Who met their August Goals? And what are your new ones for Septmeber?

[ggbman]

I saw the old thread got bumped, and it's getting kinda big so i thought i'd just make a new one. So, restate your August goals and whether or not you met them, and then your goals for September. (We still have a few days left for August, so your time isn't up yet.) I'm busy packing for college, so i thought i'd start this thread now while i had time.

My August Goals were:


1.) Log at least 30,000 hands at 10-20 6 max

2.) Make at least 10k after rakeback

3.) Have fun outside of poker!

I've logged about 29,000 hands for the month, so i'll probably hit 30k. So goal 1 is in the bag.

I actually moved to 20-40 this month, so i easily exceeded my financial goals for the month.

I had a great last month here hanging out with friends, so i would so goal 3 was met as well.


Here are my goals for September in order of importance:

1.) Meet a ton of cool new people at college and make it a great experience

2.) Keep in touch with the people who are important to me, and maybe make some trips to turning stone with my buddy Mike.

3.) Try to balance poker well with school, adapt to playing a little less, but still try to clear 10k or more per month.

So how about you guys?

[MelchyBeau]

didn't have any august goals.

My september goals are

1. Find a Job

2. 30k hands of 3/6

3. 3k in profits

Melch

[baronzeus]

My september goals are:

1). Move up to 10/20 and record 30K hands
2). Make at least 8K in profit
3). Value Bet/Spew less

[wheelz]

I wanted to be playing 15/30 full time by the end of August, and I got up to 20/40. Success.

For September my goals are to keep running hot, and get in 75 hours of playing time.

[GivenToFly]

no august goals but time to make some for sept.

1) log 30k 3/6 hands (shoot for $3.5K)
2) work on hand reading, 3 tables at most
3) pay off school/bills/etc
4) take shots at 5/10
5) read archives (5 hours a week)

[Knoler]

I met my August goals for the most part -- posted about that in the other thread. Basically, this month I moved up to 2/6 6max, played 25K hands 4 tabling, and won $2500 + rakeback and bonuses.

Sept looks like this:
* 16K online hands. (Less than last month since I'll be away in Vegas for a week.)

* Keep studying shorthanded play and keep working on my game. I think I have some of the right ideas, but there are several hands a night where I feel like I completely f'ed up. Post a smattering of those hands.

* Go to Vegas at the end of the month, have fun. Play as high as 10/20, if the games look good. Play some small-ish buy in tournaments for fun.

* Run good while in Vegas. /images/graemlins/grin.gif

* Move up to 5/10 6max?


On that note, I'm debating what to do about moving up to 5/10. I'm way overrolled for 3/6 -- something like 1500BBs. And I've been a winner thus far at 3/6, over my small sample size of 25K.

I feel comfortable for the most part, but like I mentioned above, I feel like I play several hands quite badly each night. I'm trying to decide if I should move up anyway, or if I should patch all these potential leaks now.

Anyhow, I'll probably move up sometime this month, but I'm not sure when.

Good luck to all on their goals!
-Brian

[DaSpade]

Currently at 3/6 6max
1. Still 5K hands to go for August to meet my 25K goal(day job)
2. Post 30K for September w/ more than 2BB/100(sort of tough because I'm moving)
3. Control spewing and follow my instincts
4. Increase my blind steal to atleast 30% (currently at 27%)
5. Get ready to move to 5/10 (50K 3/6 and 1000BB for 5/10 is the goal) by the end of the month
6. Read TOP/SSH again, improve my poker math(correct phrase?), post more hands and involve in the strategy discussion on the forum
7. Avoid the temptation to add a 3rd table no matter how good the table is - I just suck playing more than 2 tables of 6max

ggbman and others who have posted in this thread, remember to bump this thread at the end of the month to see where we stand.

GL all.

[nervous]

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1. Move up to 10/20 and record 30K hands

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I like your style. I'm going to try and take on your billion hands/month methods after October.


For August, I met my goals, and hopefully September's will be easy.

1. Play 22.5k hands at 5/10, possibly 3/6 if I stop running so good.

2. >2bb/100 for those 20k hands at 5/10.

