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[Money022]

Last day of May, time to set June goals.

In June I just hope to duplicate what I did in May. I took my first shot at $100 NL full ring in May and did pretty well. I stopped multi-tabling so I didn't put in as many hands as I usually do but I still logged over 50 hours.

With my sold tournament tickets I netted $2,300 and change.

[Sheiky]

Nice Graph Money, i'd kill to win like that.

May was just horrible for me, on my first PT database i'm stuck 4 buy ins over 10k hands at $25nl and i'm seriously doubting that i'm a winning player even at this level which is a joke. Aiming to get a tonne of hands in this month after exams finish and work on my game a lot, hopefully winning money in the process ofc. Gonna play a lot of MSOP events as well as I haven't played a tournament for a long time.

Good luck all

[RabidTortuga]

May was ok to me, I just didn't play enough as usual. I played 5300 hands, which is way off my 10k goal, and won $92, which did give me the bankroll to move up to 1/2. I've only played one session at 1/2 so far, and I'm up a little, but I haven't played since Wednesday due to work and a bit of life tilt unrelated to poker.

June goals are simple. 12k hands of LHE( 3k/week). Current roll is ~$630. Move up to 2/4 at $1200. Drop down at $400. I doubt I'll win enough to move up, unless I play a sick number of hands (for me), since I'd have to run at 2.5bb/100 to move up in 12k hands.

June is actually the beginning of a new personal challenge for me on all fronts, but that's for another thread (LHE challenge thread perhaps.)

GL all.

[sennin]

May Goals:
-Continue playing 48 SNGs a day, 60 when I feel like it. - failed..big time
-Get Platinum star - 1/2 way there lol
-Continue playing the 27s, only move down when running bad - check lol
-Play some donkaments on weekends - had a stretch of about a week where i focused on mtt's, didnt go well, but check
-Post a top5 high orbit Neptune score - nope, i dont run good enough, nor did i play enough lol

(graph is a little off as usual)

SNG Profit: +$630
MTT Profit: -$361
Total Profit: +$269
Current BR: $4,804.95 (i cashed out nearly $900 this month, ughhh)

As usual, I was lazy and did not play nearly enough. Halfway through the month I focused solely on MTTs for a week, despite playing well(at least i think so) things just didn't go my way. Next month im srsly for real this time going to put in at least 1k games and finally make platinum star.

June Goals:
-No more big cashouts
-Play at least 36 sngs a day
-Get platinum star once and for all
-Play a few donkaments when I feel like it
-Place in SNG leaderboard

Profit goal: $1500

[aucu]

Have a new fav game, PLO.

Goal, master PLO, playing $50 6max games and doing OK, want to be comfortable in the $100 6max by the end of the month.

MJ

[bdc30]

Well, time to set an actual goal for June I guess. As some of you may have seen, I just finished up the S7S training. That's pretty much consumed my poker being (and good % of my bankroll) for the last 6 months or so.

For right now, the goal is to rebuild the roll. I'm starting out by playing some 6max nl$50 - I'm about 800 hands in, and getting a good feel for it. I'm not exactly rolled for it (in terms of actual money online) but I feel comfortable with it right now, and I do have the ability to redeposit if it gets to that point, so I'm going to give it a shot for now.

I've only been 1tabling it right now, trying to focus on the flow of the game and how people are playing their hands. Due to that, I probably won't get in many hands this month, but I'm ok with that - call it a learning curve. Lets ballpark a goal at 7500 hands, and winrate of anything over 2.5bb/100. I'd be happy with that for my first month.

Cheers, and good luck everyone!

[ricardob]

Well, first time setting goals so I'll aim low.
I've recently started multitabling, so 10k hands seems good.

Also trying to improve the 7BB/100 to something better, which will happen as soon as I improve my self control; still fails at times.

Also, keep studying the books, zach666's posts and have fun.

[RabidTortuga]

Well, first time setting goals so I'll aim low.
I've recently started multitabling, so 10k hands seems good.

