October Thread:Goals, Winrates, Updates

melioris · #1 10-01-06, 08:06 PM

Alright, today is the start of a great poker challenge for me. Last month was the worse month for me ever, in terms of money. And on top of that, today I withdrew my entire poker bankroll save $200 to cover an expense that is far more important than poker. So my goals for October are:

1. Build bankroll to $600 (yeah, I realizing that tripling up is a stupid goal, but deep down that is my goal so there is no sense in not recognizing it- and the public airing of this personal challenge might keep me honest).
2. No later than Oct 31, move $600 to FT and take advantage of TP’s RB.
3. Play in 3 league events.

BrianSwa · #2 10-01-06, 08:12 PM

so make $400 in month dosent seem unreachable at all, so how do you plan on doing this exactly. What is your gameplan, levels you will play etc etc. I also have a $200 bankroll.

I dont have any money goals really, I'am playing very microl limits, $5 STT and $5 and under tourneys. I also will be playng $4 180's.

if you want to put a money value on it I plan on being over $1200 by end of month. I plan on taking down numerous $4 180's which as bad as they play in those really isnt that hard.

melioris · #3 10-01-06, 08:24 PM

it is not the $400, even a micro nit like me has done that in one session, it is the tripling of the bankroll that I think is stupid. It requires playing beyond my bankroll and being a micro nit, this involves a risk that makes me uncomfortable.

BrianSwa · #4 10-01-06, 08:29 PM

then dont set it soo high, I set mine kinda high because 1st in a $4 180 is $217 so 6 of those has meet my goal right there. If you are grinding $10 NL then $400 isnt unreachable at all if you go on a rush, as long as you dont do what I used to do and jump up to $1/$2 NL you should be ok.

set it like at $200 and if you make $400 be very happy.

PShabi · #5 10-02-06, 12:29 AM

11k hands of 5/10, winning 1bb/100 hands at WPEX, before rakeback.

JDMcNugent7 · #6 10-02-06, 02:55 AM

wow overachiever.

johnp158 · #7 10-02-06, 10:35 AM

Make back what I just paid to Cardrunners for a subscription and PokerXFactor for renewal before I cash out. Then find a good non-poker use for my brand new 20-inch monitor. Then read my copy of Sklansky’s NL Holdem that should be arriving at my house in the next 2 days, in anticipation of a trip to a casino sometime in the next few years.

Did I mention how good a spreadsheet looks on that new monitor?

BlibbityBlabbity · #8 10-02-06, 10:46 AM

yeah, do they allow PokerAce HUD at B&M pokerrooms?

Reel Deal · #9 10-02-06, 12:12 PM

Well, since September was my most profitable month to-date (including a near $1,000 day), I'm going to have the same goal I had for September: I'll be taking the month off.

lightfungus · #10 10-02-06, 02:01 PM

1. Continue to succeed at 1/2NL.
2. Don't leave this level unless I reach a bankroll of $8k.
3. Get my role to $6k.
4. Read up and research this game more.

Talking Poker · #11 10-07-06, 06:32 PM

I came in here to make an update and realized I never posted goals for this month. Whoops.

My goals (in hindsight - this is what they would have been):

1. Play AT LEAST 10k hands of NL cash games, starting at 3/6 NL and changing if necessary.
2. Qualify for the IRON level Iron Man Freeroll at FT (25 days of 200+ points).
3. Play in at least 80% of the League Events and be in the top 5 in overall points by the end of the month.
4. Log a winning month. I don't like to set monetary goals, but if I had to pick a number, I'd shoot for $5k. I was well over this last month, but then finished under it after that sick run I had at the end of the month.

Talking Poker · #12 10-07-06, 06:39 PM

And now for my first update!

1. I'm over 3000 hands played so far, all 3/6 NL. This puts me ahead of pace, but I've been playing a lot (for me) and I'm going to have family in town for a week, so 10k is still a good goal for me.
2. I'm well on pace for this. I've eanred my 200+ points every day this month, and even with visitors here this month, I should be able to get the 25 days in.
3. We've only had two events, but I played both and point-cashed in one of them.
4. Thanks to today's sick, sick, sick run (good cards, good play, very few bad beats - and I even sucked out once when my Top 2 pair beat a short stack's set!), I'm already over my goal. I'd double it to $10k, and maybe I should, but I don't want to get too ambitious, knowing I could start running bad any day. The amount I'm up this month barely covers what I dropped from the end of last month, but it does indeed cover it, so I'm at my NL cash game peak right now.

PShabi · #13 10-07-06, 07:27 PM

#1) WPEX is fucking miserably tough. Mostly playing Full Ring, and you're lucky if there's two fish. I don't have stats, so I really can't seat select to isolate them either.

#2) My job is so much more important to me this year, that I don't even want to play poker anymore. It's boring and I don't care about it anymore. I used to think, wow, can't wait to get home and play poker. Now, I get home and I'm still thinking about my team and what I can do to make us better. Poker's meaningless in my life.

Talking Poker · #14 10-07-06, 07:54 PM

That's really good to hear, honestly. I mean, I don't want poker to be MEANINGLESS for you, but I'd much rather hear you saying how much you are loving your day job now that you packed up and moved across the country than read about you struggling as an online poker pro, living in Indiana. I know you considered both of those paths in the last 6 months, and I think you definitely made the right decision.

GG.

JDMcNugent7 · #15 10-07-06, 08:54 PM

play good thinking poker and improve everyday.
get better at limit poker.

Tony Cheval · #16 10-07-06, 09:29 PM

Yeah, that would be me.

Talking Poker · #17 10-09-06, 03:18 AM

Screw it. I'm going for $10k.

Talking Poker · #18 10-16-06, 01:00 AM

Mid month check above. So far, so good!

PShabi · #19 10-16-06, 01:43 AM

Glad to hear it, keep it up. My goal is already shit because I dropped WPEX like a bad habit.

Talking Poker · #20 10-16-06, 01:46 AM

So change your goal to something like this:

You can do it.

lightfungus · #21 10-31-06, 10:13 PM

1. After working my roll up to $5k at 1/2NL about 2/3 way through the month, I started slipping, cards, money and my game I assume. So I am back to the breakeven point plus a little, at least with rake this month I should be seeing about 500 or so...

2. I ventured only twice, for like 10 minutes a piece.

3. nope.

4. Ordered the HoH series

Overall, very dissapointed, but encouraged to get on the good side of variance this month

sjay2k · #22 10-31-06, 10:19 PM

+13 woot

Talking Poker · #23 10-31-06, 10:33 PM

You didn't have a goal.

Talking Poker · #24 10-31-06, 11:16 PM

1. Done - I played almost 17k hands. This is the most I've ever played in a month. Just 500 of those were at 5/10 NL - the rest were at 3/6.
2. Done - in 25 days! See screenshot below - I ended up logging 31/31 days of 200+ points, more to see if I could do it than anything else. I'm not going to make a habit of that. I think breaks are important, but I wanted to see if I could truly be an Iron man this month.
3. Done - I've played in all but 1 - registered for it, but forgot about it and sat out the whole time. I'm second overall.
4. Done - I know I said I don't like monetary goals, but I may have to change my view of them. Counting everything for the month, I cleared $20k. Here's the breakdown:

$18,000 in cash games
$1900 in tourneys (only played in one

)
$600 in Bonuses
$700 in RB
$500 for selling > 50,000 points worth of Full Tilt stuff on ebay
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$21,700

Or, as I prefer to look at it:

"This month, poker earned me $15,000 cash plus ."

I'd consider that a ~~good~~ great month.