3. $5,000

4. Religiously study postings in HUSH on my freetime.



The amount of hands is going to be greatly dependent on the amount of golf I play. I could play 10k hands or I could play 35k hands.

[ghostface]

If I posted any August goals I didnt meet them. Thats for sure. It was a bad month and I spent a good few days burnt out from the trough that is variance.

For September I want to finish my OIC that I started a few days ago. I'm at 1/2 right now getting ready to start. After $300 won I'm moving to 3/6. I havent decided if I want to go stop at 5/10 for the OIC or continue to 15/30.

I have never played above 3/6 and I just dont know how different the play is. I guess I will see once I get there. /images/graemlins/grin.gif

[ctv1116]

Play 0 K hands online while on campus.

[ghostface]

I'm gonna change mine.

Learn how to play SH.

[Cerril]

I didn't come close to this month. At the beginning they were $2500, 25k hands, and to order my laptop (for work and poker). I got only the third goal accomplished, and the first one changed to 'break even or better' after week #1 (I've easily made that goal).

Next month the same modest goals will apply, but now that I can play while visiting family and going on business trips the hand #s will be easier to handle.

[Victor]

i was a total slack last month about poker so i guess i will post some goals.

-30k hands at 10-20 and make 10k.
-continue working out and being somewhat healthy and get below 200.
-find something to do other than poker, booze and working out.

[Dudd]

My goals were to play 20-30 hours a week before school started, and I only averaged about 13 hours a week. I also wanted to move up to 5/10, and I almost had 400 BB to take a shot, but ended up dropping a grand in a day playing 3/6, then forced to cash out a bunch to pay for various school related expenses, so I've actually regressed to 1/2 for the time being. So, in conclusion, I fell horribly short.

My September goals are now get back to 3/6, which shouldn't be hard at all with a ton of rakeback coming in plus the rediculously soft 1/2 games, log 15k hands combined at 1/2 and 3/6, and try and rebuild my roll to a point where I'll be able to take a shot at 5/10 either towards the end of September or the beginning of October.

[Grisgra]

Just checked . . . my goals were:
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1) Play SH like I played in July.
2) Learn how in the hell to play in the NLHE 33s when my stack is ~5x the size of the SB+BB. I may do great at 10/20 but when it comes to a tiny little NLHE SNG I suck major ass.
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I was pretty much successful at #1. Had a great month, for the most part . . . there were two or three nasty days, but I'm ending the month at around 4BB/100, so I guess I can't complain. Pretty much stuck to my A-game . . . though I just dropped a bunch of $$ about five minutes ago and goddammit I want to head back and make it back, auuuuuughhh! Serenity now, serenity now . . . I know better, definitely not in the right state of mind to do that.
#2, I gave up on. Screw the NL tournies. Going to concentrate on Stud8 and 7Stud.

[BabyJesus]

my goals were
1) get out of my breakeven funk
2) quit my job and learn more about playing poker for a living.

1) http://www.valleyvisions.net/pokerimages/august hands.jpg
2) Read "Professional Poker" (good read for players that make the switch of playing as a side job, to full time). And my last day is Sept. 2

[Grisgra]

Well, you achieved #1 . . . not breaking even any more.

[SippinSoma]

My goal was to play at 2/4 full the entire month to rebuild from withdraws. Seeing as how I'm playing 5/10 6-max now, I think I'm a-okay.

[dhaimon]

Didn't have an August goal but my goal for September is to log at least 15,000 hands (which is a lot for me) 4 tabling 5/10.

Might also try an OIC just for fun.

[arkady]

My goals were simple.

1) Make up for my first losing month in July.

I have made up for my losses and although the month is not finished yet am very close to beating my best month (April). I also managed to accomplish that in 1/3rd of the time and 2 tables instead of 4. Played 15/30 verus 10/20.

My August goals were

1.) Learn what is SH limit is ( I switched from NL25 full)

2.) Make $500.

