Official August thread: General Discussion, Goals, Winrates, etc

[junglewarfare]

I am going to try to play a lot in august because when I get to school in september poker will be pretty far down on my list of priorities.

More and more this month I have been saying to myself "I'd rather read this book than play poker", I really don't have that much of an interest in playing much. I don't urgently need to earn money, the difference it would make would being able to splurge on more fancy crap and stuff like that, but with the $$ I have saved I'll still be able to do most of the same stuff without playing poker.

Given that I could play 20k or so hands and net around 5k in profit, it would seem like a stupidly easy decision for a college age kid to go out and cash that in, but I don't really feel that way like I used to. I feel like I just have a lot more worthwhile stuff to do. It isn't just a matter of putting school ahead of poker, that is a no brainer, but pushing poker out of the frame completely is a lot more than that. I probably will play very little in fall semester, then come back with a vengeance to have a 10k month in early 2007.