Poker goals this year

BrianSwa · #1 01-24-05, 01:18 AM

Ive made a very reasonable poker goals for this year which im gonna start next month, If all you have is something negative to say about this do me a favor and save it.

Gonna wait for party poker to offer there next deposit bonus and deposit $300 to take as much advantage of there bonus as I can. I find that I go on tilt very very very easy and once I take a bad beat I start to play terrible and dont know when to stop so what I plan on doing is paying much more attention to my emotions and stopping when I relize im on tilt. If I play the poker game that I KNOW I can and get up from the computer when ive relized im on tilt think I should do fine. Tonight I've done alot of thinking and looking at my past hand histories and relized I do play a solid poker game, just dont stop when I know im playing bad.

Ok back to my goal I hope to turn my $300 into $1,500 by the end of the year, a very reachable goal if I can keep a cool head and relize im playing .50/1.00 and suck outs will happen. So what do you all think, I dont mind if you have something to say just dont bash me please. Party poker seems like the easiest bonus to hit which is why I want to start there but what are some other good ones to hit ive deposited in party, pacific, royal vegas so cant get those new player bonus's but any others I havent, any good ones out there for inital deposit bonus's I can go to after I clear mine on party next month.

I'll be tracking my progress in my blog if you would like to follow it at , take care.

omahilo · #2 01-24-05, 02:04 AM

do you have neteller? if not get it ASAP! lol

if you do... this is what I would do... deposit $300 on party next month (or empire if they have a reload sooner) during the reload period... clear both of those if Empire has one.

Then withdraw and deposit what you have on pacific, the site sucks but their bonus is one of the easiest one out there to clear.

Assuming you play break even poker and the reloads at empire and party are 20% and pacific's bonus you get is $100 you should have about $532. I would then deposit that on either Pokerroom (40% new member deposit bonus) or Absolute (35%). Do both of those rooms next and you should have well over $700 and well on your way.

Also Absolute and Pokerroom could both have reloads next month... Absolute is usually 10% and Pokerrom is 15% so there is more money for you. if you play break even poker just next month you could be well over $800.

FYI: Assuming also you have not signed up to either Absolute or Pokerroom and not deposited yet.

BrianSwa · #3 01-24-05, 02:14 AM

I can't get netteller becuase its not avalible in Maryland, Maryland big wig's wont allow it in Maryland....but I do have firepay which is just as good I think I've never had a problem with it. I've alreay deposited on pacific so can't get there new player deposit bonus but the other two are a go. I read a article on jumping from site to site to clear the bonus and read a article about someone turning $75 into 5K in a year, im not that good to do that but I think im good enough to turn $300 into $1,500.

omahilo · #4 01-24-05, 12:25 PM

yeah firepay is fine... I would do those bonuses tho... you will make your $1,500 playing break even poker doing those reloads and such each month. Also when pokerstars has a reload bonuses... you need to take advantage of it.

eddo31 · #5 01-24-05, 12:32 PM

the 300 to 1500 seems like a very reasonable goal, and probably is something that you can reach in the first half of the year if you bonus whore enough. it seems like party now has monthly reloads, empire does the same, stars is Quarterly, full tilt generally has pretty good ones, etc.

there is enough free money out there that you can take advantage of. plus, if you play solid poker, even at the low limits, you can definitely make some money at the tables. the fact that you post here, and probably think about how you play the game, puts you at an advantage over the usual low limit crowd.

i think that if you really want to challenge yourself, you need to make that a 300 to 3k goal. otherwise, you wont have anything left for the second half of the year.

BrianSwa · #6 01-24-05, 12:46 PM

After as bad as I've been playing latley wanted to make a very low goal If I happen to make it by half the year then im just gonna sit back and be happy. Like my blog says I have a pretty good idea and I'm limiting my play to 3 hours a day 5 days a week so It might actully take me the whole year to hit the $1,500 and if this year goes all well in january next year you will see a higher goal. I'm hoping to stay playing .50/1.00 through this whole jorney, really dont want to move up levels the whole year, It may take me longer to clear my bonus's but I think what I learn from playing will make up for that.