November Goals
 

I reached most of my goals this past month (someone should bump the October goals post), but I am going to reach all my goals this month.

So, post your goals for November here.

Mine:

1. Play 15K hands of poker. 5K 3/6, 10K 2/4.

2. Finish reading TOP, since I didnt do it last month.

3. Post/reply more here. I have been slacking there also.

4. Review my poker tracker database of my past months hands. I had a 200BB downswing in there, and although I recovered nicely, I want to make sure I didn't make too many mistakes.

5. Continue to enjoy poker. No tilt.

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1. Start playing poker again...A nice mix of 1/2, 2/4, 20+2 LHE SnGs, NL25 as well as some NL50. I'm not gonna shoot for a certain amount of hands cause I know I wont reach it...baby steps

2. Become a bonuswhore

3. Finish King Yao's book, and start How Good is Your Limit Hold'em by Jacobs and Brier

4. "Understand" Physics...[censored] confusing stuff

5. AND FINALLY...On Saturday Nov. 19th, watch the Fresno St. Bulldogs derail the two-time defending NCAA National Champions; the USC Trojans

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November goals:

1)blind response to two to five hands per day
2)post one to three hands per session
3)move back up to 2/4 6max
4)try to stop spewing on the turn!
5)play more live poker
6)purchase and read King Yao's book

-trip to vegas Nov 6th - 10th

1)play poker at the Bellagio
2)play poker at the MGM
3)play poker at the Excaliber
4)find a high stakes table to railbird
5)break even
-or alternatively-
6)suckout in a tourney and win 20k [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

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5. AND FINALLY...On Saturday Nov. 19th, watch the Fresno St. Bulldogs derail the two-time defending NCAA National Champions; the USC Trojans


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I would love to see it.

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5. AND FINALLY...On Saturday Nov. 19th, watch the Fresno St. Bulldogs derail the two-time defending NCAA National Champions; the USC Trojans

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That would be the most awesomest thing this season...second only to the whupping that the Hokies give the Longhorns in the resulting title match a la 95 Sugar Bowl [img]/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img]

Gobble gobble!

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Its unfortunate that I can't make the trip, cause its gonna happen my friend. Hopefully we'll be sitting on an 8-1 record and a ~Top 15 ranking come game time.

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I didn't do well with my October goals, especially my non-poker goals, but here goes for Novemeber:

1. Finish "Weighing the Odds..." One of my Oct. goals, only three chapters left.
2. Play 3000 6max hands (1/2 - 3/6)
3. Play 6000 hands of poker overall.
4. Finish my thesis.
5. Hit the gym 4+ days per week.

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1. Play 20k+ hands at 2/4 full.
2. Start playing 1/2 short, 5-10k hands.
3. Read all the books I have coming, including HPFAP.
4. Start finding games outside of PP.
5. Keep taking shots at higher levels, including one at 3/6 at the end of the month.

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1. Play at least 10K hands.
2. Post some of my own hands here.
3. Get my grad school apps in good shape.
4. Run well.

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1.) Play enough hands to clear at least the Paradise sign up and a Prima sign up bonus.

2.) stay at .50/1 full

3.) take a shot at .50/1 6max

4.) re-read SSH

5.) respond to two content threads a day in Micro.

6.) Find someone in Pittsburgh to talk poker with, so I don't have to rely entirely on you guys [img]/images/graemlins/smirk.gif[/img]

7.) Pass the MPRE

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1. Play ~25K hands (600 per weeknight, 1500 per weekend day)

2. Move up to 1/2, blow through that (5-tabling)

3. Move up to 2/4, blow through that (5-tabling)

4. Expand my bankroll by ~$2300 in the process

5. Be ready to start 3/6 on December 1.

6. Don't get kicked off 2+2 for the third time.

These are all obviously very lofty goals. I think I can make the 25K hands this month, and I think I can be done with 1/2 by the end but anything beyond that would be a huge bonus for me. Especially since I'm probably going out of town over Thanksgiving.

Good luck everyone!

K's Deal

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Single table 1K hands of 6M between 1/2 and 3/6.

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I actually hit all of my October goals, and I was very happy. I'm not going to post goals for this November, and simply rehash my October's goals to see if I can keep it up for another month.

Go me!

