Good thread.
I haven't looked at the 2008 Goals one yet, because I'm a little bit afraid of what I will find there. But let's have a look, shall we?
Fail. Fail. Partial credit - My stock market investing went to hell, obv, but I did fairly well investing in poker players. I did cut down on the big purchases for the most part.
Overall, I suck.
As for poker, 2008 was the year of the HU SNG for me. It started when I was out of town and wanted to keep my Iron Man status. I can't multitable very well on my laptop, so the quickest way to get my 200 points was to play 3 $200 HU SNGs. So that's what I did, and it went well. I decided I'd keep at it for a while and wanted to master them. I had a HORRIBLE run (playing and running badly) with the 150ish turbos I played, and that hurt my overall numbers quite a bit, but looking at my regular speed HU play (including 90 4 mans), I won about $30k playing almost 2000 matches.
I'm happy with those numbers for the most part, but I'm disappointed in the volume I put in. There is no reason I couldn't have played 5000 HU SNGs this year. Yeah, that's a lot, but 20 a day for 250 days isn't impossible by any means... and I usually play more than 5 days a week anyway. Extrapolating my win rate, my lack of volume potentially cost me $45,000. Even if we say my win rate would have dropped and I wouldn't have played that many, surely I left 20 or 25k on the table by not putting in the volume I could have.
Ironically, just in this last week, I switched back to 6 max NL and am kind of enjoying it again. I've been beating the 1/2 game pretty well, but I've lost a few sick pots at 2/4 deep that have ruined my numbers there. I'm not sure what game I'll focus on in 2008, to be honest.
I did get engaged this year and I also got a dog. So that's cool.
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