Official Micro-Limit October Goals

jaxUp · #1 10-01-2005, 06:45 PM

As I'm sure most people know, setting goals for yourself is a good way of motivating yourself to accomplish something that you want to. That said, there are a few guidelines that you should follow when you're making poker-related goal

Never to make a $$ related goal. Because poker is such a long term game, you are sometimes just not able to win as much as you would like in a given time frame. I have gone through multiple 200BB downswings, and really there's not much you can do about it. So try to make goals pertaining to the number of hands you want to play if you want this kind of a goal. What I do is guess what my winrate is, figure out how much money I want to make, and then make my goal to play however many hands it will take me to win that much. But once you have done this, FORGET ABOUT THE MONEY. Your only concern must now become getting the hands in. I think that hands goals are usually the most important ones (at least for me) so everybody should have one.

There are a few other goals that I see that you should consider making.

1) Reading goals: Self-explanatory. Pick a poker pook or two that you need to (re)read. This type of goal is especially helpful for n00bs, anybody looking to expand their knowledge, or anybody who is lacking confidence.

2) Moving up goals: These are not too common, as moving up depends on a few things such as confidence, bankroll and exerience. These goals are not a good idea for too many players. They are best left to veteran players who have a very good idea where they are in their game, and what it's going to take to hit the next level.

3) Specific game aspect goals: These are goals that focus on a specific aspect of the game. An example of these would be working on isolating loose raisers, hand-reading, or calculating pot odds. These types of goals are a good idea for everybody and can be tied in nicely with the reading goals.

4) non-poker goals: These are (can you guess?) goals that are not related to poker. Some non-poker goals include banging at least 3 bitches, reading a non-poker related book, or challenging somebdy who pwned you in a LL sidebet to some sort of rematch.

Let me know if I left anything out, and good luck making your goals

jaxUp · #2 10-01-2005, 06:58 PM

My goals are:

Take a shot at 5/10 6max after 4k more hands of 3/6 and at least 400 BB in my account

Play 5k hands/week when playing 3/6, 3500 hands/week if the majority of the time it's at 5/10

re-read HPFAP and take the time to actually digest everything

I have noticed that my stats when I'm 2-tabling are much better than when I 4-table. I am going to try and focus more when 4-tabling and get back to some basic hand reading and adaptation. If I am not able to do this, I will remove 1 or 2 tables (though I'll only be 2-tabling when I move to 5/10 anyways).

change my [censored] avatar

go and completely destroy the 2/5 game at Brantford for my friends's 19th

jaxUp · #3 10-18-2005, 10:33 PM

[ QUOTE ]
My goals are:

Take a shot at 5/10 6max after 4k more hands of 3/6 and at least 400 BB in my account

Play 5k hands/week when playing 3/6, 3500 hands/week if the majority of the time it's at 5/10

re-read HPFAP and take the time to actually digest everything

I have noticed that my stats when I'm 2-tabling are much better than when I 4-table. I am going to try and focus more when 4-tabling and get back to some basic hand reading and adaptation. If I am not able to do this, I will remove 1 or 2 tables (though I'll only be 2-tabling when I move to 5/10 anyways).

change my [censored] avatar

go and completely destroy the 2/5 game at Brantford for my friends's 19th

[/ QUOTE ]

did not play 4k hands of 3/6 6m...went straight to 5/10 6m where I have played about 17k hands, and about 3500 hands of 5/10 full

the birthday plans fell through and it has been loosely rescheduled for "later"

I have improved my multitabling abilities significantly

did not reread HPFAP

Avatar is gone in a week...I have set up the avatar challenge in the NC thread.

MrWookie47 · #4 10-01-2005, 07:02 PM

Awesome, dude. This is even better than what I had in mind when I mentioned starting a goals thread in the NC thread.

My goals:

1. Buy and begin reading King Yao's book.
2. 10k hands of 3/6 6 max
3. Spend time reviewing at least 400 hands of my own per week. I don't review my own play nearly enough, and I tend to only review hands that bugged me. I need to go looking for errors not only in the expected places.
4. Pwn the MLL.
5. Figure out what to do with the two friends who both want to do me, with whom I'm only about 10% to get away with doing both, and whose friendship I'd rather not be responsible for breaking.

Edit: I had asked for your goals, and then you posted them while I finished my reply. No longer necessary.

