STT Monthly Goal Post...August

[freemoney]

Hopefully it will help in motivating but my goal is at least 1000 SnGs and 25k.

[nate_king1]

1) Finish my 1000 11s and increase my bankroll to over $3k.

2) Read SSHE and HOH and a few others.

3) Buy pokertracker

4) Get ready for the 22s


LATER

[MegaBet]

My goal is to improve on last month. I don't like setting myself unattainable goals and being disappointed.

[xLukex]

Yeah, just play a couple hundred $11s and $22s mixed in together and hopefully just get better and one day be able to 4-6 table them.

[grouchie]

150-200 11's ending with an ROI 20%+

[xLukex]

[ QUOTE ]
Yeah, just play a couple hundred $11s and $22s mixed in together and hopefully just get better and one day be able to 4-6 table them.

[/ QUOTE ]

And buy SNG Power Tools.

[A_PLUS]

1.) >15% ROI playing 500+ 20s/
2.) Clear 400$ in UB bonus $ 4-tabling 25-50max NL
3.) reread HPFAP and LLHE and play 1000 hands 6-max at a low limit.

Just changed my pp screen name to start fresh with my stats at the 11's. I'll be trying to turn my $98(downswing I hope) into $660 by the end of the month to make the jump to the 22's. I'll also be hitting the books: HOH, HOH2, SSHE. I'll be headed to vegas in about three weeks so I got's to get my learn on.

[xLukex]

[ QUOTE ]
1.) >15% ROI playing 500+ 20s/
2.) Clear 400$ in UB bonus $ 4-tabling 25-50max NL
3.) reread HPFAP and LLHE and play 1000 hands 6-max at a low limit.

[/ QUOTE ]

1,000 hands at 6-max is honestly a waste of your time.

I've played 15k hands at 6-max and I am still learning the intricacies.

Then I got bored and came back to SNGs lol.

[Sponger15SB]

x > 0% ROI

+$1k rakeback

I plan /images/graemlins/grin.gif on being able to comftorbly play the $22s, and be able to tell my friends I make twice as much as they do sitting in front of my laptop, in my underwear.

[lacky]

survive at 20/40 and 30/60 limit.
(109's if that attempt fails)
play larger buy in mtt's ($100+)
work 40 hours per week
finally get HOH2 read, and reread Middle Limit Holden
stop and think at least 10 sec before every play at a mtt final table.

Steve

[1C5]

Play 500 22s this month.

Finish 1000 $30+$3 sng with around $8k+ profit

Awful spell at moment, can't get a break

ROI 18.6%

ITM 39.2%

Total Tourneys 171

Total entries $5,643.00
Total prizes $6,690.00
SNG Profit $1,047.00

[MegaBet]

You want to go from $1k to $8k+ in a month? /images/graemlins/confused.gif

[A_PLUS]

[ QUOTE ]
[ QUOTE ]
1.) >15% ROI playing 500+ 20s/
2.) Clear 400$ in UB bonus $ 4-tabling 25-50max NL
3.) reread HPFAP and LLHE and play 1000 hands 6-max at a low limit.

[/ QUOTE ]

1,000 hands at 6-max is honestly a waste of your time.

I've played 15k hands at 6-max and I am still learning the intricacies.

Then I got bored and came back to SNGs lol.

[/ QUOTE ]

I have no illusions about learning much about the game in 1000 hands. I just plan to start learning SH limit this month. The 1000 hands was just a reasonable amount that I could see myself playing without costing myself too much $ from my currently profitable games

[DMACM]

beat the 22s for 10% ROI or higher after 500+ games.

[xLukex]

[ QUOTE ]
[ QUOTE ]
[ QUOTE ]
1.) >15% ROI playing 500+ 20s/
2.) Clear 400$ in UB bonus $ 4-tabling 25-50max NL
3.) reread HPFAP and LLHE and play 1000 hands 6-max at a low limit.

[/ QUOTE ]

1,000 hands at 6-max is honestly a waste of your time.

I've played 15k hands at 6-max and I am still learning the intricacies.

Then I got bored and came back to SNGs lol.