Edit that, didn't get the Tattoos...[img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img] Gonna go do that tomorrow[img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

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October Goals:
1. Play 5k hands at 1/2 6max - Played 4336 @ 2.76BB/100
2. Review 100 hands at least 2 times a week - reviewed 3 sessions
3. Post one hand from each review session - posted 1 hand
4. Stop busting my casino bonuses - busted intercasino
5. Study for a board exam on October 23rd - done
6. Mentally get ready for 2/4 - ready, trying to decide on full ring on 6max

November goals:
1. Have a baby (ok my wife is doing most of the work here)
2. Try to get 3-5k hands despite new baby
3. 1 table some 2/4 full and 6max to get a feel for the game
4. Read some more of King Yao's book.

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Poker goals
1. at least 15K .5/1 hands
2. learn 6-max and get in at least 3K hands in
3. finish reading TOP and reread SSH an HPFAP
4. beat the 10/20 at Borgata

Life
1. get a new job and relocate

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1) Play minimum 4k hands, probably .5/1 6max (I'm extremely busy this semester, so this is tough)

2) Play at least one more casino bonus. Try to break -2.5 SD run that I've been on for the last few bonuses.

3) Build new computer.

4) Continue to work out 6 days/wk.

5) Lose 12 lbs more scale weight.

6) Enjoy Thanksgiving break with my family.

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1.Finish the research for my honor's thesis

2.get all my grad school apps in on time

3.stop neglecting my correspondence

4.oh, maybe play a little poker

-Jaran

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1) Grunch to at least 3 posts a day.
2) Read King Yao's book, reread HPFAP, re-re-re-re-re-re-read SSH
3) Have the guts to apply some of the more variance-inducing concepts in the above books
4) Play some live poker when I go to Vegas in two weeks and kick some major ass.
5) Single table at least 1000 hands, making reads and taking detailed notes on my opponents.
6) Review more of my hands, especially hands where I won, but could have probably won more. I think that's a very overlooked leak. I know what SSH says, but it's tough not to "just be happy to win what's already in the pot."

This is my first month doing a "goals post." If telling the whole world about it actually helps me stick to it and accomplish my goals, I will add in non-poker goals next month.

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1. 20k hands of any form of poker. I'm out of excuses, time to get to work.

2. Another read of TOP, a complete read of 7CSFAP, and maybe a read of Ray Zee's split book afterwards.

3. Make Pooh-Bah and piss off every forum regular with my Pooh-Bah post.

4. 100 $11 SNGs (counts towards the 20k goal).

5. Shave more time off my 1.5 mile run time. I got lazy when I got back from the desert and clocked myself at 16:30 about a month ago. My most recent time was 14:30. If I can make that 12:30, I'll consider my entire life a success.

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5. AND FINALLY...On Saturday Nov. 19th, watch the Fresno St. Bulldogs derail the two-time defending NCAA National Champions; the USC Trojans

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Stick with poker, cause wow, that is just bad.

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Vis a vis October, my goals for November:

Build up my tolerance.
Have more sex. (Read >0).
Hook up more. (Read >3).
Have sex with multiple women. (Read p=0).
Go to class more.
Start doing papers before the night before they are due.
Spend more money on more useless [censored].
Start playing at 5/10 short full time (not play poker full time, but when I do play, play at 5/10 short).

That's all. In no order except that the last one is the least important out of all.

John

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Vis a vis October, my goals for November:

Build up my tolerance.
Have more sex. (Read >0).
Hook up more. (Read >3).
Have sex with multiple women. (Read p=0).
Go to class more.
Start doing papers before the night before they are due.
Spend more money on more useless [censored].
Start playing at 5/10 short full time (not play poker full time, but when I do play, play at 5/10 short).

That's all. In no order except that the last one is the least important out of all.

John

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fantastic goals

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go to Cambridge to visit a lady friend
visit my gf more than once, make sure it's not when she's having her period.
show up every day for work for 2 consecutive weeks
clean my room and keep it clean
buy healthier snack foods
make 5k dollars from poker
move back to party for a while
order some poker books and read them
read a non-poker book

there are probably more, but this is enough for now.

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hate hate hate

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hate hate hate

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They could win every game from now until then and afterwards, and Fresno State would still not be among the 25 best teams in the nation. I count 9 teams that Fresno State outranks in the AP poll that would beat the Bulldogs. For posterity's sake, those teams are : Michigan, California, Louisville, Colorado, Georgia Tech, Northwestern, Oklahoma, Minnesota, Tennessee. And I would like very much to add Virginia as the 10th team in that list, and perhaps I could if they hadn't blown it against North Carolina, but every team gets one free pass, and we used it against Maryland. Our loss against North Carolina was just inexcusable. Ugh.

