Merry Christmas!!!!!!!! And a merry Christmas it has been too. Been a very busy week or so since my last post, so much has happened with most of it being good happenings! So lets start with the basics, online. Well its been another good week or so, with another $10,000 upswing making December one of my top months of the year and helping turn 2009 into a very good year indeed. With the current badbeat promotion im also inline for a very nice live bankroll which im probably going to use toward the WSOP, the plan being to spend a good 3-4 weeks out there next year. The big wins of December also have the very obvious financial benefits, coming at this most expensive time of the year with the added cost of the garage conversion, well my timing couldn’t have been much better. Its also been nice to play a lot more $1000nl and $2000nl. Ive spent a lot of this year grinding back my bankroll at the lower levels of $200nl and mainly $500nl so to end the year with a the bankroll, the P&L and the confidence to play the higher limits again, well it’s the perfect ending to 2009.
Last week was also the badbeat Christmas party. If again followed the proven Christmas party formula of lots of drink, a good curry, good company and a game of poker to make the perfect Christmas party! For me the highlight was the cash game we had later on in the night. The game wound up at 08.30am with several very drunk and very bleary eyed folk making there way to bed with empty pockets, thankfully I was just a bleary eyed drunk with full pockets! What a night! Not going to mention my call on the river with 4th pair with a 6 kicker against a certain bluffing punkfloyd, and im certainly not going to mention one of the very last hands of the night where my 4bet got badbeat mentor Maneul to lay down KK pre flop………..no, theres no need for me to mention either of the hands, the bulging pockets said it all.
So back to the real world and Christmas, and well its been a wonderful time so far. As I get older the more I love this time of year, not going to go off on one here but being able to focus on family and friends and to see the joy that giving brings, well its is the best time of year for sure!!!! That’s without mentioning being able to drink and eat far too much and being able to justify it! So again I wish you all a very merry Christmas and heres to a wonderful 2010, may the new year bring you all you dream of.