2010 Poker

In 2010 I have a very high goals for myself as a poker player, I would like to be playing $3/$6 as my regular game and taking shots at $5/$10 by the end of 2010. I hope to profit more than $200,000 and play over 1,000,000 hands throughout the year. I will post my results per month as well as anything else I find interesting throughout the year.

Weight Loss

Throughout my teen years I seemed to keep putting on weight with bad eating habits and a lack of exercise, I have decided that this year that is going to change so I will be constantly blogging with updates of my weight loss. I am currently very overweight at 6’8″ (204cm).

Dunk a Basketball

Growing up as a kid I always played basketball, whether it was out the front of my house, at primary school with the other kids or competing weekly with my best mates against other teams. I loved the sport and obsessed with it for a long time thanks to one main player, Michael Jordan:

The man was so admirable, had an excellent work ethic and ridiculous amounts of skill in all facets of the game. It is because of this that I have set myself a goal to dunk a basketball before my birthday in 2011 (29th March).

I am very tall (204cm) however overweight so will have to lose a few kg for this goal to become possible. As an added incentive a short friend of mine Graham said he would bet me 1 carton of beer to whoever dunks a basketball first, him being under 6 foot I am basically a 99% favourite to win.

2009 Poker

In 2009 I decided to play poker professionally online from the month of March onwards, I played $1/$2 blinds as my main game on FTP under the name “newmanmi”. My results for the year were as follows:

+~19k in rakeback
+2.3k in rakeraces
+~7k in donkaments
+~5k in staking
+1.2k in random coaching

Total ~$105,000 US dollars from just shy of 700,000 hands.