Hello all,

I owe the good folks of FlopTurnRiver.com a great deal of thanks. I’ve been living off of poker for about 6 months now and have never felt any financial stresses. Life has been great for me as a part-time professional, as I focus on my career in music. Thank you spoonitnow, m2m, Cbat, dranger (roidrage?), yAAwn, ‘viva A.K.A. Dan Chiclets, Stax, and anyone else who I’m forgetting for helping my in my poker journey. I cannot sufficiently express my gratitude.

In recalling some of my past, less-successful operations, I noticed a fairly consistent theme. I took very ambitious, probably lofty goals and made a plan to achieve them without acknowledging my own limitations. Humility and is an essential trait of a well-rounded person, and it’s unlikely much can be achieved without truly understanding that you can’t do most things.

So, for this new operation I’ll be taking a more realistic approach. I won’t impose monetary goals on myself because poker is a long term game. I will post monthly graphs, as they are important to gauge progress in hands played and other goals. This will mostly be about getting hands in. I’ll be playing 25nl Rush Poker, 2-4 tabling anywhere from 650-1300 h/hr. My current BR isn’t important but I’ve withdrawn enough so that I don’t have to worry about money for a few months and can just get better. Frankly I’d like to make this operation about everything in poker except ptbbs. I’ve been reading a lot more, going back over a lot of basics, and will be focusing on, you guessed it, Self Discipline. So, without further ado:

Goals for Week of 2/28-3/6
Play 1,000 hands on five of the seven days.

I feel this goal is very realistic for me. My hands usually come in spurts (obv sexual reference is obv) of a few days where I play a lot and don’t play again for a week. Firstly I’ll address this inconsistency while setting a very realistic hours goal of around 1.5 hrs. Days when I play fewer than 1,000 hands will not count. It goes without saying that I’d like to play many more hands than this, perhaps three times as many. But, I know that I have done that in a long time, and setting out to play 15,000 hands this week is not the best way to increase my hand volume in a disciplined way. Oh, and maybe I’ll post again.

It’s great to be back, and wish me luck!