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ok so I had an idea....


2007 is fast approaching and I wondered what your poker goals are for next year....

whether you play online/live or both, whether its recreational, semi-pro, pro, whether its cash/STT/MTT/mixture..what are you looking to achieve?


Be realistic please, what would represent success for you?


off to work out my answer!

My goal is to finish the year with more money than I started, and support myself without having to resort to paid employment.

As a relative newbie to the game I only have 3 wishes

1) get to a live game on the Grovesnor tour
2) get a stable bankroll above $2k
3) get to a final table in one of the big tribeca mtts

I think these are all fairly realistic aims. I know my game is improving ( or more like I realise what a fish I used to be!!)
And they are not beyond wildest dreams!!

My ideal year would be qualify for the WSOP through the leaderboard on Tribeca ( top 99 play off for 3 seats) and I'm pretty much guaranteed to be in that one!!

My main goals are keep the enjoyment keep leaning and keep a profit.

        A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS TO U ALL
                            &
        A WONDERFUL NEW YEAR

                              Neves.

that will do for me

oh, and get to DTD at least once a week when it opens and make LOTS of final tables.

To survive it financially, enjoy myself doing so, & maybe contribute to making Tournament Poker in the UK a better experience for those of us that play it.

Have fun, learn and make some cash (however small).

make loads of money.

and get to the ept final in monte carlo.

Win a local live tourney and continue to enjoy poker.

I dont really believe in goals, but if I had one, it would be to cash in a live tournament. So far Ive got a 100% out the money record and am down at least $20,000 lifetime. That needs to change.

As for internet poker, I guess my goal is to never play another tournament online as long as i live, and move up a level or 2 and be a consistent winner in the cash games.

really?


why do you think this is when you are so good online? is it psychological?


it intrigues me

My main aim is to make some more money and build my bankroll to a nicer amount.  I'd also like to bring the value of the Dollar down so I can cash out one day too.

I'm hoping to win some nice mtt's during the year and also play some live poker.  I've still only played live twice with BB3 being my biggest tournament to date.  I'd like to qualify for an EPT and/or WSOP event.  I'm only going to have small attempts at these though, I can't really afford to spend a lot on trying at the moment but if it were to happen, that would be special.

To be honest i havent set any yet, and probably wont to start with. The arrival of babymonkeyboy means i'm not sure how much of my poker bankroll can be actually used for poker - i'll be playing it by ear for the next 12 months i think :)

Its mostly to do with boredom. Online everything is sped up, and given most of my poker is online, it makes live feel like you are moving/operating in slow motion, and it just gets me frustrated. I find it too hard sitting there folding hand after hand for 2 hours, playing 50 hands in that time span,  so eventually the chips just fly in with a certain ambivolence as to whether i win or lose the pot. I'm also a net loser in the live cash games in Vegas for the same reason (i think im  the first person in the history of poker to admit to being a lifetime loser in the vegas cash games!)

To build my online Bankroll to over $15,000.
Try more actively to qualify for an EPT event.
Keep developing my live game.

That's it for me.
I have no goals such as playing in the WSOP, EPT or such. I will probably play a few sats to them but it's making enough money to support myself that it's all about. (although some live events in the UK look really good and DTD will be visited :)

Next year i wanna get to 5/10 cash, play most of the UKPT and the WSOP main event of course.

To outdraw Ali Mallu.

You miss the point Tom - the Goals are supposed to be realistic.

you'd have a better shot at winning the WSOP main event this year.

I would like to confirm though that it is possible - playing a £50 rebuy at the Circus in Manchester a few weeks before i travelled to Vegas we were still in the rebuy period of the tournament when Ali raised on the button, both Mel (londonpokergirl) and myself called from the blind - i held KQ o/s.

The flop came King high rainbow and knowing Ali's agressive style i decide a check-raise is in order so when Mel checks i check behind and sure enough Ali puts in a bet, Mel passes and i reraise all-in only to hear Ali say "call" and get his chips into the middle faster than me.

He turned over AA to which my response was "Aces?!?! You're not allowed to have aces on the button!!", however a Queen on the river spared me having to rebuy and i went on to win the tourney :)

I guess that explains why i didnt win the WSOP this year then - i used all my luck up outdrawing Ali Mallu!! :D

Live - My aim is to win my first live MTT seeing as I managed my first live final table last night! (Came 3rd when I ran my AJ into QQ...)