Sightless · #5 10-01-2005, 07:05 PM

1. take the 50 dollars that i have on my PP Acount and try to build a bankroll for 1/2 ):

jaxUp · #6 10-01-2005, 07:13 PM

[ QUOTE ]
Buy and begin reading King Yao's book.

[/ QUOTE ]

Is this a poker book? If so, what's it called, and what does it cover?

[ QUOTE ]
Spend time reviewing at least 400 hands of my own per week. I don't review my own play nearly enough, and I tend to only review hands that bugged me. I need to go looking for errors not only in the expected places.

[/ QUOTE ]

This is a great goal. I will be doing the same.

[ QUOTE ]
Figure out what to do with the two friends who both want to do me, with whom I'm only about 10% to get away with doing both, and whose friendship I'd rather not be responsible for breaking.

[/ QUOTE ]

The only answer is to do both at the same time. That way they both get what they want and it becomes a bonding experience for them.

Brain · #7 10-01-2005, 07:36 PM

[ QUOTE ]
[ QUOTE ]
Buy and begin reading King Yao's book.

[/ QUOTE ]

Is this a poker book? If so, what's it called, and what does it cover?

[/ QUOTE ]
King Yao's Weighing the Odds in Hold'Em Poker

[ QUOTE ]
Figure out what to do with the two friends who both want to do me, with whom I'm only about 10% to get away with doing both, and whose friendship I'd rather not be responsible for breaking.

[/ QUOTE ]

The only answer is to do both at the same time. That way they both get what they want and it becomes a bonding experience for them.

[/ QUOTE ]

This is clearly the right answer. I'm debating giving up on the very hot, slightly older woman that I've been trying to see since she's always been out of town on business when I've asked about getting together and doesn't suggest anything to me. (Yes, she's really out of town, we have mutual friends in the industry).

MrWookie47 · #8 10-01-2005, 07:39 PM

[ QUOTE ]
[ QUOTE ]
Buy and begin reading King Yao's book.

[/ QUOTE ]

Is this a poker book? If so, what's it called, and what does it cover?

[/ QUOTE ]

Here is the book. It has been highly recommended by other 2+2ers as a good second view, and for it's short handed section.

[ QUOTE ]
[ QUOTE ]
Figure out what to do with the two friends who both want to do me, with whom I'm only about 10% to get away with doing both, and whose friendship I'd rather not be responsible for breaking.

[/ QUOTE ]

The only answer is to do both at the same time. That way they both get what they want and it becomes a bonding experience for them.

[/ QUOTE ]

To think that this hasn't crossed my mind severely underestimates my male-ness. The odd thing is that, while under most circumstances the best case scenario coming to be is even less likely than getting to do both of them separately, there's a very good chance one of the friends would be down for it. Unfortunately, the second friend probably wouldn't. And the second friend is the hot one.

Brain · #9 10-01-2005, 07:41 PM

[ QUOTE ]

[ QUOTE ]
[ QUOTE ]
Figure out what to do with the two friends who both want to do me, with whom I'm only about 10% to get away with doing both, and whose friendship I'd rather not be responsible for breaking.

[/ QUOTE ]

The only answer is to do both at the same time. That way they both get what they want and it becomes a bonding experience for them.

[/ QUOTE ]

To think that this hasn't crossed my mind severely underestimates my male-ness. The odd thing is that, while under most circumstances the best case scenario coming to be is even less likely than getting to do both of them separately, there's a very good chance one of the friends would be down for it. Unfortunately, the second friend probably wouldn't. And the second friend is the hot one.

[/ QUOTE ]

Isn't this always the case? [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

bozlax · #10 10-03-2005, 10:59 AM

[ QUOTE ]
Unfortunately, the second friend probably wouldn't. And the second friend is the hot one.

[/ QUOTE ]

Oh, c'mon, is this really this hard for you kids? Jeebus!

Take both of them out to the bar. While Hot Friend is in the can/checking out the jukebox/whatever, present it to Non-Hot Friend as you've presented it to us, here, i.e. "I think both of you want to do me. I wanted to decide tonight, but I just can't. I want to do both of you but I don't want to ruin your friendship. I'd be down for the 2 on 1 if you two would be, but I don't know how to talk to Hot Friend about it, without risking offending her." Chicks dig the honesty thing.

Get her working for you. Worst case, you wind up with only the skanky one, and the hot one thinks you're an absolute pig. No matter what, YOU don't break up their friendship.