Obligatory New Year post

Well every other blogger has done it, so here is my new year post, excuse the sight delay.  

2008 was a patchy year, poker-wise. Looking back over my blog, I seem to have played in spurts, inconstantly.  Poker has been just a little side-hobby this year, so I'm not going to talk in terms of success or failure . I have tried to improve, but I haven't done the main thing needed to really get better in my opinion: play hundreds of thousands of hands.  From what little poker I did play I managed to increased my bankroll, in fits and starts, from $300 to over $1K. That makes me a member of a very select club: a winning poker player, even if it is only a small amount of money.

Career-wise 2008 was a write-off. I was bounced from merger to sell-off to who knows what next...redundancy probably.  The less said about this he better, so I'll move on.

In terms of other life stuff, last year was amazing. I became a Dad for the first time.  I won't bore you with a series of cliches, instead I'll just say it has already been the most rewarding thing I've ever done, and he's only 4 month old!

And so we get to 2009. Here's my ambition for poker in 2009.  It's a biggie.  At some point this year I want to try playing full-time, to see if I can potentially get good enough to use poker to pay the bills.  I posted on Raise the River asking for advise, and got a range of responses, all helpful in one way or another.

I know I don't have the bankroll to play full-time, and I know I'm not good enough yet.  I believe I have the potential to improve, build my roll, and play full time.  I do realize how hard it will be to achieve this.  The first thing I'm going to do is get back to playing 6-max NLHE cash, and see if I can get a lot of hand in.  Enough jibber-jabber, it's time to play poker.

Gl all

Simon