Online - My aim is to kept building up my bankroll by playing my usual $10 Speed STTs. I would also like to play more online MTTs so I can gain more experience.

Life Goals for 2007 - Get my own flat then once I've done that I would like to get back on the diet I abandoned in September, get enrolled on some sort of course either an evening course at college or Open University course. I also need to seriously start paying off the debts I've built up over the past few months. Hopefully, life will be on-the-up as soon as 2007 arrives!

Qualify for an EPT event, (lost a HU for a Copenhagen Seat last night :()

Yep can relate to that, started building a good roll on crypto in the summer/autumn but a child on the way meant that the money was needed for more immediate needs. That and being flooded in the summer!

Goals for '07

Attend a blonde bash
Visit dtd
Rebuild a decent bankroll
Try to qualify for EPT/WSOP

Oh my word where to start. 2006 was such great fun. Qualified for WPT in Bahamas and the main event in WSOP. I'm not sure if I told anybody but I also won Blondebash 3.
All of this from a very recreational player.

Okay
1) Play a live comp in Luton without talking other than to check raise call or fold - I think it might send the whole room on tilt as they are all used to  my incessant chatter
2) When I lose do it with better grace than I did this year
3) Help any rookies I meet feel comfortable at the table
4) Bring the enjoyment I feel playing the game to as many people as possible

If I do the above the money will take care of itself and strangely has in the last 3 years as well.

I would like to get up to the $25 STT on Blonde before the end of 2007 and learn how to play more than two tables ( My brain hurts at the moment when I play more than two  :D ). If I could successfully play and win at the $25 STT over three tables then I would be happy, this would allow me to cover some of the Uni costs that I will meet after I return next September, but more importantly than the money this will enable me to experiment with other styles that I have little experience with.  At the moment I have terrible BR management and go from playing the $20 STT with some success one week and the next I am down playing $1 STT, I find the difficulty level almost the same, but I am too inconsistent.

I would also like to work on my poker maths skills, I try at this, but I just can't get it to click in my brain. Since a Kid, I have never been good with numbers. I recently got a temp job in a bank and to be honest struggle there  :D, it was purely good persuasion skills that got me the job ( and some lies, lol ). I know in my mind that if I could crack this part of the game, I would be able to achieve the above goals.  HU suits me at the moment and I tend to get myself out of BR crisis by playing lots of small HU games. I think this is due to the lesser demand on the maths side of poker when playing HU. 

I would like to make a few live tourneys for a change rather than just home games against my normal friends. I would also like to qualify for a live game online something which has eluded me so far. Apart from that just not losing is the biggest priority.

To Have a win to treat our Sarah and the Kids to a nice Holiday.

To nNot lose over any Week.

Win a EPT seat.

Win a Package to Vegas (already booked the Flight with AirMiles) 02/07/2007 on the VS43
How sad is that.     

Regards

M

love it!

Awwwwwww , thats lovely and i really hope you succeed M  :)

Develop the disipline to build and retain a good online bankroll. For live games I want to try and find a medium for working during the day and still having time to get a couple of games a week in without it being the only thing I do - I'd like to retain my current live finals ratio but get heads up more often.

During 2007 I would also like to play a big live comp of some sort.

During 2007 I would like to win a WSOP Event Blonde Tourney STT, beat my daughter at snap  :D

I want to play the blue sq tournie at manchester grosvenor either by qualifying or buying in. Want to start enjoying poker again .

To make enough to afford all the cigars I'm giving out when Nicky (Mrs Delboy) gives birth in July ;D

Congratulations Mr and Mrs Delboy !!


 ;yippee; ;yippee; ;yippee; ;yippee; ;applause; ;applause; ;yippee; ;yippee; ;yippee; ;yippee;

Thanks Charmaine.... We're both very excited   ;sark;

Nicky's suffering with the morning/afternoon/evening sickness at the moment, and I suffer as a result........ One good thing though, she's now developed a taste for McDonalds ;yippee;

 ;oopsy; I've hyjacked the thread.. sorry all ;ashamed;

To hopefully grow my bankroll at least at the same rate as in 2006.

