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Kilay Netherlands. Aug 31 2008 14:11. Posts 1960

Ok, so to start off, lately I've been running quite bad and whining here about... Random 2-outers and shit like that... And I decided, it's DONE with my own bitching. Last night after my bad run continued I thought it was time to set myself some clear (and hopefully, realisable) goals to work to untill the start of 2009. So officialy I want to complete these goals before 1 January 2009.

Now these are three different goals and not all are poker related. Here they come and I think it'd be nice to get some feedback on my pokergoal on particular. I am still posting all three since they can relate to my goal on poker.

1) I want to complete my first year of college (business economics) this year. Fairly standard but still I want to complete this crucial first year nontheless. Btw, it's not like I am doing it over or whatever, just in care you are wondering, this is my first year but I want to complete it immediately. This is my educational goal.

2) Technically this can't be completed before 1 January 2009, nontheless, I am posting it. I am competing it in a walking event in Holland called the ''Nijmeegse vier-daagse'' (translated: The 4 days of Nijmegen). It's a walking event which means that in 4 consecutive days, I am going to walk 40 km (or 29 miles) which means that I will walk 160 km in 4 days. This obviously means training for it so that's why I posted it, I started training today, nothing too heavy but still started nontheless. This is my health goal. I am by no means very unhealthy and overweight or whatever but since 2-3 years now I stopped competing in any sports and I want to stay in good shape. Now I absolutely hate gyms, not sure why, probably because of the ''look at me being buffed'' people in there so I decided this is a nice way to get back into better shape. I will also be trying to get sponsors and walking for some charity organisation which will probably involve animal rights.

3) This is my poker goal. I want to be an established 100NL regular and be working on taking shots on 200NL before the end of the year. I am currently playing 25NL after my first failed 50NL shot. Now I think this is definitly achievable and please do correct me if I am wrong. Now my biggest problem is in my own eyes, not my skill, but the volume of hands I put in. I don't have enough backbone and when I don't run good on the day and lose 2 or 3 at most, big pots in my session I quit and am done for the day often not feeling like playing anymore and sometimes also questioning my own abilities to beat the limit. Now I actually do think I should be able to beat it if I wouldn't be such a wuss on bad days and quit because it cripples the volume of hands that I put in. I certainly have an above average IQ, did several professional IQ tests for school purposes and I've always been good at maths and psychics and logical thnking and therefor I believe I should be fairly good at poker as well. I know it's very standard variance that should occur daily (winning/losing 2-3 buy-ins) but still I don't grind through it when it goes bad.

I want to accomplish this poker goal by setting myself two sub-goals:

3.a) I want to attain a minimal winrate of 8 bb/100 (so 4 ptbb/100) on both 25NL and 50NL before moving up. This winrate should be over a reasonable sample size, I am not talking 100,000 hands but something like 20,000-30,000 hands or whatever at least.

3.b) I demand myself to put in 5,000 hands at least every week of the year until 1 January 2009. I always 4-table so that comes around something like 15 hours of poker every week. I made this estimate by making myself play at least 3 hours a day during weekdays so if I need to skip a day or maybe two because of college reasons or whatever I can make those up during the weekends. Now I counted the weeks and I believe that this would mean I'd put in 90,000 hands before the end of the year.

There you have it, those are my goals to achieve before the end of this year. Please leave comments on any of my goals if you want to and I'd especially like comments on my poker goal. Please let me know if I set the bar for myself either too high or too low.

Anyways, tomorrow is my first school day after a good 2.5 month summerbreak so it will be a bit like rehab lol. Overall I had a reasonable summerbreak pokerwise and also funwise. I made my summer pokergoal achieving at least a 1k roll but still I am dissappointed by myself since along the way I felt like I could do way more than just that.

GL to every on the tables and in school for whoever else needs to start again tomorrow or somewhere this week and do hit my up if you got any comments or whatever on this pot.

Later, Kilay

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KwarK United Kingdom. Aug 31 2008 15:19. Posts 1019

I'm aiming for the same goals and am at about the same level right now. gl man.

djforever Canada. Aug 31 2008 16:01. Posts 1510

i think your poker goals are within reason and you could acheive them all.

SPEWTARD Peru. Aug 31 2008 16:19. Posts 4306

gl in all ur goals

Rise and Shine

Silver_nz New Zealand. Aug 31 2008 17:42. Posts 5647

its a fantastic idea to quit when you lose a few buy-ins, and to play longer when you are winning. just take an hours break then come back