I did both /images/graemlins/smile.gif

My August goals

1.) Play 80 hours

2.) Make 1.5K

3.) Take a shot at $2-$4

[Maulik]

August: I didn't have HUSH dreams. I was sick of SNGs. I wanted to learn how to play poker not ICM, pushing & calling ranges. Playing 8 tables doesn't allow you to know everything about your opponent. SH games certainly allow that freedom.

Mid-August: Began by playing the 3/6 6-m games and was hoping to beat them. Fast forward one heater and approximate 14 days later I can play 5/10.

The Sept goal: play a statistically signifcant number of hands in September @ 5/10 and prove I'm a winner. Then re-evaluate.

[wowacedude]

My only goal is to log more then 200 hands per day(2-table), university sucks.

[Poldi]

My august goals were:
1) Play as much as I can. I dont think a money goal is very good, even Pros have losing months.
2) Read Theory of Poker and Inside the Poker mind.
3) Take a shot at 5/10 when I feel ready.

Played 20k hands which is more than I played any month before. Read both books and am doing great at 5/10.
Great month although I had bad swings (especially when moving up to 5/10, makes the transition a lot tougher)!

Goals for September:
1) Play 20k+ hands.
2) Read King Yaos book and "How good is your limit holdem?"
3) Dont take a shot at 10/20. This one will probably be the hardest. Up to now I moved up when I had 10k-15k hands on one limit. I should probably play at least 40k hands on 5/10 before I start thinking about 10/20 but I am veery ambitious and will likely feel ready before that mark.
4) Dont add a 4th table, 3 seems perfect right now.

It ll be interesting to look back to this after next month /images/graemlins/smile.gif

[jph0424]

September Goals

1) play 24,000 hands
2) make 20k after rakeback
3) get a good start on classes and dont slack off even though i am gradutaing this semester
4) Watch 14+ hours of college football each Saturday

Aug goals:
-20k hands 3/6 ( reached only 15k hands, was on vacation)
-have a 300BB downswing ( only had a 250BB downswing)

Sept goals:
-go to 5/10

[bugstud]

goals

1 win money
2 40k hands?
3 lotsa rakeback
4 do something in a MTT

[Michael Davis]

In September my goal is to never lose as much money in one day as I did today.

-Michael

[Trix]

Play as many hands of awesome poker as possible.

[krishanleong]

1. Play at least 40 hours of poker. Hopefully more like 60.

2. Stay at 10/20 the entire month. (Same goal as last month)

Krishan

[RunDownHouse]

1.) As usual, try to get 10k hands in. Working this much sucks.

2.) Take a shot at 5/10.

[Subby]

I took the fam on vacation for two weeks this month, so I didn't set any goals knwoing full well I wouldn't meet them.

That said, I ended up making the jump to 10/20 so that underlines my goal for September...

1) Play 15k hands of 10/20
2) Keep individual sessions under 1,000 hands
3) Buy my wife some nice jewelry

[MrBig30]

September goals:
1/ Pay more attention when playing.
2/ Stop playing when tired/bored etc.
3/ Return to 10/20 and play 10K+ hands there.
4/ Make at least 5K$ including rakeback.

[SippinSoma]

Sept Goals:
-30 hours per week 4-tabling 5/10 6-max.
-Post more.
-Swim in a pool of money.

[MAxx]

i think my aug goal was to run hot. while i ran a little hotter, i cant say that i fully reached my goal. i intend to run hotter in september.

[Grisgra]

[ QUOTE ]
i think my aug goal was to run hot. while i ran a little hotter, i cant say that i fully reached my goal. i intend to run hotter in september.

[/ QUOTE ]

Good thinking. Don't be such a wuss this time.

Problem with running hot is that it sucks when you stop running hot. I'm ~4BB/100 over my last 30k hands. Next 75BB slide I suffer is going to make me cry like a little girl.

[MAxx]

[ QUOTE ]
[ QUOTE ]
i think my aug goal was to run hot. while i ran a little hotter, i cant say that i fully reached my goal. i intend to run hotter in september.

[/ QUOTE ]

Good thinking. Don't be such a wuss this time.

