December goals post

[Isura]

1. Play 40k hands the right way.
2. Learn to 6-8 table.
3. Control tilt.

What are your goals for the month?

stop playing poker and study on finals instead :P

[Isura]

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stop playing poker and study on finals instead :P

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I hope that wasn't directed at me. I'm a grad student and all my courses are over /images/graemlins/grin.gif

[4_2_it]

1) Play 10K hands
2) Work on my hand reading.
3) Push more with huge draws
4) Quit limping OOP
5) Try to convince my wife to let me go to AC next week for the Showboat tourney.

haha, no no, thats my goal :P

[PokerFink]

I'll be in AC for 2-3 nights and Vegas for 12 nights. Goal is 5g.

Which, with drinking expenses, should net me like three hundred bucks =)

[Mercman572]

Play 20k hands at 100NL 6max at 6PTBB/100, or play as close as possible to optimally over that period if I have a garbage run of cards. Then move to 1/2.

[ansky451]

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stop playing poker and study on finals instead :P

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[yvesaint]

- dont tilt
- dont tilt
- dont tilt

[amoeba]

no fps.

hopefully 5k in december but I don't like setting money goals.

[jhall23]

-Get more hands in on UB to finally work on the $800 Dollars worth of bonus money I have there.

-Not look at Poker Tracker while playing to avoid knowing if/how much I am up or down for the session (if I can do this all month that would be quite a feat and very good for me)

[xorbie]

Make back the chunk of my roll I took out. Spend that chunk and enjoy it.

[GrunchCan]

- Grind NL50. 10k+ hands
- Build a mini-roll for NL200 to take 1 shot
- ...else build roll to NL100 & move up
- Play 5 low buyin, large field MTTs (edit: cash in all 5)
- Win the KOTKP (http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=4062632) and show them I'm still boss over there.
- Think about moving to FT & getting rakeback there

[Hoopster81]

-my last month at the 100s (not a goal)
-60K hands maintaining at least 4PTBB/100, make enough from r/b to cover all my expenses
-hit the 200s with a vengence in 2006

[stu-unger]

1- play 30,000 hands
2- stop being a complete puss and move up to the 100's
3- re-read supersytem and TOP

[jkkkk]

1. Steal wtfsvi's luckbox
2. Take Allin3High's BR HU
3. Prove to Kongo that being weak-tight isn't all its made up to be.
4. Never run as bad as RyanGHall
5. Convince kipin QJo is unplayable pf in utg+1

[elus2]

to stop losing.

[PokerFink]

Get naked pictures of my quasi girlfriend.



Ohhhhh... you meant poker goals.

[4_2_it]

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Get naked pictures of my quasi girlfriend and post them on OOT

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FYP

[Lady Dont Tekno]

1. Get through school (somehow).
2. Make enough to move up to NL200.
3. Finally get around to switching my database to SQL.

[Maulik]

Developing my game, making better pre-flop & flop decisions.

Exchanging a small number of hands for any given week. Is anyone interested?

Make back the chunk I lost due to playing oh so badly... 8-table to grind back what I chunked away..

[4_2_it]

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3. Finally get around to switching my database to SQL.

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Just do this one night before you go out to party. It's not complicated......

[beavens]

-move up from 25NL to 50NL

could do it now, but i'm taking it nice and slow.

[Lady Dont Tekno]

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3. Finally get around to switching my database to SQL.

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Just do this one night before you go out to party. It's not complicated......

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I know but you won't believe how lazy kids are these days. /images/graemlins/wink.gif

[Allinlife]

30k hands at least, shooting for 50k

reduce donk plays

[4_2_it]

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3. Finally get around to switching my database to SQL.

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Just do this one night before you go out to party. It's not complicated......

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I know but you won't believe how lazy kids are these days. /images/graemlins/wink.gif

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Sure I would. I have two (though my wife would say she has 3 /images/graemlins/grin.gif)

[beavens]

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3. Finally get around to switching my database to SQL.

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Just do this one night before you go out to party. It's not complicated......

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I know but you won't believe how lazy kids are these days. /images/graemlins/wink.gif

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Sure I would. I have two (though my wife would say she has 3 /images/graemlins/grin.gif)

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for some reason i figure 90% of the posters on this forum to be guys in their 20s.. i wonder what the actually numbers are

[Hoopster81]

I went to school with the Morgan Lesko who is the son of the Matthew Lesko - the guy in your avatar. Believe it or not, he is actually that strange in real life.

[4_2_it]

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I went to school with the Morgan Lesko who is the son of the Matthew Lesko - the guy in your avatar. Believe it or not, he is actually that strange in real life.

