Hi

Im a 23 year old guy looking to logg some hands of plo. Im a full time student with some other side projects, which means that poker will not be my main focus in life. I still want to do this cuz i think i can get to a point were i can make a decent side income from a hobby i love. Will update with weekly and/or monthly goals and graphs and somewhat daily posts and thoughts. The major purpose for this thread is to get back into the poker community, to keep track of my goals, and to make a habbit out of writing about my journey.

It's about 1.5 years since I played my last a hand of poker so can't wait to start the grind!

Will start my grind at plo 8.

November Goals:

Hand Goal:
I will play 3500 hands, 2-5 tables.

Read "The mental game of poker" Goal:
I will read chapter 1-4 (70 pages) and aply it to my game as best as possible. I will write summaries on what I have learned and rather study the book than just read through it.

Forum post and review Goal:
I will review post (my own hands and others) on the forums for 3.5h effective time(about 15min/day in avarage). I think time is a better indicator than number of posts here.

This will be enough for the first couple of weeks and i will evaluate the goals when I'm done and see what i can strive to complete next month (hopefully alot more volume). I will count the start date the 14th november which give me 17 days to complete my first set of goals!

Okey, so here comes the first update!

Hand Goal:
Played 735/3500 hands (21%). month since start date is 11.8% old.

Read "The mental game of poker" Goal:
Read 14/70 pages (20%).

Forum post and review Goal:
Reviewed 0mins (0%).

Will have alot to do in school this week so nice to be ahead with my goals poker wise.
Played okeyish, atleast if I consider it's been years since last time!
Ran better than i played

Hand Goal:
Played 1694/3500 hands (48.4%). month since start date is 41.1% old.
Will post weekly graphs!

Read "The mental game of poker" Goal:
Read 19/70 pages (27%).

Forum post and review Goal:
Reviewed 0.5/3.5h (14%). Reviewed and posted 1 of my hands online, here it is if you wanna take a look:
http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/38...-deep-1490372/

All in all, Im ahead in 1 and behind in 2 goals. Will do some reading tonight and some more reviewing tomorrow so should't be a problem!

Hi gl with your goals!

What site and stakes do you play?

Thanks mate! I play plo8 on svenskaspel (plo50sek). Only for swedish players tho

Hand Goal:
Played 3026/3500 hands (86.5%). Month since start date is 58.8% old.

Read "The mental game of poker" Goal:
Read 38/70 pages (54.3%).

Forum post and review Goal:
Reviewed 1.16/3.5h (33%). At this point in time i think im better of playing more instead of reviewing. because of this i will count the time i fix my hud, fixing studygroup (if im gonna do that) watch poker movies and so on towards this goal.

Still 1 goal ahead and 2 goals behind. Will have 7x2h classes next week so will be pretty busy with school. But happy Im ahead on my biggest goal. Also next month its gonna be an hourly goal instead of number of hands played.

Here is the graph for the week.

Hand Goal:
Played 3505/3500 hands (13hours) (100%)! DONE!!

Read "The mental game of poker" Goal:
Read 70/70 pages (100%). DONE!!

Forum post and review:
Reviewed 3.5h/3.5h (100%). DONE!!


Here is my graph since start and som reflection over this month. The results are great, up 12ish buy-ins and I think Im playing pretty okey, considering my big break from poker before this (even tho there is ALOT to work on). Much work in school but home sick the last week being really unproductive. Will catch up with school this weekend.





The next set of Goals will be a little different. Hands -> hours instead. And my other goals will merge and form a "Work on your mental game" hourly goal which is alot better measurement than pages read. At the moment I'm glad with just playing and working on my mental game. I will also review all my hands i mark but that is how far i will go strategy wise in december.

December Goals!


Goal 1: Volume - 50 hours played
I will go on a trip with my gf and her parents to Barcelona in the end of the month so I will try to accomplish this goal before the 25th december.

Goal 2: Working on my mental game - 10 hours
This is reading "the mental game of poker" by Jared, working and studying his material, Using his material to improve as a poker player and improving the way im seeing and learning poker.

