Played Day 1C yesterday and finished the day with 25K in chips. I hit a peak of 38K at the first break and it was all downhill from there, at one stage getting all in for my tournament life for 13K with QQ v JJ.

There was this one bad player across the table from me who beat me 6 out of 6 in medium sized pots. It was absolutely ridiculous. He was nearly out in the second or third level too when he got in K6 versus AA on KJ9 and managed to turn a 6.

I just checked my table draw for tomorrow and the chipleader (to my direct right) has 115K while everyone else has 31K or less. This is pretty much the most perfect table draw I could have asked for and is actually the exact kind of Day 2 table draw I got last time I played in 2009 (when no one had more than 42K). Hopefully that is a good sign.

Anyway, hope I run a bit better tomorrow. Time to check out the pool .

So I'm back on the road again, this time ostensibly to follow the live tournament circuit. At this point my plan is to play the WSOP Main, EPT Barcelona, EPT London, the WSOPE Main, the WSOPE 10K Split Format event, EPT San Remo and APPT Macau. I'm particularly excited about the WSOPE's Split Format event; it plays full-ring on Day 1, 6-handed on Day 2, and HU on Day 3. How awesome is that! As long as you don't bust on Day 1, that is...

I really need a good showing in at least one of these tournaments because my year has turned rather pear-shaped since Black Friday (might do a separate blog on this later). If I can Top 3 one of these events, I'll pretty much complete all my remaining poker goals in one fell swoop. If not, my year off will have been a lot of fun but not a great success poker-wise.

I touched down a few hours ago here in Washington DC. My USA itinerary looks something like this: 2 days in DC, 7 days in NYC, 3 weeks in Las Vegas, and 3 weeks in California, travelling up the west coast from San Diego to San Francisco, stopping at Los Angeles, Santa Barbara and Santa Cruz along the way. As for Europe, I'm starting with the Fringe Festival in Edinburgh, followed by Barcelona, Madrid, Frankfurt, Munich (Oktoberfest), London, Cannes and San Remo. After that, I'm not entirely sure yet. I have three weeks to fill before I head to Macau, and in that time I'll almost certainly go to Dublin, Belgium and Holland. I really want to go back to Stockholm and I've heard great things about Budapest so I'm going to try and fit them in too but they're both pretty out of the way and, with no one to go with to those places, they're probably sitting at about 25% likelihood at the moment.

So anyway, five months of freedom, fun and revelry begins now. Let's hope some poker success comes along with it!

Played a pretty sick hand today. It's Day 1B of ANZPT Canberra ($2200 AUD buy-in) and I'm sitting on 34K in chips (starting stack was 20K). The blinds are 100/200 (no antes yet) and there's a raise UTG to 500. UTG1 calls, MP calls, the CO calls, I call T9o (no diamond) on the BTN, and the BB calls. The flop comes a beautiful Qd Jc 8d. UTG c-bets 2500 into 3100, UTG1 calls, MP shoves for 20K, and it's on me. UTG has 29K and UTG1 about 15K. I decide to flat the shove cold rather than re-shoving and when it moves back to UTG he instantly moves all-in. OK...

UTG1 folds AQ with a pained expression (lol) and I call. Hands are flipped over and I'm facing 88 from UTG and KTd from MP. If I "hold" (is this the right expression, or is "suck out" more apt here?) I'll have more chips than the end of Day 1A chipleader. Alas the turn is a 9 and I drop 20K to MP but recoup 9K from UTG.

I hover around the 23K mark for the next 2 hours when the following hand comes up. With the blinds at 150/300/25 and a tight image, I raise 75d in MP and have the BTN and both blinds call me. They're all middle aged men who probably aren't very good. The flop comes 6s 4c 2s and it checks to me. I bet 1600 into 2800 and the BTN quickly raises to 5100. Both blinds fold. I have 20300 behind.

What's your play?

PS. If the structure/field affects your decision, blind levels are an hour long and in pretty standard increments (no key levels skipped). Next level is in 8 minutes. Field is also very soft.

ANZPT Perth

So ANZPT Perth came and went with a whimper. I busted the Main Event early on Day 2 and decided to go out with friends rather than play the High Rollers (who the hell schedules a tournament for Saturday 7PM?). I didn't play any cash so that was that. Next week is ANZPT Sydney so hopefully I do a little bit better there (I'll be playing the $2200 Main Event and the $1100 HU).

