*OFFICIAL* December Goals Thread

[dawade]

Gogogogogogo goals!

Finally started getting things rolling late this month and now that I'm over on Stars I'm gonna get really motivated to make a run at GoldStar.

Without further adieu...

-DON'T TILT (gave up wayyyyy too much free money last month)
-Continue to smash 25NL
-Move up to 50NL
-Get GoldStar and gear up for SuperNova in 2008
-Get ready to be life robusto when my school refund check comes (Jan 3)

Also...

Happy Holidays!

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[ShipitFMA]

- 5k month

- get back to platinum star

- get a new computer / screen

- if 5k month happens, ship myself an iphone

- have a nice tourny score

- make the most of my coaching / mentoring

- get some finnneeeeee tang when i go away this week

[jasonfish11]

1) Learn to win at 6 max. Dont know what I am doing but it is really starting to piss me off that I am break even.

2) Continue to play 2 of my new best friends at .25/.5 HU (Ive made 490 from them combined in about 6-7 hours in the last week).

3) Get a life and play less poker.

4) Get through the holidays with out shooting someone.

5) Make more than I do at work.

[thing85]

- Stay at 100NL but refuse to move to SSNL forum

- $3k month

- 40k hands

- Don't tilt when I'm just about ready to lose a huge bet that NE Patriots WON'T go 16-0.

- Win all of my 5400 FPP tourneys

- ????

- Profit LDO

[thing85]

[ QUOTE ]
1) Learn to win at 6 max. Dont know what I am doing but it is really starting to piss me off that I am break even.

2) Continue to play 2 of my new best friends at .25/.5 HU (Ive made 490 from them combined in about 6-7 hours in the last week).

3) Get a life and play less poker.

4) Get through the holidays with out shooting someone.

5) Make more than I do at work.

[/ QUOTE ]

Not acceptable in this thread imo. MORE POKER! MORE POKER!

[jasonfish11]

I think I played 60K hands in November according to poker tracker. This does not include the hands I play on my roommates lap top when we are stoned watching TV.

[bazooka87]

- No hands at cash (HU tempts me too much /images/graemlins/frown.gif)
- 500 tourneys
- 100% ROI
- Win a guaranteed tourney
- Win tourney on site other than stars
- +$5k, but hopefully closer to $10k

[Sunkii]

Nov was my best month lifetime even though I played really bad and tilty sometimes.
Nov is +~$700 cashgame (almost everyting NL20), ~$900 in donkament cashes, $500 bonus, B2B cashback of ~€100+ and iPoker cashback of $150 coming.

December:

-DON'T TILT!! (gave up wayyyyy too much free money last month)

A Prima site is having a swedish only 10xRH 0.25c up to $2k endless reloads from 1st Dec - 15 January.

- Clear $1k + $2k in bonus before the 15th jan so I can start another $2k reload before they end.
- Get settled at NL50.
- Positive winrate at NL50.

- Not fail math exam

[wudabum]

-Get accustomed to 25NL and sustain a positive winrate
-playing a little less this month cuz i'm going to disney world for a week
-Prepare myself to move up to 50NL eventually
-try to get at least a B in microbio
-enjoy watching the jersey boys


i guess i could use a break after november

[ama0330]

Play at least 107 hands, damn the real world /images/graemlins/frown.gif

100nl and such.

[derosnec]

Make sweet love to something besides my pillow

[Hebel]

-10k hands (i dont play much)
-exclusively 25nl, stop being a puss and move up already
-learn how to do range calcs
-$500 month
-no donkaments. at all.

[Nightlight87]

1. Stop tilting away my money. Just because the guy has 3bet 4 times does not mean it's a good idea to shove preflop with pocket 9s...

2. Start prioritising my Uni work before poker. Might need to impose a selfban on stars to get this one going.

3. Continue playing 6max and hopefully keep winning.

4. Study some of PNL and NLTAP

5. Profit?!

[cheups]

- play better than break even

[tehDiceman]

1. make the BR to take a shot at 25NL, im almost there.
2. actually play some hands, november was weaksauce.