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He is not strange, I am. He is eccentric /images/graemlins/smile.gif

[Delphin]

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Get naked pictures of my quasi girlfriend.

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Get naked pictures of his quasi girlfriend from OOT.

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I went to school with the Morgan Lesko who is the son of the Matthew Lesko - the guy in your avatar. Believe it or not, he is actually that strange in real life.

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Mount Union, huh?

My goals-

1. 45k hands, 8 tables, 4 hours a day.
2. At least $2k.
3. No more playing tired/intoxicated/stupid.

[quarkncover]

1. Play 10k hands full ring
2. Play 5k hands 6max
3. Purchase copies of the NL books by Cloutier et. al and purchase new copies of TOP, HOH2, and SSHE (never lend out your books...)

[beset7]

/images/graemlins/spade.gif 25k hands nl 6max
/images/graemlins/spade.gif 10k hands of Limit Hold Em because it pisses me off how bad I suck at it.
/images/graemlins/spade.gif take absolutlye zero shots at higher limit games
/images/graemlins/spade.gif play 3-4 MTTs
/images/graemlins/spade.gif finish my law review paper
/images/graemlins/spade.gif qualify for the party poker million /images/graemlins/laugh.gif

I would love to be able to 4-6 table and maintain my winrate.

More than two tables and i am not comfortable.

[Hoopster81]

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Mount Union, huh?

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Na, elementary school in DC

[scdavis0]

20,000 hands at 1/2 and 2/4 at 5.5+ ptbb/100

ring games only

1)No FPS
2)No Tilt
3)No garbage hands OOP against LAG Opponents

[bigt2k4]

1. Ace all of my exams
2. not piss any1 off with my Christmas gifts
3. Get laid

[pokerjoker]

Do well on Exams and graduate.

[swolfe]

1. Play 20K hands 8-tabling $200NL and/or $400NL
2. Play 40 hours live

[arras]

1. Double my roll (shouldn't be too hard, its small)
2. Play some NL live (if the casinos get rebuilt this month)

[beavens]

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1. Double my roll (shouldn't be too hard, its small)
2. Play some NL live (if the casinos get rebuilt this month)

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you in LA or miss?

[arras]

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1. Double my roll (shouldn't be too hard, its small)
2. Play some NL live (if the casinos get rebuilt this month)

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you in LA or miss?

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Just to the east in Mobile, AL.

[beavens]

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1. Double my roll (shouldn't be too hard, its small)
2. Play some NL live (if the casinos get rebuilt this month)

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you in LA or miss?

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Just to the east in Mobile, AL.

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ah - how's the progress coming?

[arras]

I know they were working 7 12-hour shifts a week on one of the casinos and were adding the night shift to get it done. They hope to open in December. The MS coast is still pretty bad off though.

[beavens]

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I know they were working 7 12-hour shifts a week on one of the casinos and were adding the night shift to get it done. They hope to open in December. The MS coast is still pretty bad off though.

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[censored] hurricanes =\

[poincaraux]

I suck way more than the rest of ya'll. I just moved from $25 full ring games to $50 6-max, and have only been actually paying attention and thinking much during hands for the last 2-3k hands. That should give you some context.

I'm playing either 1 6-max table, 2 6-max tables or 1 6-max and 1 full table.

1) Focus intently on one table. If I play two tables, play tighter (set-mine?) the other. This can change when my skill allows, but not yet.
2) Vocalize my reads. Do this for every hand I'm in on the main table and as many other hands as possible. For hands I'm not in/hands on the non-main table, do this for any pots over $50.
3) Estimate my equity against villain's ranges for all all-in hands.
4) Once a week, review all all-in hands, estimating equity and checking those estimates with PokerStove.
5) Post an average of at least one hand per week.
6) Start datamining a lot. Come up with empirical estimates of hand ranges. Write some obvious code already.
7) Move up when I have the roll/skill.

[zaphod]

1) Pay attention.

2) Improve my game.

3) Stop playing when i am tired. At least stop playing NL 6 max, if i "have to" play go for a few SNG's which could be done more easily on autopilot.

4) Take breaks. I often find myself playing way to long without breaks.

5) Get more serious about tableselection.

[beavens]

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1) Pay attention.

2) Improve my game.

3) Stop playing when i am tired. At least stop playing NL 6 max, if i "have to" play go for a few SNG's which could be done more easily on autopilot.

4) Take breaks. I often find myself playing way to long without breaks.

5) Get more serious about tableselection.

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this is pretty much how i am.. i've been working on 5.) recently.. i am very impatient (-EV!) when it comes to sitting and playing.. but if i dont like what i see ill get up and go to a better looking table. i used to just play it out and deal with it.

