2012 Poker Goals
Gonna start a new thread so it'll be easier to find next year.
Here goes:
1.) Profit: Setting different goals for online and live this year:
Online: 40k
Live: 10k
Total: 50k
2.) Events: Play at least one WSOP event
Play at least 5 VDSE (or similar Vegas tourneys)
Play one foreign event (EPT, WPT, LAPT, etc)
3.) 5 Digit Cash: One online
One Live
4.) Chat Ban: Avoid chat ban on Stars (and overall tiltiness)
5.) Win a $300+ b/i live tourney
6.) Final table a major online tourney
Here goes:
1.) Profit: Setting different goals for online and live this year:
Online: 40k
Live: 10k
Total: 50k
2.) Events: Play at least one WSOP event
Play at least 5 VDSE (or similar Vegas tourneys)
Play one foreign event (EPT, WPT, LAPT, etc)
3.) 5 Digit Cash: One online
One Live
4.) Chat Ban: Avoid chat ban on Stars (and overall tiltiness)
5.) Win a $300+ b/i live tourney
6.) Final table a major online tourney
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2) GET OUT TO A BRISTOL EVENT.
3) Get off my ass and get up to the OPT.
4) Change my attitude towards the game. I often find myself torn between wanting to put in the time/effort to improve my play and therefore increase my profits, and wanting to just enjoy the social aspect that poker brings to my life. I think 2012 is the year where I finally need to resolve that issue once and for all, and then move on.
2) Regularly play $15 and $30 45man turbos
3) Win a Bristol
4) Win an HPT
5) Play a ching event
6) Win $10k
2. make my studying to playing ratio .5 to 1. has been much much too low with almost no effort to improve in some months.
3. get to Vegas or AC for some big time experience
4. Finally get a PC to actually be able to use the better 3rd party programs
5. Make time to play some MTT's
6. 3 Digit cash
1. make 30k
If I move to Vegas temporarily:
2. make moar
If I move to The Bay Area:
3. hopefully make moar (have never played in the area and don't know how the games play)
- Learn as much as I can
- Be nicer and tilt less
- Post hands im not sure of and get input, and not be afraid of what people think
- Play live more
2) Become a power user of PT4/HM2. Buy a desktop with fast SSD, 8 GB RAM, Quad Core, & 30"/27" monitor.
3) Become better at multi-tabling, e.g., much less auto-folded hands, missed rebuys, missed add-ons, quickly folding the winning hand, :-[ mistakenly shoving near the bubble; reduce huge gap between what I would have done single-tabling vs. 8-12 tabling.
4) Finish at least one 2011/12 poker book (e.g., Little Gold Book), or finally find a training site that is worth taking time off from grinding.
5) Be in the top 1000 or 99% rating in OPR, and/or shark in Sharkscope with at least 80% ability.
6) Play a couple of live events, e.g., Montreal PartyPoker Classic and the next major event at Fallsview (2013?).
7) By the end of 2012, spend a lot less time grinding than now even if it's still highly +EV. Find "balance in the force."
However I made some decent live scores in '11 which balanced my overall profits to be right inline with my results from '09 and '10.
1b) Because these years have been so antisocial, I need to make some friends. This may sound strange but putting in significant hours online when you already have a fulltime job doesnt leave alot of time for anything else. I recently had to fill out a question sheet that required a reference of a long time friend - and couldnt name one. FML.
2) Travel to more live events. WSOPc in Jan is a start but Im also going to do either Manitoba or Sask again, and for sure one of the Alberta Series.
3) Live on GTA's couch in Vegas.
4) Focus online. During the latter part of the year I found myself "fitting in" time to play online when I should have just not bothered. This resulted in less villain specific focus, bad bubble play (really bad bubble play) and overall spew-ed-ness. I find I dont make near as many errors playing serious live events as Ive "planned" to be there.
5) Double digit points at Royal. FML Pt.2.
