Final 2007 update

First of all, sorry for the lack of updates recently, but I hope to compensate it with this somewhat longer then normal update.
I was kind of poker tired, so I just spend my poker time into effective playing hours.

2007
In 2007 I managed to put in 1314 poker hours, which is about 110 hours a month. I know it doesnt sound much (normal job here is about 168 hours a month), but I found out that it's not good for my game and health to play 8 hours every day.

So looking back at my goals in the beginning of the year I did not manage to play 1 million hands (my guess is around 750K hands), but I managed to reach my earned money goal with a very wide margin (goal was $120,000).

The best thing about this year was that my monthly income was very stable, better then I ever would have expected. All my months were $12K+ and my worst month was exactly half of my best month....so do some calculations and you know the 2007 results. I know people would like to see a year graph, but I have 5 PT databases so making one graph would cost me some photoshop time and it's probably a very boring (but nice) upwards sloping line.

2008

I would love to put some goals here for 2008, but I'll have to say that I'm not exactly sure what they will be. I don't know if I'm capable of putting another 100 hours a month of grinding NL400/NL600/NL1000. I'm now at a point were I could take the step from medium stakes to the higer stakes (NL1000+), but it's not just a small change in games. I should change my schedule for example, or play on different sites.
I know a lot of players get a kick from competing with the best and are action junkies, but I'm different in that.
Offcourse I like to play with good/better players some of the time, because it makes the game so much more interesting, but I'm not really an 'ego' player who always wants be the best and outplay others.

This was it for now, hope to update my blog more recently in the new year.
Finally I want to thank everybody for reading and wish everyone a happy new year.

Playing a flushdraw againt a donk.....

EverestPoker Game #2564351381: Table Bamako-0 - $2.00/$4.00 - No Limit Hold'em - 15:36:06 - 2007/12/27
Seat 1: BldZwtTrn ($440.10)
Seat 2: luckystrike1 ($1,475.54)
Seat 3: I_Destroy_U ($374.00)
Seat 4: Garuda72 ($607.80)
Seat 5: tristan217 ($240.00)
Seat 6: kaminari ($459.90)
kaminari posts the small blind of $2.00
BldZwtTrn posts the big blind of $4.00
The button is in seat #4
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to BldZwtTrn[9c Ac]
luckystrike1 raises to $8.00
I_Destroy_U folds
Garuda72 folds
kaminari folds
BldZwtTrn calls $4.00
*** FLOP *** [Th 7c Kc]
BldZwtTrn bets $12.00
luckystrike1 raises to $24.00
BldZwtTrn calls $12.00
*** TURN *** [Th 7c Kc] [9d]
BldZwtTrn bets $14.00
luckystrike1 raises to $28.00
BldZwtTrn calls $14.00
*** RIVER *** [Th 7c Kc 9d] [2c]
BldZwtTrn bets $380.10 and is all-in
luckystrike1 calls $380.10
*** SHOW DOWN ***
BldZwtTrn shows [9c Ac]
luckystrike1 shows [Kd Td]
*** SUMMARY ***
Board: [Th 7c Kc 9d 2c]
BldZwtTrn collects $880.20