[/ QUOTE ]

I have no illusions about learning much about the game in 1000 hands. I just plan to start learning SH limit this month. The 1000 hands was just a reasonable amount that I could see myself playing without costing myself too much $ from my currently profitable games

[/ QUOTE ]

Whoops! Well have fun then. /images/graemlins/smile.gif

[The Don]

1000 $55s with > 15% ROI

[Jman28]

[ QUOTE ]

work 40 hours per week

[/ QUOTE ]

Can you actually do this? I've never been able to.

[ QUOTE ]

stop and think at least 10 sec before every play at a mtt final table.

[/ QUOTE ]

Great goal. I'm trying to think more during all large pots. Too many hasty decisions.

[ChoicestHops]

Continute 4-tabling the 22's and get out of the slump that instantly began when I started them.. It really hurts you mentally when you move up and IT instantly happens to you. However, I have become quite clairvoyant recently as I can call the cards that will suck me out on the turn and river.

My goal for August is to play 600 by 4-tabling. If I get a bankroll of 40 $33's then I will move up when that happens; otherwise I shall continue grinding the 22's. Hopefully the move to the 33's will happen as as soon as possible so I can use part of the bankroll to set up a two monitors.

Good luck with everyone's goals.

[Jman28]

[ QUOTE ]
Hopefully it will help in motivating but my goal is at least 1000 SnGs and 25k.

[/ QUOTE ]

What level free?

[EnderFFX]

500 Tournaments, half $11, half $22
ROI >20% $11
ROI >10% $22
Track the stats accurately this month.

[bluewilde]

My goal is pretty straight-forward and relates to my SNG Tracker graph:

a) make the blue line go up
b) make the red line go up
c) make the green line go up...damn you green line

That is all.

[fnord_too]

Have you picked up King Yao's book? He has a long section on short handed in it.

My goal is to spend 70+% of my poker playing time playing STT's to get an hourly rate estimation with a higher associated confidence than my current one. (I'm hoping that Hood's goal is to get support for the postgresSQL databases live /images/graemlins/smile.gif )

[wiggs73]

Find second rakeback deal for another party skin.

Try 6-8 tabling.

Play 500 SNGs in the $11s to $33s.

[SuitedSixes]

I plan to be twice the player curtains is . . .

(punch line in white)
<font color="white">to play poker six hours a day. </font>

-Sixes

[acIdREIGN462]

My plans for August are:

1)Get an account on a skin w/ rakeback so I stop throwing money away
2)Start posting more and being more involved in this forum
3)Play at least 100 hours of SNGs
4)Get netteller

Long term goal (August and beyond)

Start depositing/bonus whoring on lots of sites while learning to play limit holdem.


AcidReign

[Jman28]

Play a lot of SNGs.
Make a lot of money.
Find good rakeback deal on Party and start mixing in STEPS with 200s.
Play at least 4 decent size MTTs a week ($150+ buyin).

I plan on improving my game next month, but this month I have too much free time, gotta grind some out.

[tigerite]

Get my bankroll up to 100x buyins for the $50s and move back there, hopefully make a big dent on the buyins needed to go up to $100 as well. Probably via the $30s on the way, which will be very soon.

[lacky]

Well, 40 hours per week is tough. But, my wife is staying at home now so I am trying. Ive been able to the last 2 weeks. Our deal is she get's to quit work and stay home, but takes care of most of the shopping, cooking, cleaning, running the older kids around and watching the younger ones. I work more and make enough to replace her income/benifits.

Thats the deal, so my goal is 40 to 45 hours a week of play. I can lower that if I continue to have success at the bigger games, but for now i'm trying to get in that routine.

The second goal came about last night, when I basically gave away $11000 in a mtt. It got to heads up, I got excited and made a typical stt hu play, not stoping to realize we had a ton of chips relative to the blinds. As I get to more and more larger final tables, hopefully i will calm down, but for now I get a little over excited and don't play my best. Hopefully slowing down can help that.

Steve

[tech]

Move from 8-tabling to 12-tabling without a significant drop in ROI.

[ldavidjm]

I play on a weird european site that gave me free money since I can't desposit anything...so I can't really keep stats unless I want to write down all my results- so I'd say make 600 euros playing 4-5 tables at the 10's...