Good luck to the community this year. I think one of the things that has brought us closer as a group over the past year was the BAP forum and the growth we've witnessed there. I hope this continues to grow and allow for greater group achievements.
Me I just wanna:
1) take a Vekked poker seminar
No worries, he wasn't even multi-tabling, "only" playing 1 live tourn at a time:
Phil Ivey mucks a winning flush after Showdown World Series of Poker 2009 - YouTube
You know I love you Joben.
Funny scene from "I Love You, Man" - YouTube
For me:
1. Win Season 6 of the Orangeville Poker Tour (half way there)
2. Attend a WPT Tournament boot camp.
3. Play the Senior's event at the WSOP.
4. Make enough money from live tourneys at OPT, Buzzard's, Ching Hill, and York Region to pay for the above.
5. Come home from Vegas with more money than I arrived with.
6. Make top 100 in the PS Sunday Storm more than once.
7. Qualify for the 2013 PCA.
I agree with Wetts that the BAP forum has made more of us connect on a different level. You even get to know their name (having to to make a money transfer).
Looking forward to when Team PFC makes a bigger dent in the public poker scene. Some of you already are.
GL all.
yey! I'm tired of searching "Wetts1012" and getting "not available" or w/e on stars lol
That's really all I can afford right now.
I'd like to have enough money so I can play this game regularly that would be nice but not a poker goal really.
1) Crack the top 50 in a WSOP event this year. (My best is a 51st)
2) Play more online poker. (Now that the kids are getting slightly older, will hopefully start to see a little more free time in the evenings to do this)
3) Money in a WSOP-C event that I will be going to in late January with Wetts1012
4) Travel to more events other than just Las Vegas. BCPC, WSOP Europe, EPT, Deepstack Tour Event, etc
5) Money in a GBH event
6) Win back to back OPT Season ending Tournaments
7) Win back to back Ching Hill Season ending Tournaments
8) Make my BAP stakers some money
9) And of course the obvious, keep my bankroll in the + figures.
I believe that most of these are pretty obtainable goals
1. Keep my DC (or other) membership all year and watch as many videos as I can that apply to my games
2. Get in over 10,000 180man turbos.
3. NO CASH GAMES!
4. Get comfortable with more tables - target of 20 at a time by the end of 2012 (currently at 10)
5. Get a coach in Feb - March for the 180s. Not 100% sure about this, we will see.
I want to add to the above,
6. Make enough $ to cash out $4-5k for my wedding in January. Will need to cash out by ~Nov.
7. Make the SS leaderboard for something
Since posting the first few goals I have already increased to 14 tabling, so Im getting there. Im still on pace for 10k games this year, even though I have only played like 50% of the days so far. So I might up the volume goal if its going good.
2) Set aside actual time each week to play instead of just randomly deciding to play some poker and hoping I have enough time.
3) Build a mid 4 digit bankroll (3-6K)
4) Win one MTT of 1000+ players.
5) Learn Omaha because it just seems like too much fun and money that I'm missing out on.
6) Get the man cave set up really well instead of the half assedness that it is now.
7) Get a new computer since this one is about 6-7 years old.
8) Do not blow up at any hands. If this should fail, install exploding Mr. Potato Head that blows up when there is too loud of a noise. When he blows up, I have to take a break for at least 1 hour.
8 is impossible
Not true. I actually own an exploding Mr. Potato Head
fail
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sorry, is there a Latvian phuckhead talking about me?
Cinderella is an ugly beeeeatch
There is always next year.
Here ye, here ye
THIS!!!! my number 2 goal of the year, outside of making money for myself lol
You know there's an option to turn the chat off. Just sayin'.
number 2, at least show 3k profit while playing 2/5 during the year, I only live probably about 20 hours a month or so, harder goal than it looks.
im surprised you are still alive
I can now cross off 3 & 8
Congrats. Wish I was a part of your #8. But I'm gonna be a part of your #6.