Problem with running hot is that it sucks when you stop running hot. I'm ~4BB/100 over my last 30k hands. Next 75BB slide I suffer is going to make me cry like a little girl.

[/ QUOTE ]

Please set a stop loss of 74BB's. It's your party though, you can cry if you want to....Sallie. /images/graemlins/grin.gif

[Turning Stone Pro]

Look forward to losing some textbook $ to ya.

My goals for August were met: didn't go broke, didn't get married, didn't get sued.

TSP

[krishanleong]

[ QUOTE ]
1. Play at least 40 hours of poker. Hopefully more like 60.

2. Stay at 10/20 the entire month. (Same goal as last month)

Krishan

[/ QUOTE ]

3. And swim 3 days per week. (Just joined a gym)

Krishan

[imported_CaseClosed326]

1) Be able to honestly say on september 30th that I am a better poker player than I was on september 1st.

2) Try to get hands in while doing well in school.

3) No 4 tabling until I am really comfortable at 3/6.

[bugstud]

[ QUOTE ]
Look forward to losing some textbook $ to ya.

My goals for August were met: didn't go broke, didn't get married, didn't get sued.

TSP

[/ QUOTE ]

not bad

[spydog]

After living without a phone line for the last 3 months, I'm finally able to play some poker, so I might as well post some goals:

1) 5k hands at 3/6 6-max while I get back into playing mode. Maybe less if I feel I'm playing/thinking well.
2) 15k+ hands at 5/10 6-max.
3) Wet me feet at 10/20 6-max by playing 1-2 tables for at least 2k hands.
4) Play 4k hands of NL, probably at the lowest level since I've never really played before.
5) Play 2k hands of HU on .02/.04 PS. Yeah, big money. I do need to at least prove that I can kill the fish, though.
6) Play at least 8 rounds of golf.
7) Lose weight. I don't care how much. I just need to get below 200 pounds. I'd guess I'm 205-210.
8) Figure out who I'm going to root for next year because the Cubbies have broken my heart once again.

[RunDownHouse]

[ QUOTE ]
8) Figure out who I'm going to root for next year because the Cubbies have broken my heart once again.

[/ QUOTE ]
And I'm sure you love it. Cubs fans are the most self-loathing group in baseball.

Hey, at least you can root for the Cards again this year!

[Grisgra]

[ QUOTE ]
[ QUOTE ]
8) Figure out who I'm going to root for next year because the Cubbies have broken my heart once again.

[/ QUOTE ]
And I'm sure you love it. Cubs fans are the most self-loathing group in baseball.


[/ QUOTE ]

Think so? They seem disturbingly cheery to me about the whole sucking horribly. I've known plenty of Cubs fans and they seem okay with the whole "lovable losers" thing . . . as opposed to the bitter, angry, self-loathing Red Sox fans. (That is, bitter, angry, and self-loathing until last year.)

[NotMitch]

1) 15,000 hands at 1/2
2) start taking shots at 3/6
3) work out every day before playing a hand

[ggbman]

[ QUOTE ]

3) work out every day before playing a hand

[/ QUOTE ]

I should add this as a goal, although it doesn't really matter to me when i do it.

[stinkypete]

goals for september:

learn how to play poker.

[kidcolin]

He's right. Cubs fans are probably the happiest losers of all time. They'll always show up to the ballpark, smile, laugh, drink warm beer. They love it.

Sox fans are terribly self-loathing, especially the new breed. I mean, these people were booing Foulke!! And Bellhorn and Embree (ok those two or almost justifiable). These guys just won you a world series LAST YEAR. Wait a few before groaning like your world is crumbling.

And now for some goals:

1. Play 8K hands of 3/6.
2. Study my play and poker more.
3. Value bet more / pay off less.
4. Get better at my real job.
5. Run 2 miles 4 nights a week and lose 10 lbs.

[Grisgra]

[ QUOTE ]
goals for september:

learn how to play poker.

[/ QUOTE ]

I think he was looking for something a little more realistic /images/graemlins/wink.gif

[RunDownHouse]

Didn't really mean to hijack, but I meant that the last thing a Cubs fan would like to see is a WS win. They just wouldn't know what to do if they couldn't feel miserable about their team.

