so its over another year passes me by and its been kinda a blur.

the hi light of the year was going bust i guess. was down to £300 pound bankroll at one point .i didn't have a great year at the tables overall but i started the year staked so i dumped all my own life moneys away on nights out etc then my backer went bust and i was left in a hole. i kinda never really recovered for the next ten months and i just struggled to get by .

about 2 months ago i started playing a lot more live poker and the mix allowed me to chill out a lil more and play with a more varied routine of live and online play. this has resulted in a new found relaxed me been a lil more at ease with poker again and not having the hate the game feeling i sometimes get .

i never hate the game i just get frustrated when I'm grinding games i should of moved up and graduated from . i still find great comfort grinding 20games at once. and I'm very content grinding a 30 dollar hourly rate if i need to grind dollars to live and shot take etc.

i split up with my girlfriend at the start of the year and i think things personally are getting a lot better . i have a little boy and i have to still murge this into my routine. i love my lil lad ever so much and as I'm not with his mother its impossible to be a great dad .
i miss the little things he does day to day and just feel like I'm missing out on so much . me and his mother were together for about 7 years and we never really got along we just went thru the motions .obviously u can cherry pick some good moments and I'm grateful of the years we were together because i got to be a dad who worked at home and saw my lil boy everyday.


something I've struggled with more then ever this year is fitness and nutrition .

for anyone who knows me I'm kinda a joke when it comes to food. I'm not 19 anymore I'm very aware i can't eat what i want and burn the candle at both ends and not pay the price. there is a kfc two doors along and its just so easy to just pop in . HELLO CHICKEN .
its something i have to go cold turkey with and just quit eating it.

I'm aware i need to get back into running but i think i need to address my eating patterns and behaviours before i get back into running again. it is a constant battle but its something that i refuse to fail at and il keep trying reguardless of how many times i fuck up.

as a 29 year old man ive spent most the year happily been single but part of me misses having someone about who has my interests at heart. I'm not one for going out and trying to hit on woman its just not me and lots of the time i forget I'm single.
this might sound bizarre but as I'm still a dad and i have to deal with the ex gf a lot more then i like i still find myself running to hers if she rings me for a bit of action this perhaps isn't good to move on and i know I'm been used but i just love her body and can't say no as much as i know its terrible for my mind set .
i don't really have any family about anymore so I've become a lot less respectful and tolerant in general i think. my family are scattered all over the globe my dads family are all italian and my mums side are scattered in australia at various locations. i still have a bit of family in leeds but I'm not very close to them and just about manage the odd text every 6 months or so .

i guess its very good that I'm self aware of how i act and behave to people so it allows me to change how i act if i really wanted to. this year should be more eventful then ever and i have plans to do a lot more travel this year if i can get my head down and make money without the life spew. going bust has been a wake up call and i end the year in a much healthier place then i started the year.


all in all my bankroll to end the year sits at about $8000 and although thats not a lot it was only 3000 pre this week , I've just had a mini heater of loads of lil scores and managed to be a lil more sensible then i would of been usually .

last note is i have a horse and he has made me a few quid. I've decided just having one horse and pumping money into him is a better way to shot take then just buying random pieces . my horse is generally solid and its good going out on the razzle knowing someone somewhere is grinding u equity . my horse plays the same games as me and with my share of profit i intend to just shot take him in a bunch of stuff


anyways uve had enough insight into salfi world for another year so thats all ya getting for 2011




congrats to luke and dan for making the wise choice of moving to leeds. leeds is the poker pro place of choice.

good luck in 2012 x