Perth, Fremantle and Mandurah

On one of my off days I did a bit of sightseeing around Perth. The weather was perfect and there were some great views from Kings Park across the river to the city.

On another day I went down to Fremantle with some of the poker players. It's a pretty cool port city with a microbrewery, some markets, and then a whole bunch of seafood restaurants and fish 'n' chip stores.

On my last day I went boating in Mandurah with a friend from my Sweden exchange and her friends. We had a BBQ, caught some crabs, and went biscuiting (see video) and kneeboarding.

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Online Poker

February and March went really well poker-wise, and actually March was my biggest month ever. I've found myself increasingly unmotivated to grind however and I feel kind of bad because it's like I'm literally too lazy to make money. I think part of the reason for this is that in my daily life I don't spend that much money so I don't feel much urgency to make more. Later in the year though when I'm travelling or looking to buy myself a place I'm sure a few extra thousand (grand) will sure come in handy, so that's the mentality I need to try to get myself in. I'm not going to set a volume goal or anything to rectify this (I think volume goals are retarded and you should never force yourself to play); I just hope I can recapture that desire to play day in, day out again.

What certainly hasn't helped is the recent daylight saving changes both here and in the US which have moved peak time for me to around 6AM. When I wake up now at 9AM I'm faced with about 4 10/20+ games (of which I can probably get on 2 immediately) so I've just been ignoring them and donking off money at 10/20 HU instead. When push comes to shove though I know I can force myself to get up earlier and play 6-Max and save my month (and year) if need be.

Japan and Other Trips

So I've had to cancel my Japan trip due to the earthquake/tsunami/radiation situation and will now be doing a round-the-world trip instead in the second half of the year, ending with Asia and APPT and APT Macau in November. Hopefully Japan will be fighting fit then and I'll probably visit China as well.

Ironically this means I can now play SCOOP. I'll only play Sundays still but if I luckbox a huge score now I guess it was just meant to be!

I've also decided to skip the 5K and 10K 6-Max events at the WSOP because the 30% tax is just too much to overcome. So I'm going to start with NYC instead and move on to Vegas for the Main Event only (unless I qualify for the Onyx Cup!). EPT Barcelona just got announced for late August (moved forward from its silly November timeslot last year) so I'll definitely be there and I'll probably go to whatever EPT is in late October as well (meaning I'll probably be doing 3 EPTs in a row, London being the third). I'm particularly excited about Barcelona. I really wanted to go back and this is just the absolute perfect excuse to do so. It also coincides perfectly with my Eurotrip timetable so that's definitely a huge plus.

Lund Memories Video

Finally, I made this video of my time in Lund. Basically I just put together every clip I took during my exchange (rather lacking in variety unfortunately) and slapped a soundtrack over it. Pretty cool for me, boring for you, but here it is anyway.

Anyway that's all for now. Good luck!

I've been home for a month now and poker's been going really well. In the first week I finished off my 10/20 goal and last week I re-reached my peak of last October, thereby bidding adieu to my huge downswing of late last year. Bankroll-wise I'm also back to where I want to be: easily rolled for 25/50 and able to take shots at 100/200. This means I'm pretty much at where I've wanted to be for my entire poker life: ready to make 25/50 my main game!

On the non-poker front, I've gotten myself a personal trainer and signed up to French and German classes. I'm really big on life-balance and want to make sure that poker doesn't envelop all my time this year (even if that just means watching a lot of TV instead). I figure that this way, if on December 31st I go on a drunken rampage at RailHeaven and spew all my winnings for the year, at least I'll still have something to show for the year.

Finally, I've started solidifying my travel plans for the rest of the year. Quite frankly, my next trip can't come soon enough. I already really miss the feeling of travelling - you just feel so alive, waking up every morning knowing that a day full of new experiences is awaiting you.

So far I've booked a week in Perth in two weeks' time for ANZPT Perth and two weeks in Japan (Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka) in May. Coincidentally, the two weeks in Japan coincide EXACTLY with the dates of SCOOP (released today) so I'm going to miss the entire thing. Although; the Main Event starts 3 hours before I touchdown back in Sydney - do a Hellmuth possibly and rock up 4 hours late?

