***May i make a may tourney thread?***

There seems to be a lot of players in the tourney section these days, so lets see if we can make a go of a tourney thread again. It's been a long time since i've seen one.

All the usual business, goals etc Just keep the bad beat stories to a minimum, no one cares and it happens to everyone!

glgl for the month of may all!!


My goals for this month

1. 1000 games minimum of 6max stt.
2. continue to patch leaks
3. gain goldstar and set a pb points record so far for the year
4. win a scoop event!

What kinds of SnG's do you play in? It seems you have goals relating more to volume than to P&L. I find that to be an interesting way of looking at things. I mean my goals look more like this: I'm starting with $x and when i get up to $y I will progress to the next buy in level.

I just find it interesting that your goals are volume based. I'm not sure how I feel about that approach. It certainly does make me think out of the box....

I play 6 max turbo SNG's, $7 -$15 buyin level.

profit/loss goals are always going to fall victim to variance, which we cannot control. Focusing on things we can control is a much better way to do things. It's also really easy to fall into the habit of checking your results/cashier, which is really just a waste of energy. Basically, do things that you can control, like getting better at the game by study or by setting volume goals and trying to hit them.

With your rationale above, lets say you are playing the $1 games, and you think you play well. You go on a big winning streak and you are now rolled for the $3 games. that does not for a second make you a winner at the $1 games, or at the $3 games, it could be that you are, but it could also just be that you are running hot at the moment. So why move up to where you may not be able to profit straight away, and where a downswing is about 2-3 times worse than you could experiance at a lower level.

Post your goals here, this thread is for everyone, so gogogo.

Agree, volume goals are a lot better than profit goals. As stated profit goals are susceptible to variance meaning you could get there well playing horribly by but running very hot or you could play exceptionally but face a downswing and fail. By making a volume goal we ensure we have a target to keep us motivated and are less likely to fall into a results orientated mind set.


Gonna ship some scoop events. Even though I'm not really rolled to play them. I've decided that until I have a decent size roll again with no reason to withdraw I'm going to stop being too concerned about bankroll management, instead I'll concentrate on learning and gaining experience. I have a job now so even if its not much, I at least have the ability to deposit if needed. And I've never really had to deposit before now unless you count moving money between rooms as depositing.

in with pretty similar goals to wizzim on the stt side of the fence tbh...I play 9 man turbo's currently still back grinding the bottom mixing 1.5/3.50 games but starting to do a little dabling again with 7$ games and will likely start mixing them in place of the 1.5$ games over the next couple of weeks.

What are pb points wizzim?

Also most certainly want to ship a scoop event that would be pretty sick , hoping to play a bunch of the 27$ games and possibly satty into some other's beyond the L.

was in a rush when i posted. i want to just set a new Personal best in terms of amount of points earned in a month. i'm slowly pushing towards platinum star, so if i can set a goal to better my points tally each month, it's a good little motivator for myself.

WiZZiM said:

was in a rush when i posted. i want to just set a new Personal best in terms of amount of points earned in a month. i'm slowly pushing towards platinum star, so if i can set a goal to better my points tally each month, it's a good little motivator for myself.

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ah, got ya makes sense.....had been kinda pushing myself similar when i got to grinding stt's this year and hit goldstar back in february but a big downswing at the end of feb that continued for a while killed my motivation for volume although I have still managed to remain silverstar since but figure should see gold again by the end of May.

I somewhat thought it might have been a typo meant as bp or battle of the planets or something , something I have yet to achieve is a hit in top 100 on either low or high yet but hard to do on low with stt's and havn't hit the volume in a particular level lately for the high. Would be a nice bonus to crush the bop board some week though.

I'm in..

Goals:

1. 5000 6 max hypers (preferably closer to 7500)
2. Win some of the leaderboards on Carbon (goal #1 should make this happen)
3. Review Hands Daily
4. Don't Check Results! (I'm a mental fish)

Just found out that Carbon cut their VIP program so I've gone from 35% rewards down to 10% and I can only use points on Mtts.

That definitely sucks, but there's still decent value on this site so I'll keep grinding.

BluffMeAllIn said:

ah, got ya makes sense.....had been kinda pushing myself similar when i got to grinding stt's this year and hit goldstar back in february but a big downswing at the end of feb that continued for a while killed my motivation for volume although I have still managed to remain silverstar since but figure should see gold again by the end of May.

