2009 results / 2010 goals

[Birkin]

I can't be bothered to type it all again so I'm just pasting from my blog:

2009 was my first year playing online poker seriously, and I'm pretty happy with the progress I've made from my initial $50 deposit back on Jan 2nd 2009. I definately should be playing higher, and my bankroll should definately been bigger, seeing that I didn't even play 1/2 of the hands I planned to in the summer. I feel I've learned a lot over the past year, and am pretty embarrassed about how I thought about poker during the UKSPC in April.

Due to my laptop breaking about 5 times this year, I can't actually post any yearly graphs, and only have the hands I played on Betfair in my DB. I guess $1k profit isn't too bad for someone who plays as little as me! To be honest, this year was more about gaining a better understanding of poker, and putting myself in a position to make money in future. I'd definately have taken the result at the beginning of the year.

After careful consideration, here are my 2010 goals:

Get a 2.1 or better in 2nd year.
Play at least 100,000 hands (hopefully 150k)
Be playing at least 100NL by the end of the year
Get more motivated to play poker, and to do uni work
Never play underrolled or shot take

I'm not going to set any monetary goals, but would be happy with a $2.5k year

The number of hands really depends on what I'm doing in the summer. Right now I'm planning on getting a job in a diabetes clinic or something, but I don't have to work all summer so I should have plenty of time to play.

As far as the next few weeks, I think I'm going to be playing the $2 180man turbos on Stars just as a way of building my roll until I can play 50NL. I can play a lot more tables than I can with cash, so its just a faster way of getting there. Hopefully I can be playing 50NL by April/May, it's just up to me to get the volume in really.

So there are my goals, hopefully I won't feel disappointed this time next year!

[igisjana]

I can count to potato!

[tony89]

Hey mate, good luck with your goals. The most important thing I've learned about poker is that the rewards are directly correlated with the effort you put in. However, in my opinion one of the hardest things in starting in online poker is building the initial bankroll to play stakes where you can actually make ok money. Those $2 tournaments will be high variance and pretty time consuming to build up a bankroll with. I say this because I'm considering getting into staking people for 50nl upwards and am looking for potential horses. Is it 6 max you play? I'm mainly looking for people to play 50-200nl heads up as this is what I could help people with most as I don't play much 6 max. Let me know if you are interested and I'll explain the details better.

[Birkin]

Thanks for the offer Tony, I've only really had any experience playing 6max cash, so I wouldn't be a good horse to stake for HU. I'd like to play 50NL on my own dime if possible, but I might need to make withdrawals in the summer to pay for shit, so I could be interested later. I'll let you know.

Oh, and I know the turbos are high variance, but after doing all my revision I can't be bothered to think when playing poker. I can just autopilot the turbos and make a similar hourly to 25NL.

[tony89]

Cool no problem. Good luck with the goals, honestly, if you put the effort into learning and thinking about the game the rewards will follow. My goals for the year are to stop tilting/autopiloting, focus on improving a lot esp. by reviewing hands after sessions, be playing $2knl+ by the end of the year and to make $100k+. Pretty sure if I don't do these things in 2010 I probably never will.

[tiltsman_hunter]

my goal for 2010 is to tilt as many people as possible