December Tidbits

Hi all. Poker has been good. I final tabled my first WSOP Circuit event final table, which was so awesome. I ended up getting 4th. I will post hands later this week. I went deep in 3 FTOPS events, with my deepest run ever in the hugest field, 85th out of 17,890. I was very pleased with how I played. I am so excited for poker in 2010.

I was pondering a poker player's resume. It could be quite impressive if worded properly. Phrases to be included on such resume would be:

** "actively participate in multiple online gaming events, whose cumulative monetary values total upwards of $200,000 and greater" (adding all the prize pools of all the events u play),

**"compete among the best in the world in my area of expertise and consistently place in the top 15%",

**"verbal and written communicate with colleagues both nationwide and internationally",

**"travel, both national and international for business purposes"

**"interact with various competitors, including sports stars and celebrities"

**"particpate in the trading of large sums of money for the purposes of funding accounts"

**"partake in several hundred trades and funding of colleagues for investment purpsoses"

Additionally, your job title can also vary. Professional mathematician/statician, professional gambler, Consultant, Independent Contractor, Gaming Expert, Semi-psychic,....any other ideas?

I will blog more later regarding last week. It was a great week, I really played my A++ game.
Right now, I am deep in the UB nightly, will let you know how that turns out.

More later,
Garnet.

EXTRAORDINARY

Extraordinary is one of my favorite words in the English language. I think is so funny to say extra-ordinary to mean something really special; I always found the inherent contradiction in the actual word and its meaning fascinating. Apparently it takes very little to fascinate me =)

On a side note, my #1 favorite word is Peoplemover- who invented that word? He is a pure genius. I loveeeeee that word! Every time I hear, I start laughing like a lunatic.

Ok...well the end of the year is approaching. I am excited for a new beginning! January is such a great month- a new year, my birthday, snow...so much good stuff! Over the last few weeks, not much has happened. Thanksgiving holiday was very nice; Jon and I spent a lot of time with family and we put up our Holiday tree (Christmas tree decorated 1/2 in blue and white for chanukah and rest for Christmas). I shopped online for a bunch of gifts and have played more volume poker online.

I went very deep in Full Tilt Sun tourney, 75/4500 and I also went deep in main event a few weeks ago, 140 something out of a gazillion players. I played my last hand on fulltilt poorly this Sunday and I was upset at myself for a while. I don't mind losing objectively to hands that kind of play themselves, or when I get drawn out. But when I defy logic and change my plan on each street for no apparent reason and play like a novice, it really bothers me. Silver lining is each cash is one closer to a bigger cash =)

Overall, poker in the last 6 weeks has not been great, but has not been terrible. I have 2 four figure cashes, and a bunch of small cashes, however because I now play higher buy ins (usually $55 and up, whereas before I would play 26$ and higher), it has become necessary for me to cash more often. I also find myself leaving more $$ in my accounts than I did before to ride out the variance. I hope I have a strong year next year in poker, that would be great!

One of my new year's resolutions is going to be to blog daily. I really want to do that. If I write every day, it will be a shorter post, but I think more focused. Hopefully i will increase my readers doing that also.

To finish up this entry, I want to leave you with a top 10 list:

10 HAPPIEST EVENTS/MOMENTS OF 2009:

10. VEGAS in Summer '09;

9. Starting my new business;

8. Jon quit smoking Aug 09;

7. Jon's 1st place cash in UB 200k;

6. Me chopping Foxwoods tourney Feb 09;

5. Winning a Step 10 and 2nd in another;

4. California Halloween weekend;

3. 3rd place finish in UB 200k;

2. Getting a House in Vegas;

1. My 4th year with my best friend and love of my life, Jon.

For all of these things I am happy and grateful. Every so often, when I feel down or sad/apathetic, I remind myself of all of these good aspects in my life and I cheer up right away. The truth is, I have so much to be thankful for and I seriously could not ask for much better (except maybe less bad beats in poker, haha).

Thank you for reading, and I love you all!

Garnet.