Also trying to improve the 7BB/100 to something better, which will happen as soon as I improve my self control; still fails at times.

Also, keep studying the books, zach666's posts and have fun.

Wow, what are you playing?

[ice4804]

Well, first time setting goals so I'll aim low.
I've recently started multitabling, so 10k hands seems good.

Also trying to improve the 7BB/100 to something better, which will happen as soon as I improve my self control; still fails at times.

Also, keep studying the books, zach666's posts and have fun.

Not sure what games you play, but a winrate of 7BB/100 (over a meaningful sample size, obv) is pretty much owning souls. Nice job.

Will post results and goals after one more evening sesh.

[cwik]

Well, first time setting goals so I'll aim low.
I've recently started multitabling, so 10k hands seems good.

Also trying to improve the 7BB/100 to something better, which will happen as soon as I improve my self control; still fails at times.

Also, keep studying the books, zach666's posts and have fun.

I think I found the leak.

[CobaltBlue]

May Results: Best month ever with ~$30k profit.
June Goals: Win more money than I lose. (Being that it's the start of summer and live poker...this may be difficult.) I'd also like to win a live tournament.

[ice4804]

May goals:

1. Get more involved with the Mayans group discussing hands, etc. I know this could help my game tremendously and if I ever stop being sick, I am looking forward to this.
2. Play 35k hands and clear $1k bonus. This is prob going to be a stretch, but in order to clear my eurolinx bonus I need to suck it up and put in a lot more hands than usual.
3. +$800 in cash games.
4. No 100NL shot taking until BR exceeds $3k.
5. No donkaments.

May results:

1. sigh...this didn't happen. I've been working wayyyy more than I was expecting to, and when I wasn't working I was trying to get as many hands in as possible to clear the $1k bonus.
2. lollar, not even close. PT says 19k hands.
3. +$979 in cash games...SHIP! After starting off the month on a massive downward spiral (-800 from 50nl), I am VERY happy with the recovery I made. Also cleared $400 in "points to cash" promo. I still haven't cleared the $1k bonus, but I am close. I have one week left to do it and I'm confident I will get it done.
4. This didn't happen, but the reasons why were justifiable.
5. check.


June goals:

1. let's try this again...Get more involved with the Mayans group discussing hands, etc.
2. 20k hands
3. +$1500 in cash games.

[ricardob]

Not sure what games you play, but a winrate of 7BB/100 (over a meaningful sample size, obv) is pretty much owning souls. Nice job.

Will post results and goals after one more evening sesh.

I wish I could brag, but I play 0.10/0.20, so I don't think 7bb is much. Then again I've only been playing for a few months.

[RabidTortuga]

I wish I could brag, but I play 0.10/0.20, so I don't think 7bb is much. Then again I've only been playing for a few months.

That's very good, actually. How many hands? I play 10k hands late last year when I started my current run out (started at .05/.10) and ran at 4bb/100 before I had the bankroll to move up. If you're sustaining 7bb/100 over a meaningful sample (10k+) you should probably think about moving up.

[mln_falcon]

Goals

15k VPPs

back to 100nl full time

Good Uni results.

Will take a break every 500 hands, I was playing long sessions this month, and I was getting a bit tired towards the end, Just going to take a couple minutes break every 500 hands.

results

Fail, 4800, very disappointed

Fail, instead moved back down to 25nl

Ok, I don't really know yet

Stopped doing this, took breaks as needed.



Pokerstars updated their hand history format which meant pokertracker doesn't work without a patch. I can't apply the patch so I don't have accurate results or graphs.
I about broke even, probably somewhere near 30k hands, maybe more.

Lost at 50nl, because I can't do better than breakeven at that level. If I'd been able to stay there I definately would've made at least platinum star, if not the 15k vpp goal. Moved down to 25nl where I seriously feel like I'm printing money, but I make almost no vpps (this is probably the reason I don't beat 50nl, because more vpps implies higher rake)

goals

No specific goals, I have exams and assignments for uni this month that I'll be focusing on.

