Thanks! And thanks for all your comments. Blogging is far more rewarding when I get to interact with regular readers.

Anon,

Yes and no. It’s the nature of tournament poker that even the best player will have many losses offset by occasional big wins. Thus, it’s not going to be very meaningful to look at my results minus my biggest tournament win, given that I spent nearly $120,000 on tournament entries over the course of the year. Of course I did occasionally win stuff other than the WSOP, including my WSOP seat in fact, but I’d still have a pretty pathetic ROI without it.

On the other hand, it’s true that if you exclude tournaments altogether, my cash results also aren’t quite where I thought they’d be. That is, as you say, largely a result of not putting in the hours. Once I had damn near what I had aimed to make for the year locked up in early July, I was definitely less motivated to keep grinding for the remainder of the year.

Thanks for what you do on your blog, I really enjoy your poker analysis that goes along with your hand histories.

Congrats again on a deep run at the WSOP!

Good luck in 2009,

Rick

Any idea what happened? Played fewer hours than anticipated after the main event?

Thankfully that’s a function of my poor Excel skills rather than poor poker skills. I did not lose the year’s profits in a drunken stupor on New Year’s Eve as this graph suggests.

Todd,

Yes but against this particular player floating the flop is not good (though not awful- I was planning to fold if he bet the turn but that flush draw came….)

He’s prob not getting 200bb’s in with 99-JJ here or Ax.