2009 Poker Aims - We really mean it this time

El Stuntman

nought from four is pretty good imo :pac:

in 2009...

I will buy a jumper like YULETIRED's

I will also learn to love the Fitz

I will stop tipping beggars

I will play Omaha for the craic

I will win a meelion dollahs

DeadParrot

DeadParrot wrote:

Not to play drunk Fail
Qualify for the Irish Open Fail
Win a decent buyin live tourney (€200+) Fail
Play Live more Fail...played live about 6 times all year
Apply Proper B/R management Pass...kinda, point one killed it though
Beat Omaha at 2/4 Pass for a few months, then had to withdrawn large % of BR due to unforeseen conditions
Not to play drunk Fail

Lets try the same again for 2009 :rolleyes:

ianmc38

My ambitions for 2009 both poker and non poker related (starting at my poker new year - March 2009)

1. Train for and compete in a triathlon.
2. Progress from 1 to half ironman.
3. Learn Chinese and Spanish.
4. Learn to play guitar.
5. Play 40k hands a month minimum.
6. Earn 250k+
7. Take serious shots at good 25/50 games
8. Look into some form of alternative investment opportunity/business startup

Tight Ted

100,000 hands would be great.

Maybe work on my tournament game? One tournament a week or something.

Become a respected member of Boards.ie

edit: To go a whole year without busting due to tilt would be fan ****ing tastic too.

reedit: I will learn how to play PLO.

rereedit: Become a h.o.r.s.e expert.

cuterob

for 2009:
- play only plo cash online so i can become the next milkybarkid
- stop having gratuitous amounts of sex..we only get one willy..it's bet off me
- drink less and get high more

eagle eye

1. Qualify on Party Poker for wsop.

2. Get to Vegas and win a bundle on a cash table.

3. Go out and fall for a stripper/con artist

4. Wake up the next morning in my hotel room to find I have been robbed of all my money and ridden by the dirty stripper.

5. Go deep and cash big in the wsop.

It was 'Hawk'eye last year it has to me this year.:D

RasTa

2009

Hit up Vegas again,

Also to sat into a 5 figure buy-in tourney

Maybe start playing some NL again although I can't see it happening.

TripleAce

2009 Goals:

1 - Play less poker (max 15 hours/week).

2 - Online:

- Play only HU SNG and Deep stack tournaments.
- Play the 12.5k guarantee on iPoker at least twice a week.
- Do not play any turbo SNG or fast structure tournaments (fail this even before starting 2009).
- Find a poker room that offers good loyalty program so I don't need to open a new account every 3 weeks. :mad:

3 - Live

- Luckbox my way through a big event by winnning 20 coin-flips in a row.

4 - Improve bankroll management and stop tilting. :rolleyes:

5 - Stop losing 80% of races in high-buy in events and continue winning 80% of races in small buy-in tournaments.

6 - Don't allow poker to put me in bad mood and enjoy the game

a-k-47

2008 was a bit of a disaster for me, played very little cash, no big bi live tournaments, only played a few ecoop2 cashing in 3, withdrew roll to travel, so now back to busto levels.

2009 (dec 08)

* Get a few decent donkaments scores in oz. Starting next monday in the $200 fo.
* Wait until im finished travelling ( should be early/mid 09 ) and deposit 20bi for 50nl and grind it out and hopefully be back to 200nl this time next year.
* Play the sun mill / warm up at least twice a month. Have yet to play these.

smurph

smurph wrote: »

2007 Poker

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2008 goals

POKER
1. Qualify for the Irish open - Done - yepee

2. Qualify for the WSOP Failed

3. Stop overplaying medium pocket pairs (your were right Nicky:rolleyes:). Improved there

4. Win a €500 + tournament, Failed

5. Arrange a Boards home cash game. Failed

6. try to be nice to Bob Battersby Completely Failed

NON POKER

1. lose Weight, and stop whinging about it. Still whinging

2. Go on holidays to a Country ive never been to done

3. Try not kill someone in a fit of roadrage on the M50 Didn't kill anyone but close

4. Prepare the spare Room for the overnight parties when IKEA opens (Ikea Not opened yet)

5. Learn a different language (besides Waffle)Tried to learn sign language (nephew who is deaf), but the evening classes have been cancelled each time, sigh

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2009 goals

POKER
1. Qualify for the Irish open -

2. Qualify for the WSOP

3. Win a €500 + tournament

4. Try to be nice to Bob Battersby

NON POKER

1. lose Weight, and stop whinging about it, make a bigger effort his year

2. Go on holidays to a Country ive never been to

3. Try not to get so stressed out in work, remember lifes too short

4. Prepare the spare Room for the overnight parties when IKEA opens

5. Try to find a place to learn Sign Language

6. Keep in touch with non poker friends more.

Unfortunately the new years resolution for next year are a bit of a rinse and repeat for me.