[wingchunflush]

1. Beat PJO in our propbet so get to 1k.
2. concentrate on playing less tables and increasing my winrate so when I do add more tables my thought process is more clearly defined.
3. Take $500 and play 25nl by the 15th of December.
4. Play a 5400 fpp and a few more of the $4 180 SnGs.
5. Get my roll up so I am not playing underrolled anymore.

[C4LL4W4Y]

get to AC and pwn.

[il_martilo]

Do well on finals.

Play 30k hands.

Make 1800$

Sleep

[bored]

-Ironman at Full Tilt and/or 45k hands. Don't know how many hands it will take at NL 50. I didn't make it last month.

-Beat 50nl soundly; move up to (where they respect my raises) 100nl.

-Review each session after I play it (I've been slacking on this one)

[whyzze]

play well

move up

get ironman

see my family

get through seeing gf's extended family multiple times

find a real job

[yellowbluebus]

Last month I didn't set any goals in the November Goals thread and as a result I broke even. I'll post my graph later tonight. It's LOL.

- stick with NL50
- 10K hands
- participate in sweat sessions
- think through every decision at the tables/don't rush
- show profit

[losingdonkey]

-Run Good

[Bantam222]

$1,000 plz

[Fetzi]

Make 700$ playing _only_ NL25

[slush420]

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Make 700$ playing _only_ NL25

[/ QUOTE ]

didn't set any goals last month but have won just over $700 playing 23k hands of $25NL.

goals this month are likely playing more $25NL and crushing it enough to crank out a christmas withdrawal.

[MrWooster]

Win money - november = /images/graemlins/frown.gif

[Micro Donk]

win

move up to 50nl

at least 10k hands

win at cash games in turning stone (going dec 16-23, lost 300 in cash last time i went)

[MichaelL]

I had intended to play quite a bit in November however that idea was put on ice when neteller froze my account for transferring too much without being verified. (and then they didn't accept my license photo (was pretty poor quality), and then I had to get a new license since I had lost mine a month ago, so had like 3 days of play all month)
So,

- 10k hands minimum (this is like double my life-time cash hands so should be good)
- 100+ SNGs
- clear as many of the PSO / PokerSavvy sites as I can
- win monies

[Fetzi]

[ QUOTE ]
[ QUOTE ]
Make 700$ playing _only_ NL25

[/ QUOTE ]

didn't set any goals last month but have won just over $700 playing 23k hands of $25NL.

goals this month are likely playing more $25NL and crushing it enough to crank out a christmas withdrawal.

[/ QUOTE ]

Yes, I think 700$ is a reasonable goal. I made around 360 in 1 1/2 weaks, but i was getting pretty good cards /images/graemlins/cool.gif

[ceavou22]

1) 2k hands a day
3) At least 50k hands for month
2) Stay at 100NL, hopefully move up to 200NL by end of month
3) 5k month
4) 6-table once new set-up arrives

[doppelganger]

1. Stop making optimistic calls and overestimating implied odds when I'm on a draw
2. Value bet more
3. Focus on my targets at the table and stop getting fancy against good regs
4. Min 2500 hands per day until I get a job
5. Get a job (Anybody in Denver need a financial analyst?)
6. Take more shots at NL50 and be playing there consistently by end of month

[andy099]

1)sick amount of hands 100k
2)try and decide what i want to do with my life(i.e quit uni, get a job or stick it out)
3) Stack some [censored]

[ThaHero]

- Post more in strat and not in other forums
- Play 25k hands. Tough for me to do with this stupid job but at least I get some time off for the holidays so it should be doable
- Move to 50NL
- Get enrolled for school in the Spring after being out for 3 years
- Buy a Nokia N95-3 for myself for X-Mas /images/graemlins/smile.gif

[vixticator]

[ QUOTE ]
-Run Good

[/ QUOTE ]

[stu-unger]

-30k hands
-50 donkaments
-get rich...