Afterwards I'm going to do a mega-USA/Europe trip which will look something like this: Vegas last week of June for 5K and 10K 6-Max, then NYC for a week, then back to Vegas for the Main Event for 2½ weeks, then San Diego, Los Angeles and San Francisco for about 5 days each. Then off to Europe in August to Dublin, Edinburgh (Edinburgh Festival!), Amsterdam, Brussels, Munich (Oktoberfest!), and London (EPT London). May throw in some Budapest, Krakow, Stockholm etc. for good measure, or even a Sorbonne French course in Paris for a few months to finish the year.

Definitely shaping up to be an exciting year, can't wait!

7 months to the day since I left for Europe, I'm finally home.

It's been an amazing journey; I started in the sun-drenched beauty of the French Riviera and Cinque Terre and ended up in the winter wonderlands of Swedish Lapland and the Norwegian fjords; in between, I went from medieval Edinburgh to elegant Vienna; from gothic Barcelona to stunning Stockholm; and from grungy Berlin to picture-perfect Prague. In total, I visited 12 countries and 26 cities, sampling a delightful assortment of culture, history, art, architecture and food along the way.

My fondest memory of course will be my time in Lund. We often said in Lund that we dreaded the day that we had to return to "real life". For us, Lund was so much fun that it had to be fairy-tale. The whole experience truly was magical, and I doubt I'll ever feel as alive, as young and as free as I did in Lund.

Anyway, now that I'm home, I thought I'd cap off my Eurotrip blogging by listing my 4 favourite destinations. Why 4, and not 5 or 3? Quite frankly, these are the 4 that stick out the most for me. If I had to choose a 5th, I'd be splitting hairs between about 5 cities, none of which stand out as much as these 4. And if I had to choose 3...well, I just couldn't leave 4th place out.

Note, I've excluded cities that I only visited as day trips (Pisa, Siena, Bath, and Tallinn) and cities that I'd visited before (Paris, London).

4. Berlin

Berlin is an eclectic mix of a town. On the one hand, it's a city steeped in historical significance and indeed many of its buildings, sights and attractions relate or testify to the events of WWII. On the other hand, there is a certain edginess to Berlin that comes from its rather grungy look and feel and its very alternative art, music and nightlife scenes. It's kind of hard to describe, and the combination of all these things no doubt makes Berlin sound like a disaster waiting to happen, but I think it makes Berlin really endearing.

Brandenburg Gate



Reichstag (Parliament)



Holocaust Memorial

Berlin Cathedral on Museum Island



Checkpoint Charlie



Berlin Wall



3. Rome

Having studied Latin for 6 years in high school, it was amazing to finally see the Colosseum and the Roman Forum (as well as nearby Pompeii). Rome is full of beautiful piazzas and meeting points (the Trevi Fountain and the Spanish Steps come to mind) and St Peter's Basilica and the Vatican Museum are of course a must see. It's kind of humbling when you walk into St Peter's and realise that you are at the centre of the Catholic world.

The food was great (it's hard to not like pizza, pasta, meat and gelato) and the nightlife was decent. Clubs line the waterfront on the city side of the River Tiber and across the river lies a district called Trastevere which is a bustling hive of activity at night.



Roman Forum

Trevi Fountain



Spanish Steps






St Peter's





Sistine Chapel



Piazza Navona



Pompeii





2. Stockholm

Stockholm is never spoken of in the same breath as other big European cities but honestly the place is an absolute gem. In addition to all the trimmings that you expect from a capital city (great transport system, restaurants, nightlife etc.), Stockholm has a beautiful old town and some genuinely unique museums (including a living, breathing, open-air museum where Sweden of yesteryear has basically been trapped into a bubble and put on display for all). Something you may not know is that Stockholm actually consists of a series of islands. At night, the combination of water, lights and old, historic buildings creates a romantic vibe that really brings the city to life.

Gamla Stan (old town)










Facing Djurgarden island (home to Skansen, the open air museum)



1. Barcelona

Barcelona was amazing. The first thing you notice when you arrive is just how gorgeous the place is. Whether you're at the beach of the port, the new town or the charming old Gothic Quarter, it seems like a postcard picture is awaiting you at every corner. The food is fantastic (I swear I could never tire of tapas), the architecture by Gaudi is wonderfully unique and eye-opening, and the night life, centred around the central esplanade "La Rambla", is great.

Most importantly, the city itself is always full of life and atmosphere. The place is absolutely electric, by day and by night.

For my original blog on Barcelona, click here.








