Story: Washed up, 40ish, Las Vegas bartender, trying to get my act together. Most of my pokering has been live LHE, live 1/2, and micro FR online. Worked up a 2/5 roll and then spent it on bills, drinking, partying, video poker, etc... busto.

Needless to say, I have some goals:

HUSNGs- I have fallen (back) in love with poker. Been playing $5 w/ some success and want to continue. I plan on playing 16 per day (volume sucks, married, kids, job) and moving up w/ 40BI. One exception, whenever I get up 4BI for the day I'll take a shot at next level.

MTTs- 20% of weekly profit goes to an MTT

LLSNL- After my online roll reaches 4k, I'll pull out 2k and start playing live again.

QUIT SMOKING/DRINKING- My daughter asked me to quit smoking and drinking (soulcrush). I've struggled w/ drugs and alcohol for about 6 years, time to give it up. I'm going to smoke once per day for a week, then once every other day, then every two, etc...

Drinking will be tougher... No drinking and driving (already have DUI), no drinking around the fam, start back at AA.

WORK OUT- I'm in horrible shape! Worst of my life... I'm going to start working out once per day, BURPEES and sit ups. I'll max out on both today and then develop a plan.

Sports Betting- I bet a little sports so I'll post (and track) my picks here. No goals here other than getting back into it.

Will post graphs as soon as I figure out how to.

Thanks!

Sounds good ..goodluck m8.

Here's my gorph so far (minus a few games from today):

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Today's sessions were a little brutal. Bad players just getting run over by the deck and hitting everything. Anyway, I made my volume goal.

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Side: I did notice that I sat longer between games than usual. I might have to add to my goals...

Also, Marlins +140

See Yah!

Have not hit my volume goals for the past two days. Really, I've been pretty fail on all of my goals.

BUT...

I stopped off for a beer after work a few days ago and hit a royal playing dollars. So, now I'm like:
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I proceeded to get really drunk and played 1/2 for about 12 hours. I wound up winning 3BI's before calling it quits. I really fell off the wagon as far as my drinking and smoking goals. I had a good time though.

Anyway, today's graf followed by my results for the challenge so far:

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Sports graf:
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Later.

gl with this

the drinking and smoking thing should be pretty tough. I imagine having the motivation of your child specifically asking you to stop would be good. Hopefully you can get your health in order.


gl with the poker as well.

GL!

I failed at my volume goal again but still had a decent day. I'm going to work on putting some hands up but honestly, at this level there are very few of interest.

GORPHS! Todays results, followed by my challenge so far, and then sports. Had Padres today +173...

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That's it for now. Tomorrow I'm going to make sure to:

1. Actually make my volume goal
2. Post some picks BEFORE the games start
3. Work Out
4. No Smoking
5. No Drinking

I'm actually playing right now and feel stupid for posting this but I wanted to try posting a hand. noob.

I just thought this was funny:

Today sucks. I reached my volume goal but I'm not very happy about it.

Today's results:
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My challenge so far:
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I think I may need to modify my approach to this challenge. It seems like the more tournies I play, the worse I play. That's not good. I really think I get more enjoyment from knowing that I played my best than from anything else. I'm not sure setting monetary or volume goals is good for me.

Observe:
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I did some thinking and have decided to modify my challenge. Trying to reach a volume goal just tilts me and pushes me off my A game. I think I'll be happier focusing on playing when I can play my best every hand. No more volume goals.

My modified goal is to grind up a 4k bank (starting from $200) which I'll then split between 1/2NL and $50husngs.

All the other goals are the same... just got back from a run.

Thanks for all replies.

I know this thread is weak so far but I will get my act together.

This thread sucks... I suck at poker... I suck at life.

I have learned some stuff though.

One thing I have learned since starting this thread is that I have almost no control over my behavior. One of my goals was to quit smoking. I've smoked every day (minus one) since I started my challenge. I drink everyday, and I mean DRINK, until I'm wasted. Then I drive home even though I'm currently going through legal issues concerning a DUI. I don't hit my volume goals. I don't really pay attention when I play... I don't even try. fail.

I've also learned that I have some weird ego issues that surface while I'm playing. Once I get some evidence that I'm a better player than my competition, I believe they should just conceed the match (and money) to me. I get frustrated (tilty) at how looong the match is taking when I "deserve" to win. I have this subconcious version of poker in my head where the money goes to the person who "knows" the most about the game, NOT the person who plays the best. I hate to drop Matrix philosophy BUT I have found myself believing that the "prize" should go to the person who knows the path and not the one who actually walks it. fail.

And finally I've learned this... No matter how hard we try we really aren't going to get anywhere other than where we were going anyway. We really have no control over our success or failure. Cork in the ocean... We should chaulk our success up to our good fortune and view our failures as opportunities to learn. We should remove ourself from results. What we can control is how we treat other people (we should treat them well) and how we play the game (we should play our best, out of respect for our opponents).

Anyway, I'm recommiting myself to my original challenge.

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