am just kinda content with making a few thousand a month. The exchange rate is sooo good atm aswell so i should be pumelling the tarbs, poker wont last forever and i dont wanna be playing it forever. I'm still going to sort myself out though this year on the volume front, watch this space....

Looking Back & Moving Forward

Time to reflect on 2008 and look ahead to 2009. I'll try and keep it short and sweet because these posts are usually pretty boring to read imo plus i ain't in the mood to produce one of my highly entertaining blog entries atm. EDIT: Half way through writing my post right now and its looks like it is going to be a long one, seems like i was in the mood after all...

So, was 2008 a success or a failure?? Well i survived a year playing poker online for a living so i guess that is a good thing right? However, is this success? It really depends on how you define the term success and how its measured. I remember at the time i quit my job that i was experiencing the worst run of my life online and i was a little apprehensive about playing poker for a living although on reflection i think i still set myself a target of earning about $80k despite this bad run. I didn't achieve that but believe with more effort and endeavour i could have surpassed this target but i am the worlds biggest bum, fact!

I began the year in solid fashion making about $14k on the cash tables through Jan-Feb. However, March was tough mainly because i was in Andorra for one week on holiday and then i fell ill for a further two weeks. I kinda lost my way and my focus after that and from looking at my diary things didn't really improve too much for about 4-5 months. I lost my confidence in my cash game and started playing scared ish money which is obviously never a good thing when you rely on the game to pay the bills. I also had that phase where i was playing $30 6 max SnG's and although i am very good at these simple games you are never going to make a huge amount of money from them plus they are ridiculously tedious. I also made that stupid $10k prop bet that cost me $1.5k lol. Worst bet in world, especially as i was too lazy to even attempt to complete the bloody thing!

I spent these months grinding out a bare living tbh although when i say grinding i wasn't playing much at all, not even 20 hrs a week and sometimes 0 hrs a week, fuck knows where my time went? September was a make or break month for me. Up until then i had made more money throughout the year from poker than my previous job as a Sport Science Lecturer however, it wasn't good enough and the year had thus far been unsuccessful imo . Things changed massively for me in September though when i began to play MTT's.

I guess i spent much of my time studying MTT strategy for the months leading up to September by watching/talking to donks like Kenn and observing other fish like Moorman etc. I realised i was a huge MTT fish and although my approach to these games was still good enough to make a profit i was doing alot of things wrong. I was far too weak and scared of busting, now i dont really give a shit. On the 8th Sept i won the $5r on PP for $2.4k and followed that up with a victory in a $30f for $1.25k the next day. Two days later i finished 2nd in both a $20f and a $20r for a further $3k and things suddenly became alot clearer to me. I still wasn't playing high volume poker but managed numerous final tables including another $5r first place making me a monthly profit of almost $13k, my best ever. I started to enjoy poker again and was sometimes even looking forward to logging a good session at the cyber felt, i felt good. I continued my MTT success in October making a further $6k and then chilled out in November with trips to Stockholm and the Caribbean. In December i was kinda lazy again but i have still managed a $4k+ profit from STT's. So, in terms of profit made this year i would say that 2008 has been a small success, although if it wasn't for my successes in MTT's then i probably would have deemed it to be a failure, its close. I made more money than my previous job with less effort and it has also been my most profitable year to date. However, I know i can make double the amount of the money i made during 2008 in 2009 if i can just apply myself and put more hrs in, that is one of my biggest challenges.

Has the year been a success off the tables? Again this is a close one but i would lean towards it being more of a success than a failure. One of my reasons for quitting my job was to go travelling and although i didn't exactly succeed with this goal i didn't really fail either. I managed five trips abroad this year, an extreme snowboarding tip in Andorra, two chill out trips to Spain, a visit to Stockholm to spend time with a lush Swedish bird who i met in Watford for rumps galore and an eye opening Caribbean cruise where i saw small parts of Miami, Purtico Rico, St Thomas and St Maarten aswell as meeting lots of nice and interesting characters on board the biggest ship in the world! I want to do alot more travelling this year but its difficult tbh as alot of my mates are either too skint or too settled with there other halfs etc or they just aren't that interested in leaving Watford for any length of time.

One thing that is obviously a massive problem when playing poker for a living is the lack of social interaction with the outside world lol. It does get fucking boring sometimes and you do get these spells when you finds yourself barely moving from the comfort of your own house for a few weeks. Its something i am always aware of and yet something i am always kinda constantly battling against. You don't meet as many people when you turn into a poker bum and that also obviously equals a lack of rumpage lol. It fact my sexual exploits probably mirror those of my poker successes... good little bursts of profit followed by a few barron months when i can't be bovved to even logon.

Its the same thing with exercise really, i have weeks and sometimes months when i am bang on it and then i somehow turn into a slob again. Exercise is really important to me, more for my state of mind than anything else. Its equally important to a fish like me with such a sedentary line of 'work' I signed up to another gym the other day because i have only been to my local gym about 3 times in the last two months, hopefully that will improve my motivation. Fuck my life this is turning into a loooong post, time for some goals for 2009...

More poker, more exercise, more travel and more rumps! Nah seriously, in regards to the poker i am going to set myself quite a big target although i believe it too be very achievable provided i put the hours in. Although i should be setting myself process goals which are more controllable like play X amount of hands/hours etc i am gonna set myself a big fat target of $100k profit lol. Maybe i am highly delusional but time will tell, i know i am good enough despite the ever increasing toughness of the current poker climate. If i do not put the hrs in then it simply means i am not good enough. Poker is sooo much more about discipline, patience, control and a good work ethic as opposed to the other attributes needed like hand reading skills and stuff. If i can't make $100k this year then i am probably never going to be good enough to progress in this game and make some serious coinage.

With the exercise thing i just need to get back into the same groove i was in about 3 months ago, i am definately alot fitter than i was this time last year but not doing much physical activity for the past few months does my brains in. I go mainly for the psychology benefits, my induction at my new gym starts tomorrow. In regards to travelling then fucks knows, the only thing i have planned atm is a weekend away in sunny Newcaslte for a team poker tourn late Feb lol. Thats another thing i wanna do btw, play live poker at least twice a month. Rumpwise i need to stop bashing over pimpbus, yazum, redtube, tube8 and maxporn and start negotiating/grafting more. Goodluck in 2009 fishays, laters.