A review of my goals
In my last post I posted a bunch of goals. As I have progressed through this month, I really haven't achieved all of my goals, but I haven't tried to either. It seems to me that goals are apparently best used to guide you in the right direction, and then you have to acheive your actual best medium, which may or may not fulfill the said goal. However, it is necessarily to follow and try to reach every one of your goals if, after starting them and being more knowledgable about the necessity of them, you still deem them essential.
Last month I didn't play that well. So this month I came up with all these things to do differently, when a lot of it turned out to be mental, which I am finding out is SO SO SO SO critical in poker. I'll quickly run over my goals and how they developed, since I am about to pass out from exhaustion:
1) Sweat other players more
Didn't happen. I think what wound up happening was me looking over my hands more, and thinking about different lines and how to play in an unorthodox manner.
2) Try to play more HU
I've played about 80% of my hands this month HU and it has definetely benefitted me unbelieveably. I've become a force HU.
3) Game Select More
I did this very well until about 2 days ago, which I blame my good month for. However, in the next couple days I am going to cool off a little, and really focus on this more since I feel it is invaluable.
4) Avoid playing NL5000
Heh. Didn't really happen, but I definetely waited until I was prepared mentally, and also waited until I was up a lot from the month overall so a big hit wouldn't spiral me into depression
5) 50k
I achieved this goal already. Twice ;).
Sorry for the brevity of this post, but I promise I will have more soon. Tomorrow (today at this point in time) is me 3 year anniversary with my girlfriend, so I will be excitedly celebrating that. Afterwards, I have plans on 3 new topics to discuss in my posts:
1) Mental Aspect of playing
2) Setting hand number goals/hours
3) Balancing poker with lifestyle/relationships
By that point, it will be the end of May and I'll throw in a summary thread.
Until then, play well and only play when you are mentally prepared.
Greg
Last month I didn't play that well. So this month I came up with all these things to do differently, when a lot of it turned out to be mental, which I am finding out is SO SO SO SO critical in poker. I'll quickly run over my goals and how they developed, since I am about to pass out from exhaustion:
1) Sweat other players more
Didn't happen. I think what wound up happening was me looking over my hands more, and thinking about different lines and how to play in an unorthodox manner.
2) Try to play more HU
I've played about 80% of my hands this month HU and it has definetely benefitted me unbelieveably. I've become a force HU.
3) Game Select More
I did this very well until about 2 days ago, which I blame my good month for. However, in the next couple days I am going to cool off a little, and really focus on this more since I feel it is invaluable.
4) Avoid playing NL5000
Heh. Didn't really happen, but I definetely waited until I was prepared mentally, and also waited until I was up a lot from the month overall so a big hit wouldn't spiral me into depression
5) 50k
I achieved this goal already. Twice ;).
Sorry for the brevity of this post, but I promise I will have more soon. Tomorrow (today at this point in time) is me 3 year anniversary with my girlfriend, so I will be excitedly celebrating that. Afterwards, I have plans on 3 new topics to discuss in my posts:
1) Mental Aspect of playing
2) Setting hand number goals/hours
3) Balancing poker with lifestyle/relationships
By that point, it will be the end of May and I'll throw in a summary thread.
Until then, play well and only play when you are mentally prepared.
Greg
posted by Greg at 5/22/2007 02:48:00 AM
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