Christmas is a strange period when you’re a pro poker player. You go through all the annual festivities – drinking and eating with my girlfriend’s family for Christmas Day before driving up to Chesterfield to drink and eat with my family on Boxing Day – and it’s generally great fun, but at the back of your mind are all the drunk fools online waiting to give money away while you are busy socialising.
While I probably missed out on a ton of value over Christmas, the enforced week-long break from poker served to get me hugely motivated for the new year. Since I started playing again on December 28 I’ve put in some heavy hours, 45,000 hands, and had decent results too. As of January 12 I’ve won $8,000 in that period and really played well on the whole. After a demoralising final quarter of 2011, the timing couldn’t be better. My love for the game has never really gone away but these last few weeks have really reminded me how it felt the first time I learnt the rules of Hold’em eight years ago and all I wanted to do was play every hour of the day.
It’s not always like that...
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