Its a strange thing being away from the internet for a couple of weeks.

I went to see deadmau5 which was a wicked night, the entire floor of our hotel went to the gig so it got well messy. I've had a pretty beans xmas/ new year seeing a lot of friends and family, having a lot of good food and a hell of a lotta drinks. Everyones getting on well with their lives which pleases me, some of my friends have got themselves sick jobs. Hopefully by this time next year ill be able to happily say the same about myself.

2010 in general was a pretty shitty year. Looking back on the goals I made are just LOL ridiculous. I'd already paid to go to vegas then pulled out. Think I went for two, yes two runs all year so getting fitter also went down the pan. In general I was just very lazy and bumbled through my degree making these next 6 months one hell of a mission. I didnt go skiing and its the one activity I love equally to poker, possibly a liitle bit more but its damn close. I also didnt buy a car, but I did go to the Irish open. I also cant believe I didnt blog one the nights out I had (Ill do that later)

For pretty much the whole of 2010 I just felt busto, It was horrible. I had a $6K cash in Feb and a 3K cash in march (I think) and blew the lot at the Irish open. Im unhappy about busting the main so early and even unhappier about creating the most ridiculous 2/5nlh table in the room, if not the whole of europe. Then after loosening everyone up I just ran like aids and dropped 3K sterling. When I came back one of my tenants had done a runner (still oweing me rent) and because I thought he was a trustworthy mate I didnt make him sign a contract so I got taken for a ride.

So I found myself with a crippled bankroll, 2 less tenants than I needed and everytime I made money it got shipped out to pay bills for 5-6 months. Eventually bad variance caught me in the middrift and I didnt win a meanful pot for months. Im glad my housemate was there to witness this, because it really was unbelievable. It was sick. I dislike moaning about it so I dont think I really brought it up much but I definately owe slav and appology for being a whining bitch at times so Ill leave it at this.. It was just sickening. Looking back it was probably no more than 20K hands which can be cruised over online but live its like 6hrs a night 5 nights a week for 5months, and when Its my only source of income and I have bills to pay its fucking rough. I mean live cash was my bread and butter in '09, Id be very suprised if I wasnt the bigget winner the casino (on nlh). Adam might have made more than me but its tough to know. Actually Songbo has definately won more than both of us.

Online I broke even. My HEM died (good ridance) with my laptop but I finished down in cash and up in mtts. Live I finished down about £1500 a lot of which was due to going away and donking a lot of money. Ill be cutting that out this year. I grinded the micros for a few weeks but blew it once I became frustrated trying to bink an mtt.

I had to work in a call centre for the summer and even then I was still struggling. Thank god the house is now full and my only outgoings are eating, vicky and getting paro the boys.

Im behind on uni work now this year and have 2 exams this month and a huge project due in for april 1st. A discitation is 15credits. this project is 45. I dont have a title yet.

Iv had a prety rough time with vicky lately as we have seen much of each other for the last few months so we decided to take a break then she changed her mind but the amout of time we spend together is only going to decrease iin the next 6months (if thats even possible), and then shes probably going to australia to go diving and Im planning on going to a live in a ski resort for a season and see if the novelty wares off or If my end plan of living in one will come to fruition in the future so we'll have to see how it plays out but hopefully we can make it work in the long term.

This is geting long so Ill round up with Iv just bought a new comp.

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/225760 comp specs
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/174584 monitor..... one day I might take the time to make words into the links

Im pretty excited about getting on the grind, and a little birdy told me that my computers been boomswitched so thats good.

For the next 6 months I have 3 areas to focus on. These are HOUSE. UNIVERSITY. POKER.

I have a few things to fix in the house in the next month, find tenants, planning regs for a new staircase.

University I have to up my hourly attendance from about 4hrs a week (which was a massive improvement from last year) to at least 27hrs a week. Which is gonna be killer.

Poker I want to make online NLH my bread and butter for 2011 and onwards, Im planing on playing about 6 2hr sessions (1.5K hand/8 tabling) per week (until my degrees finished) and would be happy to acheive a 4bb/2BB winrate based on my track record in online cash games to date. Hopefully some of you guys could help me out or even just fire up a couple of the tables im on and donate to me. HAH.

I do enjoy playing mtts, really enjoy them but they are tough to play for living I prefere the idea of being able to put in little sessions and not have to commit to a 12(usually unsociable) hours.

I've gone through every tournament schedule on stars/F|TP/ipoker for the best value comps and Im aiming to do one sunday session per month of all the majors + some of the others mtt's that get sick numbers of runners. Ill be looking to sell about 75% of my action for these, and have a few guys who'll take 50% of my action between them. So if any of you are interested in taking a percentage then drop me a pm and we can discuss it further.

Im pretty detemined to make all of this work.

[ ] Get a degree (at least bink a 2:2)
[ ] Get the house finished to rent out properly
[ ] Beat the micros and get to SSNL