[hennnerz]

3.5k profit
win donkament
get coached a lil

[cables]

Results:
- 40k hands.
- Move to 25NL and stay there.
- $600 month.

Strategy stuff:
- Continue to avoid tilt.
- Stop spewing in retarded levelling wars against 60/20/5 fish.
- Stop missing easy value bets.
- Stop playing in a $1-$2/$80max/10%rake live game simply because it is the only live poker option available to me.

Also I wanna pick up a cheap second monitor somewhere so I can 8-table properly.

[ceavou22]

Lol cables r u reffering to crown 1/2 game in melbourne?

[Berky]

-35k+ hands for the month
-2k + profit
- Move up to 100NL and play reg for half of december
- No tilt
- No shots

[bazooka87]

cables might be referring to Star City, it's so so so awful.

As an addition to my goals earlier: top 100 monthly tlb to have a shot at that sick Stars passport promo

[Speedlimits]

20k hands @25nl
6 coaching sessions in 4 weeks.
Continue getting better

[LT22]

[ QUOTE ]
20k hands @25nl
6 coaching sessions in 4 weeks.
Continue getting better

[/ QUOTE ]

don't you play SSNL?

[Mr_Pathetic]

concentrate on every hand like it's life or death. Don't continue when I'm not concentrating. tri to get in a good number of hands before Christmas.

[Speedlimits]

[ QUOTE ]
[ QUOTE ]
20k hands @25nl
6 coaching sessions in 4 weeks.
Continue getting better

[/ QUOTE ]

don't you play SSNL?

[/ QUOTE ]

yeah usually. re-working my game now though so im more comfortable at lower stakes.

[Hendricks433]

get in a lot of hands in the first couple weeks, Cause once Im home I wont have much time to play.

- Win a freaking donkament, the variance tilts me hard though, might be bad playing them.

-Profit big.

[PJo336]

[ QUOTE ]
1. Beat PJO in our propbet so get to 1k.


[/ QUOTE ]

nnnnnotttttt gonna happen lol

1. get to 2k, and 100nl along with it hopefully
im not even gonna bother saying a # of hands cuz i never do it

[KEW]

-Play more hands 25-30K
-Be able to move to 100NL by Jan 1 to clear Iron Bonus in Jan much faster
-Be more aggro..PF,flop,turn and river
-concentrate more on hand reading
-Take advantage a more bluffing opps
-C-bet bad calling stations less
-VB bet bad calling station more
-Work to exploit more aggro player(and TAGS) steal atts from LP..
-Work on 3 bet pot skills..Play more 3 bet pots IP...
-Book VEGAS trip for Super Bowl weekend!!!!!!
-Trip was contingent on how much I make playing cards(I am behind schedule)
-Post more in strat forum
-Write more letters to Congress

[Chargers In 07]

Continue to run at 14bb/100
Right now I'm playing ~17/14, looking to open up my limping game(~20/14 would be good)
Play 80k hands between 6m and full ring.
Make weak regs my bitches.

[Micro Donk]

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Right now I'm playing ~17/14, looking to open up my limping game(~20/14 would be good)

[/ QUOTE ]

why?

[KEW]

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Right now I'm playing ~17/14, looking to open up my limping game(~20/14 would be good)

[/ QUOTE ]

why?

[/ QUOTE ]

Good question??? I assume limping game when playing Full ring..

[ShipitFMA]

I really don't see what uNL has against people who play say 20/14 instead of 16/14.

