How'd you do on your 2005 poker goals?

[bobbyi]

I didn't post in that thread, but I did have a goal for 2005.

Up until this year, I had only been playing b&m (years ago I occassionally played on Paradise, but that's beside the point). I decided that once I moved into my new house, I would start playing online (I have a more than fulltime job, so I don't get that many hours a week to play). I had been played midlimits live (mostly 20/40) for a while, but online I wanted to start small and work my way up because from the posts here, I had seen that the online games play very differently (also, at the time I wasn't comfortable putting a large amount of money online). So I was going to deposit $2k and start playing 3/6, and my goal was to never deposit more and to be comfortably multitabling 15/30 by the end of the year.

I consider this to be a success. I actually am playing 10/20 6-max instead of 15/30 because I found that I perfer the shorthanded games.

[Recliner]

I wanted to make 40k this year, but stupid school kept getting in the way so I couldn't put in enough hours. I'm going to end up short by quite a bit, but I have managed to move up from .5/1 limit on party to taking shots at 200NL. Hopefully I can make it my full time game by the end of the year. I've got high hopes for next year because I should be living in Vegas.

[rocketlaunch]

I didn't post in that original thread, but I read it at the time and used it as inspiration to set goals for this year. I was playing 3/6 and 5/10 online and 15/30 live and so set goals of: Realistic goal--$50K, Ambitious goal--$100K. I also wanted to get to online 15/30 and live 30/60.

In July I reevaluated my ambitious goal and set it to $150K.

I have so far long passed all my monetary goals, and am playing 30/60 online and 80/160 live. So yeah, the year went well.

I'm not hesitant to set goals for next year because I can't see how I could possibly do any better. I'd be quite happy if I simply maintained my current success.

I love how poker players find every chance they can get to tell you how much they are up.

Who F'ing cares? How about a simple goal?

Play perfect poker
Play perfect poker
Play perfect poker

[obsidian]

You know, going through this thread I see very few posts on how much people are actually up.

[4thstreetpete]

I don't see a lot of people boasting how much they won either spamhead.

[DMBFan23]

went from 1/2 to 5/10

up 10K on the year

failed my goal of playing in a 15/30 game but there is still a month and I'm due a huge [censored] rakeback payment

[Artsemis]

My goal was to read GSIH and SSHE and move from losing small stakes to at least break even. I met that goal and a bit more.

[sthief09]

my only goal there was study more, play less. im having a much better semester. i never played a lot. actually im disappointed in the hours i put in. well under 500 hours according to pokertracker. but considering my hourly rate for the year without rakeback is about 3 times higher than than my appeoximate "expected" hourly for the games I was playing on Jan 1 (5/10 6m), im pretty happy. i have started posting less which is a good thing.

[apaugust]

Earned about 1/4 the money I waned to, and didn't advance my knowledge nearly as much as I wanted either.