I'm also working 30 hrs/week and enjoying the summer weather so I don't know if I'll have enough time (and luck) but we'll see.

[FieryJustice]

My goal is to be #1 and #2 on the Empire leaderboard instead of #1 and # 3.

[citanul]

I will make a bagillion dollars.

I will pick some deal that I find on a Dell 2001fp and just buy a 2nd one already.

I will buy a new graphics card to go with it.

I will break down and buy some other crap too:
- New TV
- Universal Remote
- Possibly some new speakers
- Possibly a laptop

I will plan a vacation.

I will attempt to get a job (hippy).

I will eat, drink, and be merry.

I'm sure there's others too, but that's all that's springing to my mind.

citanul

[TStokes]

Make the top 50 on empires leader board

[ QUOTE ]
You want to go from $1k to $8k+ in a month? /images/graemlins/confused.gif

[/ QUOTE ]

If i can fit the remaining 800+ games in, but I think thats being too optimistic, more likely be mid sept.... (I've made more then $1k, i've just started a 1000 sng challenge just over a week ago)

Cheers

[Nicholasp27]

a)play 100 10/1s @ &gt;20% roi
b)use sng power tools to learn all about how stack sizes, calling ranges, blinds, etc all affect my equity in bubble action and hone my instincts to be pretty accurate in determining +/- ev situations on my own
c)play 1 decent mtt tourney a week with sng winnings to both learn and to give me a shot at that 'instant br' that many people have had to jumpstart their careers

[fluorescenthippo]

50+ SnGs a day
actually review HH's after a bad day
play a few mtts and learn NL ring

I'd like to make 1000/week. I have been averaging about 1k a week but I'd like it to be more consistant. Have all winning weeks between 500-1500. Yes I realize this is a fantasy.

[AlphaN3rd]

Play 8 hours a day, and get my ROI up. Currently I have a 0% ROI over 200 $11s /images/graemlins/frown.gif

[Raiser]

1) To suck less at the end of August than I do now.
2) To read these forums a lot more.
3) If 1 and 2 work out I should be hitting the $22s sometime in August.
4) Crap. Almost forgot that I want to play in at least one MTT each week.

[DarrenX]

Make half the profit I did in July. And get some sun. /images/graemlins/cool.gif

[Ixnert]

Play at least 500 SNGs, mixed between the 20s and 30s.

Don't feel compelled to move up just because I have a big enough BR; don't be afraid to move up when I think I'm ready.

Suck a bit less.

Come out of the two-week 0% ROI run I'm on, hopefully up rather than down, but I'm starting to think a downswing might be nice for variety.

Read the copy of TPFAP that just arrived on my doorstep; re-read HOH, having just finished HOH2.

[Phill S]

a, not play any full table SnGs
b, play lots of heads up games
c, profit = X

If x &gt; Y, profit biatch, ELSE go back to full table SnGs cursing

Y must equal or exceed the amount i need to tell my credit card company to leave me alone

Phill

[durron597]

Play more, post less.

[starvs]

Finish up my 500 11s finish up my 500 22s, move up to the 33s with atleast a 50 buyin bankroll.

I might as well put something realistic in this post. So I'll make 10 posts in this forum this month.

[iggy]

250 22s and 250 33s

Don't let my ROI drop below 15%

[curtains]

My goal is just to play 24 per day minimum. I see no point in having a money made goal as that's basically in the hands of luck over such a small sample size.

Of course I probably won't acheive my goal so well because I'm going away for 10 days to a chess tournament, and that should be pretty busy.

[freemoney]

i 8 table the 109s and play Step 5s when the line up is ok or im in mood to really play well.

[Slim Pickens]

Sweet Jebus Christ let me find out my lifetime 14.2% ROI isn't just a 1042-tournament heater. That's all. If it is a heater, just give me one more month.

[samr]

200 10+1s with a 25% ROI,
500 20+2s with a 20% ROI.

[tigerite]

If you can achieve 25% at the $10s I think you'll easily achieve it at the $20s. Or maybe it's just me who finds them quite easy and beatable.

[Shilly]

1000 SNGs, starting at the $20's and possibly moving up.

[skierdude1000]

200 $5 + .5s
with ITM .5 and ROI .5

[The4Aces]

1000 SNGS. with a ROI &gt; 10

[Freudian]

Goal: Be less lazy.

