So its over... it was a bit of a slog since at the start of October i was only on 575k or so but i put in a pretty even 150k per month which is still only about 25-30hrs a week. In total i estimate it took 6-700 hours total, and whilst i played a good bit at the start of the year i had a pretty lazy summer, which combined with not running so great for a couple months was very demotivating.. However i hung in there and the last 3 months have been pretty easy, and were helped by a nice $100k upswing in the last few weeks and generally running much better. Im very attuned to playing more when its going well and putting in short (but frequent sessions) when its not to try and keep sharp and build confidence, so it was nice to hit a good stretch when it counted. Im now looking forward to a few days off!

As for 2011, ive been thinking about my goals and what i want to achieve. It would be nice to repeat supernova elite as its only about 12 hrs a week for over 100k in rakeback alone (plus another 25k if youre already SNE) , and since those extra monies come in the form of a multiplier that runs out with SNE status at the start of October i may go for 1.25m to maximise that (ie 1m by Oct 1st, 1,25 by years end), which would equate to over 150k in total. However much will depend on how it goes at the start of the year i think (since towards the end you are basically playing for free), as its incredibly frustrating feeling like your just coasting along and its possible i could make more in less time elsewhere, plus the multiplier is a big part of the value. Alttogether though this year has been pretty stress free since the swings are pretty small compared to cash games and usually offset by rakeback. Its nice to prove to myself that i can grind if i want to.

I do however want to get back to actually playing poker in 2011 rather than just grinding towards a goal, and so i will probably revert to the plan i had for the most part of last year of looking for good cash games and grinding some sitngos out in the background whilst doing that. Id also like to mix in some other things like a bit of live play and some TV events if i can get on them. This year after sitngos i mostly made money in fixed limit games and barely played big bet apart from a bit of PLO, since NL is pretty dead now it seems. Ive really enjoyed geting into limit holdem, which is another relatively stress free game comapred to NL and playing the new games like badugi and NL 2-7. Im also looking forward to playing some 10 game on full tilt and trying to make a run at the bigger games there since there has been some crazy action. Didnt really have any big tourney scores this year unfortunately, but a few smaller ones towards the end of the year were at least encouraging after a poor run before. All in all not a bad year if not exactly stellar, and hopefully i can make good things happen in 2011...