[bugstud]

[ QUOTE ]
Didn't really mean to hijack, but I meant that the last thing a Cubs fan would like to see is a WS win. They just wouldn't know what to do if they couldn't feel miserable about their team.

[/ QUOTE ]

um, ok

[sthief09]

I didn't meet any of my goals, but I did run really good again, but unfortunately that wasn't one of the goals

[Willluck]

August goals:

30k at 3/6 (6-max)- I'm at 21k now.

read/reread a bunch of poker books- Nope. /images/graemlins/tongue.gif

Qualify for the Canterbury FPC- The Satellite on Wed. and I am actually moving into my apartment that day.

Quit Binge Drinking every other day- haven't been drunk for almost 3 weeks.

Upgrade to 3 tabling- Yup.

September Goals:

40k hands at 3/6 (6-max)

reread HOH and read HOH 2

Qualify for Canterbury FPC 200k guaranteed

Log some live 8/16 hands

Pay rent on time

Not starve

Make good friends where I move to

[yanicehand]

1)make a schedule so I can play 20hr/week
2)make 10k including rakeback
3)run hot for the first time in my life
4)get a fakey so i can start going to commerce/bike/gardens

[rory]

Learn how to sit in a chair properly.
Remember to sit in a chair properly once I have learned.
Complete a few poker experiments.
Eat three meals a day.

[TheMetetron]

I failed miserably at my 40k hands goal due to excess traveling. I did, however, run like a total luckbox. Unfortunately, like sthief, this was not one of my goals.

I'm lowering my expectation to 20k hands this month, which is going to be super hard since I'll be out of comission with moving, surgery, etc for at least half the month.

Oh, and I'm adding the goal of being a total luckbox, so I can feel like i've achieved something by the end of the month.

[Subfallen]

1. Have a winning session, even if this means quitting after one hand.

2. Workout and eat and workout and eat and workout.

3. Kill something. Then something else.

[climber]

September Goals
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17,500 hands of 5-10 6max
2bb/100 WR
50 hours of play
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17.5k hands = $3500
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Win at least one more HULA ML match.
Don't tilt.
Don't play 10/20 with less than 6k.
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[Chobohoya]

[ QUOTE ]
1. Have a winning session, even if this means quitting after one hand.

2. Workout and eat and workout and eat and workout.

3. Kill something. Then something else.

[/ QUOTE ]

I like these. I'm with you!

[oreogod]

[ QUOTE ]


1.) Meet a ton of cool new people at college and make it a great experience

[/ QUOTE ]

This really depends as most ppl are a waste. But if they are are female, goodlooking, easily dominated, drunk and naked or have low self esteem is usually a decent plus. Cool is if they shave their vagina or at least maintain a good "situation" down below.

Good luck.

[Schneids]

[ QUOTE ]
75 hours on the month online, a very tough goal for me while maintaining my stringent table selecting standards. I don't know how many hands this will translate to but I'd guess 15,000 tops.

[/ QUOTE ]

As of right now, I'm at 59.30hrs and 12,416 hands (excluding dicking around in 2p2 games and occasional small stakes games). I guess I suck though this is still a quite above average month for me in terms of playing. Maybe in these next two days I can do 8hr days and still get there [doubtful].

Outside of poker, it's been a great month and life is good...which is more important anyway.




September goal is 60hrs for the month.

Well My goals are not as lofty as some of yours but at least I have some.
Sept goals are to move to 3/6 from 1/2
Play the right amount of hands,so it will not cause me to get a divorce
make about $1000

In Aug I just wanted to play and not lose... I have done that by moving away form NL games and moving up to $1/2. I will make about $500 in Aug which for me is great as I have had the standard win, lose, win, lose type of year.

Read more
Play more live games.
Don;t mess up my great job or my great wife.

simple

[sthief09]

let's make a more realistic September goal. 2 hours a day, 60 for the month, 30k hands, do my homework, get on a regular sleep schedule

[sthief09]

[ QUOTE ]


Outside of poker, it's been a great month and life is good...which is more important anyway.




