New Years Reflections

I have been playing online for a long time (1999?), ever since a friend got me started at Planet Poker...I remember he said something about having a certain amount of time to make a decision, and I said "WHAT? No way man, that's not enough time!!" LOL Now years later, I am multi-tabling...We just played the free games back then, and I can't remember if I ever funded the account. I do know I won a point tourney which gave me a few bucks and I have been on a small roll ever since. It has not been without a few dips (and a few drunken screw ups), but poker has been fun, as well as good to me. It goes without saying that you run into a lot of unhappy folks online, but on the other hand I have met (either online or in person) some of the best friends I will ever have, all because of this crazy game!!

I was way behind the learning curve as far as chasing bonuses, but I had read something that caught my interest, as I had never taken playing online too seriously. That is pretty much when I started keeping track of things (back in March)...50,000+ hands later, I turned 600 into almost 6K, learned a ton about poker and met some great people.

New Years Resolutions

I read the other day that most people don't get started on resolutions until March, which is a damn good thing because I probably wont even have my list done till then!! I will put procrastination on the "list of things to do" at a later date!!

Some ideas for the list----

Some people want (or try) to play more hours... I play plenty already, so my goal here is to play about the same, but perhaps less tables at a time...I want to take TWO HOURS a week, playing ONE game and actually analyze each and every hand, and take the time to compare it to all I have learned. It doesnt sound like much, but it won't be easy...THINK MORE....

Goal---8PTBB/100 over 20K hands at 100NL.... 200NL full time after that...I have played a little bit more 200, and starting to get comfortable...

Omaha O8---I am probably a break-even player here, but it seems like I could kill this game down the road...I will play more and post more..I will get PTO later today and start paying more attention....

GOAL---nothing specific here-just want to learn more...

I am a pretty good tournament player...I have not won anything worth noting in quite awhile, so---

GOAL---play at least one decent sized MTT per week...

more tourney stuff---last year I really messed up and did not play all the WCOOP qualifiers that I should have. I have a ton of points...

GOAL---that will NOT happen again-play more of 'em

and---

GOAL---purchase one poker book per month

I have more, but I have a few things to do...



It has been a hella year overall---

Bankroll (AKA "retirement fund")
Mar 1st---600
Apr 1st---885
May 1st---1197
June 1st---2022
July 1st---1896
Aug 1st---2050 (+/-)
Sept 1st---2673
Oct 1st---3600 +/-
Nov 1st---4425
Dec 1st---4100
Dec 31st---5750

I spent some money, so------

Just to keep it clean---

Jan 1st, 2006---5000K

and off we go---

GL all