So as it turns out, I set my goals at the beginning of the year far too lofty for me to achieve so far. With school occupying my time I haven't been able to grind as much as I want or devote the time to bettering myself as a player or putting in proper volume to expect to meet my goal of $100k profit for 2016. I've been playing well below my skill level and not giving it 100% everytime I sit down to grind, so it stands to reason why I haven't had the success I'd hoped for thus far.

In a few weeks, I'm done with school and can focus solely on grinding with no other priorities.

For now though, until the end of April, I'll be rebuilding, since other financial obligations along with not a lot of success lately in poker has left me in a bad spot.

I'll be starting from the bottom with $2.50 and $4.50 180 mans, along with $3.50 STTs and MTSNGs. I'll be grinding these excessively until I have what I believe a playable roll to move up to $7 sngs and $11> tournaments and forward. It sucks not having a bankroll to start out this challenge but it'll feel that much better when I've exceeded my goals, knowing that I started from the very bottom.

Starting in May, giving me a full 8 months left in 2016, my goals are as follows:

• $40,000 profit by the end of 2016
• At least 34 figure (or higher) scores this year - an average of 1 per week remaining in the year (starting from the beginning of May)
• Goldstar in May, and PlatinumStar every month June and forward, since may will be just working my way back to having a playable roll.

Be a steady, winning grinder with the following games on my schedule:

• $7 and $15 STSNGs and MTSNGs
• $8 and $15 180 mans
• $11-$55 tournaments, mixing in higher buyins when I can satty in or if my bankroll allows it
• Hyper satellites $18.75>

While staying away from:

• All cash games
• Spin and Go's
• Most hyper turbo tournaments
• Any games out of my bankroll

I'll be grinding both Pokerstars and Full Tilt. I'll provide charts, as well as updates on notable scores and I'll also post when I'm deep in big tournaments if any of you want to sweat. My search will always be on.

OnUrBikeSon on both sites

Additional Goals:

-Hit 10 scores for at least $5000
-Win a deepstacked tournament on Stars (So many final tables, 0 wins)
-Hit a score over $13,156 (My biggest cash)
-Final table a Sunday major on either site
-Win one of the Bigs
-Come top 3 in $55 Sunday Deepstacked
-Win the Nightly $55 (Got 2nd)
-Come top 3 in the Double Deuce on Full Tilt
-Win the $55 super stack on Full Tilt
-Win an Avatar tournament on Full Tilt

Mod please change the title to "OnUrBikeSon - Goals from now until 2017 - Rethinking some things"

First 2 days. Not much volume but still not a bad start.

Week 1:

First Big 33 with the new structure (5k chips, 8 and 9 min blinds) and I chop it hu because I am absolute **** at heads up.



Downswing negated.

2nd in big $82 for $1900 or so. KK < A9 then 55 < T6 vs complete moron hu.

2 weeks into this challenge now:

+$5457

hot start! some pretty good value in that nightly schedule, fun players

Absolutely. Going to be sticking to the late night grind (at least for tournis) for the foreseeable future.

And this concludes April. Learned a lot, definitely improved some and I think this is only the beginning of something huge.

The end of the month downswing wasn't fun though.

4/8 in the Big $22 - $11k up top lets goooooooooooooooo

7th.

PokerStars Hand #153142060706: Tournament #1558428470, $20+$2 USD Hold'em No Limit - Level XLIII (35000/70000) - 2016/05/10 21:14:31 ET
Table '1558428470 125' 9-max Seat #4 is the button
Seat 1: renatomaiag (1886519 in chips)
Seat 2: julesdAA (1559127 in chips)
Seat 3: nomellores00 (605082 in chips)
Seat 4: deLuxy (4114240 in chips)
Seat 6: OnUrBikeSon (1833890 in chips)
Seat 7: Vassalo (1240945 in chips)
Seat 8: teamproincc (6174543 in chips)
Seat 9: juswhackit (2530654 in chips)
renatomaiag: posts the ante 8750
julesdAA: posts the ante 8750
nomellores00: posts the ante 8750
deLuxy: posts the ante 8750
OnUrBikeSon: posts the ante 8750
Vassalo: posts the ante 8750
teamproincc: posts the ante 8750
juswhackit: posts the ante 8750
OnUrBikeSon: posts small blind 35000
Vassalo: posts big blind 70000
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to OnUrBikeSon [Ah Jh]
teamproincc: folds
juswhackit: folds
renatomaiag: folds
julesdAA: folds
nomellores00: raises 526332 to 596332 and is all-in
deLuxy: folds
OnUrBikeSon: raises 1228808 to 1825140 and is all-in
Vassalo: calls 1162195 and is all-in
Uncalled bet (592945) returned to OnUrBikeSon
*** FLOP *** [8c 5s 2c]
*** TURN *** [8c 5s 2c] [7d]
*** RIVER *** [8c 5s 2c 7d] [Kc]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
OnUrBikeSon: shows [Ah Jh] (high card Ace)
Vassalo: shows [9d 9c] (a pair of Nines)
Vassalo collected 1271726 from side pot
nomellores00: shows [As 3d] (high card Ace)
Vassalo collected 1858996 from main pot
nomellores00 finished the tournament in 8th place and received $1140.72.
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 3130722 Main pot 1858996. Side pot 1271726. | Rake 0
Board [8c 5s 2c 7d Kc]
Seat 1: renatomaiag folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 2: julesdAA folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 3: nomellores00 showed [As 3d] and lost with high card Ace
Seat 4: deLuxy (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 6: OnUrBikeSon (small blind) showed [Ah Jh] and lost with high card Ace
Seat 7: Vassalo (big blind) showed [9d 9c] and won (3130722) with a pair of Nines
Seat 8: teamproincc folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 9: juswhackit folded before Flop (didn't bet)

Then 44 to AJ a few hands later.

Brutal week or so but got 4th in Big 22 for ~$2600 so all is well.