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.

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

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.

(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

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

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!

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?

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 think I found the leak.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

June sucks.

-4 buyins in 65 hands.

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.

I had a sweet finish to the month, and ended up around 31 grand in a little less then 9K hands. I am gonna try to play at least 13 to 15 thousand hands this month, hopefully things will work out in that department.

Well this'll be the first time i'm ever gonna log my results, so fingers crossed.

I'll be playing .10/.25c cash games online mostly

Hope to

1. Turn a profit
2. Get enough to cover PokerVT signup


Just a quickie - i'm fairly n00b to reading much of the posts on here (tho have been lurking on FCP for a few months reading DN blogs) - when you say 7bb/100 is good is that earned 7big blinds in 100hands, so at my level, +$1.75/100?

I've not got the cash for pokertracker yet, are there any good/free alternatives?

First day of June. Too bad i had to quit to study for my finals.




60 hands break even stretches suck

Also, I managed to get in roughly 2K hands of PLO50 6max and was up a little over a BI. I have been experimenting with shortstacking an original buyin of $30 and it seems to be working out. I am getting very loose action from big stacks that I don't typically get with full buyins. As usual I start out playing solid and the longer the session goes the crazier I get. I usually 4-6 table and I think I need to cut it off at about 600 hands or 90 minutes.

June goals--going to have a bit more time this month as 4 of my classes do not start until June 16th and my teaching obligations have ended so I will get a few weeks off. Actually writing this from Saint Simon's Island on the Georgia coast

10 $4.40 180's
50 $6.50 turbos
5K hands of PLO50

AP:--------------$390........(-139)


Bodog:---------$668.........(+200)


Stars:----------$429.........(+112)



Total Profit...... (+173)

So I've been getting more and more into cash games (omaha), and May was my first month of playing it really full time. 1/2 full ring mostly, some 6-max. It is only 5000 hands (seems like a lazy month ), but omahahaha is slow - it's actually 102 hours.





My goal for June is to repeat that.

May Results:

+$350 Live
Read Harrington on Cash Vol 1 & 2
Set myself up for a fun Summer of Poker

June Goals:

Final Exams are first week of June so focus on those now and poker after
Get into online poker (win)
+$500 Live
Cash in Event 35 at WSOP $1500 seven card stud

GL All

James

Goals for June:

Gym related goals:
-Lose 20lbs
-Bench ~70kg
-Score 590+ on fitness test
-Score 55/45/45+ on strength test

Poker Related Goals:
-Play 200 $12 turbo 180 player SNGs
-Play 100 $12/$27 turbo 45 player SNGs
-Profit: $1500 (would be happy with $1k)
-Stay away from Cash games
-Profit from HU SNGs ($10-$30 buy-ins)
-Profit from MTTs
-Watch some PXF videos
-Read some (Gus' book, TOP, maybe a few others)
-Not tilt/play games I shouldn't/play well all the time etc.
-Enjoy

Goals:

-FT an MSOP event.
-Get a sharkfin in 4.40s this month.
-Put in more volume than I have been putting in and plug my MTT leaks.
-Related to that^, finally deliver deep and get the big score that's eluding me.

around 6k hands on 0.10/0.20. I'm sticking with the 300bb rule for now. For safety.

70 Kevin Garnett's is going to be hard


I haven't really made many goals here. I basicalyl had a 2k month

down $3700 in equity, I am gonna grind out some full ring holdem/omaha this month and enjoy the weather I think, hoping to play 30k hands but who knows as I have two weddings and a graduation to travel for.


GLA

gogogo!

i didn't really have goals for may. I was up 30k about 75% thru the month and ended up only 12.8k$, pretty disappointed with that, but w/e.

June...I'm going to Africa on the 6th. My only goals are to have an amazing trip and come home early July with Keturah.

hehe

- Jordan

LMFAO

I'm going to win Event 12.

Good start to the month, +380 day

Well, I never used to be one to make and adhere to poker goals, but I'm really working toward becoming a better/successful player.