[Percula]

1) Make my monthly nut by the 15th

2) Improve my reading skills, both hands, tells and people

3) Stop trying to out compete other players and just play my game.

[PugX]

- Improve my game, do less postflop misstakes
- Play 25k hands at NL 1/2 and 2/4 6-Max
- I dont set goals for winnings, but if I play many hands the winnings usually comes

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Exchanging a small number of hands for any given week. Is anyone interested?

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This one sounds nice. Is anyone (winning player like me) that plays NL 1/2 and/or 2/4 6-Max intrested to exchange a small number of hands once a week for a while? I want to improve and maybee we can improve together? You dont need to have an excellent winrate (I haven't) but you have to be a longterm winning player like me. Please PM me.

//Pug

[jasonHoldEm]

Make the transition from semi-decent 3/6-5/10 limit player to uber-awesome NL 6-max player...right now I'm running at 48.42 PTBB/100 (over 129 hands) so I'm pretty much there already. /images/graemlins/crazy.gif

[beavens]

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Make the transition from semi-decent 3/6-5/10 limit player to uber-awesome NL 6-max player...right now I'm running at 48.42 PTBB/100 (over 129 hands) so I'm pretty much there already. /images/graemlins/crazy.gif

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that is consistency!

[jasonHoldEm]

I rooooole!

[poincaraux]

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Make the transition from semi-decent 3/6-5/10 limit player to uber-awesome NL 6-max player...right now I'm running at 48.42 PTBB/100 (over 129 hands) so I'm pretty much there already. /images/graemlins/crazy.gif

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Your sample size is probably at least an order of magnitude too small, but I value your input as a higher-limit player. Since I switched from NL $25 full ring games to NL $50 6-max, I've run at 32 PTBB/100 for over 1200 hands. This has done wonders for my bankroll, which is now well over $1200. In your opinion, should I take the conservative option and play $600 6-max, or should I jump right into the $2000 games?

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-poincaraux

[-Skeme-]

Less B, C game, more A game.

[PokerFink]

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Less B, C game, more A game.

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That's a good one I'm working on. I get in the mood to gambool and splash around too much.

Also, I want to take a shot at 5/10 in Vegas if I reach my goal. I pussied out this summer at turning stone at the end of my week-long trip when I saw Al Krux and some other nasty good players in their weekly 5/10 game. Even though I wanted to play the 5/10 there, skipping that game was definitely +EV.

[PokerFink]

poincaraux,

You've done an excellent job thinking out and stating your goals. Looks like you're on the right track.

Goodluck! =)

[elus2]

play 60 hours around xmas time of live poker without drinking too much.

[jasonHoldEm]

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Since I switched from NL $25 full ring games to NL $50 6-max, I've run at 32 PTBB/100 for over 1200 hands.


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Seriously, that's really nice...I hope I can do 1/4 of that working my way up.

(Obviously) we're both screwing around, but switching over is something I'm really looking forward to. I've been playing ed miller's short stack strategy over the last month in the NL200 (full) games to get my feet with no-limit and pretty much love everything about the game at this point.

Now that I'm playing "for real" I've dropped down to NL25 to start over and learn the game the right way. A more detailed december goal would be to work my way up to at least NL50, and hopefully NL100, by new years. BR isn't a factor for me (I probably have enough for NL200, although not the skills at the moment...that's my focus for december, improving my understanding of no-limit strategy).

Good luck,
J

1) Play 5k hands
2) Work on keeping focused over a longer period of time
3) Don't tilt

[poincaraux]

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poincaraux,

You've done an excellent job thinking out and stating your goals. Looks like you're on the right track.

Goodluck! =)

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Thanks!

Oh, I had one more goal that I forgot to mention: play a few sessions of 6-max NL $25 sticking entirely to fimbulwinter's preflop guidelines. His ranges are different from mine, and I'd like to see what they feel like.

[Karak567]

1) Stop bluffing so much against morons
2) Make $12,000

If I do # 1, # 2 should be easy.

[jasonHoldEm]

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fimbulwinter's preflop guidelines.

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Linky, linky, por favor?

[poincaraux]

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fimbulwinter's preflop guidelines.

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Linky, linky, por favor?

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Skuzzy posted a digest (http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showflat.php?Cat=0&Board=ssplnlpoker&Number=399387 7&Searchpage=1&Main=3993877&Words=fimbulwinter+dig est&topic=&Search=true#Post3993877) of classic fimbulwinter posts a while ago, which is where I found his starting hand strategy (http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showflat.php?Cat=0&Board=ssplnlpoker&Number=162295 5&Searchpage=6&Main=1618086&Words=-RE%3A&topic=&Search=true#Post1622955). Those posts are awesome. I don't know why they haven't made their way into the FAQ yet.