Also, to go to Copenhagen and not embarass myself and hopefully make my Dad proud.

you'll win it sonny jim, we are depending on you!!! lol

I would like to do well ( win abit,would be cool)

 Have fun

And let Pete be proud of me ( because it was a long old road for him, teaching me how to play)

Take care
And may all your wins be monsters
xx

I am going to Aruba.  I don't care if I have to sell my car.

lol

That's brilliant, I love the positive mental attitude!

;goodluck;

I'm looking for a new one. What car is it and how much are you selling it for? ;)

If you sell your car how will you travel to Aruba?

Be aware, you could be falling foul of the trade descriptions act if you describe it as a car.

My main aim for 2007 is to cash atleast once in one of the bigger DTD live tournies without killing my bankroll trying!

Main goals for 2007:

-- Move up a level (profitably) in STTs. I take things real slow with regard to increasing levels, but I feel the time might just be right to advance.

-- Qualify for a proper live freezeout tourney in the UK, just once. Don't much mind where. Grosvenor UK Tour would be great, though.

-- Win a "comma" in a MTT. I got pretty close towards the end of last year with 3rd in the (then) "$5k  Guaranteed" $18 Rebuy (8pm) Grand Final on Tribeca, before the thing went nuts with 500+ entries every day, but that only got me $930-odd, still my biggest single cash to date. This year my best has been the $800 I won in the Blonde/Bowmans Added Value Sunday tourney, just before they changed the payout scheme.

Ticking those off my list would be fantastic, but really (like most other responses I see on here) a year of consistent profit is what I expect to achieve.

I only learnt to play this February so my goals for next year are very much based on going one step up from what I've achieved this year.

Achievements in 2006:
   (1)  Learnt how to play the HORSE games,
   (2)  Won online a few HE MTT's and lots of HE STT's, also a couple of HORSE and HOSE STT's
   (3)  Will have entered (by the end of the year) about a dozen live tournaments - highest placing 2nd.

Ambitions for 2007:
   (1)  Learn 2 or 3 more poker variants,
   (2)  Actively work on my HE cash game, aim for at least a money finish in an Omaha, a Stud and in a Razz tournament,
   (3)  Enter more live tournaments and obviously aim for a live win.

i know it isnt quite the same but here's a couple to get your collection started.

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If anyone else wants a comma to add to their collection PM me ;)

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lol..

I'm only looking ahead to the first 3 months and my main goal is to play in the ept final.  I played in it last year, but was working then so could afford the dent in my bankroll.

I will have been full time for 5 months by that time, so I will have to assess how I'm getting on.  If I'm not making enough online to comfortably play the bigger live events, I might look for paid employment so that I don't have bankroll concerns.  Winning a big one is really my overall goal, so I've got to be able to play in them.

I think you missed a trick there, monkeyboy... you should have told me to ask sofa king if he has any going spare ;)

Should be an awesome post if you've been working on it for so long. Looking forward to it.

I forgot Byron!


simple really....

continue to win consistently at 2-4 having started 2006 at 1-2 with a view to competing at 5-10 in 2007.

step up STT play and try to have the discipline and time management to play online MTTs properly rather than half heartedly.

in the live arena, continue to win enough in the small regular local comps to fund bigger festival events entirely out of those proceeds, as in 2006

having done so, make money in festival comps such that playing an EPT is a realistic aim. In 2006 I had two main event final tables and one festival side event victory. I'd like to beat that.

Do Vegas, which means having a proper shot at satellite qualification for the WSOP

Aside from playing, I have:

APAT to continue to help grow and succeed,

my poker and sports writing to continue,

my book to get a publisher for,

and blonde modding will, as long as tikay wishes me to do so, no doubt continue to be a big part of my poker life.
 
and a couple of other poker business projects on the horizon/just beginning

In my spare time I hope to get some sleep!!

2007-

Put a bit more effort into my game, so my hobby can pay for some fun in Vegas

Learn Omaha

I'm not that interested in success. I just want to be moderate and tick over the way I've always done.

yay         flushy , mfi and swordpoker for mods

No mention of women?  ::)

Tighty doesn't kiss and tell!  (I hope)

TO WIN BACK THE 50 NOTES I LOST TO TIKAY AT BB1

MERRY XMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL

poker goals for 2007......

