I can think of at least 10 topics to blog about but dont have time to get it all out now so i'll just spew some thoughts as i havent blogged anything for a while..

2010 was my 1st full year playing cash games online, I lost a lot & also learnt a lot and hopefully the expensive lessons will pay for themselves in 2011.. Had a few nice tournament results towards the end of the year online to put a dent in the losses - chopping the $26 rush turbo 6-max twice in a week for a total of $9k was nice, and i'm feeling positive about the year ahead.

I'm watching the latest poker premier league show as i write this which is pretty interesting.. I know a lot of people fucking hate FullFlush but i've always liked the way he plays and definitely rooting for him. I also followed with interest the super high roller event at the PCA.. $100k is such a sick amount to buy into a tournament for. $100 is a big buyin for me! I was going to play a £100 live tourney just before xmas but decided not to as i had flu as thought i wouldnt be playing my best.

I'm done with playing HU games for now, after this weekend:

Full Tilt - $0.50 NL (2 max) - Holdem - 2 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 3: http://www.pokertracker.com

BB: $35.65
Hero (SB): $51.25

Hero posts SB $0.25, BB posts BB $0.50

Pre Flop: ($0.75) Hero has 6h Qh

Hero raises to $1.50, BB calls $1.00

Flop: ($3.00, 2 players) Jc Kh 4h
BB checks, Hero checks

Turn: ($3.00, 2 players) 3s
BB checks, Hero bets $2.50, BB calls $2.50

River: ($8.00, 2 players) 7c
BB checks, Hero bets $8.75, BB calls $8.75

Hero shows 6h Qh (High Card, King) (PreFlop 40%, Flop 39%, Turn 20%)
BB shows 9c Kd (One Pair, Kings) (PreFlop 60%, Flop 61%, Turn 80%)
BB wins $25.00

2nd hand into the match, i bet the turn with my flushdraw, and bluff the river but can't get him off his weak king..

Maybe it was bad play, although i sensed some weakness, but its the start of the match and i like to start off with an aggressive image, to get paid off light later in the match.

Then the guy instaquits. After 2 fucking hands.   I know this happens all the time but i hate it.

I mean the state of the HU games to me looks really bad. Looking at the lobby's on Full Tilt & stars at any meaningful stakes there will be maybe 1 or 2 games actually running, and then like 50 people sat on tables on there own waiting for action from a fish, then if anyone decent trys to play them they sit out or leave..

And I havent even started on those bastards who hit & run. In fact i won't even go there but i'm sure you can guess how i feel...

Phil galfond wrote an excellent blog post suggesting that HU regs should play eachother more and it would be better for the games & people can learn from eachother but it seems no-ones listening to Phil & they all still want to sit around bumhunting, hit & running & waiting for whales. Anyway Fuckem i'm sticking to 5max,6max and MTT's unless someone wants to play me HU live.

The only exception is i've agreed to do a 4 table HU challenge on Full Tilt with someone who i think is pretty good so will hopefully get that played sometime this year, although its been talked about for a long time and not happened so far.

Oh yeah here's a graph of today's session - i ran like a muthafuckin ethiopian, even though i was under EV I got some nice spots, nice cards, hit some sets, and most of my bluffs worked!.. Obv means nothing as its such a small sample but still nice to win a bit! Funny that i had to take a day off work today but made more playing poker than i would sitting in my office for the day.. Varaince is a bitch though! (where u@ Tneva?)

Anyway this blogs getting longer than i expected so i'll wrap it up & wish everyone @ coinflip Happy New Year & Gl for 2011..