[Acid_Knight]

May Goals:
Live to my 26th birthday and don't die of alcohol poisoning during the FCP golf outing.
More progress on the house
More progress on getting in shape
Going back east in the middle of the month for my brother's college graduation.

Poker Goals for May:
Play 20k hands
Win $15,000
Break away from being staked by Jordan. This is a slight reach goal.
Don't have more 5-buyin losing day than 5-buyin winning days

Still alive
Attempted to buy 1 house. Waiting to hear back on the 2nd.
Still out of shape.

I played a shade over 17k hands, so I didn't meet my hands goal, but I didn't expect to based on the amount of time that I was away from poker for the month.
I won $18,260.
I'm not staked anymore.
I only had 2 or 3 losing days total.

June Goals:
Go to the beach on the 20th with Lindsey.
GET THE HOUSE THAT I OFFERED ON!!!!

Play 12k hands online.
Win $20k between live 5/10 NL and online heads up.
Play live poker.
Spend quality time with FCPers.

[potatoman]

Well, May kicked ass. After going down $75 in April, I more than made my May money goal.

Money goal- $80-$100
May results - $310

After April's debacle, I decided to drop down from $5.50 sngs to $2.40 sngs.

Goal - Play 200-300 sngs.
Actual - 190 (close)
ITM - 91/190 ROI - 22.4
SNG profit - $102.20

The rest of my profit came largely from my $1 rebuy scores.

I'd estimate* I have 10 cashes out of 15* attempts, including four final tables and two second place finishes. I've still never taken down a tournament in my life. This blows away any previous tournament results I've had in the past. In the very near future, I'd like to focus more of my attention on rebuy tournaments.

Profit from tournaments (before deducting entry and rebuy fees) - $345.64

Finally, play more stud hi/lo - Fail. Did play a bit of Horse, limit and nl cash games and some hu sngs, so I did mix it up a bit.

June goals:

1) Money goal - $200-$400
2) Play 10 more $2.40 sngs, than switch back to $5.5 I'm currently rolled for $11, but moving from $2.40 -$11 might be too steep. Want to make sure my game stays intact. If I play 200 $5.5 and show a reasonable profit, I'll move up to $11 sngs, with extra money just in case.
3) Try to play 5-10 rebuy tournaments.
4) Watch and study Daniel's small ball section and as well as the math section on pokervt. The site amazing. Now that I have it, it's going to be very hard to part with. Hopefully, I'll be making enough at the tables to continue paying for it.

[cwik]

May Goals:

30,000 hands
>8ptbb/100
Smooooooooth graph, one time, please.

I posted my graph at the end of the may thread, but if you missed it, it is basically a straight line to $10k. I think for now on I'm just gonna do that.

I only played about 23k hands, so short of my goal. I am not upset about this and I enjoyed my month.
I won at about 11ptbb/100 play all HU. I'll take it.
smooth graph. CHECK.

June Goals:

I am not going to set any strict goals this month, as I'll be in vegas for 2 weeks of it. (Is it funny that going to vegas as a proffesional poker player seems like a -EV decision to me?)
Honestly, if I make $5k this month I'll be happy. (but then July, look out)
I would like to get in some live hands of poker.
Play a WSOP event? we'll see.

[simo_8ball]

June sucks.

-4 buyins in 65 hands.

[ROBBBIGG]

I don't believe I set any goals for May, but it probably involved winning money if I did.

I made a sufficient amount of money in May. I made a noticeable change to how I play, dropping tables and hours, and focusing on deeper reads and identifying poor players. This has increased my earn, but I ran well and experienced a significant amount of variance. I had a few amazing days and a couple soulcrushing ones. I also ended up making some extremely poor decisions and awful loans.

June goals:

$: Make 2-4k.
Playing goals: keep doing what's working
Other: Don't loan money, Begin packing up my apartment to move (to a house), Keep expenses to a minimum. Don't play PLO.