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June Goals

Posted by PimpinDonks on June 1st, 2009. Tagged:

I wanted to share some of my goals with you guys for June. When I set goals I like to set activity goals for myself. What I mean by this is the number of sng's to play or hands of cash games. This is contrary to what some players do. Some players set result oriented goals like I want to 10k this month. That type of goal is completely dependent on how you run. If you run good you could hit that goal by the 15th of the month, and now what do you take the rest of the month off? If you run bad but work your ass off should you feel disapointed? So the only thing you can control is how much you play. It is also important to break your goals down to a managable daily level. So for the month of June my goal is to play 1500 45man/90man sngs on full tilt.

When you hit your goal it is also important you reward yourself. So I have had my eye on a new Ford Escape Hybrid SUV. Normally, I don't I buy a new car for hitting my goals. But I have been working hard this year and I am going to do it if I meet my goal. I know the money will be there when I play 1500. If I run normally I will pocket $20,000 for the month. If I play 1500 I should also be in strong contention to win full tilts mtt leaderboard for the month.

If you guys did not know I am also married and I have a 3 year old daughter. So this vehicle will work out nice for us. I am also into helping the earth when I can so the hybrid feature is nice for that.

So when I play 25 days out of the month, I need to play 60 sngs per day. When I am 16 tabling them it takes me about 6 hours to play 60 of them. So when I break it down it looks pretty easy.

June update

Posted by PimpinDonks on June 10th, 2009. Tagged:

I wanted to give you guys a quick update as of June 10th. I have played 485 sngs and mtts. I have been playing some mtts which has cut down on the number of sngs I have been playing. I final tabled the $50 rebuy on full tilt yesterday. I finished 6th for $1200. I get the urge to play mtts every once in while.

I have been running pretty crappy this month until today. I played 66 sngs today and scored $3,200. So it was a good day and I am pretty much on pace to hit my goal of 1500 sngs this month.

June Update #2

Posted by PimpinDonks on June 22nd, 2009. Tagged:

I have not been able to play poker for the last 4 days now. I found out fulltilt ran sng madness too, so it really sucks that I missed that. When I play poker I like to have at least 4 hours in a row to play. I have had 2 graduation parties to go too. Also, my wife and I hosted a party at our house as well which took a lot of preparation. Also, I spent an entire day playing cash games. I like to play the different forms of poker just to keep it fresh and interesting to me.

When I set my goals at the start of the month I did not think about all of these unforseen days off. I have come to the conclusion that I need to readjust my original goals as things happen. Readjusting your goals is fine to do as long as the are realistic, attainable and will push you to work harder.

At the start of the month I was playing more of the $26 45-man and 90-man sngs. Recently though I have been playing $109 and $216 9-man nonturbo sngs. I have done the math on it and it looks like I will make more money per hour from those. So I will play the $75 45-men and the $109,$216 9-men on fulltilt. The problem with this though is they don't start up very often. So I am going to have to get used to playing only 4-8 tables at once, which can lead to boredom for me.

So I will be back at the tables on Tuesday June, 23rd. I do have another graduation party next weekend. So I have about 6 working days left. In that time I want to play 240 of the sngs I mentioned above. 40 per day with my win rate will generate $4500 in income if I run average.