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January 02, 2009

With 2008 in the books, I set out to create some goals for myself in 2009. Here's what I came up with today:

- Stop tilting. Figure out how to control myself when I feel tilt coming on, and find a plausible way to close down the poker tables when it starts. I swear I'd have one of the highest winrates in the games I play if I could put an end to the -12BI implosion days I seem to have every few weeks. I'll be re-reading Tommy Angelo's book as needed to help me out. This is the #1 priority for me right now.

- Keep sessions short & sweet. I'm gonna set new daily stopping points for myself for both winning and losing to prevent me from having those huge losing days. As I wrote in a recent post, if this means that I don't ever have humongo winning days then so be it.

- Overall goal for the year at cash games: make $400k. This is gonna be tough to achieve playing mostly 2/4 - 5/10PLO, but $33k/month is certainly possible. I'd like to play 5/10 & 10/20 fulltime again, but I won't be back up there until I make back all the money I cashed out last month. I'm a bankroll nit -- especially for PLO -- and I need some good padding in my accounts before moving to the mid-high stakes games again fulltime.

- Work on self-improvement outside of poker a minimum of 5x per week for at least one hour. This could include working out, practicing guitar, or working on my drumming fundamentals so I can play on a real set someday. I really have no excuse for not sticking to this.

- And last but certainly not least, get out more! I need to find some people in Chicago who share my (rather unpopular) interests in avant-garde styles of music and beer. And I should really put forth a more concerted effort into meeting girls because being single is getting old. That's enough emo-ranting for one entry.

I started the year off with a nice session today -- running above expectation! -- so hopefully that will be the shape of things to come in the future. Happy New Year everyone!

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Jan 3, 09 19:20:30

Add to that list:

-Make more awesome videos.

IMO.

<3

Hokulea

Jan 5, 09 00:01:23

+ 1 Hokulea

All the best for 09 Thomas, your goals are pretty similar to mine....much higher stakes pokerwise sadly, but hopefully we both get there!

Kinda agree with the stop win/stop loss idea, even though Sklansky would say otherwise, if it's + life ev then it's for the best imo.

JonnyCurry