Happy New Year!

Happy New Year!

I arrived back into North America on the 28th! All I can say is it feels good to be home!

For those of you who care about how my trip to Japan was, it was really quite fun! we went shopping at Ginza/Oena zoo the first few days, then went to tokyo disneyland and disney sea for another two days. After that we went to Sunjuku (I am probably spelling it wrong) to just shop and hang out. The people in Japan are the most polite and friendliest people in THE WORLD! hands down!! when you walk into a restaurant (or anywhere tbh) everyone working there always says something (probably 'welcome'?) and bows to you. There was this one guy we even wanted to tip him for his help and he REJECTED it!! Anyways, I took lots of pics but my favorite picture is this one:




Yes I hugged him!! hahaha, he was taking pictures with a bunch of like 5 year old kids, and then me and Andrew go line up to take a picture with him too LOL. people must of been thinking wtf why are these 20 year olds trying to take a picture with goofey!

The last couple of days were pretty chill, i was basically just hanging out with Amy and just shopping/eating around Toronto. I'm gonna be going back to waterloo on Jan 2nd.. I can't wait to go back and hit the tables again! I'm not gonna lie I've been itching to play for a while now! I played in Japan some 50nl during my spare time and it was pretty profitable. I mainly 10-12 tabled on my crappy laptop with no HUD but because of the time differences i ended up playing at like 5am EST which was like 8-9pm japan time. it was sick the amount of donkeys on at those hours! I think if anyone plays full time they should spend a couple nights a week trying to stay up at those hours because it can be quite profitable.

Anyways on Friday (Jan 2nd) I will be heading back to waterloo! I can't wait to go back to waterloo! It's nice to be home and stuff, but i really miss waterloo and most importantly i miss hitting the tables!! It's been too long since i've been apart from poker!!

Since it is the new year, I think i'll just do a quick summary of my poker goals for the upcoming year.

1. Play 200NL (or higher) full time. The monies is at 200NL and above, and I plan on becoming a regular at those stakes. I am really not far away to accomplishing this because currently i am over-rolled for 200NL but the only thing holding me back is myself. I am just sitting im my comfort zone at 100NL and not really trying to force myself to moveup! however in the coming year that will all change!

2. Significantly improve my tournament game. I have been working on this slowly with my bro, but next year i plan to have signifcantly improved my tournament game to the point where i feel like i am at least +EV (right now i am soooo -EV). I am going to mix in tournaments with my cash game sessions and see where that leads me... hopefully i make one big cash.

3. get 300K full tilt points for their 30" monitor!

I really believe that this year is going to be a big breakout year for me. I remember last year when I first started this blog, i was a total newb! I have grown and improved my game so much since then. When I started this blog, I only played 25NL with a 300$ roll and back then seeing 300$ in my account was the greatest feeling in the world LOL. I only 1 tabled on UB and I was probably a break-even player. In the course of a year I have met so many people that have helped me along the way. My game has changed so much and I can honestly see why poker is a game that takes 5 minutes to learn, but a lifetime to master. I still have so much more room for improvement, and in the next few years I will continue working to become the best player I can be.

Happy New Year everyone and I hope everyone runs good in 2009!