In 1yr I want to ...

[bottomset]

ok its maybe a little early .. but the one last yr started in Oct, and James282 just posted a followup thread, so I decided to get the 2006 goal thread running, the progress thread will start when 06 rolls around

here is last year's
2005goal thread (http://archiveserver.twoplustwo.com/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=1168037&an=&page=&vc=1)

I'll go first

* I want to be beating 15/30 or higher
* make at least 40k posttaxes
* payoff my school loans, and finance my remaining school via poker
* play 30/60 or higher live
* learn how to play NLHE, PLO, PLO8, Padooki, a Stud game, TD
* attend every 2+2gathering in Vegas
* have a bankroll big enough to play in the 2+2 (20/40) 4/8game and not worry about getting stuck
* go to at least 10 Twins games
* continue to play .5/1 serious 2+2games, and not let the smaller stakes affect my play
* continue getting coaching, and spend more time talking with other successful midlimit players
* don't have a 400+BB downswing /images/graemlins/grin.gif
* still like poker this time next year

[TheMainEvent]

* Finally be done with school
* Get an apartment somewhere near NYC
* Find an IT job
* Play less poker but have more fun doing it

[irishpint]

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* go to all the twins games

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- Be playing 3/6 online (and winning)
- Not be relying on Bonii
- Making $20K a year
- Have won a tournament (I'm sick of second)

[silvershade]

I'd like to have;

Won a tournament.
Gained a decent understanding of Omaha and 7 Stud ( including both high and HiLo versions. )
Successfully have completed my transition to playing PL/NL rather than Limit.

[tassie]

increase NETELLER by more than $10,000
get better at reading hands.
learn how to fold better.
find a crypto hand converter.

*Have played 30k hands of 10/20 6max
*Bought some [censored] with poker earnings

[POKhER]

*Have made $20 000 MINIMUM
*Be playing 5/10 minimum and BEATING IT (2bb/100 for 30K hands)
*Have read TOP/HEFAP/SSH/HOH1/HOH2/Psychology and be happy that i understand most concepts/Strategys.
*Be Semi Pro
*Be LOVING POKER and everything related to it!


Big goals, Lets see how i do.

[car ramrod]

I would like to be playing 5/10 6max full time.

Play 20/40 live

look into maybe getting a coach (bottomset do you mind telling me who you are using)

work on not tilting during a downswing

take another big trip paid for by poker

get really good at snowboarding before my trip to Utah

[Guruman]

I have a singleminded focus for now.

by next turkey day I hope to be a winning 10/20 player.

many steps between now and then. We'll see how I do.

By this time next year:
*Playing .50/1 better than most at Stars
*Gotten past over valuing my post flop hand
*Read gshe, hep with deep understanding
*Begin to comprehend and put into action strategies in hepap

[GrunchCan]

* Get to and beat NL500+
* Go to and cash in a major
* Go to Vegas & play cash no-limit games several times
* Start contributing to high-stakes no-limit forum

[celiboy]

Same as where I am now. Casino/poker whoring to the tune of 5K a year by 4 tabling the micros.

[NateDog]

I'd like to go back to 1/2 full and make that stupid red number black.

[jaxUp]

- Be beating 15/30 or higher
- Still play FR and 6max
- Regain the intense focus that I had only a month ago (well, actually, I would like to do that within the next week)
- Actively contribute to HUSH (or whatever forum is relevant after the split)
- Rely solely on poker for my income
- Pull in 50k post-taxes
- Have had some coaching
- Play more live poker, both in a serious and donking capacity
- Get engaged to my girlfriend of 5 years
- still not have failed a course in uni

[David04]

Be beating 2/4(higher, hopefully...but I would be happy with 2/4)
Win one MTT
Make 5K(might not seem like a lot, but this would be awesome to me)

I want to:

* Not suck at poker
* Seriously, I want to get to the point where I know my play is EV+
* Be comfortable in live games (local cardrooms & Vegas)
* Learn stud.
* Have pushed myself, including higher limits and more tournaments.
* Not lose the enjoyment factor, which is the whole reason I play

Note that I have no money-related goals. I don't expect to make money playing poker, but if it happens it would be nice.

