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Hi guys this is something we do on the P4C forum each month.

We all list a few objectives for the month then come back at the end of the month and see how we all did. It doesn't matter how big or small they are as long as they challange you!!

Examples last month on P4C ranged from making $1500 to winning an EPT event!!!!

Mine were with $8k online, stay in the unusual suspects and win a ranking event, i managed 2 out of 3 which aint bad!!!


I have yet to think of my goals for this month, so someone else will have to get us started!

Ummmmmm oh go on then,,,,,,,

1) Make the money in the HUPC in Slovenia (would be nice to win, but I think making the money is a more realistic goal)

2) Continue to progress in the Omaha Cash Games (live and online)

3) Double my online bankroll

Finish in the top 100 on the Pokerstars tlb to win a seat in the second WPT-PCA freeroll

Paul I'll donate you 20 quid to sort out goal 3 early if you want?  8)

My goal for November is to sell a bloody  poker table  >:?

 :redcard: CHEEKY B*$%^%D!!!!

But all donations gratefully accepted  :)up   lol

If you were to double ur bankrol over 1 month, would that not mean you are playing outside your bankroll?

Lose half a stone more

Depends how big your bankroll is and how you plan to double it. If your bankroll is $5000 and you entered the $10 rebuy on pokerstars with a $25guarentee then you will win at least $5000 for an outlay of between $11 and $101(only the big fish).

You've doubled your bankroll but you're not playing outside it.

Mr End, looking at your picture, you're gonna have to get up of the sofa and stop sleeping...

May I suggest running on the spot whilst you're online calculating whether you're getting pot odds to call...

I beg to differ matt. People seem to think the only thing to consider with comps is buyin size. Field size is nearly as important.

you may certainly suggest it


now go away

To buy a good table poker table for less than a £100.

James,,,,, u know FULL WELL that my "TOTAL" bankroll is quite sizeable. I did say my "online" bankroll.

Like many people i suspect, I myself dont like putting money online - so no I am not playing outside my bankroll.

Also, you know that I only play one (maybe 2 MTT's each day) so even if I won the 7.5k twice in a month ie $8000, that would do it.

So are you saying that a bankroll of $8k is too little to play the $12k guaranteed on VC??????

No I think he is saying expecting to win two MTTs a month only playing 60 maximum of them is not a realistic aim for most but the luckiest players. I just looked up the TLB 2005 leader on pokerdb and he's "won" over $200K since October 2004, but the guy plays tons of MTTs. I bet his net win is a bit lower

Anyway, my monthly goals are:

1. To finally get "ahead" in SNGs online so 2005 ends up in the black in all aspects.

2. To start dialysis.

3. To win a MTT on Blue Square (Well if Flushy can I must have a chance :)

RED, you may or may not have noticed, that whenever I post, James ALWAYS has a sarcastic reply (mostly tounge in cheek i know, as I do the same to him)

Indeed, in this case, he makes reference to "winning an EPT event!" in his opening post, yep that was me! lol

My reply was also tounge in cheek, and the example of winning the $12k twice in a month was exactly that, an example. Another would be to have a top 4 finish in the £35k on Hills. Do you see what I mean?

I just dont think that doubling your bankroll in a month means that you are playing "outside" your bankroll. Maybe I should start another thread? (Done)

Nah we just joking, i brought it up as i read a piece Ben Grundy wrote about how he was happy to have doubled his BR but figured he was outside of his limits to have done it!!!

I am also half way through a piece on field variance i am writing for my blog, so its fresh in my mind.

I think its a good objective, and i hope it challanges Paul!!


RedSimon, some good objectives, i am still trying to figure mine!

dont forget the tlb can be misleading as you can win points without cashing. However i dont see how the aim of two tourney wins a month is unrealistic especially if you have the bankroll to be able to pick and choose the tournaments you think will be most profitable to you.

OK guys (Paul and James) guess I had a "whoosh" moment :D

Whilst field size has implications on determining the profitability of a tournament i dont understand how it can affect the ability to play within your bankroll.

If you have $5000 in your bankroll a $10 rebuy is the same and will cost you between $11 and $101 regardless of whether there are 100 runners or 1000 runners

I don't think it affects profitability but the bankroll needed to play because the higher the field size the higher the variance and the longer you could go without cashing?

The chance of getting a decent return is less, however if you get 1 it will be huge.

Take for example WSOP sats, now a $100 freezeout say with 1 package for the winner, with only a $10k bankrol.

You play 100 of these, so $10k worth, do you not see it is easy to go broke in this situation?

Now i know that is an extreme example...but look at the WSOP this year, come 50th and you only get 17 buyins back!! You make the top 1% and only get 17 times your money!!!! You have to have a very deep roll to play monster fields.

