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Originally Posted by docvail
There's a reg I've gotten to know in my local room, who committed himself to what he dubbed "$10k May" - he wanted to make $10k in profit playing, but more challenging, he set a goal for himself to play 300 hours that month.
To me, that doesn't sound like a smart goal. Anyone can sit at a table for 300 hours. If 150 of those hours are winning using dumb luck, it's just reinforcing/rewarding dumb play. Trying to meet that goal might result in the same problem I had with trying to make my winning sessions goal.
This might only be a me thing, but I realized I had to change my goal setting. As an extremely goal focused biz consultant, everything I do in biz has goals attached to it. I literally coach small biz founders on how to set goals.
Sometimes, I've had to back up and realize that some of my poker goals aren't the right goals.
Bad goal for me: I was trying to break my record of 12 >$200 winning sessions in a row. It took me way to long to realize that's a stupid goal *for me* bc I'll get to 6 or 8 consecutive wins and then run into a bad luck, bad table, or bad me day and go on stupid tilt. To continue the streak, I would start breaking the rules of my strategy.
Like my rule is to only set mine with stacks that are 15X the bet. But if I was tilting bc I needed to get the win, I was breaking the rule. My thinking was that if I hit my magical set of ducks I could call it a winning day and go home. That just made me lose more trying to eek out a win that was only significant to my streak. If I was tired, I should just rack up and go, record be damned.
Last edited by DEKE01; 07-16-2024 at 05:32 PM.