5starpool

As sorta promised, here is the shiny new thread. There are possibly one or two posts I missed that I should have missed, but I think I got most of them, and since El S started the one last year, it is fitting that his is the first in post this one too.

shoutman

I didn't make any goals last year but I'm going to set realistically low goals for the year.

By this time next year I want to be either

1) Playing 100nl or above, or playing(and being properly bankrolled for) $30 sngs.

2) Be a better poker player then I was at the start of '09

3) Play in a 4 figure buy in live event.

4) Play in a three figure buy in online event.

FeetMagic

- Get back in shape will be top of my list in non-poker aims. Start running and going to the gym again.
- Put more effort into my diet (what I eat rather than losing weight) and health in general as Im sure this can only help my poker.
- Qualify for some of the big Irish tourneys and travel to them.
- Try to make 50k+ and be comfortable playing 2-4 and 3-6 online.
- Cut down on the amount of "recreational" poker I play and focus it on it entirely as a job.

nicnicnic

play a single table tv tournament (they look easy)

never bet on the all weather kempton meetings

cooker3

*Become much more balanced
*Travel
*Be playing and beating 400nl or above
*To improve and be able to look back 12 months on and realised how much I sucked
*Learn a different variant
*Play some sats for some big live tournaments
*Not look back with regret

HoLLLLLaments

nicnicnic wrote: »

play a single table tv tournament (they look easy)

never bet on the all weather kempton meetings

great leighs>kempton

OpenEnded

nicnicnic wrote: »

never bet on the all weather kempton meetings

this

and great leighs can fuck off to wherever it came from too

Jason_Kabia

cooker3 wrote: »

*Become much more balanced
*To improve and be able to look back 12 months on and realised how much I sucked

these will do me, although im starting to think 1 is an impossible goal for me personally .

edit: oh and winning >20% of flips would be awesome

Duff Man Jr.

no house games.

Radian10

-To never cashout when i'm in the process of moving up levels!(Fcuk's me up)

-To quit gambling on horses

-To qualify for the Galway ME through a Eglinton sat

-To qualify for the Irish open

-To quit smoking

-To play more tourneys

-To play more PLO and O8

-To not go near the stud tables when i'm drunk!

YULETIRED

1. To keep up my fashion contract with River Island and hopefully once agian to become' the torso' of their Gansey Spring collection ( Stunty claspes his hands in excitement)
2. To be let off with murder by a poker playing judge after I'm found guilty of fatally tripping a slowroller into oncoming traffic outside the Fitz
3 To play the Irish Open agian, only this time my QQs to hold up agianst a smaller pair to enable me to take a shot at the title as opposed to nursing my remaining chips into the money.
4. To become a star attraction at Vegas and during breaks slip out to watch the WSOP and hopefully get into a war of words with the poker brat in the lobby.
5. To invite a stripper up to my hotel room and whilst she is lying there I'll rob her blind and do a legger and mill out the back stairs.
6. To release my sex tape onto the internet to ruin the thrill of the chase for those spying in my bedroom window at night ( you know who you are girls)
7. To adopt orphaned rodents and raise them to adulthood, (out of guilt for murdering thier parents this last year)
8. To print out red jokers 2k post and have it translated by Graham Baitson from mandarin chinese into simple English.....(so Tony Flushdraw and I can understand it)
9. To open my own poker skin and gain superuser access and also rig the site for as long as I can get away with it. ( I realise this has been done by PPP and GJP amongst others but I will do it properly)
10 To return to my home planet for a brief visit to recharge my superpowers.
11. to meddle in the black arts, drink virgin blood and hopefully learn how to administer savage Hexes on people.