Gothic Quarter







La Rambla



Arc de Triomf



Gaudi

Since getting back on the road I haven't really had time to do any trip reports. To be honest I'm getting kind of over doing them too, so here's my solution: a highlights reel!

Edinburgh

For NYE I went to Edinburgh for their massive Hogmanay street party with a bunch of friends from Lund. We bought tickets to the ceilidh (traditional Scottish dance) section of the party, which basically meant that I was completely left-footed the whole night. Fortunately, we went to a cool club after.

A lot of FIFA.

But in all seriousness the UNESCO-listed Old Town in Edinburgh is absolutely stunning. It's the sort of medieval town you imagine in fairytales: narrow, winding, steep, cobbled streets, dark Georgian architecture, a bustling train station, rivers and bridges, and a majestic castle overseeing the whole thing.

The Candlelight Procession

The view over the Old Town from the New Town

The Royal Mile

Bergen

Bergen is really beautiful. That's pretty much all there is to say...

Although I should add, I did manage to try whale at the fish markets!

The fjords

The UNESCO-listed old wharf area

Bergen centre

Views over the town





Oslo

Oslo was nice but quite tame. Munch's Scream at the National Gallery was a definite highlight but the rest of the must-sees in Oslo (Vigeland Sculpture Park, the Viking Ship Museum, and the main boulevard leading up to the Royal Palace) I would best describe as pleasant but underwhelming.

Vigeland Sculpture Park

Viking Ship Museum

Opera House

Berlin

Grungy, ugly, alternative and underground, Berlin is definitely not my kind of scene. Yet despite this I enjoyed Berlin probably more than any other destination on my trip thus far (excluding Lund, since that is not really a fair comparison). On the first day I did a free walking tour and deadest quintupled my knowledge of WWII and Germany in the space of three hours. I had never done a walking tour before but now I am completely sold: they're great because you hear a bunch of interesting and fun anecdotes and get pointed out things you would otherwise completely miss. A pretty museum and an impressive church suddenly become larger than life when you learn that they were two sides of a Nazi parade ground. As does a mundane car park when you learn it was Hitler's last bunker.

The Brandenburg Gate



Holocaust Memorial, Reichstag, the Brandenburg Gate

Museum Island

My friend and I were impressively inefficient, so over the course of the next three days we saw only three more things: East Side Gallery, Kunsthaus Tacheles (an artist commune), and the Pergamon Museum.

East Side Gallery

Kunsthaus Tacheles

The Pergamon is one of the best museums I've ever been to. It has an amazing audio guide tour and, housing the Pergamon Altar, the Market Gate at Miletus, and the Ishtar Gate (gate at Babylon), is definitely the must-see museum of Berlin. (Not putting up photos because they simply don't do them justice; you really need to walk into the room to get the full effect of their grandeur.)

In terms of food and drink, I went on an Asian binge since I had been deprived of decent Asian food in the four months I was Sweden. Fortunately, there were a host of good places just near our hostel (the entire area actually was filled with hip shops, cafes and restaurants).

On the one night we didn't have Asian, my friend dragged me to this vegetarian restaurant that she found on her Lonely Planet app. The place was so bizarre. We literally had to walk through the back alleyway of a hotel, through all the garbage and water and bins, upon which we arrived at what seemed to be a dead-end.

There was a sign with the name of the restaurant but the door was locked and there were no further details regarding opening hours or the like. Alongside the door there was a panel which looked like a keypad but they buttons were all fake. Only the bottom right button was real and upon pressing it we were greeted by a voice asking what we were there for. After saying "we're looking for the restaurant" we got buzzed in and walked into an empty, dimly lit, red room. I said to my friend "are you sure this restaurant is not a front for a brothel or something?", but she persevered. We then walked down a hallway, up a flight of stairs and emerged into the most immaculately clean, posh-looking restaurant ever. WEIRD!

In terms of nightlife, we went on an "alternative" pub crawl on the Friday and a regular pub crawl on the Saturday. Quite frankly, I couldn't tell the difference (it all seemed pretty damn alternative to me) but it was still fun and we met some cool peeps. On the second night, after again ending at a club that was not to my liking, I instructed the taxi driver to take us to "the best and most expensive club in Berlin". He took us to these two by the water which again failed to hit the right notes (ha!) so on the Sunday I just gave up and we went lounge/wine/jazz/blues-hopping instead.

OK I'm going to stop there. I obviously got a bit carried away with the Berlin portion of this "highlights" blog, but I think that just reflects how good it was! Ciao.

