Goals for 2009

Well its 2009.

2008 was good. I moved into full ring from 6max. And I went from playing 25NL to being a semi-reg at 100NL. Without a doubt however, my game has grown in leaps and bounds. I started the year playing 25NL and winning $70-100 in a day (1-2 hour sessions mainly) was sick good. I am now playing 3-4 hour sessions at 100NL and I am making more in fpps alone.

December 2008 also saw the first month that I made more from poker than I do as a secondary school teacher. It is both cool and disturbing at the same time. Cool because money is great and I love to play. Disturbing because I dont feel like I earned the money at poker. Its a game I play on a computer while wearing pyjamas. Teaching on the other hand, I have to get up at 6:45am five times a week, wear a tie, do a shitload of paperwork, and try and get my kids ready for exams. Dont get me wrong, I like teaching, kids are cool, and when you get a kid to understand something for the first time its a great feeling. That being said, wearing jogging pants and a t-shirt, and hitting top set 100BB+ deep is a better feeling.

So with that in mind here are my goals for 2009:

1. Play 700K hands this year (I will be aiming for 60K a month)
2. Keep Supernova for the entire year (aka hit 100K vpp before end of June)
3. Hit 200K vpps for the year which would give me the 200K milestone bonus of $2000
4. Move up to 200NL permanently and maybe the odd shot at 400NL from time to time
(and this is pushing it I think.....but)
5. Make $40,000 including fpp cash bonuses.

I currently have $4500 in my roll (just took out 3K for various things, but that is the last cashout for awhile) and 52,670 fpps. From now on I am only cashing out the 250,000 fpp bonus for $4,000. With 200K vpp over the year, that is 700K fpps. That is almost three $4,000 bonuses. Combine that with the 200K $2000 bonus and I could have almost $14,000 in fpps alone. That would put me at 35% of my goal already.

Anyways, those are my goals.

I fly to Glasgow tomorrow morning and I hope to put in a session tomorrow night.

Heres to Hoping.