El Stuntman

YULETIRED wrote: »

1. To keep up my fashion contract with River Island and hopefully once agian to become' the torso' of their Gansey Spring collection ( Stunty claspes his hands in excitement)

I can hardly wait

Goodluck2me

Play in the IO
Play in an EPT
Play less
Win a huge donkament

digiman

Play in Irish Open
Play in WSOP ME and a side event
Have a 5 figure cash in tournament
Play online super sats for big tournaments
Make $50k+ from online cash
Have played 25k hands at 5/10

5starpool

My main 2009 aim is this:

Win moar money than this year!!!!

jimbling

I had no poker ambitions for 2008, and it shows. Having a very poor year considering I won a few big MTTs early on.

I'm a worse poker player than I was this time last year. I no longer study the game. I no longer think about hands once they're complete. I have lost all discipline. I'm way way too spewy.
To think I was once playing 5/10 and 10/20 regularly on the old tribeca.... oh, how times change.



Poker Ambitions for 2009:
Quit MTTs*
Re-Educate myself
Get back into the Cash game. Start on .50/1 with a BR of 5k. Work from there. Try to adhere to relatively strict BR management.
After 3/4 months get some coaching.
Beating 1/2NL by year end.
Try not to take too many shots at 5/10 until I'm ready :rolleyes:

* No way I'm going to be able to quit. So, limit MTTs to the sunday warm-up and qualifiers to major live tournaments.


Non-Poker Ambitions for 2009:
Get my company through this very rough patch and come out the other side shinning bright.
Achieve the company projections for 2009 in order to get my big fat bonus
Give up smoking
Stop spending frivolously on stuff I never use.
Shave my Head*
Get a soapy massage sandwich when I'm in Bangkok.
Make more use of my harley which has just sat out the back for an entire year.
Try not to crash my car**

* Really want to know what I look like bald, as it's only a matter of time anyway
** twice already this year, once in my piece of crap, once in my beautiful M3

death1234567

2009 goals

POKER
1. Qualify for the Irish open

2. Qualify for the WSOP

NON POKER

1. Regain the will to live.

hf4z6sqo7vjngi

Personal
1. Loose a stone in weight and build on fitness levels.
2. Complete a triathlon.
3. Look to buy another property investment abroad.
4. Get the new Warehouse up and running in work.

Poker
1. Final table at least 3 of the large events next year.
2. $150,000 profit between live and online.
3. Play a minimum of 6k hands a month online.
4. Be consistently playing and beating the higher plo levels.

funnyname

Poker

1. Play live at least once a fortnight

2. Sat into a live £500 buyin tournament

3. Read in full some of the poker theory books I've bought in the last 3 years

4. Try to have separate live and online BRs by the end of the year

Non-poker

1. Break 100 in golf


I might add more by the end of the month

thedini

Poker

1: Read some poker books.(playing for years,have never read any).
2. Gain more disipline/ seperate life roll from poker roll rather than just saying sure what does it matter.
3. Qualify/ Play in a big buy-in event.
4. Stop playing super-turbo HU matches when I am bored.

Non-Poker

1.Do some exercise will ya.
2.Don't bring the clan on hols to Spain in May( rained this year).
3.Get over to see UTD more than once.
4.Break 90 in golf.

Lao Lao

Never put up any goals for 2008 so am going to throw up a few for 2009 - some are quite lofty but you gotta aim high!!

Poker

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To qualify and cash in at least 2 GUKPT ME's
To qualify and cash in at least 2 GCBPT ME's
To win a live donkament with a buy-in of €250+
To put in a minimum of 10K hands a week online
To be playing and beating $1/$2 online for a minimum of 3.5BB/100
To dog Ecktor with 73o for a 1K pot
To pay off my mortgage solely from poker winnings

Non Poker

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To go back and learn how to play the guitar (actually make an effort this time)
To swim a minimum of 5 miles each week
To learn French
To set time aside each week to finally finish my book
To write more in general
To get out with the camera more often
To get into the IFI once a week to see a new film
To do another wine course and possibly take one of the exams

I think they should keep me busy in 2009!

Poker:

Play less and learn to enjoy the game again
Put a proper roll online and actually learn to play this game properly.