[Sightless]

hmm 1 year. I better make some easy goals

Playing and beating 3/6
reading 4-5 poker books
learn 1 more poker game good

[SomethingClever]

* Make as much at poker as I do at my real job
* Enjoy!

* Build my small br into a big one
* Learn to play No-Limit (cash and tournies)

That's about it pokerwise.

[milesdyson]

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* 2/3-table 5/10 or 10/20 6-max games.
* Get better and better about keeping tilt to a minimum.
* Play in some no limit home games.
* Meet up with some bros and do something, whether it's playing poker or drinking beers.
* Get a new damn monitor.
* Use poker earnings to pay for laser eye surgery (contacts are the scourge of the planet).
* Finish my session review with car_ramrod (j/k dude I'm almost done).
* Get a raise at my job.
* Maybe buy a house? (I'm renting right now).
[/list]

Have a BR of $100,000.
Play 10/20 and 20/40 live NL games.

[nomadtla]

*Stop Smoking
*Have 60K more hands in my PT database (including &gt;15K at 6-max)
*Play some live LHE (probably 5/10 on a day cruise)
*Be soundly beating 1/2 or better.
*Have at least a 3K bankroll (including at least 500 cashout)
*Get some more Bonii
*Limit myself to 1 MTT a month (I'm lossing to much BR goofing off in these)
*Stop Smoking
*Still enjoy poker
*Have a excellent (or at least better) grasp of TOP/HPFAP/SSH/TourneyPFAP/HOH1, get HOH2 and read it

[car ramrod]

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* Meet up with some bros and do something, whether it's playing poker or drinking beers.


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where are you at again? this could be cool, I like beer, and I like poker.

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* Finish my session review with car_ramrod (j/k dude I'm almost done).


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take your time, I need all the help I can get. /images/graemlins/grin.gif

[milesdyson]

i'm in southern california.

[car ramrod]

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i'm in southern california.

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nuff said, we'll come there. Ohio's weather is not so great this time of year.

[nomadtla]

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i'm in southern california.

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nuff said, we'll come there. Ohio's weather is not so great this time of year.

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Neither is Va's, roadtrip I'll pick you up on the way.

[hemstock]

Lets see.

- Get good at 6 max
- Play 3/6 or 5/10
- Log ~250k hands
- Minimise tilt
- Buy a car
- Make as much money as possible

[numeri]

* move up to 3/6 (by then... still at 1/2 now)
* play live
* meet some other bros (What's up with all the MN people? I'm outside Chicago now, but all my family are still around the cities.)
* still enjoy the game
* make a profit after taxes
* buy a house
* make peace with the ethical dilemna I like to call "poker"

&gt;0BB/100 100K hands is all

[scotty34]

*Have total poker winnings of at least 80K pre-tax
*Be playing 15/30 or higher as my main game
*Put a down payment on a place instead of renting
*Do well in school
*Find a really cool g/f

I would be exceptionally pleased if I was able to do all of this, however, it certainly is not going to be easy.

- be winning at 2/4 6max (currently .50/1 full)
- have a working understanding of SSHE and WTOIH, and be working on TOP, HEFAP
- have a job i enjoy
- be winning at 5/10 live

[Stealthy]

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* Make as much at poker as I do at my real job


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-complete my dissertation and get a real job
-win enough to cover the costs of all the books I have
bought

[ClaytonN]

At the beginning of this year I had $100 for a poker roll and my goal was to be playing 3/6 full time by the end of the year and make enough money for freshman year of college. Nailed both.

2006 Goals:
- Play 20/40 full time
- Make at least 30k over the summer
- Bench 200 lbs.
- Reach the FT at a Sunday tournament

[Vote4Pedro]

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Bench 200 lbs.

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Be sure and keep us updated...perhaps weekly or monthly posts

[SCfuji]

have a 30k bankroll and more in my mutual funds.

[ClaytonN]

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Bench 200 lbs.

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Be sure and keep us updated...perhaps weekly or monthly posts

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Oh, I will.

FWIW I used to be able to bench my weight (160) but I've lost 10 pounds since college started /images/graemlins/shocked.gif and my bench suffered.

[irishpint]

&lt;--- mn person

I want to move up to playing the $1/$2 tables and hopefully pull in about $100/month or so consistently. Modest goals I know, but really I have been playing for the competition. To get a small monthly bonus would be a nice thing for me to get out of playing a game.