Good luck with your goals!

-poincaraux

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- dont tilt
- dont tilt
- dont tilt

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[jasonHoldEm]

Good stuff, thanks.

[Phoenix1010]

Get to 3/6. Drop back down to 1/2 to learn 6 max.

[GrunchCan]

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- Win the KOTKP (http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=4062632) and show them I'm still boss over there.


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Mission failed. /images/graemlins/frown.gif

[teamdonkey]

-finally get a 10k hand month in
-get comfortable at 0.50/1.00
-go through PT after each session and replay the hands i lost the most in

[JaBlue]

1) go with friends to Tahoe, have a blast
2) make 5 figures in poker

Make $1000 dollars so I can keep steadily building my bankroll for the summer.

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I've been playing ed miller's short stack strategy over the last month in the NL200 (full) games to get my feet with no-limit and pretty much love everything about the game at this point.


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What's this?

move up a little in limits (I currently play 1/2-2/4 but I'm looking toward a 2/4-3/6 [NL] or so now) and figure out if I can actually do this for a living (looked like I could but those taxes make it somewhat iffy for me right now). I also need more experience against the better players that play those limits (they're also mostly the same ones at limits higher up even)

Goal is to make the most correct decisions I can. (will only be playing half of the month or so)

[Malachii]

Hmmm...

I'd settle for 20,000 hands at 100 NL.

I really need to stop donating at $25 when I'm drunk, that [censored] adds up.

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-finally get a 10k hand month in
-get comfortable at 0.50/1.00
-go through PT after each session and replay the hands i lost the most in

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You are shooting for a 10k month without being comfortable at NL 100 yet? That's awesome if you get it. Just from some rough estimates, assuming you 4 table for 3 hours everyday at 80 hands an hour, you would need a winrate of around 17 PTBB/100 to get there I think.

[Gregg777]

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You are shooting for a 10k month without being comfortable at NL 100 yet?

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He meant 10k hands /images/graemlins/wink.gif

Destroy 100nl full for another month. Then move up to 200nl or transition to 100nl 6max.

[Vavavoom]

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What are your goals for the month?


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Make $2000+ this month with bonuses and play....
Move up exclusively to $1/$2NL....4-6 tabling....

[Kirkrrr]

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I really need to stop donating at $25 when I'm drunk, that [censored] adds up.

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LOL. But it's so much fun while it lasts /images/graemlins/grin.gif /images/graemlins/grin.gif

[BlackRain]

Actually play some poker. 1 or 2 10 hour sessions a week for the past two months. Quit being a lazy arse and get in there 5 days a week.

Take advantage of a few weeks off school and play 5-10k hands of NL $50, crush it, and move up to NL $100. Start 2006 taking a serious approach to my game, on the one year anniversary (Jan. 2005) of when I first sat down at $0.50/$1 limit at Party playing 75% of hands and getting excited when I won a $10 pot.

[sawseech]

play 100k hands
win 15k
no big losing sessions

[teamdonkey]

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You are shooting for a 10k month without being comfortable at NL 100 yet?

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He meant 10k hands /images/graemlins/wink.gif

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what he said /images/graemlins/grin.gif

was very comfortable last night playing only two tables, maybe that's the trick. running good always helps

[rachelwxm]

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You are shooting for a 10k month without being comfortable at NL 100 yet?


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It's possible, just boring as hell. /images/graemlins/wink.gif

[rachelwxm]

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I really need to stop donating at $25 when I'm drunk, that [censored] adds up.

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While I play at 25nl games sometime ago, I saw some maniac who can raise and bet like crazy and make 10 buyin in no time. I wonder if that's you.

[-Skeme-]

-stop playing too many hands when i get bored.
-stop limping with SCs OOP. only leads to limp-calling and playing draws in the worst way.
-play 20,000 hands.
-again, more a game, less b-c.
-stop getting 2 outed
-keep berating people, its funy.

Start using excel and analyse tough situations. Save the sheets to be edited when proven wrong.

Win some when I hit my sets. (pay more attention and reraise all in instead of hust click raise when reraised like a limit player, this comes from multitabling when watching TV)

[Cosimo]

1. Play 30k hands
2. Make 8+ PTBB/100 for those 20k.
3. Stop folding so much.
4. Stop betting so much.

[Morrek]

Play 2table and focus 100% on reads, and especially, never ever ever tilt