Non-Poker

Qualify for the Bar
Break 100 in golf
Complete my Woodbadge
Score with a f**king header this season (I've hit the crossbar 4 times this year!!)

RedJoker

YULETIRED wrote: »

8. To print out red jokers 2k post and have it translated by Graham Baitson from mandarin chinese into simple English.....(so Tony Flushdraw and I can understand it)

Now I have to go and learn mandarin chinese before I can start working on my 2k post, thanks Willie :mad:.

Hawk Eye

poker

• win lots of money
• play more live events and work on my live game

non-poker

• learn to drive and pass test
• put on a stone
• read more
• be able to bench 85kg, squat 100 and deadlift 110 for 5 reps
  only recently started barbell lifts.
• learn a new recipe every 2 weeks

aya14

Hawk Eye wrote: »

poker

• win lots of money
• play more live events and work on my live game

non-poker

• learn to drive and pass test
• put on a stone
• read more
• be able to bench 85kg, squat 100 and deadlift 110 for 5 reps
  only recently started barbell lifts.
• learn a new recipe every 2 weeks

not to fall asleep while the lady of the night is still in the room

cardshark202

Be more disciplined about getting the hands in
Be close to fluent in spanish or totally fluent si es posible
Don't fcuk up in the WSOP ME again
Continue to improve my cooking
Less time wasted playing online risk and other such games.
Get better at football
Make 300k+ to do this I need to play good more consitently and work harder on my game

HiCloy

Next year I will...
- Play more hands
- More theory, get better at datamining etc
- Start playing online NL cash as well again
- Qualify for Irish Open and play well at
- Play at least one other decent tournament
- Get more exercise, drink less, eat better

The_Chopper

Poker
Run better
Earn more than 1100 per month
Win 2 tournaments buy in 300+

Non Poker
Find a job and a good career path
Get fitter
Continue my CIMA exams
Take down my xmas tree

smoothcall

Alayah Yellow Tendon wrote: »

Poker
1. Final table at least 3 of the large events next year.

hmm, playing about ~10 large tourneys. Final table at least 3 , gotta love the abition fran... gl

hf4z6sqo7vjngi

smoothcall wrote: »

hmm, playing about ~10 large tourneys. Final table at least 3 , gotta love the abition fran... gl

ye i will be back on here with epic fail in 2010

tonc76

Poker

Read some of the poker books that I have 6 months
Post lots more in the theory thread
Build roll
Qualify for sunday million / sunday brag regulalry
Have a serious go at cash

Life
Join gym on my doorstep (that I can expense) and get fit for possibly last year of hurling/football
Win a final in hurling/football
Eat a breakfast before going to work
Eat a healthy diet
Teach the pup to stop pissing everywhere but the "designated area"

TripleAce

cardshark202 wrote: »

Less time wasted playing online risk and other such games.

Where can you play online risk? any link?

cardshark202

TripleAce wrote: »

Where can you play online risk? any link?

on facebook, its called attack

Hectorjelly

A few people have mentioned Triathalons. I'm planning on doing one myself. Do any of you have one in mind? It might be a good idea to all do the same race

BigCityBanker

Hectorjelly wrote: »

A few people have mentioned Triathalons. I'm planning on doing one myself. Do any of you have one in mind? It might be a good idea to all do the same race

whats a triathalon exactly - i feel the mother of all prop bets coming on. :pac:

Hectorjelly

A standard olympic triathalon is

1.5 km (0.93 mi) Swimming
40 km (24.8 mi) Cycling
10 km(6.2 mi) Running

sickpuppy

Swim a run and a cycle Noel swim usually shortest distance
then the run and cycle is longest distance.

sickpuppy

Surely theres anoobs distance too .

El Stuntman

BigCityBanker wrote: »

whats a triathalon exactly

like a round of each game but with exercise instead

the desire to 'do' one afflicts certain people when they hit their 30s and realise they're O.....L....D

BigCityBanker

sickpuppy wrote: »

Surely theres anoobs distance too .

ya, i can harldy drive those distances without falling asleep at the wheel - im sure there are shorter ones also.

jbravado

I would offer a pretty big price that no one from the forum completes a triathalon in the next 12 months.
Unless you a very competent swimmer it is a HUGE ask and requires a level of training and fitness that I doubt many poker players have/or would be able to achieve.