New Year, Fresh Focus!

I started the New Year with a couple of final tables.  My best result was 2nd in the $51 hyper for around $4.7k and 8th in a late $109 with 500 runners for about 1k.  I felt my energy was strong in today's session and I posted up 4,266 VPP.  I played a few big SNG's including a 2.1k Euro Step, I have 4 Step G's that I have ground up from the lower steps.

New year, new avatar!  The pic above is of an Afghan girl in 1985, the photo was taken by a National Geographic photographer and for 17 years no one knew who she was.  She remained nameless and her haunting and exotic look hung over many (Oprah even did a feature on her a few years ago).  Here is the full story of what happened http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2002/04/afghan-girl/index-text  I found it very interesting and I hope you do too.

Over Christmas and New Years I mostly spent time going on long walks and watching movies, eating out, ordering in and drinking with friends and family.  I got some good advice at my families gathering on Christmas day about motivating teams and I am implemented some of the ideas.  My Uncle is a trader and has run some businesses and we discussed a few ideas and he was really helpful.

I am heading to Melbourne soon for the Aussie Millions, I will probably play the main event only and stick to my bread and butter online.  I spent heaps of $$$ this year travelling and going on holidays, but when I was home and had my head down I got some great results so I want to keep focussed.  The PokeStars Team Online application has motivated me to grind and I like it.  No news as of yet.  I hope more than one of us gets the gig.  Also with the news of Joe Hachem and PokerStars parting ways, it may or may not lead to a reconfiguration of who and how PokerStars do business in the Asia Pacific.

All ANZ players received a new newsletter for our region that will be monthly.  It included significant achievements by players in our region in PokerStars tournaments and leader boards and individual scores.  It also stated that the new Australian Team Online member would be announced in this newsletter in January, so keep and eye out, I know I will be.  I still have no idea and am still just plugging away.  This whole process has given me renewed vigour and motivation to play on PokerStars.