[/ QUOTE ]



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[Escape]

- 10k hands at 3/6 6 max.
- Buy a 20" monitor
- Check out the 5/10 game.
- Study hard /images/graemlins/frown.gif

[Lurker4]

didn't post goals in the other thread...my Sept goals:
-12 hrs/week...so that means around 15k hands
-fully adjust to and get used to playing 10/20 6m
-run average...which would be much better than the last month and a half...which would mean probably +$3k-$4k
-stop getting pwned by LAGs
-start playing some small stakes NL (prob NL100)
-do well in school in what is likely my toughest schedule thus far

Work out 5 times/week.
Play more live pokah.
Decide some good charity to donate money wihtout risk of most of it going to parties and corruption.
Play more then in august.
Cut down railbirding teh big games :P
Make 20k including sports betting and rakeback [censored].
Take a shot to 50 100 and 100 200.
Play more headsup.
Quit tilting.

I quess that's enuff.

[marand]

My goal for august was to play 20k hands at 10/20 SH.
I failed since I was somewhat lazy. I only managed to play 18.5k hands. I had problems with motivating myself to play "enough".

Now I have played a little more than 50k at 10/20 and feel somewhat "comfortable" at the limit. I have started to think about going to the next limit, but it's been a long time since I played full ring and looking for tables with 3-5 players seems annoying. So I guess I am "stuck" at 10/20 until I figure out what I should do next. I am happy with the money I've made at 10/20 and really don't "need" to make more per month, but I think the longer I play at the same limit and the more hands/month I play the less motivated I will get.

Goals for september:
1) Play 20k hands at 10/20 SH.
2) Write down all difficult hands while I am playing and analyse them later.
3) Figure out if I want to keep playing the 10/20 game or try to move on to another game. 15/30 - 20/40 full? NL? SH on another site than party?
4) Get some exercise 3 times a week or more.

[therockofgibraltar]

Just started playing short, so this is a perfect time to set some goals:

1) read HUSH forum / archives at least 1h/day
2) play at least 10000 hands in .5/1 short
3) read THFAP's shorthanded section and the blind section 3 times. (and study it GOOD)
4) study about heads-up-play from TOP
5) read all the articles about shorthanded you can find from internet.

6) make some new friends from new students here in my school

They all should be very doable /images/graemlins/smile.gif

[gildwulf]

[ QUOTE ]
August: I didn't have HUSH dreams. I was sick of SNGs. I wanted to learn how to play poker not ICM, pushing & calling ranges. Playing 8 tables doesn't allow you to know everything about your opponent. SH games certainly allow that freedom.

Mid-August: Began by playing the 3/6 6-m games and was hoping to beat them. Fast forward one heater and approximate 14 days later I can play 5/10.

The Sept goal: play a statistically signifcant number of hands in September @ 5/10 and prove I'm a winner. Then re-evaluate.

[/ QUOTE ]

This is my exact story as well except shift it a couple weeks earlier.

[aflaba]

My September goal is to:

*ponder about how I can most efficently improver my play

*Do that for a couple of hours a day

*Spend less time at poker and more time in school

*Play at least 5000 hands

[Guy McSucker]

I seem to recall my August goals were to watch England beat Australia in two test matches.

Mission accomplished. And I have a ticket for Friday at the Oval.

September poker goals: play well every session for a whole month.

Guy.

[Noodles]

August was an awful month for me
so for september
1.keep better records
2,play less tables
3.post and read more on here
4,get dealt better cards
5,stop getting drawn every time

[Entity]

I met some of my goals. I didn't play enough 5/10 6max (only logged 8kish hands, but I did meet my goal of 5k hands in the 10/20 6max (whew!)) and I did meet my monetary goals for the month. Other personal goals -- working out, vacation time -- were met as well.

Rob

[goofball]

August Goals:

Win money, don't lose it. did.
Get a job for some variety. Didn't.


September:

-Be playing 10/20 6max well by the end of the month
-Swim 3 times/week

[Surfbullet]

Hey ggbman,

My august goal was to get better at poker, specifically the 10/20. I've worked hard and I think that i've done well with that goal.

