What are your goals with poker?

[drewvy]

I have no $ goals...just to play everyhand well and not worry about the outcome...when I lose lose lose...I take a break at look at my game (and hit this board hard)

[kitaristi0]

300/600 vs. Antonius.

[mikechops]

An interesting thread. Some people look at it as working for $ and others as a hobby. I guess it's more of a hobby for me but I enjoy the cash too. I can see problems with both objectives though.

For me, the problem with poker as a job, is that actually caring about the money gets in the way of me making it. The problem with it as a hobby is that it becomes boring if you don't improve. The way for me to improve is to play better players at higher stakes, but then I'm back to the first problem again.

I'd be quite happy playing no higher than $100NL, if there were somehow a league system, allowing you to choose players of your own skill level. It works quite well for other games but until someone comes up with a system for poker, I guess I'll have to keep trudging up the ladder until I'm making $100's an hour. It's a hard life [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[Wizzy33]

get to 5/10
million per year
f school
f "real" job

[JimNashe]

[delta k]

couple $k per month...enough for food, fun, apartment, whatever. also stack some cash. i guess i need some consistentancy though...

(all 25-200NL) (in $1000)
April+3.5
May-1.5
June-1
July-didnt play
Aug+2.5
Sept-1
Oct+2.5

i dont understand variance. i tend to think im good and hit bad patches. maybe its the other way around (bad but hit good patches). im going to go to dental school soon so i'm not doing this for a career, just to get out of needing a silly $8/hour type job

[matrix]

I want to learn to play well enough so I can beat 5/10NL whether I'm sitting with fish or regulars.

I'd be happy with 0.1PTBB/100 at 5/10 - just as long as it's a positive winrate over a large sample.

On the way to getting there I want to make more money playing than I would working at some other job without playing more hours than I'd have to working.

[Don Key E37]

I'd like to be able to beat 200NL and feel as confident as I do at 100NL. So like 6ptbb/100. I only 4 table but that would still be a pretty good hourly rate. I like my job and wouldn't quit even if I was making a lot of money playing poker, but $5gs a month would be outstanding. Hopefully move up and beat 2/4 over the next year or so. It would be great if eventually I could save up enough to put a nice big downpayment on a house from poker winnings. Keep in mind I don't want or plan to play more than 20 hrs a week and probably less.

[kolotoure]

I want to eventually be beating the 5K HUSTT's on Stars but i still have a long long way to go

[BukNaked36]

Poker's a fun hobby that's cool because I can make a little cash. I sorta have two goals:

1. Make some fun money for Xmas present - probably for a new game console system to play with my kids.

2. Bigger goal - make enough money to buy my next work car. Not looking for anything special. Just something reliable to get me back forth to work so 5-10k would probably cover. It'd just be a pretty sweet feeling riding to work in a car that I knew my poker money paid for.