Goal 3: Review/post marked hands - All of them
This will be done the same day or the day after the hands are played, when i have reviewed/posted them they will be unmarked from my database. You will find a link to all my posted hands in my updates.

Nice idea to document your progress of reading poker literature.

Good luck with your goals.

Ty.

Been really busy with school. Had one exam this week and will have one more tomorrow. After that It's only poker from the 16th-25th when i leave for barcelona! Will work really hard to get my goals done by then.

Played a couple of hours yesterday and here is a monthly graph and updates on my progress.

Goal 1: Volume - 50 hours played
5.56/50h (11.1%) Month is 41.9% old. But no worries. Will start putting in the volume from tomorrow and forward.

Goal 2: Working on my mental game - 10 hours
0/10h (0%) Same as above.

Goal 3: Review/post marked hands - All of them
12 hands to review at the moment. Will have to keep an eye on this so the chunk don't get bigger and bigger.

Some time since my last update. Had som good volume days but overall disappointed how the month turned out. Reall nothing to blame it on, just have to work alot harder next month. Barcelona was really really nice and will go away tomorrow to celebrate new years so wont play more this year.

Goal 1: Volume - 50 hours played
28.07/50h (56.1%). FAIL

Goal 2: Working on my mental game - 10 hours
1.5/10h (15%) FAIL

Goal 3: Review/post marked hands - All of them
8 hands to review at the moment. FAIL

The only good thing with December poker-wise is that Im up 32 buy-ins. 20 at PLO7 and 12 at PLO15. Could have been more if i made m goals!!!



Januari 2015 Goals!

Goal 1: Volume - 50 hours played
Will have some studying to do (school) but will work really hard to make this Goal, also, START EARLIER!!

Goal 2: Working on my mental game - 8 hours
This is reading "the mental game of poker" by Jared, working and studying his material, Using his material to improve as a poker player and improving the way im seeing and learning poker.

Goal 3: Review/post marked hands - All of them
This will be done the same day or the day after the hands are played, when i have reviewed/posted them they will be unmarked from my database. You will find a link to all my posted hands in my updates.

Goal 4: Write 2 Articles/Essays/whateveryouwantocallthem.
The first will be about Preflop play from the blinds (singel raised and not BvB) and the second will be on Calling 3bets . The reason i choose this particular topics is that im weak here and need to improve. Will work with it the whole month and then post it here.

Update?

Okey, long time since update. Have been a really slow start this month, took a couple of days to recover from new year and had an exam the 12january, also been really really lazy some days. I only played 1h the first 12 days. But making up for it this week since Im free from school (almost).

Goal 1: Volume - 50 hours played
6,31/50 (12.6%), pace is 41.9%

Goal 2: Working on my mental game - 8 hours
0.42/8 (5.2%). Even tho the progress is small i feel am doing better and better in the mental game, a little step at a time.

Goal 3: Review/post marked hands - All of them
12 hands to review atm!

Goal 4: Write 2 Articles/Essays/whateveryouwantocallthem.
Haven't even started yet. (will do it tonight or tomorrow morning)

Will log a session now and do a new update later this week

Hello all again! (after 1.5 years)

This is like the 4th or 5th time i start poker again after quiting during a small downswing. As always I am determined to make this the time were i don't quit! I liked my way of setting goals in this thread and since I still want to persue Omaha I will continue here.

I have 2 weeks before school ends and after that 3 month of full-time poker play. I hope to log 300-400 hours during the summer but since I still got school this month I will start small.

May 2016 Goals! (11days)

Goal 1: Volume - 10 hours played
I am starting small because of school and the fact that I want to achive my first goal to get some motvation going!

Goal 2: To-do - 3 main things
- Order a new computer screen
- Order a new computer chair
- Fix the hud like I have it on my old computer.

So, lets do an update. Glad to say that I played alot yesterday and today and that i fixed my HUD. Yesterday was meh but today was great. Atm Im playing plo5 zoom but I think I will start with plo10 zoom tomorrow and don't look back (redeposit if i get low on cash). This is because I think Im atleast BE at plo10 zoom. But we will see.

