Re: Here goes, my goals
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Writing these out is one thing, actually keeping to them is another.
I play poker to win money and because I enjoy using my brain to make good decisions. Tilting is the antithesis of making money. It is getting your money in with the worst of it, relying solely on variance to make money, which makes me no better than a drunk tourist in vegas. The longterm in poker is alot longer than I seem to think it to be. Therefore, superceding anything written below, I will quit for the day when any loss goes over 30 BB. This is for my own protection, and I know that this way frustration will not lead to unsound judgement.
My current bankroll is a touch over 1000 dollars. Although my sample size isnt @ 10k hands yet, I am running at 8 BB/100 at 1/2 6 max, so I am pretty confident that I can beat the game for a good amount if tilt is not a factor.
I will play 300 hands every day @ 1/2 6 max until December. At 300 hands/day and an estimated winrate of 8 dollars/100, this should make me a little less than 25 dollars/day, taking reload bonuses into account.
After each round of 300 I will import the history to PT and evaluate stats and any poor play. I will keep any funds over 500 dollars in my poker checking account, as most reloads dont require more than 500 to get the max, and this will protect myself from any impulse tilt betting.
I have approximately 85 days until I need to start cramming for exams and getting ready for X-mas. By this time, my goal is to have PT stats with VPIP under 30 and aggression factor over 2.25, as these are currently my 2 biggest hinderances to my game, with VPIP around 35, and Agression at 1.75. Further, if everything goes to plan, around 3000 dollars in my bankroll. At this point I will reevaluate where/how/if I want to continue playing.
In Summary: Think how [censored] lousy you felt this morning after losing a months worth of work. It will feel like that every time; you arent going to luck out like some donk; you will crash and burn, and it will hurt, you will feel like an ass, and you wont have money to buy little things that you want. Playing solid poker over the LONG HAUL is the only way you can gamble and be successful at it.
PS- I started back up this afternoon after work, rededicated... 150 hands, +21 BB.. then again, its easy to play well when you are winning and you just had the taste of puke in your mouth in the morning, lets hope it lasts
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This post has so many problems.
You say that you play to win money, but that is not entirely the case. You play for the fulfillment and ego boost of winning, and once that is taken away, even for a short while like 200$, and you go off the deep end. You can only ASPIRE to play to make money at this point. Such a player has some mastery of the CRITICAL skill of long term success - bankroll management.
Secondly, you are confident because you're winning at 8bb/100, yet you state you have 10k hands of data. This is a pissant amount of data that is nowhere near accurate. Nothing to base future hopes on whatsoever. You have suddenly set a bunch of goals and rules for yourself, but you're not going to follow them. You don't just magically develop self control and discipline overnight, you have to figure out the REAL reasons you are playing poker right now, and how you have emotional investment in your results. Once you get through that, THEN claim to be a player that 'plays to win money', and THEN set goals for yourself.
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