I think it's safe to say I got a pretty good taste of the highs and lows of grinding MTTs this year. I had always dabbled in MTTs online, though only made the transition to trying to play them full time at the start of this year. I was lucky enough to breakeven for the 1st few months of the year while learning, and had a breakout month in May grabbing something like 40k profit, followed by a 2nd in ANZPT Queenstown in July for 55k $NZD (of which I had 35% of myself).
Sky high in confidence, I was brought pretty quickly back to earth with a -20k downswing almost straight down. Took me the best part of 5 months to get that figure close to even, by this time living expenses/livaments etc had caught up with me and the pressure on my roll became a little too much. Fortunately I was lucky enough to get backed by the baza/RAWKS conglomerate at the start of this month, and have been playing a shitload better since then.
I think the best thing to take from all this is that while is it very easy to blame losing money on tournaments on variance/run bad, you can still stay pro-active in improving your game, something I definitely neglected for a while. With that in mind, goals for 2011:
1) Make enough bank to get unbacked, and successfully keep it that way
2) Multiple 5 figure scores online (or 1 6 figure)
3) Lose 20kg, play 1st grade footy (AFL) again
4) Finish the remaining subjects on my degree, hang it on the wall
Bring on 2011!
PS: also got a nice Christmas present from FTP
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