Can you achieve your poker goals?

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As it is constant to see in poker forums, people counting their trajectories in bad online poker. Many fail to grow in the game, others fail to grow their bankkoll and those who lose everything and never recover.
For these stories and others to make online poker still be discredited because, poker is an easy game that offers many chances of winning, but in the same chances of winning, there are great chances of defeats and therefore can not grow in the game, or or to rise to the higher levels, there are many disagreements, bad beat, variances and downs and other suits that the stands defend.
For those who can not maintain their bankroll, this is because they play large amounts of money, lose most of them, and when they win, their winnings do not outweigh their losses, and their bankroll is sucked up little by little.
Those who lose everything, this is the way to online poker, because everything in the world revolves through money, if no one loses anyone will win, and if there is no money how the sites will stick.
In these situations no one can get a lot of money in poker, a maximum of $ 20 and if they do not achieve their goals the people should seek to know if it is wrong or if macabre events like bad beat always occur and draw their own conclusions.
 
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Most important thing in my opinion is to have realistic goals and take your time to grind gradually towards higher level. If your goal is to have 1 million dollars in 6 months it is clear that it will be very hard to meet it.

I personally take notes of every game that i play and have short term and long term goals listed. Short term targets can be very simple like to qualify for the trip to vegas final freeroll, or start winning in freerolls regularly or whatever you decide. Writing down your goals and monitoring your progress both helps you to be more organized and motivates you to continue your development as poker player.
 
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I think is really difficult to reach our goals due to many factors. I thing the main ones are :Surrender easily
Don't have the necessary discipline to work every day.
Don't recognize that poker is a high variance game.
I have reading lately that if we have to reach our goals we must do S.M.A.R.T.S goals
Where : S is for specific
M is for measurable
A is for attainable
R is for relevant and
T is for timing.
 
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Yes, I agree that you need to achieve the goals gradually. There should be short-term goals, like climbing stairs. but the goal should still be one. And go despite other opinions of ordinary people.
 
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My current goals are to study the game to have as much knowledge as possible. So my goals can only be maintained. There's no finish line to reach because there's so much information to take in. I think many players get to a point where they feel that they've learned enough. They don't put in the time away from the table and begin to experience problems.
 
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I have two poker goals for 2018.
One has already been achieved and i am working on the second.
This is to boost my bankroll to a specific amount.
A friend of me has given me a excel sheet, where i can enter the amount from my different poker clients and follow my progress.
 
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Good vision this your, I understood, you want high and search went up one step at a time
 
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I'm still a beginner but I believe I'm on the right track of evolution, I have wins and obviously some defeats too but I feel that I have improved a lot during my first year.
 
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I have read all the comments about the goals of each one's poker up to here, I will share some with regard to the studies, remember that study is theory and not practice, seek to learn played, even if the one who wrote the book does not even want to is a poker player, okay he listened to the best, but the best did not teach him the cat's leap.
The one who drew SMART goals, do not forget the discipline and part of poker is lucky, unfortunately in your everyday life, there will be many mistakes, which will account for the moment you lose, only in defeats you will see your mistakes, because poker will always be a game, and being a game will win when you miss, but when you lose you will see that you missed.
 
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What to leave a piece of advice here for you, do not forget your lives, do not give yourself 100% to poker, devote only 20%, take care of your studies, profession and family, because you do not know how far they go in poker. And if they work they can finance their games.
 
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I think is really difficult to reach our goals due to many factors. I thing the main ones are :Surrender easily
Don't have the necessary discipline to work every day.
Don't recognize that poker is a high variance game.
I have reading lately that if we have to reach our goals we must do S.M.A.R.T.S goals
Where : S is for specific
M is for measurable
A is for attainable
R is for relevant and
T is for timing.
Well said.

Poker requires prettu extreme amounts of patience, discipline, and hard work.

So many people lack in 1 or all 3 of these.

Makes achieving in poker very difficult.
 
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Hi.
Personally, I believe in myself and in the ability to achieve my goals.
For now, poker does not bring me profit, but losses from the game are already much smaller than when I started playing poker. I will work hard and over time poker will bring me the reward I deserve.
Good luck.
 
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That's right buddy, go ahead and do not listen to criticism and always make your deposits regurlamente. With each move you follow a step.
 
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I don't even know what my goal is at this point. I don't know if I'm going to be able to grind Sit N Gos, or if I'm just going to enter tournaments with big payoffs hoping for a "one time" jackpot hit.

I guess if I DO have a goal, it's to find a way to make enough uninterrupted time in my life to actually play a good amount of hours per week. It's been very, very hard for me... :(
 
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Look at a goal and fight for it.
What you currently want;
What you need to do to reach your goal;
What difficulties exist in your path and what to do to get around the difficulties;
How long will it take to get to wherever you want.
Follow this and it will come.
 
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I believe this is correct in the state of hold'em currently. The playing field is too saturated with good players making it really hard to be profitable. Like you said, for every bad beat you take, (assuming your a good player) you will get one back. When you have a full table of good players. that's what it comes down too. Of course you will run good, but chances are you will run just as bad, and lose it. Thus in a perfect world (given you play just as much with good variance as bad variance) you break even. The only way to get away from that is quit when your losing, and keep playing when your winning. The issue with that is. It only takes 1 tanked, bad beat pot to lose everything you took 4 or 5 hours building. Now I know that's with any version of the game, but I will say. Going to games like PLO, RAZZ, Hi/Lo you have a lot less experienced players. If you take the time to learn those games, and master it like many have with holdem. You can be profitable. granted it takes a much higher bankroll to manage even at the lower stakes to play those games, because the variance is a lot higher. The beat you take will be a lot worse, but I can promise you. You will take a lot less of them if you learn those games. You will achieve your goals a lot faster then constantly rebuying after your AA gets cracked for the 3rd time in 1 night.
 
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study the necessary one for reaching

I'm in this loop, lose and win years, but in fact I never dedicated myself to how much the poker demands, I believe that each one has to set goals and to study the necessary one for reaching
 
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Study, books your own game and the site you play.
 
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Hi,

My poker goals have changed throughout the last 5 years.

I am not giving poker a big part of my time as I did before. Now I have a day job and I have poker. I am recreational player!

But still I do have goals that are achievable! For instance, I am on 2K challenge that I have to gather up until the end of 2018, and I believe I don't have to play everyday, or even gow a bankroll for that! And that's my goal for 2018!

I tried to become a professional player, but I did not try enough and now my life has changed for the better without poker.

I love poker, but I hate when it becomes an addiction.
 
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Poker is a game, it should not be taken seriously seriously, I think many people are disappointed in the game because they are fiery expectations.
I noticed myself, I am getting a lot easier by fun
 
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Yes, I agree that it is very difficult to achieve good goals, sometimes there is a gain from us, but loss also occurs in the game, with 0 it's very hard and long to raise a good bankroll, but if the player has a good bankroll, why not raise it even more, but for this you need to have good playing skills to go to higher levels, and play-carefully and try to win good money, I also want to achieve good goals in the game and raise a normal bankroll!
 
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Difficulty is true, as you know there are many freeroll players. These are good players who have not yet reached their goals.
Playing freeroll is the best goal to reach the goals, because the player can not spend all the time losing money, he has to have the mind that went in was to win and not to ask.
 
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I do not know, I think that someone can achieve,but I can not, probably need to change the attitude to poker and set real goals, step by step to go to them! In principle, the world is nothing is impossible and I hope I don't have to disprove that!
 
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My goal is to enjoy poker, if not achievable I'll quit and look for something else.
 
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I don't think so - it would take all my time and money to become good enough to play for a living and I have a family, so - Nope.
 
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