November Thread: Goals, Winrates, Updates

Talking Poker · #1 11-01-06, 12:27 AM

My goals for November:

1. Play > 10,000 hands of NL cash game - 3/6 and up.
2. Qualify for the IRON level Iron Man Freeroll at Full Tilt again.
3. Make at least 4 Videos that you guys hopefully enjoy.
4. Win $10,000.

(I still don't really like monetary goals, but I guess you've got to shoot for something).

JDMcNugent7 · #2 11-01-06, 03:28 AM

Well october was officially "take a shot month"
I didnt really grind at all, and just would sit 25/50NL and 100/200 Limit whenever the games looked half good. Surprisingly I won $ doing that, but it was WAY too swingy and I'm glad its out of my system.

This month I really want to 10 table 3/6 alot, and mix some maybe 6-8 tabling 5/10 in there. I wouldnt mind playing Some 10/20NL or some 30/60 Limit but I really just feel like grinding again this month and getting Lots of hands in ( 2k hands a day is pretty easy when 10 tabling).
Hopefully at 3/6 i can run at 4ptbb/100 or more, and at 5/10 I'd be happy with 3.5ptbb/100.

I want to continue to play good thinking poker, and not play on tilt. Maybe I could actually get some reading in this month too. The $ aspect should take care of itself.

omahilo · #3 11-01-06, 04:20 AM

1. Qualify for the Bronze and silver freerolls at FTP

2. Win $100+ dollars... this might be alittle small but I dont want make the goal too hard for myself, might change it if the month goes really well.

murkosk · #4 11-01-06, 05:20 AM

1) Build up my account to 2000$
2) Qualify for EPT Coppehagen event.

eejit101 · #5 11-01-06, 08:09 AM

2 = tough as i think they have stopped running

My goal is to not play anything but league games for 2 weeks.

BrianSwa · #6 11-01-06, 09:11 AM

I got some.

1. playing in borgata's 50k garantee on the 10th and gonna play it twice most likley this month. Want to final table it at least once.

2. make enough in 2/4 limit live to be bankrolled for 1/2 nl

3. stay away from cash games online totally

4. play enough tourneys on stars to make a couple healthy withdraws.

5. win home game....again

6. have fun

non poker goal.

start on my list of most haunted places in Maryland visited.

bdawg31 · #7 11-01-06, 11:47 AM

In mid-late-october i had to basically restart from scratch. It was a painful step - but I think its going to be one i am glad i made. Anyway, here are my goals for November (keeping in mind my 'start-over' roll was $300 - basically what i started with oh-so-long ago. My roll has grown a bit thorugh October).

1.) Play 5k hands of $50 NL short seated. That 5k hand goal might be a bit high since i will be missing some poker time over Thanksgiving and a couple of other weekends this month.

(btw - i know i am not ideally funded for this level. I dont need feedback on that. If i go broke, i plan on reloading next year)

2.) Get comfortable with 3 tabling $50 NL games. I am comfortable 2 tabling now and I am pretty sure i am ready for this step.

3.) Increase my bankroll. I dont want to set any monetary-specific goal here - i dont want to chase money. I just want to see an increase. Hmmm, i guess its silly to post this though since that is kinda obvious. Okay, i will pick a number - i am going to set my sights relatively low. How about...... $800 (i am at appx $540 right now).

4.) Work a bit more getting comfortable/confident with re-raising preflop with hands other than AA, KK and QQ. And knowing when i should and shouldn't do that.

5.) Get PAHUD running optimally and utilzing that data. I started using PT to serioulsy study my game in October and I think it has helped a lot. I have PAHUD downloaded - i just have to get it set up right.

melioris · #8 11-01-06, 12:53 PM

I feel like I made a break-through over the past couple of weeks in understanding what tilt means to me. For me it is a far subtler tweaking of my postflop thought process than I previously appreciated. Just playing 6-max was enough to turn a moderately successful full ring micro NL player into a 6-max micro NL post-flop action junkie. But I think I am getting a handle on it. So my goals are:

1). 7.5K hands of tilt-free $25NL 6-max
2). Take some shots at $50NL 6-max
3). Build my bankroll so that I am comfortable playing $50NL exclusively by the end of the month (30 buyins for me)
4). Be happy with the decisions I make, independent of the results.

Talking Poker · #9 11-01-06, 10:47 PM

My apologies for making a post in this thread that is on topic and not part of the eejitSWA[3x] debate (you guy are allowed to make new threads here instead of cluttering up unrelated ones, you know), but I have an update already:

I played 500 hands earlier today and lost 5 buy ins, so my #4 goal just got a little but more ambitious. By the end of it, I don't think I was playing well, and I walked away. Early on though and accounting for pretty much all the losses, it was just SICK. No matter what I flopped, they would chase their draw and get there. And if I flopped a big hand and a big draw (like my AA overpair with a nut flush draw to go with it), his flopped two pair (QJ) would hold up to scoop a $2100 pot. It was a bad session, to say the least.

Check out the attached graph and note the stackings. Keep in mind, had I won any of those, those drops would have been lines going UP at least twice as much as they went down. It just wasn't meant to be today.

Today would have been a good day to have a pinball machine in the house. IT would have been easier to walk away.

BrianSwa · #10 11-01-06, 10:52 PM

sorry will move any others to different thread.

juiCe[3x] · #11 11-01-06, 10:53 PM

My goals suck, but I might as well post them...

