Ok seeing as Chuck is away, I will start this thread off for him.

Goals for June:

1. 75k hands - Failed miserably imfo.

2. Profitz - Meh!

3. Continue at 100nl (FR/6max I dunno yet I'm confused!) - PASS.

July Goals:

1. 75k hands.

2. Pass Goal 1 and achieve Supernova!

3. Run goot at 100nl, one time plz!

Well, this month has left me totally traumatised. My graph is like a spewmonkey on tilt. Anyway earned 21,700 Vpp's which equates to 54k Fpp's. So thats about $800 when I convert them at Supernova. That make the month a little more bearable.

So here's my graph

I dont even want to look at my graph for the beginning of June, but Ill post my FR hands. My goals were fairly rediculous so Im not even going to revisit them, lol.

Goals for July:

40k hands FR

Profit and run well for a change

Move up to 50NL if I run well enough

Originally Posted by Jagsti

Ok seeing as Chuck is away, I will start this thread off for him.

Goals for June:

1. 75k hands - Failed miserably imfo.

2. Profitz - Meh!

3. Continue at 100nl (FR/6max I dunno yet I'm confused!) - PASS.

July Goals:

1. 75k hands.

2. Pass Goal 1 and achieve Supernova!

3. Run goot at 100nl, one time plz!

Well, this month has left me totally traumatised. My graph is like a spewmonkey on tilt. Anyway earned 21,700 Vpp's which equates to 54k Fpp's. So thats about $800 when I convert them at Supernova. That make the month a little more bearable.

So here's my graph

Wow, SWONGS!!!

Crazy graphage. oh course it doesnt copy the graph but w/e

I can't find the May thread for the goalage

HELP!

***June goals/May results***

Goals for June:
-Play 20k hands 24,000- only about 15k hands at 10nl though
-Move up to 25nl Fail-played 60 hands of 25nl at the end won a buyin
-Post more hands-success
-Reread HOCG-Fail- read about half of it and started on the new daniel N book
-winrate 4bb/100 + nl10 6.7bb/100 nl5 10.5bb/100 nl2 16bb/100 (was practicing with more tables)







July Goals:
-30k hands (at least 20k at 25nl)
-4bb/100+
-silverstar
-make $500+
-review sessions/plug a leak

hmm i guess i never posted in the june goals thread but w/e, june sucked anyway:

1. make good decisions always
2. play 75k hands
3. finally get a > 1k tournament score

Didn't have any real "goals" but had a pretty good June:

1. Positive bankrolls at FT, Carbon, and PS with no deposit. (ok.. so FT is only 10 cents right now...)
2. Stopped playing non-money added freerolls. (check)
3. Make good choices in 2NL FR (ran really good last week - but less than 200 hands)

Starting a new degree program in July... not sure how much I'll play. Gonna be real busy.

Goals for June.
4bb/100 for 50NL -3.37bb/100
40,000 hands - Nowhere near 21,120
Drop down to 25NL if I feel I need a tune up - didn't happen though I was close a couple of times
Win Sunday Warm up - played it twice didn't win!!!!
Get my Stars opr "full history" ROI% above 0 (beautiful ITM, crap return so far since I moved from Party, I blame sample size ) - YAY!


Good month, started wanting to consolidate at 50NL and ended up moving up to 100NL.

Largely due to this..




Which was part of a nice strong tourney month, though I didn't play as many as normal. I <3 the $22 rebuy (I bought into the warmup with fpps for one of them so it should be a wee bit better I suppose).



And finally I have a positive ROI% on Stars!



50NL started sluggish then picked up..



And after the MTT score I moved to 100NL.

Which as you can see started a little shakily, then picked up.

Nowhere near a decent sample, but I don't think there's much difference from 50NL.



All of June...



And because I'm obsessed with how this is panning out in the long run a graph to celebrate nearly hitting 100k hands since I started ringing seriously.




Also came 3rd in the OFC event on Tilt for $350 (and nearly got the WSOP seat which was exciting).

Total profit ~$2500

July goals
3bb/100 at 100nl
Drop back to 50nl if things go south
27,000 hands
3 final tables
Win the Sunday warm up

I failed all of my goals miserably, I started out the month easily on pace to make them but hardly played for the last half of the month. I did pretty well when I did play, I titled off like $130 or something because I'm just an idiot, the pictures will speak for themselves.