I NEVER limp PF and i run at like 21/16, it just comes from calling behind

[Evoken]

1. Get won when saw flop back up, it inexplicably dropped to 30 for november from 38-41 at various stakes throughout my poker lifetime. Gotta figure out my leaks, stop spewing and going hugely negative in non-showdown winnings.
2. Don't run horrible. 20% went to showdown, 47% won at showdown over the last 25k.
3. 70k hands, most I've ever played during a month was 40k, but I'm off of college for 3 weeks of december and I'll have a second monitor to 12 table with.
4. 50nl? Doubt it though, I'm not going to even bother with it without 35-40 buyins, I just can't handle playing with any fewer than this psychologically.
5. Don't tilt, cut those 1k hand neg 5 buyins sessions short, they pretty much never get better. If Jones decides I need to lose for the next few hours, don't argue with him.
6. Exercise regularly, just helps alot with my mental state; which leads to better play.
7. Stop dicking around on stars and get on prima. I cleared my reload bonus long ago and it's pretty pointless to be playing without RB/bonus, I'm sure there's absolutely no difference in the quality of the players at microstakes anyway.

[Chargers In 07]

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Right now I'm playing ~17/14, looking to open up my limping game(~20/14 would be good)

[/ QUOTE ]

why?

[/ QUOTE ]I don't like raising stuff like 57o and 78o against donks that limp but I don't want to fold either. Terrible idea?

[Chargers In 07]

[ QUOTE ]
I really don't see what uNL has against people who play say 20/14 instead of 16/14.

[/ QUOTE ]This is basically how I feel. I like raising and all but sometimes folding and raising don't seem smart and getting into pots with fishies is +ev. I even feel bad limping behind when playing because it's preached so often to always raise. w/e just my random thoughts.

[ShipitFMA]

I don't limp behind really, my gap just comes from calling raises. Shrug, since i got more comfortable at 50nl my game clicked and i started winning a lot more easily

[Micro Donk]

[ QUOTE ]
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Right now I'm playing ~17/14, looking to open up my limping game(~20/14 would be good)

[/ QUOTE ]

why?

[/ QUOTE ]I don't like raising stuff like 57o and 78o against donks that limp but I don't want to fold either. Terrible idea?

[/ QUOTE ]

yes, 75o and 87o are crap hands

raise in position, fold everywhere else (except maybe SB with multiple limpers)

[Chargers In 07]

[ QUOTE ]
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Right now I'm playing ~17/14, looking to open up my limping game(~20/14 would be good)

[/ QUOTE ]

why?

[/ QUOTE ]I don't like raising stuff like 57o and 78o against donks that limp but I don't want to fold either. Terrible idea?

[/ QUOTE ]

yes, 75o and 87o are crap hands


[/ QUOTE ]It's true but I assume I play better than the fishies I'll limp after and will extract if i hit a straight or quads. I'm gonna try it for 20k hands or so and if they suck I'll toss them out.

[BahhGawd]

F this, time to stop messing around. I keep cashing out to pay for needless stuff and as a result, have ended up at 50NL for way too long.

60K hands of 50NL 6max.
60K+ hands of 100NL 6max.
$7500+
Get a coach.

Be ready for 200NL by January 1st.

[Ra_Z_Boy]

Play 20k more hands at 50nl to boost BR, experience and confidence before moving to 100nl. Move to 100nl hopefully halfway through the month if playing well and running decently. If all goes to plan play another 20k hands or so at 100nl.

Play 800 SNG's.

+$5000 month.

Delibrately setting volume goals high just to encourage my ass to actually put some friggin hands in.

[Micro Donk]

[ QUOTE ]
F this, time to stop messing around. I keep cashing out to pay for needless stuff and as a result, have ended up at 50NL for way too long.

60K hands of 50NL 6max.
60K+ hands of 100NL 6max.
$7500+
Get a coach.

Be ready for 200NL by January 1st.

[/ QUOTE ]

bah gawd hes gonna do it!