- Play less poker (I've been doing pretty good at this lately, but I was playing 100 hours/month, which is just way too much)
- Make enough $$$ to finish pay off my credit cards, buy a plasma screen TV, and finance one trip to Vegas
- Move up in limits

[Weatherhead03]

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Find a really cool g/f

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it certainly is not going to be easy.

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I agree /images/graemlins/tongue.gif

[milesdyson]

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Bench 200 lbs.

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Be sure and keep us updated...perhaps weekly or monthly posts

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would you believe yours truly at one time benched 305? i weighed ~200 el bees.

now i weigh about 210 and i can put up 250 or so - what a let down.

[Weatherhead03]

* Beating 10/20 6-max.
* Make enough money to not work through the summer or next year.
* When I play live I'd like to play 20/40 or 15/30.
* Learn how to actually play NL, not just donate money slowly.
* Have a bankroll big enough so that I can have as much fun on the weekends as I want to without a job.
* Learn how to reduce my tilt a great deal.

[Aaron W.]

1) Move closer to that Ph.D that's still sitting some distance away
2) Get another 5000 hands of 1/2 5-max at Paradise under my belt to bring me up to 10000
3) Move up to the 2/4 full ring game and get some 5000 hands there
4) Continue my recently started venture into Stud/8 (.25/.50) and have 3000 hands played

[DCWildcat]

1) Learn to pay taxes
2) Earn enough $ to need to do 1)

[scotty34]

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Find a really cool g/f

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it certainly is not going to be easy.

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I agree /images/graemlins/tongue.gif

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haha, well at least you didn't disagree with the rest of it, and I do always have a fall back option from last year - at least for a little while longer anyways

[scotty34]

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1) Move closer to that Ph.D that's still sitting some distance away
2) Get another 5000 hands of 1/2 5-max at Paradise under my belt to bring me up to 10000
3) Move up to the 2/4 full ring game and get some 5000 hands there
4) Continue my recently started venture into Stud/8 (.25/.50) and have 3000 hands played

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Wow, for some reason I always had the impression that you played much more and higher than this.

[Aaron W.]

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1) Move closer to that Ph.D that's still sitting some distance away
2) Get another 5000 hands of 1/2 5-max at Paradise under my belt to bring me up to 10000
3) Move up to the 2/4 full ring game and get some 5000 hands there
4) Continue my recently started venture into Stud/8 (.25/.50) and have 3000 hands played

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Wow, for some reason I always had the impression that you played much more and higher than this.

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It continually surprises people (http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showthreaded.php?Cat=0&amp;Number=3835129). With respect to "higher", it's hard to have a large bankroll when you don't play very often. Poker is just a casual game for me.

There is also a little testimony here about how much you can actually learn at the micros if you would just pay attention to what's going on at the table. Everyone is always in a hurry to move up in stakes, but stakes alone will not drive your development as a player.

[NateDog]

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i'm in southern california.

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Yo tambien.

(for the spanish impaired, "me too")

[istewart]

OMG bottomset. Your avatar never [censored] ends!

[Holden97]

pwn 3/6 (currently trying to build a br at .25/.5)

[Vote4Pedro]

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OMG bottomset. Your avatar never [censored] ends!

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it should be banned

[UATrewqaz]

Have the balls to play 2/4 and 3/6

Increase my High Stake percentage at Old Maid and Go Fish.
(Mainly 100-200)

[bottomset]

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OMG bottomset. Your avatar never [censored] ends!

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it cycles through, but changes quick enough that you often forget that you saw that one before

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it should be banned

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/images/graemlins/frown.gif

I'm even more happy now Fresno State lost the USC game

[Songwind]

This time next year I hope to be:
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Playing at a limit with no "." in it
Buying computer parts with poker winnings
Playing a little at the local B&amp;M card room
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[Vote4Pedro]

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I'm even more happy now Fresno State lost the USC game

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http://www.reviewjournal.com/images/webextras/gallery/moran/low_blow.jpg

LOW BLOW

[Sean D]

A year from now I'd like to:

Be winning steadily at a limit I am comfortable with (hopefully 3/6 or above)
Move to a new place, and actually not get kicked out
Bang hot chicks every day