My goals were 20,000 hands and Gold Star. I didn't make either of them and I don't expect to play a ton in the next while because it's summer and it's hard to sit down and play for a long time. I also wanted to finish the Harrington on Cash game books but I didn't do that and I spent way too much time on the computer but not playing poker which is another goal I failed.

Anyway I'm happy with how much money I made this month, I'm happy that it looks like I can beat 50NL pretty well. I'm not sure how I feel about winning all of my money in non showdown pots, but I guess it doesn't help that I ran about $350 below my expected all ins. It's kinda hard to set goals for July since I don't have any idea how much I'll be able to play. So I'm just going to go with beat 50NL for 6bb/100 consistently and try to get my winnings at showdown up. Oh and if I need to make sure I don't play any HU or anything above 100NL, my month would be $130 better if I didn't do that garbage.

[Shameless Plug]

Results / Goals Here

[/Shameless Plug]

Was thinking of starting this but got too depressed, June sucked.

- Platinum again - Passed

- Play 60k hands at 100nl which should be enough to buy and clear another $650 bonus - hahahahaha, yeah right, 32,444 hands

- Run at 1.5+ PTBB/100 at 100nl (I was under 3 at 50nl, so I figure anything above 1.5 gives me a better winrate at 100nl than 50nl) - umm, try better than 0, oh wait I STILL FAILED

- Continue to get better, review hands, participate in forum, HA section particularly, and just continue to improve - hmm kinda? I guess I'll give myself a pass here since I definitely participated here and thought about some things, but before I play again definitely going to review my play last month with a real in-depth review. I think I may not be adjusting to 100nl very well, as evidence of the fact that I've played like 40k hands and am about even (down like $300 for the month, up like $300 at 100nl before this month). Although I wouldn't mind this at 200nl and if I thought it was really the best I could do, I know it's not, and I think I'm doing something(s) wrong.

- lift at least 5 days/week - Close, the times I didn't I had a good reason, mainly stretch of a ton of baseball games and didn't want to kill myself, but I went at least 3-4 times a week and the weeks I didn't have a ton of baseball I went 5-6, so definitely giving myself a passed there.

Too depressed to post graph, but imagine hot streak early, a heart monitor type thing the rest of the way, ending down like $300, going back to +$200 and back down to -$246.15.

July goals:

1. Study July, don't play until I have literally scoured every single corner of my game and what is going wrong. I'm over $600 down in terms of all-in equity, but that's still not as much as I should be winning. If I find out that it's all luck and I'm the unluckiest player alive, that will be fine, but I highly doubt that is the case and whether it is or not, I'll be proving it and assuming it's not, be looking into what I can do better.

- After study period, average 2k hands/day, set aside pride and if I hit a bad run in July at 100nl, move down quickly to 50nl, there will be ABSOLUTELY NO TILTING.

- Make platinum again, should be easy goal to make me feel good after next month

- I learned from last month, no money goals, but I want to feel I've been playing well, especially in regards to my findings about goal #1 (and trust me, it's tougher to satisfy myself than it is to meet any goal in terms of money).

- Continue to post on CC, no real danger of failing that one

- Finish that damn video for icemonkey. I think he sent it to me over a month ago, 3 commentaries later and although I finally have one saved my computer crashes whenever I try to convert it. Planning on trying it on another computer, he probably thinks he'll never get it though

- Lift 5+/week on off baseball weeks, less depending on how I feel and how many games I have in a given week, never drop below 3/week

Since I coined the phrase "Shameless Plug" here on CardsChat ...

June Goals Reflection: icemonkey9's Poker Blog: June Goals Reflection

July Goals: icemonkey9's Poker Blog: July Goals

Double fpp week brings new goals: Play 25k hands in first week, then proceed with #1 in the previous post.

Goals:

-Maintain Legend status @ UB
-Earn 150$ & move up to 25$ NL
-Move up to $0.5-$1 stud on UB

Goals:
-Read some poker books (I got 7 to read, should be finishing like 5 of them) plus finish reading the Red Queen
-Make some BR at Full Tilt (about $1 now, should be like $100 at the end of the month)
-Build BR on Titan Poker to $200-300 (starting at $100)
-Make a Final Table in a MTT and film it
-Avoid partypoker unless they give free money
-Build Nordicbet BR from 1 euro to 25 euros
-Start from nothing on Unibet and build to 10 euros
-Have fun
-Get laid like a rockstar

That's quite a lot of goals, but many of them are achievable, the last one might unfortunately interfere with the others.

June Goals:
1. 10k hands at NL10 with a BB/100 of at least 5.0. - Failed. After a bad first week, shifted to NL($0.05) and $0.25/$0.50. Did have 5.50 BB/100 in NL($0.05) though.
2. Be more careful selecting tables, and don't be afraid to leave a table if the action dries up. - Not really trackable, so a bad goal. But, I did exercise more restraint, leaving a table if the action dried up, or I had doubled my buy-in.
3. Post a net profit with AKo and AKs (both hands are losing for me in May). - Success! Starting playing AK more aggressively and now posting a profit for suited and unsuited.
4. Not play a single hand at NL25 until properly rolled. - Success!

July Goals:
1. Don't play NL($0.25) or $0.50/$1.
2. Bankroll = $250 ($300 would be optimal).
3. 13,000 hands.
4. Post monthly profit across the board (all games totaled)
5. Focus on 4-tabling.
6. Stop posting blinds out of position.
7. Silver Star (new goal, thanks to Poker Stars double FPP week)

June results:





(like Zach mentioned on my site, those are bbs, not big bets)

July goals:

• 30k hands
• If running well, take a few stabs at 200nl
• Play >1000 hands of HU
• Play >1000 hands of 6max (oh dear...)
• Watch every stox NLHE cash video for July
• Go to cottage at least once more
• Fix speed bag stand & buy new speed bag
• Still dunno what else

Originally Posted by PokerVic

1. Don't play NL($0.25) or $0.50/$1.
7. Silver Star (new goal, thanks to Poker Stars double FPP week)

I just realized that these two goals are contradictory, because even doubled, it's kinda impossible to get Silver Star playing lower than those stakes. But, I've found a loophole: PL($0.25)!

June goals.

15K hands at NL50 or NL25. 13K all at 50nl, would like to play more but happy enough with the amount.
Final table a MTT Did not do. Only played a handful of MTT, a couple ITM but not close to any FT. Focusing on ring game, but should be playing more tournies.
Stop playing when I feel myself slipping or getting tired. Fail. No big losses but played while off my game.
$500+ profit total between ring and tournys. Not quite, gonna stay away from money projections.


July

12500 hands at 50nl
play HU at profitable times(weekend nights if in correct state, absurd money maker albiet small sample)
Watch more vidoes. (love ChrisT's thank you, also gonna trial stox (probably join)
Do not play any HU drunk(above goal due to others making this mistake)
Focus on correct decision not results, ie. handle short term streaks without any tilt.

I had no goals for June. Goals for July are to play about as many hands.

Originally Posted by BelgoSuisse

Goals for June:

1. Play more than 15k hands at 25NL. Failed: only about 10k hands. I don't really enjoy playing more than 6 tables at once, so this was about what I could get to time-wise.
2. Get at least bronze ironman status on full tilt to get the mid-year bonus. Success, got it on the very last day. RL got in the way of playing enough days
3. Get silverstar on pokerstars Failed: it seems to take forever getting VPPs by playing 25NL. I guess i'll only care seriously about VPPs and FPPs once I move to 50NL
4. re-read harrington on cash games now that i have a better feeling of how this works Success.
5. Consider moving to 50nl by the end of the month. I'm already rolled for it, just not confident enough about my play yet. Failed: was about break even at 25NL this month, so moving up seems a bit early

Even though there is a lot of red above, June was actually a good month bankroll wise, to a large extent thanks to the CCOP main event win. Bankroll is not about 30 buy-ins at 50NL, so I should really consider moving up once I feel confident enough.

So, my poker goals for July:

1. Play at least 10k hands at 25NL.
2. Clear $75 mid-year bonus on full tilt.
3. Maintain bronze ironman status on full tilt.
4. be profitable enough to get the confidence to move up to 50NL.
5. Learn to play 9 to 12 tables at once at 10NL.

For July:
-Play more on 2nl
-Maybe profit from 2nl...is 1bb/100 asking too much?

-Don't suck as bad this month