Poker goals this year

[BrianSwa]

no $5,000 I think is a little unreachable, $4,000 might be to but that is what im making my goal at. Wish there was some way I could prove If I do it or not, since I know you wont believe me either way If I told you Lou.

[Gutzz]

Yeah I think this monetary goal is a little bit ridiculous.

Just make your goal to play good poker and to improve your game. check the forums (TP and 2+2), post some hands, learn, read, play.

Also you play a lot dude. You should set shorter sessions for yourself, especially if you're prone to going on tilt easily.

Anywho, I don't know what a solid longterm winrate is for .5/1, but when I played it, I was averaging 7BB/100. Although I didn't play more than 12k hands there, so that doesn't mean so much. I think longterm I might be more like 3-4 tops... Even with the really bad players, I didn't suffer any torturous bad runs.

Cheers,

Gutzz

[EDIT: PS. Holy crap I just read a few of my older posts... I'm always telling people that their goal shouldn't be to win money roflmao. I just think it's better to focus on winrates and holes in your game, to treat the chips like chips, and not money.]

[BrianSwa]

I did limit the amount of time I'm gonna play, 3 hours a day 5 days a week, but I do like to have some sort of money total I'd like to shoot for but thanks for suggestion.

[Aequitas58]

You're too much of a novice, Brian.

4 grand? C'mon.

[ChipFish]

4 grand... Snicker. Good one.

How many hours at the sit-n-gos with the 5 cent payouts?
Snicker.

[BrianSwa]

funny guy....I'd rather set my goals high and come up a little short.

[BrianSwa]

whatever you say pro, since you have never seen me play really dont care what you say. The rest of the people on here I care very much, cant we go back to how you stayed out of my threads and I stayed out of yours I got so much more better advice that way.

[Aequitas58]

I have aspirations of being a professional... LAWYER not a poker player, you fool. You don't have to listen to anything I say, and neither does anyone else. If someone finds my experience useful and helpful towards their game, then awesome. You? Forget it. We've been over this, you're a moron.

And HOW MANY TIMES do you keep forgetting... we sat in the same game. Jesus Christ - you're so stupid sometimes.

Dude. You're not going to get to FOUR THOUSAND DOLLARS playing $.50/1. And, if even by some fluke miracle you hit $1000, I don't think you can beat the $1/2 game. Let alone $2/4 and $3/6, which is what you're going to have to play (and beat) if you even wanna approach $4k.

Set a more realistic goal, like clearing the 20% bonus w/out losing any money in the process.

[johnbaker]

on a similar note, i'm going to hit the bad beat jackpot 8 times in the next month... its so beatable, i mean its just free money.... i know im a good jackpot player so i like my chances; wanna stake me brian? ill chase every running quads and every running straight flush draw i find, and split the jackpot with u when i hit it

[BrianSwa]

forget about it, forget I ever mentioned anything to any of you. Im still gonna do it but not bother posting here about it, no reason to even continue this thread let it die. Not much reason to post here if just getting sarcasim and gay comments the like 4 or 5 people on here that actully post something worth reading.

[Talking Poker]

I don't know why you take everything so personally.

[GeoffM]

Lou, I noticed you had mentioned there would be no way of making $4,000 playing .50/1.00. I tend to disagree with you there, however possibly in the hold'em environment you are correct. Hell, I've been playing basically .50/1.00 (with the exception of winning $100 this weekend playing 1/2) O8 on PP and UB, and I am up $800+ this month alone, and I really do the majority of my playing on the weekend.

Brian, I find that better players play during weekdays. If you have a chance to sit down and just have two 8 hour sessions on the weekend (or 4 hours, 2 table), I guarantee you will see a large spike in your session profits. If you just want to have fun, then just play hold'em. I'm honestly beyond having fun now, I am in poker for the money first (aren't we all really though?). If you can, and I also suggest this to anyone else on this board, learn how to play O8, and I mean really learn how to play. Take some flops at the cheapo tables or free tables. Learn how to read the board and your hand. There is a reason I make so much off of O8 and it is that people are simply very inexperienced and cannot read the board properly. I still come across people all the time that have 3 to a straight flush in their hand, and don't realize that they can only use 2 of those cards.

It is a new game and people will catch on in time. However, I think that once they catch on, those of us (eddo, omahilo, johnbaker, sorry if I missed someone) who already know what we're doing are still ahead of the curve because we are all beyond just simply reading a board and calculating odds. I'm at the point now where I don't even need to think. Instead now I am focusing on real estate bets and playing a little more aggressively since I am comfortable taking a flop with any hand and playing after it (not that I take every flop). Betting is much more critical in O8 IMO than it is in hold'em. Oh, and stick to limit for now, don't want a bad beat to take your stack.

[Gutzz]

I agree, you should be able to make 4k in one year playing .5/1. It might be tough, but it's very doable for any player who's beating the game. Also if you combine bonus whoring with this (even for just 2 sites)... ez. --- I'm assuming you multitable... Although even just 2 tabling I think you could get 4k if you put in consistent weekly hours.

[EDIT: Ok if you want to get some sort of money goal, start small... win 300 bucks (double your BR?). Then once you've done this reevaluate things and make another goal. It doesn't really seem logical to have a goal of 13.3xyour BR. Long term goals are good, but make the long term goal 1/2 limit or 2/4 (long term, not tomorrow ]

Cheers,

Gutzz

PS. Brian, simmer.

[eddo31]

geoff's point about playing o8 in order to increase your profitablity is very valid.

i find that i can make much more playing o8 than i can playing he. i think that this is a combination of things. first, i think that o8 is a better game for me. secondly, i feel that my competition is just not that good at all. like geoff said, many of your opponents dont know how to read their own hands, so it is doubtful that they will be thinking on a second or third level.

playing tight at the low limits is the key to winning in this game, and once you get a better feel for the game you can get very agressive. sure, you get quartered sometimes, but in the games i sit in you tend to get paid off by second nut hands very often.