As posted in the
Top 10 Stories of 2015, "The important work comes at looking back on those goals and considering why they weren’t met and what you did for the goals that were met."
While I didn't post my 2015 goals in this forum, I will look at my failures to try to do better in
2016.
1) I've been considering cutting back in poker for a couple of years now, but I was tempted by online promotions and travelling to fun events. I ended up playing more in 2015 than the previous year, so I failed in this goal.
2) I had fewer cashes in local MTTs, especially at Casino Rama. I still had deep runs, but while this would continue on to a bunch of first place wins (or chops) in 2014, it didn't happen this year. For example, I failed in my goal to win a U$2,500 HPO ME entry from Rama. My back-to-back GBH KOC saved me from a losing year in local MTTs.
3) I didn't make money for those who had a small piece (<= 1%) of me in live events. My sole WSOP event did result in my biggest cash since 2009 (year when I switched to online), but I only had one investor who has 5% in all my $1K+ tournaments.
4) I still haven't found a poker study group that wants to keep getting better together. While the top live pros I've had the pleasure of meeting are out of my league, the regs I see don't seem interested in regular strategy discussions or are not familiar with math analysis such as US tournaments being -EV, Nash Equilibrium, ICM and EV calculations. For example, the player I had talked the most strategy with stopped when he decided to quit his job, move and try to be a pro playing MTTs and 1/2 cash.