November Goals, Graphs, Results Thread

[ProfessorBen]

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To you guys making winrate goals over 1.2k samples:

wtf.

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[chesspain]

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It definitely helps me play better having a specific, objective goal for the end of each month.

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If you think that having the goal of winning "x" amount of money over a short period of time playing a high variance game leads one to play better...

...it doesn't, unless you need this goal to take the game semi-seriously and not make super retarded plays.

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where do you come up with this bs?

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Ah...sixteen years of being a psychologist.


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and if having a goal to "win money" increases your +EV, then your goal should be "win money." that simple.

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One's goal should always be to play well, not to win money. If one plays well, the money will eventually follow. I still fail to see how for the average person having a goal to win, say, 400BB in 200 hours is going cause one to play well, unless this person will play below average otherwise.

Do you think that good baseball players start hitting better because they tell themselves they want to hit .300 over the next month? Do you think that competent stockpickers start increasing their profits because they tell themselves they want to beat the S&P 500 over the next month? This shouldn't be that difficult to comprehend.

FWIW, I remember you posting in the recent past your chagrin(?) about having had a couple of small losing sessions in a row, after not having had two losing sessions in a row for nearly a month. Any good player would tell you that if you are almost never experiencing consecutive losing sessions (especially playing limit poker) then you are either:

1) Hitting and running.
2) Playing super long sessions to chase your losses.
3) In the midst of a nice heater...which is most likely when talking about a winning player, and also likely to cause one to lose sight of the relative roles of skill vs. luck in their results. If you've never had a -300BB period, you're in for an unpleasant surprise. If you have experienced a run like this, then you probably have a short memory.


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but just going out and making a blanket statement like that is silly.


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Actually, I agree completely with this.

[MattHH]

My goal is to play 12,000+ hands of .25/.50 with a 4+BB/100 winrate... and stop paying off chasers when they hit their draws!! doh

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apparently this post should have been in the microstakes. sorry!!

[jesse8888]

How's everyone doing? I just got there for my live 6/12 goals:

39.75 hours
1.7 big bets per hour

[Frond]

Well I just got there for tonight: Made a good decision and made myself a Gin & Tonic [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

Seriously, I feel that I am making better decisions. The bad decisions I make I know them immediately after I make them. So I am recognizing them as well. I am still making a few dumb plays every session but not really expensive ones. Those little ones can add up so I am working on that. Starting to recognize more & more situations that arise which can work out nicely.

[KitCloudkicker]

hmm, i only made 2 really really dumb raises that i can remember. so i guess that counts a little [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

i took a shot at 20/40 and found more donks there than at 10/20. i dunno if that counts

[gobbledygeek]

Tonight will be my last game of the month. Only have to make up 5 BB to break-even for the month, not bad considering this month included my worst session ever (-68.75 BB in 5 hours).

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Kit- how did that 20/40 shot go anyways?

[KitCloudkicker]

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Kit- how did that 20/40 shot go anyways?

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up 20 BB. it was vs a bunch of donks though so not much to brag about.