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err... split in to 2 parts, before nov 17 and after nov 17:

before:
1. study
2. study
3. study
4. pass exams =(
5. kill self

if still alive... post nov 17:
1. drink
2. drink
3. drink
4. drink
5. err... [insert random poker bit here]

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1. Hammer through 50K hands of poker (25K at 2/4 full, 25K at 1/2 6-max), not LOSING money like I did this month [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]
2. Read King Yao's book and Ciaffone's 2 NL books
3. Learn baby NL so I can crush it when I go home for xmas
4. Go to showdown more
5. Go to gym 5 times a week
6. Eat more fruit
7. Not be a douche

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1. 5k hands of .5/1 6-max.
2. Read and post more here.
3. Re-read SSHE.
4. Work out 4 days a week.
5. Start working on my thesis.
6. Stop snacking on junk food so much!

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I failed my Bankroll goal of $1200(Around $1150), I read/Reread SSH and i drove my car more... and i got that chick.

Oh and i played around 12 000 hands. So i did pretty good with those goals.


THis months goals
Log 10 000 at 1/2
Get BR to $1 600
Read SSH, Start HEFAP
Study Alot more!!!!!!

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hate hate hate

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They could win every game from now until then and afterwards, and Fresno State would still not be among the 25 best teams in the nation. I count 9 teams that Fresno State outranks in the AP poll that would beat the Bulldogs. For posterity's sake, those teams are : Michigan, California, Louisville, Colorado, Georgia Tech, Northwestern, Oklahoma, Minnesota, Tennessee. And I would like very much to add Virginia as the 10th team in that list, and perhaps I could if they hadn't blown it against North Carolina, but every team gets one free pass, and we used it against Maryland. Our loss against North Carolina was just inexcusable. Ugh.

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I'm glad you wasted it on FSU. Any way you can hook up a 2+2 micro brother with game tix in C-ville? Or maybe last week's game took the air out of hoo fans and it'll be easy to skalp [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

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Surprisingly I see a lot of Hokies things around Charlottesville. On cars and such... It feels good to me...

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show up every day for work for 2 consecutive weeks


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is this a real job? if so, can I work there.

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I'm recovering from a month hiatus, so I'm trying to work my way back into the game. Lotta changes during the month I was gone... Party split from ... well, Party, and PokerAce went subscription.

1. Buy 2 poker books (haven't decided which, non-tournament books, though, probably ToP + 1 other).
2. Play 200 hands/night.

This will remain my goal through January (2 books/month). I think I'm missing something theoretical-wise about the game and I'm going to the Mount to get the great swami's take on the games.

KO

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We are a virus. Back during our run in 99, I lived close to there and my friends and I would always go to Damon's on away game saturdays to watch all the games. It was great, since we (hokies) outnumbered hoos most weekends. Wasn't a strong season for them, though, so that was a big factor.

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Finish rebuilding my bankroll
Move to 1/2 FUll ring
Purchase and read HEFAP

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I was a freshmen at Tech in 99. It was definitely a good year to be there. Now I'm in Charlottesville and I feel like I've infiltrated enemy territory.

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I've never been much for these goal thingys but what the hell.

1. Beat 1/2 6-max for 4+BB/100 over at least 10K hands

2. Find time to post on 2+2

3. Read King Yao's new book

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Last month I did my first ever "I'm gonna play 10K hands at the same stakes in a month" goal, and I ended up completing it in 10 days. I just got into a groove, 8-tabling the $0.50/$1.00 on Poker Stars. I ended up +2.48 bb/100.

So, lemme raise the bar for November:

1> Play 30K hands under the same conditions within the calendar month
2> Use Poker Tracker for more than just profitability tracking and stats comparison

By #2 I mean, I need to start making note of stand-out hands and go back and analyze them, maybe post some of them here for input.

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10K hands... I failed miserably last month.

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1.) 10k hands 2-tabling 5/10 6-max
2.) Continue working my way through MLH
3.) Post more hands, hopefully in Low Limit HUSH
4.) Continue to improve hand reading skills, via detailed hand history analysis
5.) Maybe another shot at party's 3/6 6-max, I still have a much harder time there than at Stars (I'm about breakeven there)
6.) Run good