Poker-related New Year's Resolutions?
Hi All,
Just wondering if any of you have set some New Year's Resolutions for your game in 2005.
Here are mine:
1) Plug the remaining leaks in my game
2) Win my first MTT
3) Finally master the chip twirl
4) Hone my Teddy KGB impressions (ex: I feel so un-syatisfied)
I think that about covers them. What about yours?
Happy New Year!
Just wondering if any of you have set some New Year's Resolutions for your game in 2005.
Here are mine:
1) Plug the remaining leaks in my game
2) Win my first MTT
3) Finally master the chip twirl
4) Hone my Teddy KGB impressions (ex: I feel so un-syatisfied)
I think that about covers them. What about yours?
Happy New Year!
Comments
2) Fix my mid-tournament weaknesses
3) Finish in the money in a pokerforum.ca tournament.
4) Play at the Bellagio
Happy New Year!
1. step up a limit or two, and be successful
2. pay my tuition via poker (7k by september???)
3. money in a b&M MTT
2. Win my first MTT ( tired of being bubble boy)
3. Be succesful at my B&M adventure at fallsview casino
4. Buy a clown suit
Red
1) Esool, please change your pic. I just can't read your posts and I like your posts.
2) Zithal, please change your pic. It was really funny the first 20 or 30 times I saw the pic, but that damn squirrel is making me sqeamish! Now if you can esool can get together, and put a diaper on that squirrel.
Ok, ok. My new year's resolutions
1) make 5BB/100 hands at 10/20 and get a roll to support 20/40
2) win an entry and the 2005 WSOP
Cheers
Magi
Fold more (this is going to be hard for me).
How does that relate to poker? I need to prove to myself that I can exert discipline when I need to.
2. Fix my mid-tournament weaknesses
3. Play less aggressive
4. Fold more
1. Most important for me is to try and not take things personal at the table - tried real hard at the Emerald last night and was a lot better. Still have a hard time with clowns who think they know everything about the game and let everyone know about it.
2. Build the bank to move to $2/$4.
3. Try to find time to play more - It is a fine line between balancing the joys of life with poker.
On a personal note in no particular order.
Quit chewing and swear less(I have a hard time with those F bombs)!
Happy New Year everyone!
2. Make enough money playing poker to finance my trip to Vegas in June
3. Finish in the money at a B&M tournament
4. Come in first place at the main event of the 2005 World Series of Poker (2nd would be okay too, but anything less than first will mean I did not follow through on my resolution...now to find $10,000 to enter...)
-Phil
1/ Find a balance between family, work and poker. This is a big one right now for my situation in life.
2/ Commit enough cash to my bankroll so I can see if it is possible to make a living at poker. Right now I've been pussy-footing around with nickels and dimes trying to get learn the ropes. See point #1. The confidence isn't there either. Plus, do I really want to give up my day job? Tough call. I know I can't make it on my own either.
3/ Increase my aggressiveness at the table. In a smart way
4/ Take a shot at the Woodbridge tourney soon. Not literally, guys. I know, it's Woodbridge and all.
5/ Move my way up the levels in fixed ring games online. To at least 10/20 on a regular basis. See point #2. It would be stupid for me to try to move up without the bankroll to support it.
6/ Get into some of the NL ring games online. Start with 10 buy-in moving to 100 as soon as the confidence builds.
7/ Get into some of the bigger entry fee tourneys online. I'm probably more comfortable with the SnG's as opposed to the 500 player tourneys timewise. Eventually I'm going to have to commit the time for the larger MTT's. This relates to #1 and #2.
8/ Make a go/no go by the end of 2005 wrt poker as a profession or just an expensive hobby. Decide if I want to try to be 2007's Raymer or Moneymaker. Maybe 2020's TJ, Brunson, McEvoy or hopefully Negreanu. :biggrin:
9/ Continue to have fun but not at the expense of my bankroll.
10/ Use this forum constantly. Help out where I can. Ask lots of questions.
11/ Never let my thirst for knowledge be quenched. Learn as much as I can from those more experienced. Figure out how I can get inside the heads of the guys here I think I can learn from: Dave, All_Aces, Magi, Scotty, Hearth, etc. (Apologies to those I have left out - there's something I can learn from all of you I expect.) Experiment affordably. Read lots. Think think think.
Give me some feedback. Am I dreaming? In what ways can I ask you more experienced players for help?
Happy New Years, folks. I wish you much prosperity in 2005, especially at the tables*.
*But not if I'm sitting across from you!
As far as my resolutions go:
1) Find a good book or two and learn, learn, learn. I'm still very green and I have along way to go to catch up with most of you guys.
2) Play more, find the time to play more. Up until recently, I haven't played too much, and I just need the confidence builder to increase.
3) Stay at the low tables until I build the bankroll to support myself at the higher tables. This will be a tough one until I finish #1 above.
4) Teach my daughter to play. I know I can't ever make it to the professional level, but if my daughter can learn now and learn to play well, the sky's the limit with her. I am very comfortable living under her success. The goal is for her to support ME when she is 25 years old.
5) Get more involved with home games and maybe even a participate in a small tourney or two, just to see where my weaknesses really are and learn more from the more advanced players. To do this, my bankroll will have to be a lot more comfortable than it is right now.