Flushy, Can you post the link to your blog please or pm it to me. thanks

Probably more important is how good you are compared to the field. I still think you need a lot of luck and a good dollop of skill to regularly make enough to cope with the periods when you don't cash. I had a look at my tlb position for 2005 on Stars today. I'm 56000th for 2005 yet I'm at a 200% ROI there. Just a very small sample size 8)

The thing you need to do is keep getting the small wins to keep your bankroll ticking over, if you look at my results on the pokerdb for the last 12 months there arent any monster wins and yet the total is still quite healthy and i make a decent amount each month. Its the constant cashes that keep you going until the next big win comes along.

You also need good bankroll management to find and choose the tournaments that will work out most profitable to you. On my page of the pokerdb i have a lot more final tables than "other" cashes because i try to play the tournaments where i think i will make the most profit rather than win the biggest amount. This usually means me playing a tourney with 150 runners where i only need to beat 132 others to make the money rather than a 1000 runner tourney where i need to beat 919 runners to make the same profit

my aim for november is

1) to play a little less mtt's as without a win for a week can cost a bit usually playing 4 or 5 a day!!!
2) concentrate on the stt's instead and use the winnings for freerolling in afore mentioned MTT's
3) try not to play games just because there are a few fish on table in which you have notes on if it is not my choice game.
4) rick, stay away from those crappy speed tourneys and stt's they don't suit your game you are a rock!!  oh god $4000 guaranteed speed tourney starts in 5 mins doh!

Have more fun.

Have enough bankroll so I can take $10k to vegas next month

Just stop doing my bollox
Win Robs Homegame and make Flushy lose his tagline!

Good stuff...

Mine are, to win a festival event (this is always in there, lol)

To win $10k online

Defend my title at Rob's house!!!

Stay in Blue Square's Unusual Suspects.

This month I need to improve.

I'm going to read the Harrington on Hold 'em books.

I need to get better at cash games.  I seem to be losing recently (only cheap games) after a nice winning streak - I do something wrong and cant compete with all the aggressive just betting no matter what hands you have tactic.

And I'd like to get some more cash in my account!

My targets are -

1) to finally win my first MTT torni after final tabling 13 out of the last 20

2) To try and win a sea via a sattelite for a biggy, and then do the above in the torni itself

3) to find out the sex of my unborn baby, so that I can paint the nursery

1. Make $5k on stars

2.Get some more european tour points.

3.Avoid a fit of vanity and have 'the tank' printed on the back of a couple of my poker t-shirts.

4.Show any kind of +ve net result from live omaha cash

Buy and read harington book 2

Avoid getting knocked out of the blonde tourney to a slowplayed AA AGAIN!

Maintain a top 8 place in my local tourney (top 8 playoff after end of year, plastic trophy whoo hoo!)

Make sure I play in the Nov Cheesey game. (missed the last few but love it when I play)

That's it really. I am also looking to play in my first festival game at Luton in december the monday £200 I guess for a taster.

I don't think so either. If you play Sng's and have a decent roll of about 20 buy-ins it's certainly not outwith the realms of possibility to double your roll in a week, let alone a month.

In limit cash a roll of 300BB could be doubled in 100-200 hours decent play. When I played exclusively online I put in about 45hrs a week so would expect to double my roll every month.

20 buyins!!

You never had a bad run?

Obviously not yet.

my targets this month is to win plenty of money to take to st kitts so i can enter most of the build up events and to cash in the main event 8)

When I was building my roll/working my way up the limits I played one at a time and found 20 to be plenty. (excuse the rhyme)
Yes I had bad runs, when I dropped to 10 or so I'd move back down a limit for a bit. Nowadays I keep around 40 buy-ins in the online roll as moving down online isn't something I plan to have to do. Breaking into the live game now having fun trying to build that roll.

My worst run was losing 200BB in 2 days playing 15/30 at Party
Switched back to tournaments and have been there ever since.

1) To improve by reading and applying Harrington on Hold Em.

2) To enter a festival for at least one of the freezeout events.

3) To do well in said festival event.

4) To buy in to the main event after doing well in said earlier festival event.

5) Pray to god for a dream trebble up in said main event and limp into 8th spot and get some ranking points.

Okay, I'll wake up. COFFEE PLEASE.

My objective is to qualify for the main event at the Midland Masters, starting Sunday night at walsall...anyone else going?

When every body has read and put "Harrington" into pratice, what will NLHE tournies be like? Easier to beat?

Only for those who haven't read it  :dd:

gl mate

4 or 5 a day... OMG!

there were only 4/5 a day worth playing on the breeding ground of champs m8

My main aim is to make the cash in my European title defence at the APAT in Coventry i think!

Very modest goals for me

1) Win 10 Buyins at 10c/25c cash on Pokerstars
2) Qualify for Blonde Team in APAT Team Championship
3) Cash at the APAT in Coventry

$4k profit at 6 max sngs.
mtt score over 1k
get two more good horses to grind $2 180s for me!

1) eat something other than take away or that's cooked in microwave
2) see daylight
3) renew gym membership(FML)

This is a realy cool thread.

My goals for november are.

