All entries for Saturday 31 December 2011

2011

It’s been a fucking incredible year. This is my second full calender year playing poker full time although there were a lot of patches where it was very much part time.

The year couldn’t have started much better when one of my best friends James Keys binked off a cool milly in the Aussie Millions with myself and Mongy accompanying the celebrations to Hong Kong and Thailand.

An epic trip in April to Manilla/Berlin/Seville/Dublin culminated in a trip to San Remo. I’d managed to nick 2 cashes under my belt on the trip already and older readers won’t recall I went to San Remo back in November for an IPT where I did not win. In an effort to rectify things I went back for my 2nd EPT ever and pinged it off with a little help from my friends (#teammiramare).

Life didn’t change too drastically but I did find myself at every single EPT stop as well as a few others – not least of those on the feature table next to Daniel Negreanu live on ESPN at the WSOP main event. Probably something I could tick off the bucket list if I wasn’t trying to act so nonchalant about it all.

I’ve been working hard in December and my work ethic is really good at the moment. I’ve settled very nicely into my new place in London where the area is gorgeous and just perfect for spending the next 2 months travelling!

So at some point I said +$105k and 300 working days. I have no idea how many days I played in 2011 but I 4x’d the first goal with change which is nice.

I don’t normally make ridiculous predictions but I found myself not carrying a mirror to my room at 4am the other night based on the fact that I could “really not use 7 years bad luck at the moment” so I fancy myself to be a bit of a Mystic Meg. I really have a good feeling for Dominik Nitsche in 2012. I feel like he is maturing a lot as a person especially compared to when I first met him and I think we think about hands in a really similar way for the most part (and obviously I’ve solved poker so…) so I like his style. Expect big things from him and buy up his action whenever you can. Except in Vegas, absolutely no way he has a winning trip there.

Also worth noting that Black Friday fucked a lot of people, some harder than others and it really isn’t on. I really hope everything gets resolved and things end up better than they started be it through regulation or Full Tilt coming back or whatever. There’s people who I am REALLY pulling to have a good 2012 because the DOJ fucked them over hard so I hope that happens.

To the rest of you I hope you have a splendid new year and get absolutely smashed as I fully intend to do. Then enjoy a day of hangover and remorse as you afflict more pain on yourself by grinding the first Sunday of the year. GOGOGOGOGOGOGO

Rups 2012 goals
- 6000 online tournies
- 50 live tournies

Rupert Elder : 31 Dec 2011 01:48 |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem