October poker goals

I finally have had it beaten through my head about practicing BRM. My goals for October are to stick totally to a bankroll management plan. The only exceptions to the rule will be CC $10 buy in event at Stars, (until my bankroll improves to include those limits).

I am starting with a BR of $75. Let's see what I can do with that.

My goal for october is to build my BR with another $1.000, like in September. Probably isn't going to succeed, but let's give it a shot .

October goals for me are:
Play more than 700 - $30 SnG's on Stars.
Reach Platinum status.
Maintain an ROI of 10% or more.
Not go busto .

Its gonna be a tall order as I need to average around 25 games per day, and I have to find time to actually go to work as well .

All of the above goes in the bin if I go on a horrendous run that puts by BR at risk.

Guess I'll post mine to bump, since everyone still is posting in the sept. thread:

1. play more poker
2. read Angel Largay's book

brm as well, im trying the ferguson experiment, but dont expect $10,000 haha but hoping maybe $100, just make some money from nothing would be cool achievment

My goals for October: bit esoteric and difficult to measure this month, but let's see how they go...

- Less poker, more girlfriend time
- Try to condense all the stuff I've been learning lately down into some usable points, and incorporate those into my game
- Play the $175 buy-in event at the PokerNews Cup and walk away happy with my play
- Get my online bankroll started again
- Finish reading Caro and Greenstein, give Phil Gordon's Little Green Book a bash

Goal is to win a free roll for once and get better. Win or lose..

gl on da felt and may the flops be yours

Alf

1.) Practice walking away from ring games, when the blinds reach me and I have doubled up.

2.) Have fun playing poker. (I take it a bit too seriously) at least sometimes, at least on-line, sheeeeeeeeees, this is going to be an interesting goal to work on.

3.) Practice putting people on hands.

4.) Don't quit my day job

5.) Study poker, offline, for an hour a day.

6.) Perfect the 6 chip shuffle.

90%, moving up to 8 chips. That's the amount that I really want to be able to shuffel, because it I wmt to be able to count my chips at the table, without looking like a dork

uhh, this ones a little hard to do when you don't double up.... Oh, well there is always practice.

Tonight blew. Didn't play that good. One nght of loss does not a loser make. the long haul is a lot longer than we think, anything else I can throw in there to make me feel better.
Off to bed.

October Goals:

• Play smarter and more patient
• Bet more instead of the nasty auto-check after the flop
• Raise my good hands without fear in any position
• Learn to let-go of marginal hands UTG
• DO NOT call UTG, Raise or fold.
• Be more observant to other players tendancies
• Make more notes and ignore chat
• Play at higher than micro stakes MTT's

Finally - Study more, Play less, Build a BR rather than Bust it!

I will be gone as of the 2nd week of October until the New Year!

~So as opposed to any Hiatus, this Hiatus is not going to be a Hiatus.
Rather a Disciplined Hiatus, with the illusion that it is a Hiatus~

When I get back to this Post I hope to have grown in my Poker Knowledge and amassed enough to afford a Further Hiatus, and Delve into a Serious Poker Journey of Epic Proportions to equate into a Chronical of Material that I may complete my Novel! And live a normalized Life free of Burden and Labor!~

1. Read PNL
2. Read NLTAP
3. Set up an account on Party
4. FT an MTT on Party
5. Win a CC event
6. Win $1k live

<3

-Flop a set at some point
-Show profit again
-Win another freeroll
-POST MORE DAMNIT
-Play in CC buy in events (FB games end this week, so I can start next friday )
-Finish HoH series.

my goal is simple:
get online roll to 1000 on cake poker (currently at 742)
and my live roll at 18,000 right now to 19-20 (i'm not expecting its a goal)
and my grandma who is in the hospital and in the icu to get better

ok my October is going to be real simple.


1. get my poker forum open and operating.
2. finish 21 backer tourneys I owe.
3. buy a piece of 3 players who are doing sakes.
4. have a baby girl.

thats it, all very easy to get.

My primary goal is to win some money in freerolls since I have on means of depositing. Other than that, the usual: improve my game and have fun.

tripple my 550 roll on Ultimatebet, doing ok so far up to 750 ish

Poker goals are simple:

1. Play more poker
2. rexcoup my September losses( down about 150 last month.)

You're good, I lost about 300 in September

So my plan for October is:

- Win 300$ back

backup plan:

- don't lose more money

My goals are to try to cash in some freerolls, build to about $100, and then play low stakes within my bankroll!

Good luck everyone! I know you can do it!

My goals for October:

Win a satellite ticket to a higher level game. (It helps to post some goals a week into the month. )

Never, ever, EVER go out sixth in a "five seats get ticket" satellite because I was just trying to add a little more pad to an adequate lead. (Actually hurts to post some goals a week into the month. )

Examine more HH to plug leaks in my game.

Re-read the books I already have and am not following.

Remember that in CC buy-games somebody is going to suck out on me every time and put me out first.

1) Get br to $550 (currentley $300)
2) ft a cc freeroll.
3) Stop paying off when i know im beat.

One week of October is gone. I Met this goal+

Other goals need work. Reading gobs on line about poker, but really want to concentrate on the learning the math and how to make correct calls based on the numbers. I need to hunker down and study texts (or the equivalant in published poker books). I tend to be a visual and tactile learner and math hasn't been my strong suit since elementray school.

If anyone can point me toward in depth visual presentations (on line or DVD)that would help me to nail down the math, it would be apprecieated.

1. Think - rather than react
2. Play correctly - the winnings will follow.
3. Be a better playerby the end of October than the beginning.

Re-deposit cash onto Pokerstars, and start making monthly profit.

Oct Goal.

Build PS br above $100 (currently at 78 after a big weekend)

Find it in me to somehow write an article admitting that perhaps there is a significant difference between even great freeroll play, and cash game play. This will be really difficult for me, a self admitted freerollwhore.

my october goal was just to make money from nothing and so far i've placed in 2 freeroll (low money though), but I am still building, think i will have to make a good run at the end of october to get decent amount

How are you doing with your goals for this month?
Cheers

October goal: Only play freerolls while my game is in awkward transition. Maybe dollar tourneys. Watch more tv (regular, not poker).

1.) Practice walking away from ring games, when the blinds reach me and I have doubled up.

Well I played in a "play money" on line ring game and forgot about this goal, but remembered it after I had quadrupled up. Took two orbits to leave at the proper time. It's hard to leave when you are winning, but I know that ultimately this will be a key to long term bankroll management for me.


2.) Have fun playing poker. (I take it a bit too seriously) at least sometimes, at least on-line, sheeeeeeeeees, this is going to be an interesting goal to work on.

Have been working on it, but like the above goal, remembered a little too late after snapping at someone who sat down at our table, who thought we were done with our SNG, and starting asking me to move things. I was in the top three and really wanted to take first.

I realized that I was being far too serious and apologized to the guy. After he left, I said out loud, I need to lighten up and proceeded to practice chatting with the remaining players. Also chatted with a few between games. So progress has been made.


3.) Practice putting people on hands.

ummm, I'm not too good at this yet and paid/accepted the consequences of my actions.

4.) Don't quit my day job.

Haven't yet, but am putting out the word that I will be making a transition in February, assuming I avoid a major tilt episode with my boss. Ah, practice for not tilting at the tables.


5.) Study poker, offline, for an hour a day.

Most of what I need to study is too difficult with my level of burnout from the day job, so I am happy that while I have not done well with the specifics of this goal, namely studying offline, I have been studying for two hours a day.

6.) Perfect the 6 chip shuffle.

100% Couldn't shuffle a single chip at the beginning of the month and am know quite comfortable with 8 chips.

Practice walking away from ring games, when the blinds reach me and I have doubled up.
Only played one ring game this week. Five hours, more than doubled up and completely forgot about my goal until I was below my buy in, managed to get it back but played until the game broke. 0% on this goal

Have fun playing poker. (I take it a bit too seriously) at least sometimes, at least on-line, sheeeeeeeeees, this is going to be an interesting goal to work on.
Not having much fun playing. Too busy forming new neural pathways trying to improve my game. I’m a bit pissed off at myself. When I came here, I thought I was a good player but in terms of poker education, I’d say I just a freshman. I am having more fun between games though, so that counts of something.