[Iridox]

600 33s with an ROI &gt;15
Stop being such a pussy and try some more 55s

[Ogre]

800 100+9s
win 10k+ counting rakeback

[Sponger15SB]

[ QUOTE ]
800 100+9s
win 10k+ counting rakeback
kiss a girl
sneak into a rated R movie

[/ QUOTE ]

FYP

naw jk, good luck ogre.

[astarck]

4-8 table the 33s/55s and hopefully get in around 400 of them. Target monthly ROI 12% (should be easy to do at the 33s...55s my sample size is too small to know a true roi yet).

Play some HU STTs on Stars. Better my postflop play in some Party 6max ring.

[Ogre]

good one sponger
lets see your goals and if they match ones of a player half your age /images/graemlins/blush.gif /images/graemlins/wink.gif

[bmxreed36]

1400 SNg's. If my ROI is 15 or higher after the first two weeks at the 22's, I'll finally move up to the 33's. Also, a few more MTT's mixed in.

[Sponger15SB]

[ QUOTE ]
good one sponger
lets see your goals and if they match ones of a player half your age /images/graemlins/blush.gif /images/graemlins/wink.gif

[/ QUOTE ]

Well at least I won't be spending my winnings on Legos and Harry Potter books.....

ahh [censored] I hate you! I hate you! *cries*

Teach me how to play SNGs little one, I suuuuckkkkk

[MegaBet]

[ QUOTE ]
My goal is to be #1 and #2 on the Empire leaderboard instead of #1 and # 3.

[/ QUOTE ]

Well if you play enough games it's possible.

[MegaBet]

[ QUOTE ]
Make the top 50 on empires leader board

[/ QUOTE ]

Play a shed load of games and it shouldn't be that difficult.

[1C5]

[ QUOTE ]
1400 SNg's. If my ROI is 15 or higher after the first two weeks at the 22's, I'll finally move up to the 33's. Also, a few more MTT's mixed in.

[/ QUOTE ]

That is hardcore.

Complete 1000 $11s. Achieve a 25% ROI min. after the 1000, and sustain it.

By the end of the month/start of sept I plan to move to the $22s.

Play 250-300 $33 SNGs
Aiming for $2000

[jon462]

1.play 800-1k 50+5s. maintain 18%+ ROI. profit 8k+ before rakeback.
2. Learn to use new software programs (hood's program, ICM, maybe programs that work with PT) - all i use now is PT and only to track my ROI\ITM.
3. Grow bankroll from 4k to 10k and cashout rest to pay off CC's, etc.

[The Yugoslavian]

I plan to play 300 STTs. I hope to play 500.

I plan to play 75 HU matches. I hope to play 100.

I plan to exercise 22 times. I hope to exercise 26 times.

I plan to have lunch with Skipperbob once. I hope it will only be once /images/graemlins/crazy.gif.

Yugoslav

[Unoriginalname]

Ok, I'm skipping money and ROI goals this time. If I finish 800-1000 SNGs this month at the 22s (maybe some 33s as well), I'll be happy.

[Femto]

gone for most of august... so 400 $35+3s with a 25% ROI.

[skipperbob]

[ QUOTE ]
I plan to have lunch with Skipperbob once. I hope it will only be once

[/ QUOTE ]

Don't worry Yugo; your chance of getting into the "RITZ" more than once is about the same as my chance that you'll pay for some gas on the STTF-HUC trip
/images/graemlins/frown.gif /images/graemlins/frown.gif

[ClaytonN]

My goal is to not play any this month, and then set some goals on the first of September.

[Isura]

- Iron out some leaks at the 33s this week.
- Get out of the kiddie pool (ie move up to the 55s).
- Learn to multitable sngs and mtts, since I'm a huge lag fish at mtts when I single table.
- Order the parts for my new computer, and start learn how to play more than 4 tables.

[gildwulf]

Goals: not to play any online poker this month, enjoy a two week vacation to Vancouver with my girlfriend, and tie up all the loose ends before I move to Chicago at the start of September.

[yid3655]

To play 200 stts and make $1k, enjoy myself and hopefully improve enough to move up a level