AUGUST: Goals, Challenges, Expectations

[munkey]

Goals

- 10PTBB/100
- Be rolled for NL100 @2k

Challenges

- Play 30k hands this month
- move up to 4tabling 6max
- Win a MTT

Expectations

- Win 6ptb/100
- play 20k hands
- Tilt at Inter

[Chomp]

I have only 1 goal for August:

> Stop making 1 (sometimes 2) IDIOTIC mistakes a day in marginal situations that completely ruin my day and put a huge hole in my attempt to play a creative, expansive TAG game.


Easy. And yet, so flucking hard.

[Quercus]

Back when I played LHE, one of my goals was to consistently be able to post non-trivial hands and have the board consensus be that I made good decisions.

Same goal here.

[Grifter]

I will not be pushing that hard this month since Sept. 1st is do-or-die time in my real (non-poker) life. So here they are..

Goals:

1. Pass my Ph.D qualifier Part II on September 1.

Challanges:

1. Have one good (+2 buy-in) session at 200nl, which is killling me.
2. Take part in a hand-swap thing.

Expectations:

1. 1-2 hours a day 100nl 6max
2. 7 hours a day quality study.
3. Sleep more
4. rebuild the BR to 5000.

[Tickner]

Goals:

1. Build a solid bankroll for 1/2
2. Take some (not a lot) of shots at 2/4
3. 1,500 hands per day
4. Learn good table selection.

Challanges:

1. Stay disciplined and grind $100NL for a while.
2. Don't move up when I win a few buyins at 100nl
3. Amass a $1,000 stack at 100nl

Expectations:

1. 1-2 hours a day 100nl 6max
2. study more
3. 1,000 hands per day
4. move up to 1/2 by the end of the month for good

[mattnxtc]

had a big day yesterday so I need to adjust my goals

Goals:

1. Make $2500 which will over roll me for 200nl
2. Take some (not a lot) of shots at 3/6 6max until bodog puts more 6max in
3. play 3 times a week
4. Dont tilt

Challanges:

1. Not tilting
2. staying at 100nl for a couple thousand more hands since I will be overrolled soon
3. make better marginal decisions

Expectations:

1. 2-3 days a week
2. continue posting solid advice and start posting more in msnl
3. be overrolled for 200nl
4. withdraw some excess money to high interest savings account

[RolloRolf]

Goals:
Play good poker and increase my bankroll significantly
Take shots at 50 NL
Learn to play 'thinking poker'

Challenges:
Stay disciplined and dont tilt my money away.
Overcome my really huge downswing and go back to playing winning poker.

Expectations:
Play more than 3 hours a day
Seriously work on my game and try to work out where my game need fixing.
Have fun playing

[Ignignok]

Stop going to the felt with 2 pair against a min-raiser with a set.

[KingOfSwords]

Goal:
-Play 17,500 hands.
-Clear $300 in bonuses.
-Run at 5ptbb/100 at NL50 six max.
-Get winner at the Showboat (AC).

Challenges:
-Finish up at Full Tilt with all of my deposit bonus cleared ($260 out of $600 to go, expires 8/11) and break even at FT NL50-6 not counting bonus.
-Make the final table of an MTT.
-Double up ($300) at AC.
-Find or trade up to a high rune in Diablo II (expansion.) Yes, I'm a dork, and yes, I'm still playing it.

Expectations:
-12,500-15,000 hands.
-At least 2ptbb/100 at NL50-6.
-Get some kind of exercise two-three days a week.
-Have a home poker game or two.

[MLSchaff]

Goals:
Be fully rolled for 100NL within 1 more week of playing 50NL (at $1,750 currently) and stay there this time.
$1K profit at 100NL by end of month (~3.5bb/100 - very doable if I stop making idiot mistakes once a session).
Win the "Tournament of Champions" being held by one of my home games.
Get into the "TOC" held by my other home game (need a few more points to be secure - one more 2nd place in a weekly game should do it).

Challenges:
Move up to 6-tabling, try out 8-tabling
>6bb/100 at 50NL for the last $250 I need to move back up to 100NL
Stop stacking off with overpairs.
Try out 6-max for 3-5K hands.

Expectations:
5K hands per week
Finish setting up 3 monitor system and get used to playing on it.
Re-read NLHTAP. Read HOH 3.