Practice putting people on hands.
I have done some work on this, studying people. Live play I am getting much better at picking up tells, but I can only put a couple of people on hands. I played against 12 people over the course of 5 hours, of the 12 I only had good reads on 2 of them so that is about 16%

Don't quit my day job.
Haven’t yet. Tomorrow is not going to be a fun day. Shit is going to hit the fan, because of something that I had to do to protect one of my assistants.

Study poker, offline, for an hour a day.
I think I have studied too much, and have not given myself enough time to apply what I have learned. So for the remainder of the month I have no study goal.

Perfect the 6 chip shuffle
Yeah! I surpassed one goal for the month.

My goals for October:

Win a satellite ticket to a higher level game. (It helps to post some goals a week into the month. ) OK, did this one four times.

Never, ever, EVER go out sixth in a "five seats get ticket" satellite because I was just trying to add a little more pad to an adequate lead. (Actually hurts to post some goals a week into the month. )
Did this one more time, then see above.

Examine more HH to plug leaks in my game. Doing this more.

Re-read the books I already have and am not following. Also doing this more.

Remember that in CC buy-games somebody is going to suck out on me every time and put me out first. Well, finishing first in the Limited to Mondays blew this goal out of the water, but, Hey.

Next month will be bigger/better hopefully.

Gl with it Vanq.

Personally I don't need to set any goals for November, because there is no way it can get any worse than how October has been, easily the most horrible poker month I've ever had in my career . Funny that it happened now that I've reached exactly 1 year that I play holdem. It's either I'm getting worse or I never was any good. I vote for the latter .


I really am tempted to change my signature in " my opponents make money against me when they make mistakes." Throughout the month I can't count how many times I put my money in good (many as a 90% favored) and lost my stack on the river to 2,3,4 and 5 outers. This is not meant to be an "online is rigged" post, but for sure the amount of times it happened is statistically improbable. It must mean that in the future I'll win more than I should in those situations and somehow, once the sample size gets bigger, it will even out (hopefully at least). So, being that this is due to negative variance only, I'm starting to reach the conclusion that my game is not good enough to overcome it. I'm serious on that. If I'm going to run this bad there is no way I'll win, or even break even.

Sorry for the rant, I'm just a little frustrated. I know bad beats are part of the game and they happen to everyone. With the tight and careful style that I play unfortunately I don't give out many of them, but most of all this month made me realize that I don't have what it takes to survive when you run as bad as I am. I envy the online pros because I know, and I'm sure, they have runs just as bad as mine but they manage to still win somehow.

Not all hopes are gone, there still are 10 days left for this month .

Practice walking away from ring games, when the blinds reach me and I have doubled up.
I sucked this week in live play. I am still playing for points in a league. My heart wasn’t really into playing. The game was full of sharks, and it was too tough for me. I decided to go all in on a nut flush draw after about two hours to a guy I knew called with ace rag. I knew that the new fish that sat down at the table would quickly lose his chips to the guys who are playing for the weekly prize. Me, I’m there so I can kick ass when I go live in February.


Have fun playing poker. (I take it a bit too seriously) at least sometimes, at least on-line, sheeeeeeeeees, this is going to be an interesting goal to work on.
umm, this really isn’t working out so well for me this month.

Practice putting people on hands.
Getting better at spotting the fish, and dodging the donkeys.

Don't quit my day job.
Haven’t yet.

Study poker, offline, for an hour a day.
Despite my ban on studying last week, I couldn’t resist buying HoH. I had to figure out what you all were talking about. Got about as far as bending it open and covering it. (love 2+2 books, but their book bindings are not that great) I took a small diversion into an IT and philosophy sites and read up on singularities and luddites, passed future shock and i am beginning to integrate what I have learned. Monday, is a web security class.

Perfect the 6 chip shuffle
Doing ten almost without a hitch. I still grab four at a time sometimes….

This is the last weekend of October, so I will start drafting my November goals keeping in mind that for monthly goals, the best goals concise and quantifiable.