September goals:

1) At least 30k hands of poker - preferably 40k+.
2) Don't look at my financial results until the end of each day to better fight the war on tilt.
3) Earn enough so I can put $3000 into a speculative stock investment that has the potential to pay off huge in a few years.

Surf

[ggbman]

[ QUOTE ]

3) Earn enough so I can put $3000 into a speculative stock investment that has the potential to pay off huge in a few years.

Surf

[/ QUOTE ]

What stock? /images/graemlins/smile.gif

I've already exceeded my monthly financial goal, so i could stand to put some money in it.

[krishanleong]

[ QUOTE ]
1. Play at least 40 hours of poker. Hopefully more like 60.

2. Stay at 10/20 the entire month. (Same goal as last month)

Krishan

[/ QUOTE ]

I'm at 70 hours already. I sneak away to the Math department office when I have a planning period and play during school hours. A couple of close shaves but so far so good. It feels so good to be working two jobs at once. /images/graemlins/smile.gif

I also stayed at 10/20 for the entire month. I feel pretty good about my game and very good about my mental game. I didn't let swings affect my personal life. I was very collected and focus on improving my game.

Krishan

[Schneids]

[ QUOTE ]


September goal is 60hrs for the month.

[/ QUOTE ]

As of now, I am at 41.13hrs online in the month. However, I have played live ten different days in September (likewise I have 13 days where I haven't logged a hand online), so, I consider the goal a partial success.

[krishanleong]

Comon people... own up. Did you make your goal?

Krishan

[krishanleong]

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3. And swim 3 days per week. (Just joined a gym)

Krishan

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I forgot about this one. I started out at 12 laps at the beginning of the month. Got up to 30 which is close to a mile and then I got sick and went on vacation. I swam 12 laps on Tuesday, first time in a week, and am shooting for 25 today. Overall I'd say this goal was met.

Krishan

[stigmata]

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Comon people... own up. Did you make your goal?

Krishan

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My bankroll is hating me .... I continued to run bad and tilt, and then spent a load of it by going to egypt for 2 weeks. Can't afford to player higher than 15/30 anymore -- ive been going backwards over the last 2 months /images/graemlins/frown.gif

I did, however, grab my second ever MTT win last night, so maybe things are looking up /images/graemlins/cool.gif

[obsidian]

Managed to get 25k hands in. I've also recently made the jump to 10/20 so I've made mine.

Next month I'd like to get another 25k hands in and do well enough to stay at 10/20. I also need to value bet my marginal hands more.

[Surfbullet]

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September goals:

1) At least 30k hands of poker - preferably 40k+.
2) Don't look at my financial results until the end of each day to better fight the war on tilt.
3) Earn enough so I can put $3000 into a speculative stock investment that has the potential to pay off huge in a few years.

Surf

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1) 33k hands so far, 1 day left.
2) I only failed at this 1 or 2 days. Also, I completed an entire week of no results with Entity.
3) Booooo. I hit a 250BB downswing at the beginning of september and then largely broke even for the rest of the month. Down ~$1200 after the end of it. TGFRB!

Surf

[MAxx]

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i think my aug goal was to run hot. while i ran a little hotter, i cant say that i fully reached my goal. i intend to run hotter in september.

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i ran only marginally hotter in september. dammit i want to run hot...maybee in october?

[MrBig30]

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September goals:
1/ Pay more attention when playing.
2/ Stop playing when tired/bored etc.
3/ Return to 10/20 and play 10K+ hands there.
4/ Make at least 5K$ including rakeback.

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1/ yes
2/ pretty good
3/ 12k hands so yes
4/ Yes, actually 14K+
I´ve done good /images/graemlins/smile.gif

[Subfallen]

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Comon people... own up. Did you make your goal?

Krishan

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Failed miserably at all my goals except having a winning session, +$12.7k for the month, over double my previous best month.

[wheelz]

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For September my goals are to keep running hot, and get in 75 hours of playing time.

