
After a miserable November and December I managed to have my 2nd biggest month ever. My 3 biggest cashes were:
1) 4th in a ftp 26/28k for 2.3k
2) 1st in a stars 9.90 360 max for $810
3) 7th in a stars $33/10k for $770
I plugged a few leaks that I found in December when I was in the midst of a 100 buy in downswing. I got really unlucky to not have a monster month as I was really unlucky to not win the 28k and got super unlucky in some deep runs in some 55s and a 75. My goal for the year was to make a minimum of 10k. I managed to make 2.4k in January so I'm about 1/4 of the way there just one month in. I've gotten to a point that even at a $35 abi I make more hourly playing poker then I do at my job. Which inevitably makes draggin my ass to work so much harder.
At work things are not lookin so good. About 10% of the work force will be laid off in the next couple of weeks. Thankfully for me I can probably survive 2 lay off cuts. To help save money work has offered to allow anyone to have a day off until the end of Feb. unpaid. My thought was that I was going to take at least a couple of weeks off and grind. Well that plan backfired as I hurt my back trying to get back into shape. It's pretty hard to grind when your back is stiff, sore, and just screaming with pain.
My mission for the year is to hopefully build a roll and play at a high enough level so that I can give work the big middle finger and try playing poker for awhile. If I don't make 10k this year I'm going to put poker on the back burner and spend more time working out and brushing up on my computer programming skills and find myself a job with better hours.