New Year's Poker Goals

[Jeremiah Smith]

So...what's everyones goals for poker in 2011? Specific leaks to plug? Moving up stakes? Playing more? Playing less?

[pascofats]

move states where the respect my rights.

[minigolf26]

play my local 5/10 game at least twice a month by may

[thayden]

I definitely want to play more live PLO. I really think it might be the most profitable spot in poker today. I think I would also like to not have a hand I butchered featured on cash plays in 2011...

[Daragh999]

160 hours a month of live/online play. Become a winning MSPLO player. Learn NL 2-7SD and improve at Badugi, and about 15 more that i won't bore u with.

[The 6th Wilbury]

My goal is the same as it was the last two years: play more live. I didn't fulfull it then, so hopefully I do a better job the third time around. Since I generally single-table, I might as well do it in the live game where the stakes are substantially higher for the same quality of play, and where the pace is literally more my speed.

Online, I remain a slave to the STTs due to my work schedule. I have some goals regarding that, but this is a cash-game forum.

In ring games, I want to play more often to start plugging a few leaks. For example, I simply need to get better at making good laydowns when it should be apparent -- especially at the low stakes I play -- that I've been outdrawn. ("Hang on a minute! He didn't make it, he's just using that card to scare me. Because he knows my hand and he knows that I know he knows my hand. My now-second pair must be good. I ca... oh sh*t.")

So there's my cash-game goal: stop out-leveling myself into a damn payoff wizard.

Oh, and along the same lines, I need to stop turning hands into bluffs once I realize I've probably been outdrawn. The chips I can save by not always trying to "earn" pots are every bit as valuable as the ones I win when I do have the best hand. ("Hmmm, third heart on the river and this guy is betting smallish. It must be a blocking bet because he's afraid of a higher flush. So if I make this raise... oh sh*t.") Trying to represent the hand the other guy probably holds is a costly endeavor.

So my other goal: stop out-leveling myself into being a damn blufftard.

Or start YahtzeeRoad. Either is fine.

[Chad_Daniels]

Quick video on goal setting. Ted.com is probably the best website ever

Derek Sivers: Keep your goals to yourself | Video on TED.com

[Journeyman_1]

if i dont get another job:
stop running bad at TD (kinda already started that), and crush again. move up to proper midstakes, hopefully being a reg at 10/20-20/40. il hopefully use a more aggro BRM technique, as never moving up until you have 300BBs+ is pretty tough. if i rungood and have all the monies by may/june go to vegas and play 2-7TD event.

play more 8-game, and get better at all disciplines.

[Daragh999]

Originally Posted by Journeyman_1

if i dont get another job:
stop running bad at TD (kinda already started that), and crush again. move up to proper midstakes, hopefully being a reg at 10/20-20/40. il hopefully use a more aggro BRM technique, as never moving up until you have 300BBs+ is pretty tough. if i rungood and have all the monies by may/june go to vegas and play 2-7TD event.

play more 8-game, and get better at all disciplines.

Really??? Very very ambitious goals, GL with them. Lock me up a significant percentage of the WSOP event if you are going.

[rrumsey]

play lots

profit

get better at 3 betting

play a rebuy every now and then bc they are awesome imo

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get more comfortable with table ninja

get HEM at some point.