I have set the bar high...

1) I want to win a Gold medal from the APAT..... It would look great around my neck going into work.... HAHA....

2) I want to win over 5 or 10K in a single multi online --- A few close calls but still elusive

3) Attend a Blonde Bash

That is THE most bizarre Post ever on blonde. Anyone SEEN Jen's car? You'd have to pay to have it taken away. With respect, I hastily add......

I know a good scrap bloke who'll give her £20 ...... its a start on the road to Aruba  ;)

1. FT an APAT online event.

2. Get to the WSOP main event.

3. Beat my current best cash of 1.9k

and of course world peace lol

I doubt that Charmine - it's mostly made of plastic held together with masking tape!

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**correction** that's, "It's mostly made of sheets of a metal so base it has no name held together with duck tape."

And by focusing on the car, you're missing the point.  I probably should have given an example actually worth something, though.

***correction*** that's "duct" tape Jen.

My Primary Goal has to be making a final table next year at the WSOP. Im 21 in April; and may consider going Vegas as soon as i hit that ripe old age!

I will most likely play every event in HE, PLO, STUD and O8 so feel i have a good chance.

I also need to get out and play more live festival tourneys next year. This year i have only played 4 and have final tabled in 3. I think i have the game so i don't really know whats holding me back.

Im going to also try and get more involved again in the commercial side. I had an awesome time updating for blondepoker a couple of times this year, met some fantastic people and hope to do that again very soon. Im also trying to help DTD build their customer base and will hopefully have lots of success doing that.

My online cash games HAS to have a target of at least £100k. Too many people are m,aking too much money and i don't seem to be one of them. Its been a big year. Last years target was £100k and i think ill get half way there by the end of December. Problem is im not the tightest person in the world and i spend too much money. Am definatly going to tighten the reins a bit next year on my outgoings.

I also need to have some bigger cohonas and risk more money in online MTTs. Ive made a fair bit from them this year but i don't like paying over £100 entry, which is silly really as MTTs are my strongest game and 1 big cash in a biggie can set you up for life!

Oops!

****correction****  I am using 'duck' as a brand so ubiquitous that it has become a generic, like 'Hoover.'  Actually.

****correction*****  You are just mis-hearing. Or are you saying that your duct tape is Duck brand duct tape?

Yes, that's what I'm saying... you going to argue with the mighty Duck brand?

this one Jen ?

sadly "duck" duct tape went into liquidation a few years ago. Apparently they couldn't handle the bills.

sigh

No, I'm not going to argue anymore. It was thrilling for a while to think I had won an argument with a woman, (especially you) I should have known better.

Back to the drawing board.

Nobody EVER on an argument with Lady Mason. I mean, we could, at a push, but just imagine the retribution, it'd be of biblical proportions. And if you think THAT would be bad, try patronising her.....EEEkkkk!

Yes - plagues of frogs and all that.  Don't make me do it.

Thanks for the illustration, Booder.

Trust me Jen, I won't. Ever. Just imagine, a plague of frogs. I was gonna suggest that "plague" is the wrong collective Noun for fogs, but a) I don't know the correct one, & b) I'm scared to.

Merda taurorum animas conturbit and all that, eh?

Almost exactly my thoughts too  ;iagree;

What is this power and authority thing? it has nothing to do with size, you either got it, or you don't.

I used to know a blacksmith in Doncaster, a tiny little waif of a man, about five foot two and 7 stone he was. Local wags used to say that the best part of him ended up as a stain on his mothers mattress, but they didn't say it to his face. When he said "Jump" they said "How high?"

He was totally fearless, he used to specialise in shoeing awkward or, as Sark might say "vicious" horses, but even they knew when they were beat. I have seen young shire stallions who thought they were the king of the world skitting around in his loose box, rearing up onto their hind legs and waving hooves the size of dustbin lids in the air. Then ken would walk in.

In a shrill, reedy voice he would shout something like "Behave thisen, tha big lummox"  and he would deliver a puny punch to the horse's enormous flank. The effect was always the same, 17 hands of raw, rippling power would stand before him, eyes rolling, quivering with fear, anxious to do his bidding.

