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I am in the midst of my first ever positive tournament month! Mind you at the moment I am only showing a profit of $54 but all great journeys begin with small baby steps. 🙂
I thought I would take this opportunity to set some goals for the remainder of the year
ESSENTIALS:
* Starting Bankroll: $1000
* Regular Joe Working Hours: 10:30 – 19:00 EST except Friday 09:30-18:00 EST
* Location: The BIG Smoke T to the DOT
RULES TO FOLLOW:
- Only enter tournaments with a max entry fee of $10 + JUICE
- Never play more than 4 tourneys at the same time.
- Never enter a tournament if you ran deep and went to sleep past 2am the previous day between Monday to Thursday
- Never enter the Midnight Madness on FT or any variation out of a bad beat anger binge.
- Review all the exits and large pots (Won and Lost) for leaks, missed value opportunities, etc.
- Always eat prior to playing and have snacks available during deep runs and drinks lots of water right after returning from breaks (for obvious reasons)
- Post at least 1 interesting hand in the forums a week for discussion amongst the wicked TPE community.
- Never check ‘skins scores online while playing because D McNabb and Mikey “I’m nothing without John Elway” Shanahan are more tilting than flopping trip aces against 2-3O and losing to a runner runner wheel draw.
GOALS:
- Enter at minimum 100 tourneys between now and December 31st 2010
- Make 5 FT’s within that time period
- Take down 1 MTT with a 1st prize of over $400 USD
- End the year with a bankroll of higher than $750
It starts tonight – wish me luck!
Gl with your goal buddy. Guidelines are spot on imo.
GG in that 5$ 45man what a luck box you are lol
also you need not worry about checkin that redskins score today, The Vikes are in town and we got our soap opera figured out!
34-20 vikes u heard it here
doubt ur redskins have been more life tilting than my vikes.
AP
QUICK UPDATE as of 16:57 EST 12/09/2010
Tournaments Entered: 93
Tournament Entry Fees ($): $1362.45
Total Gross Profit ($): $2136.00
Total Net Profit ($): $773.55
1 Final Table
0 Wins
Wow I will have to rethnk my total amount of tournaments entered.
TO DO LIST: Post a few hands soon – I have been slacking on that regard
June 22, 2010
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Very well thought out and you are off to a good start. Keep it up!
"Your either in Sheen's Korner or your with the trolls."
I really like it that you have put so much thought into creating a structure to reach your goal. It looks like you are off to a great start. I look forward to an update, and I am curious how hard it has been to stick to your goal of reviewing the hands. Thanks for putting it out there.
Best of luck!
To answer your question brooksea the hardest part to keep up was staying withing my bankroll management scheme. More to the point because of my schedule wanting to play higher to score something big enough to be able to quit work.
My day usually starts at 5am and ends whenever my last poker tournament ends – as I am taking a full course load and working to pay for it.
My lunch hour and morning hours are spent studying and my weekend morning are spent studying and completing assignments or completing work related projects. Considering I am going into a crucial portion of school I've realized that the toll it has taken on my body is not something I can sustain – so to that end poker will be placed on the backburner to concentrate on school.
I am taking the remainder of my bankroll setting a new goal as I have no school till January 4th 2010. Not to play over my roll but playing as much as humanly possible till then since I don't celebrate christmas so it will poker poker poker till January 31st a quick break to celebrate NYE and back to the grind till January 4th 2010.
I have saved up enough money that I would need to win at least $10k by that date to be able to take a year off of work to finish school and play poker casually. If not I will have to stop playing until the summer time to concentrate on school. As per my previously stated $1000 BR Challenge. I am nowhere close to being a pro and have no dreams of becoming one so my meal ticket is graduating with stellar grades so something had to give.
Well I hope I haven't bored you with my reply –
Happy Holdays!
PS: I will be video capturing the sessions in case something magical happens and I am able to grab $10k in net porfits. Of course I know that I have to be realistic and know full well that i will have to be watching from the sidelines starting January 4th 2011.
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