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thanks to the non_conformist challenge i easily surpassed 75 hours of playing time. i didn't run nearly as hot as i was planning, but what can you do?

[baronzeus]

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My september goals are:

1). Move up to 10/20 and record 30K hands
2). Make at least 8K in profit
3). Value Bet/Spew less

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1). Way too few hands /images/graemlins/frown.gif
2). Overshot this one buy a large margin
3). Definitely value bet more, didn't really spew less /images/graemlins/frown.gif

[Escape]

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- 10k hands at 3/6 6 max.
- Buy a 20" monitor
- Check out the 5/10 game.
- Study hard /images/graemlins/frown.gif

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Done!
Done!
Done!
Didn't study well

[DaSpade]

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Currently at 3/6 6max
1. Still 5K hands to go for August to meet my 25K goal(day job)
2. Post 30K for September w/ more than 2BB/100(sort of tough because I'm moving)
3. Control spewing and follow my instincts
4. Increase my blind steal to atleast 30% (currently at 27%)
5. Get ready to move to 5/10 (50K 3/6 and 1000BB for 5/10 is the goal) by the end of the month
6. Read TOP/SSH again, improve my poker math(correct phrase?), post more hands and involve in the strategy discussion on the forum
7. Avoid the temptation to add a 3rd table no matter how good the table is - I just suck playing more than 2 tables of 6max

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Played only 7K/30K but am at 4.2BB/100 /images/graemlins/grin.gif .
Blind steal is now at 32%.
Moved to 5/10 well ahead of my prerquisite 50K at 3/6 6 and 1000 BB.
Did not read TOP/SSH.

Did not play a single hand in 2 weeks. Overall, totally failed with my August goals - I suck. /images/graemlins/mad.gif

[ggbman]

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Here are my goals for September in order of importance:

1.) Meet a ton of cool new people at college and make it a great experience

2.) Keep in touch with the people who are important to me, and maybe make some trips to turning stone with my buddy Mike.

3.) Try to balance poker well with school, adapt to playing a little less, but still try to clear 10k or more per month.

So how about you guys?

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1.) Although trying at times, it has been a good month and i am meeting lots of cool new people
2.) Me and my good buddies talk all the time
3.) I would have quintupled my goal is i wasnt a moron and actually took the last 2 days of the month off like i was going to, but alas i will live, i ran good this month /images/graemlins/smile.gif

My September goals were

1. Play 80 hours. Nope 60

2. Make 1.5K. Nope $700

3. Take a shot at 2-4. Nope dropped down to .5-1

I learned that I can't beat 1-2 which is hard as hell to learn after hearing all of the great people on this site overall a disapointing month.

[Surfbullet]

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3) Booooo. I hit a 250BB downswing at the beginning of september and then largely broke even for the rest of the month. Down ~$1200 after the end of it. TGFRB!

Surf

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I had a helluva Sept 30th and rallied to be up $370 for Sept. wooohooo +BB month!

Surf

[GivenToFly]

no august goals but time to make some for sept.

1) log 30k 3/6 hands (shoot for $3.5K)
- 24k =( 30 is so much with school and a gf
- had a 330BB downswing and managed to still be up 2.2k (rb not included)

2) work on hand reading, 3 tables at most
- def think im improving here

3) pay off school/bills/etc
- giggidy

4) take shots at 5/10
-took a few small shots and did well

5) read archives (5 hours a week)
-sorta

[Lurker4]

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didn't post goals in the other thread...my Sept goals:
-12 hrs/week...so that means around 15k hands
-fully adjust to and get used to playing 10/20 6m
-run average...which would be much better than the last month and a half...which would mean probably +$3k-$4k
-stop getting pwned by LAGs
-start playing some small stakes NL (prob NL100)
-do well in school in what is likely my toughest schedule thus far

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-did pretty close to this in hrs and hands
-yep, hopefully will stay at 10/20 6m
-ran quite good for a change and beat my earn goal by a bunch, about +$8k including a $1.2k LHE MTT 2nd place
-getting better, still working on this
-yep although I still suck at NL
-we'll find out soon enough