Jen, (although she is somewhat bigger, and definitely better looking) reminds me of him.

Hehe, you got it Tom. If you've ever seen Jen with a mardy on, it's a sight to behold. Ask The Quality Hotel, in Walsall.....I'm trying to persuade her to get herself up to Stoke today, but she's ignoring me. As per.....

I want to win an online sat for an EPT event or even better for the WSOP main event. Being able to take my fiancee to Vegas with some spending money and free accommodation would be incredible.

i want a fiancee

If you want a fiance, you need therapy !!!

Any photos ?

I'd marry you if I was a woman.

aw shucks..............thanks Thomas

I would post a pic of Emma but not sure how

I'd like to see what Spring is like on either Jupiter or Mars.

In other words, please be true.

In other words, I wanna win loadsa money.

not gonna read everybody elses replies as it my influence mine. My poker goals for the new year:

1, To not go broke again
2, To not play above my bankroll again
3, No WSOPs, WPTs or EPTs for me next year- must avoid invites or satelittes
4, in stead of number 3 I shall play the Grosvenor tour and a few other UK events
5, To win at least one raking event and make at least 3 finals during the year
6, To make $100k during the year online

My goal for the new year is not to laugh at Aristons quality gags like the one above :D :D :D :D :D :D so i will get my laughter out of the way now :D :D :D

sorry guys I hit the 0 key twice instead of once obviously

No mate, your mistake was hitting the "k" key :D :D :D

damn it was meant to be "p"

Why not M8? I qualified for the WSOP for around $200 total spend and I only tried twice. I am not saying its easy but there is so much value in satellites for the better players I think you are mad to turn down the value in them.

Just to win one of my local tournaments playey 6 ,4 final tables , no wins

I have to win $50k a year to cover living expenses, $150k for online buy-ins, and perhaps $50k for live comps.

Wow!! it's scary when you write it down!

But if I look at it another way, I only have to be $50k up over a whole year.


Phew!! Thats better.

I'm aiming for $75k next year

$20k before I think about moving, and the resultant expenses increase.

My goals for 2007:

1. Turn around the bad run that i've been on for the last 3 months.
2. Keep striving to improve my game,
3. Win enough to have a decent bankroll when we go to Las Vegas at the end of  2007
4. Have a crack at a decent £250/£300 freezeout.

Mine are :

1) Treat my poker as more of a business rather than a hobby - run AND manage a bankroll
2) Play more cash

I have elaborated on this subject on my blog ( a totally open and honest article) - all comments welcome

3) Be a better Husband to my long suffering Wife , she deserves it  ;angel;

In no particular order

1) Work my way up three limits on the limit cash-tables over the course of the year
2) Make plans for life from September (finishing my Masters) onwards, preferably three internships with Amnsty, the EU and the UN
3) Win at least one 100+ live and one 400+ runner online tournament

Not even 2007 yet, but managed 4th in a $50 comp for $1070... (NPB!)

Guess I'll have to up that goal to 2k! ;)


  ;hattip;

1) constant bankroll managment ( not winnin $2.5k in a tourney and goin on to blow 4.5k on 20/40 nl after a few too many cans)
2) win one of the sunday biggies on tribeca
3)play in one or more of the gukpt events
4) continue not having to get a job lol

To outdraw Rod...

So, how are people going with their 2007 poker goals so far?

To be honest my goals could not be set before the new year as it wasnt looking good for me. I gave up my job over the xmas period hopefully going staright into another one in Jan but that new job had been set back to April so am just struggling on at the moment. I had eaten into the small bag of shrapnel that i called my bankroll. So buy ins to any poker, be it online or live wasnt looking good.
But things now are finally turning around. I have sorted out my finances and hope to come into enough money to sustain my bills and my hobbies (poker really) in a few weeks. But for now i have my APAT tourney coming up next weekend which i will of couse take down and keep the trophy in wales (whats that? a pig flying going by!). But hopefully the biggest turn around will be i signed up to be a DTD Trader so have to play my heart out to prove myself but hopefully will come thru and my poker ability and bankroll will increase or will actally exist for once (the bankroll i mean, the skill has always been there!). So will post back here 4 weeks from now to report how its going!