1. Play 5k hands at 0.05 / 0.10 - I know that is low but I'm trying to keep good bankroll Mangement.

2. Final table a Tournament

3. Win $200

4. Try to play in atleast one league event.

lightfungus · #12 11-01-06, 11:36 PM

I hate thinking about that. Having been stacked more times than I would like in the last 2 weeks, I can't help but look at the PT graphs and wonder what if...Good luck with the goals this month.

sjay2k · #13 11-02-06, 12:11 AM

Okay, from now on, i'm offering a $200 reward if anyone catches me playing poker until the 12th of November.

usernames: MyPetTurtle on Stars and FTP and LAGTARD on Pacific.

gotta study.

Talking Poker · #14 11-02-06, 12:29 AM

Define "catches you." Do we have to catch you in the act, or it is ok if we point it out later on that day?

Cause I wouldn't mind a free two hundey.

sjay2k · #15 11-02-06, 12:36 AM

Screenshot of me playing, hand history or Sharkscope screenshot (please note that the bunch of $100/$200 SNGs i recently played were before the above message).

Thanks guys

sjay2k · #16 11-11-06, 07:32 AM

exams are over, time to play (it's nov 11, but meh, contest closed)

Talking Poker · #17 11-16-06, 04:02 AM

Well, we're halfway through the month, so I guess it's time for an update. Wrapping up my worst day EVER right now, this update is gonna sting. Ugh. Today was really, really, really bad (down about $4000). I feel like I played ok for the most part, but I also missed damn near every flop for 600 hands (is that even possible???), and my opponents just clobbered me. The funny thing is, I didn't even have very many HUGE pots where I got stacked or anything... it was just a very annoying downward spiral all day long. On thing I have learned is that the good opponents at 5/10 NL are a LOT better than the good ones at 3/6. They are MUCH more aggressive, 3 and 4 betting regularly. This doesn't go so well with my style, where I like to be the aggressive one. No tilt, btw.

Anyway, enough crying... on to the goals:

1. I'll make this goal easily. I have 8800 hands logged - 2000 of 5/10 and all the rest 3/6.
2. This shouldn't be a problem either. I've only "missed" two days, meaning I can miss 3 more this month and still make it.
3. Hmmm... I think I've only made ONE so far in November. Guess I'm gonna need to get on that - I should have made one today instead of getting my ass handed to me all day long.
4. Yesterday, I was on pace for this. Today, not so much. I didn't quite piss away ALL of my winnings for the month, but I am up just $1700 now.... That's a LONG way from $10,000, but I can honestly say that I have been running pretty badly this month. Yes, it could definitely be worse (I had a couple of streaks where I ran well), but overall, I've definitely been running below average this month... at least I hope I have been.

Boobie Lover · #18 11-16-06, 11:56 PM

I've decided I need to work on my 8+ tabling skills. So, if you see me at a shitload of 2/4 tables, I'm not busto.

Talking Poker · #19 11-20-06, 02:54 AM

My worst streak ever, by a lot, has continued for yet another day. Yes, I won a very nice Bahamas trip in the middle of said streak last night, but in cash games, I am running colder than I thought possible. I don't feel like it has effected my play much, but realistically, IT HAS TO BE. I don't see how it couldn't. If nothing else, it's affected how my opponents see me at the tables (as a loser), which will make them more likely to call me down (since I lose so many showdowns), and that doesn't go very well with a frigid deck. I could completely change my style for a while, and I may need to.... I don't even know.

I'm not sure why I'm posting this in this thread. I guess it's because I've gotten my 10k hands in now but I am WELL down for the month... MY $10k goal is pretty much an impossibility now... I'd be happy if I could just get back to even for the month.

I cashed out a lot of my Neteller account last week (thinking I wouldn't need the money online anytime soon and hating that it was sitting there earning 0% interest), and I'm really glad I did. Right now, my online bankroll (which is obviously not my true bankroll) is pretty tight. I'm going to try to rebuild here without reloading...

I may move down a level for a while or I may take a break all together. I'm not sure yet. but I'm sick of losing large sums of money day after day after day because of (mostly) SICK variance.

Boobie Lover · #20 11-20-06, 03:12 AM

With your style TP, variance will definitely be much greater than others. I think the regulars are probably starting to bluff check/raise you a lot more knowing you cbet the flop far greater than most.

Talking Poker · #21 11-20-06, 03:32 AM

Damn regulars!

If that was the extent of it, that would be one thing... but I'm getting my money in with the best of it and being drawn out on a LOT more than one would expect. And I'm just not getting big hands either. And when there is a big hand vs. bigger hand situation, I seem to be on the losing end of it (regardless of which hand I held) about 80 or 90% of the time.

I think you are right about the regulars though......

sjay2k · #22 11-20-06, 03:15 AM

+7k from 3000 hands so far this month....

kkirk1329 · #23 11-24-06, 11:59 AM

My Goals :

Turn the 5$ i got from a friend into a decent bankroll.

Talking Poker · #24 12-01-06, 02:35 AM

I was going to play tonight and update here tomorrow, but I just don't feel like it. I haven't payed much at all over the last few days, and I think it's the semi-break that I needed. Hoping to come back strong in December.

1. Done. ~12k hands of 3/6 and 5/10 and 2500 hands of 2/4.
2. Done.
3. I think I made 3, but my TOTAL is at 4 now. Close enough.
4. Yuck. . This is why I hate monetary goals.

Edit: I guess if you count the $12k Bahamas package I won, I ended up up for the month, at least... but the bankroll definitely took a hit in November - ironically, right after I withdrew a whole bunch of money from Neteller.