1. Get to hand 30,000 in my 100k hands prop with chris (currently on 13,000) and keep above the required 14bb/100

2. Play another 10,000 hands of my limit O8 education

3. Keep the new flat tidy + Cook for myself at least 3 times a week

4. Put at least 5 Live DC sessions in.

5. Keep a much better routine, including 2 non-poker days per week :)

All do-able....we shall see :)
GL everyone

lol

have you mate? hows the wynn going, won any big pots?

I used to be able to win at 6 max 50nl and 100nl and the odd bit of heads up. The games got harder, and i couldnt be arsed to improve my game. And the last few months i have floated around online mtt's/live cash/live mtt's with not a huge amount of succes. So im gunna drop back down to 25nl this month and try learn how to play again(with the help of some lego/cardrunners). Im gunna 4-6 table and aim to play 30k+ hands for the month and hopefully try and win around 4 BB/100 plus rakeback. Not so much fussed about the $$, just wanna put in a half decent grind for once with a bit of structure. Maybe by the end of the year il have built my roll back up enough to play 50nl, or maybe i will have quit poker.

I have also just started going to the gym again as i think i would have killed myself in 6 months had i continued to live the way i have done the last 18 months. I aim to go the gym atleast 3 times per week for an hour each time. And eat a little healthier (i aint cutting out all the takeaways and meals because i like them too much.) I want to try and lose a stone or 2 before the Xmas period.

I also aim to complete watching every WWE RAW episode from '99 and '00, as i have recently found a link containing 90% of these episodes over the years and i am enjoying reminiscing from my (earlier) childhood.

Think this is my longest ever post on blonde, and it probably contains the least amount of spelling mistakes too.

this movember my goal is not to ban anyone, start any fights, lose any friends, and get drunk atleast once

impossible maybe but will be fun trying

Complete professor layton 

a, sat into monte carlo or win a decent score so i can buy in direct.

b, run between 200-250 miles.

c, rid my roof/loft of the wasps nest that I have noticed over the last few weeks.

My goal is to not have things like this happen in November

Full Tilt Poker Game #25153987089: Table Warmbreeze (6 max, ante, deep) - $3/$6 Ante $1 - Pot Limit Omaha Hi - 11:12:03 ET - 2010/10/31
Seat 2: stali_79 ($1,218)
Seat 3: GreekStein ($1,360.50)
Seat 4: Kaninschen ($1,136)
Seat 5: WILDMAN 2000 ($1,162)
Seat 6: toba65 ($631.95)
GreekStein antes $1
WILDMAN 2000 antes $1
toba65 antes $1
Kaninschen antes $1
stali_79 antes $1
WILDMAN 2000 posts the small blind of $3
toba65 posts the big blind of $6
The button is in seat #4
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to GreekStein [8d Ad Ac Th]
stali_79 folds
GreekStein raises to $26
Kaninschen raises to $92
WILDMAN 2000 folds
toba65 folds
GreekStein raises to $290
Kaninschen calls $198
*** FLOP *** [4s 9d Qs]
GreekStein bets $594
mazemaze sits down
Kaninschen raises to $845, and is all in
GreekStein calls $251
Kaninschen shows [8h Qh Kc Jc]
GreekStein shows [8d Ad Ac Th]
mazemaze adds $600
*** TURN *** [4s 9d Qs] [Jh]
*** RIVER *** [4s 9d Qs Jh] [Ts]
Kaninschen shows a straight, King high
GreekStein shows a straight, Queen high
Kaninschen wins the pot ($2,281) with a straight, King high
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $2,284 | Rake $3
Board: [4s 9d Qs Jh Ts]
Seat 2: stali_79 folded before the Flop
Seat 3: GreekStein showed [8d Ad Ac Th] and lost with a straight, Queen high
Seat 4: Kaninschen (button) showed [8h Qh Kc Jc] and won ($2,281) with a straight, King high
Seat 5: WILDMAN 2000 (small blind) folded before the Flop
Seat 6: toba65 (big blind) folded before the Flop

If you would have had 2 spades or AK you would have won that hand.

Unlucky.

yh cos he's right mate look...

taken from www.handrankings.com

5. Striaght - Any five consecutive cards of different suits. Aces can count as either a high or a low card. The Strength of the striaght is determined by the highest card in use.

6. Flush - Any five cards of the same suit (not consecutive). The highest card of the five determines the rank of the flush. Our example shows an Ace-high flush, which is the highest possible.

ahh, good points in the last 2 posts. I see what's happened now. both players have a straight but the one with a king is better

Only two targets for November

1) Play not one hand of live poker
2) Avoid any poker related dialogue with Cos.

50p please cos imo

planning to double your roll?

thread got goood

I'm not guna set any goals because it don't get better than this :)

Think you might as well just leave the wasps at this time of year can't you? They'll be gone soon and as far as I know they don't use a nest again so they won't be there next year.

I guess mine would be win 40 buy ins and qualify for a black card.

I hate to piss on your dreams, but the black card is shit, aside from the fact you get a BLACK CARD, which is obviously very cool.

Isn't it like supernova?

If the card itself is cool then it will exceed my expectations ;)

It's a volume based goal for me to achieve.

Pics?