September Thread:Goals, Winrates, Updates

[JDMcNugent7]

i gotta think of mine still.

[Penguinfan]

Modest goals for me. I honestly want to start taking poker as serious as I do sports betting so for me:

Play more cash than tourneys.

Play enough to get into the Iron game at Full Tilt.

Turn a profit at NL cash tables no matter how small or what the stakes.

Gotta start somewhere, and this is it for me.



Had to dip pretty deep into my sports betting roll for some things around the house and to catch up on medical bills so I am actually betting half as much per game this year as I did last year, so I am looking for income anywhere I can find it.

[Robbie Robb]

I stayed away from the August goals thread simply because I wasn't really sure I had any goals for playing poker other than having fun. I was fleshing out a new site, (for me that is) Party, and wanted to get a feel for things there. Now that I've got an idea, I feel confident enough to set a goal for September: build my bankroll. Specifically, build it up to $1000. I'm figuring on doing this through a mixture of $25NL and the $11 speed SNGs. They've both been pretty good to me thus far. Once I get my roll up to $1K, I'm hoping I'll be ready to move up to $50NL - I don't anticipate any problems.

[melioris]

Between Boobie, sjay, and JD, August was a pretty good month for some of the high rollers around here. It is inspiring to see such numbers. But the other low rollers need not be intimidated, goals are for everyone at all levels.

1. 6k distraction free, focused hands at $25NL and $50NL.
2. Work on ≥ level 2 thinking while playing.
3. No matter how I am running (or others) focus on decisions not results. (When not playing a lot of hands, I find this challenging.)
4. Finish reading Theory and Practice

[Talking Poker]

These are great goals.

I haven't come up with mine yet, but my #1 goal will be to play more than I played last month! I hardly played any cash games... I'd like to earn 10k points at Full Tilt so I can get in their Aussie 7 seat freeroll in October, but I think I might see about setting up a Rake Back account there first. I have lots of points to spend from this account before I do though...

[GeoffM]

I'd like to pocket $1,500 profit this month (hmm, make that $2,500 if the Steelers win by 5 points )

[melioris]

worst month of poker i have ever played, results-wise.

1). Got in around 8K hands, 3.5K came when the kids were napping, and so were ‘distraction free’. The rest came late night, usually holding my little guy as this month he was either sick, teething, and/or spoiled. Whatever, the end result is that the little bastard didn’t sleep for shit.

2). I tried this like a motherfucker, but a typical HH looks something like this:
Melioris- AA
retarded monkey playing $25 or $50 NL 6-max -97o

Melioris makes huge overbet preflop. Retarded monkey calls. Flop comes A 8 2 rainbow.

Level 1 thinking –TOP SET!!!
Level 2 thinking- opponent is a retarded monkey, so his range is xx, as long as x is less than a ten. If one or more cards is a face/ace, retarded monkey pushes.
Level 3 thinking- since I just typed in I HAVE TOP SET and I bet the pot, he should think I have the top set.
Retarded monkey call, turn come 5. Repeat thinking above, except I shove to be called.
River comes 6.

Retard monkey types in chat “I love it when noobs overplay AA”

Reload and repeat.
3). This is probably the one goal I accomplished, as I am pretty immune to results these days.

4). Didn’t finish it yet, I am working my way through the last section.

[Reel Deal]

I will be taking the month of September off from on-line poker, the string of bad beats and bad luck at the end of August has really soured me on poker and I think time away will be good... time to get back into an exercise routine and spend time watching some football with my two boys!

[lightfungus]

I failed miserably at the last goal, but August went by way too fast, and I probably didn't even get 1000 hands in. Then again, I like to single table, or double at max...so for this month:

1. Qualify for at least one NL WCOOP event
2. triple my bankroll (including a steelers win! so essentially make $1k) so get it to 3k
3. move up to 200NL by the end of the month
4. Stay at bodog!!

[Boobie Lover]

I hit my bankroll mark for moving up to 5/10 NL, too bad my favorite site (Bodog) only spreads full rings tables above 3/6 (which I hate). I'll likely just stay at the 6max 3/6 NL at Bodog since it's basically a license to print money, and dabble playing 5/10 NL at Party and UB. So goals for this month,

[eejit101]

1. pay back TP and RD (done)
2. Get a bankroll back online, enough to go back to the $2/$4 NL 6MAX i was on last year, not $3/$6 had too much time off.
3. Qualify for one of the WCOOP NLHE games, and be awake for long enough to play it.
4. Finish buying the Harrington Series, and read vol2 and 3, and re-read vol1.
5. Finish off the website im doing.

Easy goals, if i put enough time and effort into #3 and #2.

[sjay2k]

I've got too much university stuff this month to play a lot of cards. I'll set my goal at 10k for the month. Trying more 2/4NL and 3/6NL... probably won't play any lhe.

[Boobie Lover]

This month started off with me thinking I was God's gift to poker starting off with a nice little 8K in the first four days, basically continuing how hot I was running from August. Then, I broke even for the next twenty days or so which was disapointing. I don't think I can blame it on variance, I was just playing badly. The last five days I finally started to win again. The total winnings from poker for September is $16K.

[lightfungus]

1. Turned out to be a little frustrating, probably dropped $100 for the ME, and 1500 FPP for one of the earlier NL events...oh well, I tried.
2. looking at a couple hundred short here, I was slow at the beginning of the month, but up 1700 in last 2 days... edit: thanks for the bonus pokerstars! Goal = met.
3. I moved up too soon bankroll wise, but for some reason my moves and reads are much better here.
4. Fuck that! I was sliding there...maybe I will go back for 200NL, but 100 became a headache.