clarkatroid is not folding

having hit a bad downswing at the end of the year, and feeling pretty down about poker in general, i thought it a good idea to publish my year end accounts, figuring it would cheer me up a bit, and help remind that i am actually a winning player afterall

so here they are

ive not decided my new year goals quite yet, but a repeat of this years profits would obviously be tremendous, but unlikely i think due to the changing nature of the games. i think to stay ahead of the curve i might have to deviate from 6 max at some point. 25k down in december and after a few days off ive decided not to play anymore 6 max poker until 09, i need a break, and a 50 buy in downswing sounds too much to blame it on just luck alone. If tableratings covered ipoker, im pretty sure i would be number 1 for biggest losing player of the month at 2/4 and 3/6. That said its been a great year. If i feel the urge to play again, then instead ill watch a few plo vids and make another effort to learn the game between now and new year.

The main reason i started blogging was to keep a permanent online record of my monthly winnings having lost a database earlier in the year. Thus i know exactly where i am, and to keep up my motivation. I am now in a very fortunate position to have some nice winnings behind me from 08, and have decided to share my investments on this blog as an addition to my poker exploits. So for 09, ill be posting monthly updates from this area also.

A lot poker think their skills transfer into share trading. Im not dellusional in this respect, and i know my limitations. Im also aware that by technically gambling with my winnings, and i gamble for a living, doesnt paint a pretty picture of me as a person, pretty degenerate to be fair. I just think that the stock markets are in very interesting times atm and some investment opportunities of a lifetime will rpesent themselves over the next 24 months.

ive taken he decision to reveal exactly what, where and how much im going to invest. So if i go busto, lose or make a fortune, it will be depicted in graphic gory detail here. I believe that the markets are due another tumble in 09, so my portfolio, which ive invested in throughout december is bearish. ie if the markets fall, my porfolio increases, if they go up, my portfolio decreases. Ive have also invested against the £( in a put warrant) versus the euro.

my investments have been in situ for approx 4 weeks. here they are

 


So at present its a decent start, from 50k invested, its worth 52k, in 4 weeks, the selling of the pound where the most of the profits have come from.