August Goals Thread
 

Make some decent $ this month
Get thru some more VPP's & try to get my ass closer to clearing supernova.
Try out some NL100
Play more wii [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

Also go gangbusters at every chance i can get.

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clear FTP bonus

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I have a couple ideas for extended posts that I'm rolling around in my head. Whether I get to them or whether the forum even has interest is another story but I'd like to do at least one of them this month.

As for poker maybe I'll try to track down the PNL and WITHG books to extend my learning of the game. The last book I bought was "Kill Phil" hoping it would have some hot tips for tournament play. It didn't really take since I prefer to play poker with seven cards rather than two. Now that I think about it, if someone can provide some good references for tournament play for small M factors and final table play when it gets down to 2-4 players I'd be grateful for the tip. I tend to do okay in working my way through a multi-table field but my small stack and late stage play is weak.

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I have a couple ideas for extended posts that I'm rolling around in my head. Whether I get to them or whether the forum even has interest is another story but I'd like to do at least one of them this month.

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OS, what are these ideas you speak of?

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if someone can provide some good references for tournament play for small M factors and final table play when it gets down to 2-4 players I'd be grateful for the tip. I tend to do okay in working my way through a multi-table field but my small stack and late stage play is weak.

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here ya go

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Ummm...ok.

1) Tilt less in the unlimited hold them
2) Read PNL
3) Spend Heidi Fleiss gift certificates from Gib
4) Move gouda at Foxwoods
5) Play g00t at 100NL and 200NL
6) Play more 6max limited hold them
7) Find a new job I guess
8) Purchase iPod w/ FPPs ship

Gogogogogogo gangbusters.

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Find time to get in hands. Starting a new job + learning absolutely everything about that field = not much free time. [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

Assuming I succeed at the first goal, start building a bankroll again.

Resist the urge to play all the FTOPS satellites, first because I've realized I'm much better at the satellites than I am the actual tournaments, and second because I probably won't have time to play the events anyway.

Use my bathroom time to finish at least one of the poker books I have on backlog.

Become more active on this forum as I'm fully aware that my game needs retooling for these stakes. This should actually be the first goal.

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Goals:

1. 4k hands of 100NL.
2. Play g00t @ NL.
3. Post hands periodically in my Limit-->NL forum. Post advice on hands frequently. Get better.

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I have a couple ideas for extended posts that I'm rolling around in my head. Whether I get to them or whether the forum even has interest is another story but I'd like to do at least one of them this month.

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OS, what are these ideas you speak of?

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One is a rumination on the concept of relative position and some of its applications. The other is on the subject of fear and its effect on us as poker players. The fear one is sort of generic and may not be all that useful but the relative position one could be a decent strat post.

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if someone can provide some good references for tournament play for small M factors and final table play when it gets down to 2-4 players I'd be grateful for the tip. I tend to do okay in working my way through a multi-table field but my small stack and late stage play is weak.

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here ya go

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Ah, yes, Harrington. I borrowed volume 1 from the library but never saw the other two volumes there or bought them for myself. Thanks for the reminder.

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Play 10k hands.
Take shots at and maybe move up to 1/2.
Read Stox's book.

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1) Try and become a regular poster here
2) Purchase poker tracker. (The trial version was full in as long as it took to download)
3) Work on my PT numbers (they are not bad, but would like to see them after I download all of my history)
4) Keep up not calling 2 bets cold with marginal hands
5) Keep tilting to a minimum

Where do the graphs come from? I would like to make one for myself.

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Where do the graphs come from? I would like to make one for myself.

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A lot of us use PokerGrapher. It's free to download and should be easily found with Google.

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I'm going to learn to play more than one table at a time. I never really thought I wanted to but I changed my mind when I got in a "tizzy" and made some silly mistakes in the KOTKP while playing in two simultaneous events.

Also Aussie's table selection and seat selection techniques seem to make a lot of sense for multi tabling.

Goal is to play at least 4k LHE hands while 2-3 tabling this month and at a win rate similar to one tabling. So far so good.

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Thanks. I will download it tonight and post my graph in the July graphs post.

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play
-4K hands FR
-2K hands 6max
-5-10 MTT's
-NO!!! STT's or tournaments above my bankroll (lost money like crazy by playing this stuff last month)

study
-Reread SSH and maybe start WITHG as I try and get back into the swing of "the honda of poker"
-Review at least 1K hands of my play in limit this month
-More posts in hand or strat threads then posts in the NC thread
-Lurk in SSSH [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]
-Do at least one session review with someone

life
-try and hook it up with a freind of my roommate's girlfreind
-spend less money on non-essentials
-finish reading some of the non-poker books I have allready started

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-grind more FPP, get the 32" Samsung tv
-play more 2/4 6max games. Stop taking money out of BR for "other" expenses.
-get together with other Oregonians at Spirit Mountain
-teach the roommate how to play limit
-go back to my NL roots
-hit up Kaatz's home game again

Riku, glad to see you coming along in your game. I remember when all you were rolled for was .05/.10. 1/2 Stars tables suck ass hair, hit up the 6max tables. Just stay away from me.

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<ul type="square">[*]Stop sucking at poker[*]Reread Inside the Poker Mind[*]Stay tilt Free[*]Investigate options for Operation: Serenity [img]/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img][*]Hmmmm.... 6 max.[/list]

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<ul type="square">[*]stop cbet spew[*]read hepfap[*]investigate more 6max[*]complete everest bonus[*]complete playboy bonus[*]make more +ev decisions (not just for poker)[/list]

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Find time to get in hands. Starting a new job + learning absolutely everything about that field = not much free time. [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

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What's the new job?

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-try and hook it up with a freind of my roommate's girlfreind


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Trip report w/ pics mkaythx [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

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-try and hook it up with a freind of my roommate's girlfreind


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Trip report w/ pics mkaythx [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

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not bloody likely

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Trip report w/ pics mkaythx [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

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not bloody likely

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hmm mspaint at least? LOL

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Hmmmm...

* Continue to play 15/30 live, building up for a jump into 30/60 in a few months
* Play at least 2k hands online poker
* Read "The Normal Christian Life" and "Enhancing Scholarly Work on Teaching and Learning"

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End month rolled for .05/.10 at UB. (Cashed out, not busto.)

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-Move up in limit &amp; then not move back down
-Become an advanced player so that I can read HPFAP (probably more long term than August)
-Play as much as possible while achieving life goals

-Get new house ready to move in (paint, hw floors, carpets, appliances, pack and unpack [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img] )
-Get up to speed on new job
-Spend time with the kids (2 @ 7 months)

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Poker:
Work on reads
Table Selection ( great posts by Aussie )
Put my toes in the NL pool

Life:
Start practicing upright Bass again
exercise
join a band that has female fans!

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win more sng and move up in limits

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1)buy laptop to play more
2)reread ssh
3)work on reads
4)win more on pokerstars to move up to .25/.5 (just started playing on there)
5)deposit on full tilt for the signup bonus
6)get rakeback + poker software
7)move in with my girlfriend (yuck,i guess that means it's backburner for the other 6)

edit:don't tell her I said yuck she'd kill me