KP

My POKER GOALS for 2007 are---

              1. Improve
              2. Qualify for the WSOP
              3. Play the Amsterdam Masters
              4. Not go broke

I'm achieving one of my goals - to play some live poker.  I've been going to the Western Club for the Thursday tournament and it's going ok so far.  Cashed once (6th) and bubbled twice :D  (well one was 12th so almost bubbled) but I'm bloody loving it. Live poker is definitely the way forward and I'm going to try and continue where I've started.  If I can get a win or two under my belt I may venture into a bigger competition.  I may even set aside some money for a bigger comp later in the year.    Actually, I'm loving online poker less since I started playing live and have not really played much this month.

Not exactly having the best start!

well mine is to move up a level on stt

qualify for an ept task compleate

qualifiy for some grovesnor p tour events

an qualify for world series

not had a bad start have played most of my stts at next level and have qualified for dortmund  ;nana;

My goals are as followed

1) Play more live games in a number of different places
2) Go and play at DtD when it opens and win
3) To make more final tables and stop bubbleing out like a big fat bubble
4) To find me a real fit looking bird to have my children :p



 4h Kh Nutzzzz

If you succeed with number 4) you can kiss goodbye to any ideas of getting very far with numbers 1), 2) and 3)

Trust me :(

My revised poker goal for 2007 is to repair the horrific damage to my bankroll I have incurred so far this year.

Maybe if you updated your blog it would focus your mind  ;whistle;

I must waste 30 seconds a day just in case.

Maybe not on the net, but I believe your live results aren't too bad so far. Stick to the Brighton fessies and you'll be fine! ;)

Fair point sir! At least that was 1 goal completed for the year (festival win)

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Anyway - any advance on peoples 2007 goals, I'm sure there were one or two concerning the WSOP.

As for me I wish I had included (a) qualify for a WSOP event through a freeroll and (b) cash in a WSOP event

but I didn't, because it didn't even occur to me that it could happen.

What reminded me of this thread was that I won my first Omaha tournament - and my goal was only to cash in one :)
It was only a sit and go, but its a start. Now I just need to aim for consistency.

So anybody else getting any further in meeting their goals?

Not really, my bankroll has improved and I guess that was my main goal.  Thanks to the Mansion/blonde promo for that one but my poker has had no outstanding results so far this year, but we are only 8 months into it :D

I did want to play live more which I have been doing but the Virgin promo has stopped that for a while, Thursdays was my night out.  Although I haven't really done anything special this year, I am quite pleased with most of my play so it's pretty good.

100% failure on all 3 :(

complete wash out for me :(

1 fail and one success (sort of) managed to spunk all my profit along the way but i have made a significant amount of money from poker which was my aim.

I'm starting to play poker again online getting back to the levels i want to play at - not sure whether that counts as didn't really have any goals at start of year! :D

My goals at the start of the year were:

My goals for 2007:

1. Turn around the bad run that i've been on for the last 3 months.
2. Keep striving to improve my game,
3. Win enough to have a decent bankroll when we go to Las Vegas at the end of  2007
4. Have a crack at a decent £250/£300 freezeout


So how am i doing?  Well:

1.  After a horrific first week in 2007, things turned around nicely, and 2007 has been back onto the average profit
2.  Im my opinion, a difficult one to judge, but i dont think i've got worse!
3.  Off to Las Vegas on Monday, and the bankroll has paid for the holiday, so lets see if we can make a profit out there.
4. Yet to do this one.  If i cant find a decent structure out in Vegas, i will have to do this one when i get back (providing im not penniless when i return)

My goal for 2007:

Match the profit made in 2006. After realising in 2006 that I could actually make some good extra income from poker I wanted 2007 to match the profit of '06, too prove to myself that it wasnt a 'fluke' or one off...

How am i doing? :

Having already bettered '06 profit wise i'm now hoping to have a consistent finish too the year...

Caesers noon tourney very good 7500 chips 40 min clock buy in $200ish IIRC very enjoyable even though never cashed, but made all my buy ins back quite easily playing 1/2, 1/3 with slightly inebriated tourists  ;D