Well its been another splendid week with another $10k+ win, starting to get used to this. Trying to put my finger on to why im running, playing and winning so well over the past few months is something ive thought about quit a bit, and well the main reason I would say is attitude. Last night with the missus and young un tucked up in bed and the TV offering nothing more than the bland brain dead weekend nonsense schedule I found myself reading my blog from 2007. Now 2007 got of to a great start for me, I was crushing the 20/40-50/100 FL games on ipoker and Betfair and I also cashed for $35k at the EPT grand final in Monte Carlo…………….then the wheels came off! Reading the entries for June and July brought back painful memories of sick outdraws, huge down swings and several smashed up laptops! The most striking thing for me though was just how negative I was, don’t get me wrong most days I talked about how I knew I was good enough to come through the down swing and how things would turn for me, but I also never stopped going on about how unlucky I was, how the poker gods hated me, basically I talked the downswing in. I didn’t read past July, that ended with another badbeat, this time on the final table of a Bellagio Cup event, but no surprise there, lets face it if you talk about it enough and believe it enough its going to happen and my word I talked about being unlucky enough and believed enough and guess what?! It Happened!!! So to my current form and my current results, well for the past 12 months ive been talking about how well im playing and how the results are going to come, talked about it, believed it and hey the results are starting to come my way. So guess what? Im going to keep going on about how im going to have a huge live touch soon, not because I think talking about it will make it happen, but because talking about it and believing it will make it happen……….well I know its not going to do any harm, that’s for sure. Away from the poker tables im also inline for a nice touch due to a very large bet ive made. 3nd January I made a bet with Jade my daughter that I could go 40 days without touching a drop of alcohol, 7 days in and nearly 20% of the task complete im cruising, what im going to spend the £1 on yet as not been decided, but what ever I spend it on I know its going to be purchased from behind a bar!! Yep 2010, im sure is the year of the strummer!!!!!!!!!!!!!