STR82ACE
If you would like some help in book selection just let me know. I've read a great number recently and could probably lay out a plan for where to start and which books are good for which type of game: limit, n/l, ring, tourney, etc.
As far as teaching the kids goes, I'm divided on this. From my background, there's a stigma associated with poker. It's a form of gambling, gambling is evil, you're so smart why don't you do something good with your life, yada, yada, yada. Then there's the whole religious side of things. Oy! Don't get me started.... On the other hand, if you are halfway intelligent, have some guts and pick up on things quickly, there's a hell of a lot of stupid money to be made. With the TV coverage and incomes these people are making, this has become a legitimate profession.
I run a business. Some years are very good and some are very bad. It is a calculated gamble but a gamble nonetheless. How is this different from poker? That's the part people don't see.
I think I would like my kids to have basic life skills and a well-rounded education before they devoted themselves to poker. Start them off young with the basic skills. Odds, bluffing, reading others, adjustments based on circumstances. A number of these things take years to develop and some people may never develop them. Funny enough, my little kids already know about good starting hands and have started bluffing. I've got to teach them when to start folding!!! If they develop an interest I have no doubts they could finance a large part of their education with poker. I'm certain a number of our members are doing that today.
From my own perspective it would be very hard to start at 40 and hope to become a world champion. There are too many 'things' in the way - wife, kids, job, debt, household duties. All of these things take priority over what everyone else considers to be a 'hobby'. So, if your kids show an interest by all means encourage them but also make sure they've got a good solid foundation first. With some natural talent, a good teacher and a lot of practice, they can become formidable.
2. Build a proper bankroll, dont play above my limits
3. Save enough cash (or win) for a trip to vegas in May for my 21st bday
1) Learn to play less aggressive when the situation calls for it. :cool:
2) Learn to play more aggressive when the situation calls for it. :mad:
3) Hone skills in blind stealing and bluffing
4) Laugh at Society in a clown suit
5) Win 1st in an online or live MTT
6) Continue my love for knowledge on the subject
2) Learn to play better after the flop.
3) Learn to read the other players better. ie. know when I've been beat, and when I'm being bluffed. It seems lately, I'm hitting about 2% in this category.
Anyone have a good book recommendation to help with 2 and 3??
Try to workout at least as much as I play poker. I stopped working out over the last 6 months or so and have spent alot of time with poker related stuff. I think I should be putting more effort into getting my body into shape. I think this will help my play alot, especially when it comes to live play and keeping my focus.
Pick up some of the books I've been meaning to for a long time. I've been a positive player for a while now at the Sarnia 5-10 tables but I feel like a couple good poker books could make me into a very positive player there.
The millions part, I'm actually trying for in the stock market. (different kind of poker) lol
WOW, I forgot all about this post a year ago. Let's see how I've done...
1/ Found several good books, much help from Forum members' recommendations. Still reading, still studying, still improving.
2/ Did play more, not as much as I would have liked, but alot more. Still need that bankroll built up though to pay for play.
3/ Yep, still at the low limit tables, but I'm playing more online tournaments too.
4/ Well, no, I really haven't done much on this one. The goal is STILL for her to support me when she's 25 though.
5/ Not only have I held a few home games, but I also held a satellite to WitchDoctor's Charity game which was very successfull, AND started my own weekly league!!!
All in all, I stayed pretty true to my resolutions of last year. Thanks for bumping it up. A little retrospect goes along way in determining how far I have come, and how much further I need to go.
1) learning still
2) learning still
3) honing - better at the art of the bluff but blind stealing is still a weakness
4) the guy gets me all ready to laugh at him and never buys the darn suit!
5) been there - done that (haha feels so good to say it like that)
6) always reading, always learnin'
not check -- still have to block out the pic to take the post seriously!
Thank you Zithal!!!
not check -- but it was fun trying
Check -- even played 40/80 (total of 80 hands for a .5 bb profiit and sore nuts from squeezing them because the adrenaline was flowing)
Check.
I'll have to post this years in an all new What if post!
Cheers
Magi
2. Move from a break even cash game player to a winning player
3. Play at a B&M casino
4. Play at a B&M casino tourney
5. Continue to have fun with poker - don't let it become a drag
You spoke too soon.
Good post!
I have just reached the mid point of my "2006 poker plan" which includes events trips games knowledge and $$$, so this is right in line with my current thought process.
Non-Playing Items:
1) take better care of the bank accounts. Stop using poker money for non poker items.
2) jump a level by July 1, 2006.
3) Win a spot into a Major event EPT WPT or WSOP (or any other POTY recognized event, ie Tunica, Foxwoods, and Commerce events)
4) spend the appropriate time studying the game (watching, reading, and developing my own thoughts and theories)
Playing items:
1) Snap off more bluff attemps (aka Trust your reads more)
2) Take more time with every poker decision
3) Stop proving to other players they are wrong... no free lessons
4) Stop Playing AJ off or worse UTG
5) spend more time on Game selection
thats it for now... I think those are pretty good items to focus on though!
Gl to all in '06
for now, doing this @ pokertracking.com
1. Book readin' , have only read one and found it very helpful
2. Improve play, mostly in relationship to blinds and time, don't believe I manage this very well
3. perfect my card protector theory (check it out ar Beanie's on Saturday)
4. Put a face to the name "pkrfce9"