2011 marks the first year I can play pretty much full-time. I hand in my final essay on 13 January and after that I'm basically free to do as I please until February 2012. I worked out I'll be travelling for about 7 months this year but some of those trips will be poker trips and that still leaves 5 full months for grinding at home. So without further ado here are my poker goals for 2011!

Cash Games

First and foremost I want to become a regular at 25/50. The 25/50 games have experienced somewhat of a renaissance on PokerStarsin recent months so hopefully that continues into next year. I need 14 buy-ins to finish my 10/20 6-max goal and after that I plan to play 25/50 to 50/100 pretty much exclusively. I toyed with the idea of continuing to play 10/20 but from past experience I think that cutting it will be better overall: it'll prevent me from playing too many tables (I can't resist playing every 10/20 game that is running otherwise), it'll force me to improve and not rely on 10/20 to bail me out of any downswing, and it'll force me to balance poker with other things and not grind too much (since 25/50 only runs at peak times). I also know that I'll have trouble taking 10/20 seriously if I'm playing 25/50 regularly.

I think the only times I'll play 10/20 and 15/30 are when there's some egregious whale sitting that I simply can't resist. A lot of people talk about taking shots at higher stakes when a huge fish is sitting but not many people discuss dropping down for the same reason, but I think it makes a lot of sense. For example, if your win-rate is 3PTBB/100 at your average 5/10 table and 2PTBB/100 at your average 10/20 table, it would never be logical to play 5/10 (unless not enough 10/20 games were running or you were not rolled for 10/20). However if a huge fish were to sit at a 5/10 table your win-rate at that table would jump to something like 10PTBB/100 and suddenly it's much smarter to play that table before any of your 10/20 tables.

Tournaments

I plan to focus a lot more on live MTTsthis year, partly because it's the first time I can travel to any event I want but mostly because it's the first time I'm rolled to the point where playing live can actually be more worthwhile than playing online. Liveis a strange beast because there's a huge gulf between low and high stakes livegames and not that much in between. At the low end of the spectrum, your average livegame (say a 5/10 cash game or a $300 tournament) is simply not worth playing since you can multi-table the same (or lower) stakes online for a bigger hourly. At the high end of the spectrum there exists the odd nosebleed cash game and then a whole bunch of huge 10K+ buy-in tournaments. This means that if you can grow your bankroll large enough, you can suddenly access cash games and tournaments which simply don't exist online. Coupled with the general softness of liveplay, it suddenly becomes extremely profitable (albeit higher variance) to play live.

I've sketched out a rough schedule for the year and at the moment my plan is to play ANZPT Perth (March), ANZPT Sydney (April), APPT Macau (May), the WSOP 10K 6-Max and WSOP Main Event (June/July) and WSOPE & EPT London (September). After September I'm not sure; it'll basically depend where I am (probably Australia so probably more local events).

Online I plan to play the big events (FTOPS, WCOOP, SCOOP etc.) and perhaps the majors on Sundays. I'm a bit torn about Sundays because I really struggle to play cash and MTTs simultaneously (I either end up auto-piloting both which is the worst of both worlds, or stop caring about the MTTs as soon as I lose a big pot in cash) and solving that problem by forgoing cash on Sundays would mean passing up on the juiciest games of the week. At the same time I probably need the practice and I also like the idea of having something to mix up the week to keep things fresh. Not sure what I'll do here.

Poker Study

One thing I really want (read: need) to do is to study poker again. I think I watched less than 10 videos to the very end in 2010 and am amazed that it hasn't come back to bite me yet (maybe it has in the form of lesser growth rather than crippling downswings and falling down in stakes?). With so much time on my hands this year I think studying a minimum of 10 hours a week (including watching a minimum of 4 videos) is a very reasonable goal.

Bucket-List Goals

Finally, just for fun, some goals to check-off:

• Win a live tournament with a $1000 USD buy-in or higher
• Final table a live tournament with a $5000 USD buy-in or higher and at least 50 runners
• Win an online tournament for at least $50K USD
• Cash for $100K USD in a tournament
• Win 500K USD for the year
• Win $1M USD for the year
• Play on TV

Ideally I'll just win the WSOP Main Event which should take care of just about all of them. Good luck everyone in 2011!