[Phalaris]

60k hands
100nl
greatly reduce tilt and needless spew
cut back to eight tables once i get back to 50nl

[Lego05]

-70K hands (I never actually have reached this and it's sad since I'm not in school and I don't have a job)

-Continue pwning 100NL. Don't play much at 50NL unless maybe huge fish is at a 50NL table or I really can't find another decent 100NL table

-Increase bankroll $1000 by end of month and start playing 200NL a little

-Pay expenses and make extra $1000 to contribute to IRA; $1000 to contribute regular portfolio; $1000 to throw in the bank (just in case the unthinkable bad month comes along gotta have several months expenses in there); split extra money up between bank and portfolio

-Win a seat to PCA (still coming up short on this like $300 in)

-Thinking about trying to play a good amount of MTT's this month and get top 100 on TLB.

-Play a lot of 5400 sats to get rid of those FPP's and get some cash.

[cables]

[ QUOTE ]
cables might be referring to Star City, it's so so so awful.

[/ QUOTE ]

Yeah. I played like a 6 hour session there last week. They had just opened the table when I sat, and when I left there was still only like $500 on the whole table. I keep telling myself to quit playing there but everyone's so bad it's ridiculous.

[Sledgejammer]

Soley to reduce tilt, stop playing tired and only bring my a-game which has been enough to crush 20nl, and if I reduce all that, I should be able to move up to 50nl by january, but we'll see how it goes.

[kolotoure]

200K hands and actually win at poker

[Worm75]

Actually play some hands: Minimum of 20k (Last 2 months combined only 13k)

Don't tilt: Last 2 downswings were probably 80% tilt, cost me way too much

Move up to 100nl by mid december and crush /images/graemlins/laugh.gif

[cbk86]

-Play 10000 hands
-Reach a 400$ bankroll
-Move up to NL4
-Only play 4 tables in a session (helped improve my play the last half of the month.)
-Think before putting in my stack
-Change my went to showdown percentage severely.

[andy099]

[ QUOTE ]
200K hands and actually win at poker

[/ QUOTE ]

lol r u not going to see your family over christmas or anyone anytime for that matter

[kolotoure]

I plan to take 5 days off and should still make it

[udbrky]

- play position more.
---- run 30/15 or more on button
- play 10k hands at least
- double my bankroll again
- move up to 10NL and take shots at 25NL near end of the month when I'm up to 10 buy-ins for it

[BoerfSt]

Forget my worst month ever and move on and try to get robusto in december.
Play 30k+ hands.

[seanton]

- play 30k Hands at least
- don`t suck
- reach a 1200$ bankroll
- take shots at NL50

[fozzy71]

Play more hands

Stop Tilting

Play more hands

Stop Tilting

Play more hands

Stop Tilting

[bjornb]

Just started on PS at 5NL.

-Resist the urge to two table and play ABC poker.

-Figure out Poker Tracker.

-Play short 100 hand sessions.

-Learn to maximize value.

-At 1k hands consider 2 tables.

-Evaluate at the end of the month and consider 10NL. Is there any difference?

[ICMoney]

Watch all the vids I've downloaded.

Play 15k hands.

Never play more than four tables at a time.

Profit.

[n4rf]

Play more hands

Really focus during my sessions

Don't Tilt

Beating 25NL by the end of the month and starting 50NL soon (long shot :\)

[PepsPersson]

-Try to match kolotoure hand goal.

[Wilpro]

Get winrate to 10ptbb
Move up to 25nl
Play 20k+ hands
Spend less time on 2+2

[doppelganger]

[ QUOTE ]
Get winrate to 10ptbb
Move up to 25nl
Play 20k+ hands
Spend less time on 2+2

[/ QUOTE ]

Divergent goals in my experience.

[Profish2285]

Get winrate to over 5ptbb for a large-ish sample.
Get my roll to 3k to move up to NL100.
Start to open up my game more, making thinner vb's and calls.
Realize that not everyone 3 bets light.
Start to really abuse those who DO 3 bet light.
Buy a monitor for my laptop because these tiny screens are killing my eyes.
Make 750+ in rakeback.