2009 results/reflections, and 2010 goals thread

[risk2Dupside]

Originally Posted by Duff85

Waste of marks imo. I've made an art form of scraping by.

This.. uni is about getting Ds when you could get HDs but never missing the band on Friday afternoons and only attending compulsory shit.

[Elvis]

Originally Posted by sal fazzino

just a few points.
-its actually 150k after tax.
-for that money i work a 4week on 1 week off roster in 45 degree heat
-i have a wife and 3 kids that hate me going away
-i made 110k profit in 8 weeks playing mtts
-can anyone think of anything cooler than playing poker for a living?

would love some thoughts/advice

Hi mate,
Think seriously on this before you do it. I was retrenched about a year ago from a finance role with similar sort of cash. I basically took a year off and played a tonne of poker (and drinking and fishing).

From a familys point of view, you are home 24/7 but playing online you are not focussed on anyything else, so you are only half there. Assuming you are playing tournaments, when wife asks for help on some trivial thing and you are on the bubble and tell her to wait, this causes friction. The kids want to play, but you are on a FT, etc etc.

You'll need to take into account withdrawals for life expenses. I would walk into it assuming you will be break even (at best) for 6 months. You need to a bank a/c (not a bankroll) to accomodate this without having any impact on your family.

Assess your chances of returning to work if Poker doesn't work out so well.

Have you got leave stacked up? can you take 3 months off without quitting. (Then quit if it is working out).

I returned to work, simply because I could make a lot more than I was playing poker, obviously this is player depenent though.

[djkelly69]

2009
Got my first few decent (>$1k) MTT scores at the start of the year, played more midstakes and binked a $26 on FTP for $8k in April. Loved MTTs, loved life.
Then proceeded to swong badly for the next 5 months (while also taking out more than half my roll for real life expenses). Hate MTTs, still liking life tho :-).
Rediscover SNGs & bonus whoring on euro sites. Finally make some money at poker again while trying to stay away from MTTs.

2010
1. quit MTTs.
2. grind SNGs/SNG MTTs.
3. ????
4. profit.

[Tony]

Did my post get Deleted?

[nickkaka]

Originally Posted by Elvis

Hi mate,
Think seriously on this before you do it. I was retrenched about a year ago from a finance role with similar sort of cash. I basically took a year off and played a tonne of poker (and drinking and fishing).

From a familys point of view, you are home 24/7 but playing online you are not focussed on anyything else, so you are only half there. Assuming you are playing tournaments, when wife asks for help on some trivial thing and you are on the bubble and tell her to wait, this causes friction. The kids want to play, but you are on a FT, etc etc.

You'll need to take into account withdrawals for life expenses. I would walk into it assuming you will be break even (at best) for 6 months. You need to a bank a/c (not a bankroll) to accomodate this without having any impact on your family.

Assess your chances of returning to work if Poker doesn't work out so well.

Have you got leave stacked up? can you take 3 months off without quitting. (Then quit if it is working out).

I returned to work, simply because I could make a lot more than I was playing poker, obviously this is player depenent though.

pretty solid advice imo

[Glaze]

Great to read the goals and aspirations for you guys heading into 2010 and how well a lot of you have done in 2009.
Hopefully I will be able to provide you with some information through PNW to help you all achieve your goals and beyond next year from a mental and emotional point of view.

Congrats to you all and great to see focused, motivated poker players aspiring to greater heights!!

Keep up the great work!!

[Tony]

2009- this has been my first year playing poker, got introduced to the game by a friend and started playing pub poker, quickly realised that this wasnt the way to go, began playing alot of cashies at star city and quickly built a solid bank roll, moved into online poker which has seen me demolish a fair amount of my roll, still trying to find a comfort zone in the online world. have read alot about stratergy and BR management in order to help me out, have to say thankyou to alot of the members on here for helping me out & pulling my head in for me, you know who you are

2010- plan on griding out alot more 1/2 & 5/10 at star city & enter alot more live tournaments (star city, crown), main aim is to build a roll close to $10,000. aspire to win a seat to ANZPT or APPT or similar tourney. try to qualify for 2011 AU millions.

[Collin Raise]

Great thread risk. Really interesting to read everyone's progress and goals.

2009:

- Started off donking around a couple of years back until I decided to get a little bit more serious.
- Came on here and got some great advice about ways to improve my game. I was only really playing micro SNGs and MTTs but as of a few months ago have switched primarily to 6max NLH cash. With a 20 buy-ins rule I'm currently playing 10nl at break even.
-Because of my f/t job, gf and other commitments, I've found it hard to get in good volume, as well as putting aside the time to study the game by watching videos and posting hands etc, but I am working hard at it and plan on finding ways to better utilise my time.

2010:

- More volume
- More studying
- Find more local people to run hand discussions/sweat sessions with (hit me up on msn!)
- Move up to 200nl
- Coaching
- Learn to play other games such as Omaha (i'm a sucker for swings)

I wish you all the best of luck for the rest of the year and for next year too!

[sal fazzino]

Originally Posted by nickkaka

pretty solid advice imo

it is good advice. ive known all along i couldnt quit but one can dream. ill still be playing as much as i can during time off and see if i can get some more scores. if i win the sunday millions im definetly quitting tho .....

[JadeTaVernDegen]

Originally Posted by sal fazzino

if i win the sunday millions im definetly quitting tho .....

I like this sentence almost as much as i like quoting ppl....