I somewhat thought it might have been a typo meant as bp or battle of the planets or something , something I have yet to achieve is a hit in top 100 on either low or high yet but hard to do on low with stt's and havn't hit the volume in a particular level lately for the high. Would be a nice bonus to crush the bop board some week though.

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yah, i got a shot at the BOP shootout, really good fun, and the most -EV tournament i've ever played in, lol. Such crazy good players in them, think i had daleroxxu on my table among others, managed to cash like $500 which was awesome! you have to run reeeealy good to get in them though! you have more chance at the high orbit if you put in decent volume.

matt0216 said:

[*]Don't Check Results! (I'm a mental fish)

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yeah, i used to be that way also. it takes a bit of effort, but once you are free of looking at damn graphs and things that make no differance, it's like a weight lifts and your free to do the only thing in poker that matters, the next decision .

Completely agree. It's a terrible habit and really hurts my game overall, but it's just so hard to stop.

GL Wizz and the others in this challenge!

Looking for like 100-200 11 dollar six max hypers. Wanna satellite into some bigger tournies (60-215) BI. Bink a carbon series tourney

Jblocher1 said:

Looking for like 100-200 11 dollar six max hypers. Wanna satellite into some bigger tournies (60-215) BI. Bink a carbon series tourney

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Shitty volume I know. But I won't get much play time in

matt0216 said:

Completely agree. It's a terrible habit and really hurts my game overall, but it's just so hard to stop.

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Matt I'm sooo sick of playing hypers with u lol.

I'm horrible so not sure why that would be

gl

matt0216 said:

I'm horrible so not sure why that would be



gl

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*says one of the very few regs who actually knows what he's doing* lol gl bro. Btw I'm Jb77773 on carbon.

Just intentionally took fourth place in a satellite for the leftover monies as opposed a 215 dollar ticket on carbon.


Currently: up 205 for the month.....

Goal: up 550 for the month.

BearPlay said:

GL Wizz and the others in this challenge!

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Not a challenge, a thread to post your goals, dicuss strategy, talk about tourneys in general, anything really. just a place to hang out and speak shit too. the tourney thread was quite big a few years ago, but it's died to the point where it isn't here anymore. let's change that, forget about your skype groups, chat here and keep the forum busy!!!

Jblocher1 said:

Just intentionally took fourth place in a satellite for the leftover monies as opposed a 215 dollar ticket on carbon.


Currently: up 205 for the month.....

Goal: up 550 for the month.

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Haha, yeah i tried to do that once also, but i sucked out and won it had to basically waste 2 days, plane a hotel bills and a $1500 tournament ticket because of a damn suck out on my part, lol. worth it though, really fun live tournament

matt0216 said:

Completely agree. It's a terrible habit and really hurts my game overall, but it's just so hard to stop.

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Try to turn it into a game, or a challenge. Let's say everytime you look at your results, you have to ship $5 to a random player on pokerstars or whatever site you play on. that's what i did, lol. (down $35 total) but after a while, it's like a weight is lifted from your shoulders, because you are consciously thinking about the challenge you are training yourself to not only forget about your short term results. it helps you play better more focused poker, you don't tilt as much you're free to focus on the decision you have at your table right NOW, and not thinking about how bad you are running over the last few games. try it, the money you lose from looking at your shorterm graphs or results will be worth your while, believe me

If anyone wants a key to ICMIZER for 1 week send me a PM.

WiZZiM said:

If anyone wants a key to ICMIZER for 1 week send me a PM.

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Nah I'm good. Thanks though

Sattied into the nightly 60 on carbon. Jb77773 if anyone wants to rail. Hoping to run deep.

Got sucked out on 3 hands in 5 minutes on bubble lol. Oh well.

Jblocher1 said:

*says one of the very few regs who actually knows what he's doing* lol gl bro. Btw I'm Jb77773 on carbon.

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ahh ok, name looks familiar. I think I played a few games with you yesterday.

WiZZiM said:

Try to turn it into a game, or a challenge.

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I've tried everything, multiple times lol. I've played 50k+ sngs and I know it's illogical to check results as often as I do, but I just can't stop. It's not even about losing money for me because I don't care if I'm down a ton, it's just that damn adjusted line that gets to me

Anyways, I removed adjusted from all my reports/graphs yesterday and I'm not going to check for the next 1k games (still bad I know, but I'm trying!)