Goal 1: Volume - 10 hours played
6.7/10 (67%), pace is 18,2%

Goal 2: To-do - 3 main things
1/3 (33.3%)

Have some school-stuff now monday-wednesday so will see how much poker I will play. Will try to atleast review the hands that i have marked from this weekand.

Quick update!

Goal 1: Volume - 10 hours played
18.33/10 (183%), pace is 63,6% DONE!!!

Goal 2: To-do - 3 main things
1/3 (33.3%)

Got a computer screen from a friend that Im going to try out (so not quite done there yet) and hopefully will order a new share this weekand! Play is going good (im up some buy-ins), seems maybe a little bit soofter now when it's "omaha week" but don't really know since I cant compare to anything else than plo5 before the week started. Will keep grinding plo10!

Monthly update!

May:

Goal 1: Volume - 10 hours played
24,4/10 (244%) CRUSHED IT!!!

Goal 2: To-do - 3 main things
2/3 (66.6%) FAIL!

Happy with the "month" bought a new computer screen but I think Im gonna wait to buy a new chair so don't care that I did not make the goal there.
Some results from May:

Pokerstars
Hands played: 9044
Winnings: +168$
(EV winnings: +77$)
Rakeback/bonuses/freerolls: +44$

Svenskaspel
Hands played: 359
Winnings: -51$

Total winnings: +161$

I will post June plan and goals later today!

June 2016 Goals! (30days)

Goal 1: Volume - 150 hours played
I will play on both Svenskaspel and Pokerstar.

Goal 2: Review hands - 150
I will try to review my own hands after most of my sessions. This number is really not the most improtant thing, the most important thing is that I make a habbit of reviewing!

Weekly goals (4 days):

[ ] - Study 1 poker video
[ ] - Start working on my mental game
[ ] - Learn to calculate all straight out combinations faster
[ ] - Follow my intution more times than not (I often call etc. when I know it's a fold)
[ ] - Reduce the times I look at results/graph both in and out of the game
[ ] - Keep working with Propokertools and learn new things
[ ] - Read and post on the forum

After reviewing and thinking about my June Goals I have decided to change them. Atm I feel that I'm all over the place and don't have a really good study-plan at all and I think this affect how much time I am motivated to study the game. Because of this I will make a better learning/studying plan from here on. I will go down to play 120h this month and instead focus a little bit more on 3 issues that I think can improve my winrate.

My main focus in June will be:

1. Study Cbet and Cbet Turn - I feel I have a good grasp on when to Cbet but I really don't have a reason on why I make certain plays, this I need to improve. At Turn I feel that I'm loosing value and there is no real game-plan at all. I will focus and improve on this by:

- Be extra aware of this spots while I play.
- Reviewing all the Cbet and Cbet Turn hands where I'm uncertain about my play.
- View 1 video on Cbet and 1 on Cbet Turn.
- Look for hands online to comment/post on this matter.



2. Learn to calculate SPR, Outs and Odds better - I rarely calculate the SPR when I play, I'm not that good at calculating outs for different wraps and I need an better understanding of odds and implied odds, I will focus and improve on this by:

- Be present In the moment and take time in every decision to consider the math.
- Mark all the hands where I'm uncertain about the math and review them.
- Learn the different wraps and how to calculate outs (off-table).
- Look for tips and tricks online how to improve on this problems



3. Learn how to use the aggression stats - I never really use the aggression stats on my HUD and to be completely honest I really don't know how to use them, I don't know what is high/low and so on, This i will focus and improve on by:

- Research online for clues how to use them and what to think about.
- Take notice of ppl's agression stats and how it compares to how they play and thier other stats




June Goals (30days):

Goal 1 - Volume - 120h
As a wrote before, I will take down the hours in order to study more and have a better overall approach to poker.

Goal 2 - Review hands - All the hands that I mark
The amount really dosen't matter, the improving part is the most important and if I improve by reviewing 20 hands i depth or 200 hands more shallow I don't know at this moment, so I will not have a # goal here. I will instead strive to review all the hands that I mark and if it consumes to much of my time I will just review the most important hands. Therefore I will not keep count of how many I'm reviewing.