Just got back from a week in the north of Sweden and my god it was beautiful. Spent 3 nights (including Christmas) with 15 others in a cabin in the woods around Kiruna. We went dogsledding, snowmobiling and ice fishing, saw the smallest glimpse of the Northern Lights, visited the Ice Hotel, and had Christmas dinner together. I also spent 3 nights by myself in Kiruna city and wandered the beautiful but tiny mining town.

For me the highlight was definitely the dogsledding. The scenery was absolutely stunning, too magical for words. Snow, forest, frozen lakes, mountains, mist, sunset (technically neither sunset nor sunrise, the sun never crosses the horizon during this time of the year) - it's one of those backdrops you only see in a James Bond movie or something.

Back at the cabin we spent our time eating, drinking, chatting, listening to music and just generally chilling (ho ho). For Christmas we also did a Thieving Secret Santa which didn't work out too well for me since I got a bottle of vodka which I couldn't take on the plane so I had to give it away!

All in all an amazing and unforgettable week. I'm sure I'll probably never experience anything like it again.

Dogsledding

Snowmobiling

Don't have any pics while on the snowmobile unfortunately.

Ice Fishing

Step 1: Dig a hole

Success!

(Took about 20 minutes, ice was 30 cm thick)



Step 2: Fish!

(Failed)



View From Our Cabin



Ice Hotel

Atrium



Absolut Ice Bar







The Church



The Rooms

At the Cabin

(Christmas dinner picture to come - need to grab off a friend)

Chilling about

Northern Lights

(Pictures to come - need to grab off a friend whose camera was actually capable of capturing the Northern Lights)

Kiruna

Airport



The iron mine



Town centre





The church

Farewell Lund!

Tomorrow I start travelling again, and so marks the end of the most amazing four months of my life. The last couple of weeks in Lund have been filled with Christmas dinners and end of semester parties but I think everyone will agree that it's all been a bit bittersweet and tinged with sadness. With every drink, every class and every party we know that we are one step closer to saying goodbye.

It's not quite goodbye of course. I'm actually travelling or meeting up with quite a few of them over the course of the next month, and a lot of them are keen to come to Sydney sometime or to Vegas in July, but I know it'll never quite be the same. After my Paris exchange during high school I naively believed that I'd return a year later and see all my friends together again. That turned out not to be remotely the case since by then they had all graduated and many had spread across the country for University. That experience really taught me to enjoy and cherish the time I had here with everyone, and looking back I like to think I did a pretty good job of that.

I leave Lund with some amazing friendships, a lifetime of happy memories, and experiences that will stay with me forever. So thank you Lund, it's been a blast.

Travel Plans

So tomorrow I leave for Lapland in the north of Sweden to go dogsleddingand snowmobiling with fifteen other Australian and Dutch exchange students. We're also going to visit the Ice Hotel and hopefully we'll get to see the Northern Lights at least once (run good one time!?).

Afterwards I'm heading to Edinburgh for New Year's Eve for their Hogmanay street party with a bunch of the Australians and also some Scottish and English friends.

Then it's back onto the European travel circuit with Bergen, Oslo, Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Munich and London over the course of five weeks. If anyone has any tips for any of those destinations, please leave them!

2010 Poker Wrap-Up

Overall I think 2010 was a success poker-wise. I had my best year ever and, despite not initially intending to play whilst on exchange, managed to make the majority of my winnings while I was here (and in fewer hands too). Given how close I was to leaving my RSA tokens at home in June, the money I made in the second half of the year really feels like bonus money to me.

At the same time I finished the year on a six-figure downswing and played my final month on perma-tilt. I also didn't manage to finish my 10/20 goal which is kind of annoying. I needed just 4.5 buy-ins going into my final session but managed to drop 9 instead so I stopped trying pretty soon after. I haven't played for two weeks now and don't plan to restart until I get back to Australia on the 9th of February.

I plan on making a more detailed post regarding my goals for 2011 later, but basically I'm looking to a) finish my 10/20 goal and make 25/50 my main game and b) focus more on MTTs, in particular high stakes live MTTs. I have a few other considerations to weigh up though and I'll go into those in a post next year.

Photos and Memories

I will finish with some final photos of my time in Lund (well actually I still have to do my Stockholm trip report, but ignoring that...). Some are from the final few weeks; some are from earlier but cropped up on Facebook after I made the corresponding blog post. Anyway they're obviously mostly a means for me to remember and look back on my time in Lund, but hopefully you enjoy them too.

God jul och gott nytt ar, see you in 2011!