What are your goals with poker?

[nextgenneo]

get to 10/20

[viper930]

to piss off my opponents, put them on donkeytilt, and cause them to propel their own bodies off of high altitude locations.

[Womble]

Move up to 200NL in Nov (Take shots in 2 weeks)
400NL in Dec
600NL in Jan/Feb and mass multitable there

Basically $2-3k a week by the new year and Ill be very happy

[untouchable]

After not playing serious, not focusing, not working on my game for way too long, I've decided to finally start taking poker seriously.

My main priority will be improving, not making money. (The money will come by itself... heh)

The aba20 well posts really inspired me. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[SEABEAST]

$$$$$

My goal is to make enough money to set myself up for life. I look forward to the day when poker ceases to be a profession and becomes a hobby again and I can move onto other things, but for now there is just too much money to be made to do anything else.

This is why I am not really too worried about moving beyond $2/4. $200-250/hr is already sick money, and very low stress. I prefer to feel like I am printing money always playing vs inferior players so I can just sit back and grind it out without worrying too much.

I don't know why but despite being a very very competitive person I have never really felt the need to try and prove anything in poker, or become "known" or the best. This is unusual because in other pursuits such as MTG and WoW I was driven by the will to try and be better than everyone else, whereas in poker I don't really care, I just want the moneys.

So yeah, I want a house and some investments and then I'll quit and spend my time travelling and enjoying the world, and never have to work a sucker job in my life.

[grouchie]

short term goals, continue making enough so that I can get my debt paid off by the end of next year.

I would like to turn Poker into my job at some point, but I am not even going to think about that until after I am debt free and alot more financially secure.

[orange]

Move to 2/4 by the end of the month (probably won't happen due to lack of motivation).

12k hands.

semi decent winrate, like 5ptbb/100 this month at my normal limits.

[Max Higley]

My goal is to reach a level where my lifestyle no longer puts significant downward pressure on my bankroll. Then I can expend more mental energy on improving my game, which is what I really enjoy. Don't get me wrong, the freedom is good too, but the woman's work schedule means I have little to do between 8 and 5 except poker.

[Pokey]

My goals:

- Have fun.
- Make some spare cash while I have fun.
- Exercise my brain while I have fun.

That's it. I don't expect that poker will ever be anything but a hobby for me, and I treat it as such.

[kazana]

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My goals:

- Have fun.
- Make some spare cash while I have fun.
- Exercise my brain while I have fun.

That's it. I don't expect that poker will ever be anything but a hobby for me, and I treat it as such.

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I'm pretty much on the same page.

I do have one additional, more concrete goal, though:
I want to go to St. Kitts for a Cricket World Cup match in march and fund the trip through poker earnings. It's a fairly tight schedule, but then again, challenges need to be challenging by definition, no? [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]