• 25-30K hands
• At the end of the month, I'd like for that pesky little "Amount Won" column to look like this $$$$ and not ($$$$)
• Move up levels
• Make AT LEAST Silver Ironman Status. Anything less is purely unacceptable. I'd ideally like to make Iron, but I'm not sure how many days I'll be able to make 200pts.
• Try to get into 9man sngs more, especially when running poorly at cash. Hopefully 150-200.
• Survive 21st birthday and get into live poker for real.

Be sure to contact strippersnblow prior to said date to ensure a coinflip on surviving/perishing

Basically, I underestimated how much work 4 summer classes was going to be. I didnt even come close to my goals. This month, I'm gonna be trying out cash games. I have the roll to play 25NL, but I want to be able to consistently beat 10NL before I move up. So, my goals are the following:

-still play some 12 turbo 180 mans, get at least 1 win
-play 5k hands at 10NL, (idk what would be a good winrate at 6max) and prove that i can win.
-if I do well, move up to 25NL.

How many hands do you have to play a day at $10/25NL to get bronze/silver/gold ironman status and do you think it's worth it bonus wise? I've got some time off soon and i'm wondering if it's worth the effort to try and acheive this

Sweet...I am taking 6 with 4 of them being 6-week classes. Should be more exciting than 6-tabling PLO with a bunch of 80/40s.

I am taking 3 , starting in July.

No results for May.

Goals for June are to play 15,000+ hands of 50nl 6max at a rate of 6BB/100.

Weird goal to have...but I want to keep picking off bluffs. The weakest part of my game has always been that; decent players, or even aggrodonks, could always force me to fold with sufficient pressure. So far I've been doing great, thinking hands through enough so that villain's range includes, a large enough percent of the time, a bluff. Today actually I'm only slightly down, $15 or so, because I picked off three large bluffs. My "good hands," such as kings and TPTK, have been what's cost me.

June goals:

-FT a rebuy tournament
-At least 2 FTs in tournaments with fields >360
-1 3rd-1st finish
-Take BR to the 3k level (2.5k now)
-Play a litte 3/6 LHE 6 max 1 tabling in between tournaments!
-Goldstar would be cool, but i don't think i can do that with $11 and $22 tournaments

Let's do this!

It depends on what level you're going for.

200pts/day, probably like 1200-1400 hands/day
100pts/day, probably 600-800 hands/day
50pts/day, probably 300-500 hands/day

These numbers are just a guess though. I'm still at 10NL, hoping to be ready for 25NL by the end of the month.

Don't know what I'm going to do at 25NL. Move back to 6m or stay at FR. I'm leaning toward staying at FR as I don't feel comfortable with my 6m game atm at all.

Didn't make anywhere near as much as I was hoping last month. Finished up $3200 or so.

For this month, my only real goal is to get the volume up as I've been slacking a little bit on getting hands in. I'd like to put in a bare minimum of 30K hands this month and ideally, I'd like it up in the 35K-40K range. Obviously, I'd like a big winrate too, but the volume's something I know I can control, and monetary goals tend to add undue pressure if you take them seriously. (Not that I took mine seriously at all last month.)

BTW, I think you're slow, not Omaha. I had a lazy month in May too; I only played 71 hours. Still got in 22K hands though.

Imo, if you've been playing full ring $10NL and want to move up to $25 you should play $25 FR and $10 6-max, then work on your 6-max game at a lower level (this is also good as you can experiement more/not be scared to take certain lines) and move up to $25 6-max when you feel comfortable with 6 handed play.

Month to date so far:



I'm not sure if I should be extending my # of hands goal just yet. I turn 21 tmr night and will be out "celebrating" (read: vomiting) all night and if my friends birthdays were any indication, I'll be recovering all day the next day. I also told my aunt I would go to the slots parlor with her before she leaves Saturday and I told her we could go Thursday. I'm also planning on going to Wheeling to play at the casino Friday so between those three things and going to New Jersey the 13,14,15, I should be able to get a lot more hands it, but don't want to extend my goal(s) just yet.