Setting goals, big finish to end out last BAP.

Well I have decided to set some goals for myself for the rest of the year. Here are my goals.

OK, I didn't put one up at the beginning of the year because I just wasn't motivated to do so yet, so here goes. These are goals that I want to accomplish before the end of the year.

Get to, and maintain, a positive ROI across all sites that I play on (SNG & MTT)

Pokerstars:

• SNG -15% according to SS
  
• MTT -48% according to OPR
  

Full Tilt:

• SNG 15% ROI according to SS (accomplished & maintaining)
  
• MTT -13% according to OPR
  

Ultimate Bet:

• SNG - Haven't played any SNGs
  
• MTT 14.91% according to Poker DB (accomplished & maintaining)

Have a $500, $1000, $1500, $2000 single MTT score:

• $500
  
• $1000
  
• $1500
  
• $2000

Finish with a $500, $1000, $1500, $2000 profit for my BAP

• $500
  
• $1000
  
• $1500
  
• $2000
  

Work on my cash game (Online & Live):

Build a BR on Cake/AP/Bodog from $0.00:

• Cake
  
• AP
  
• Bodog
  

Become the top poker player according to P5s for the city of Cookeville TN monthly and for the year:

• Currently sitting 2 of 2 44.09 points behind first for the month of June.
  
• Currently sitting 3 of 5 1200+ points behind first for the year.
  

Move into the top 50, 40, then 30 according to P5s for the state of Tennessee.

• Currently sitting 60th 
  
• 76.70 points out of 50th 
  
• 206.99 points out of 40th 
  
• 483.58 out of 30th.
  

Finish reading the following books:

• The Theory of Poker
  
• The Tao of Poker
  

Reread the following books:

• All 3 parts of the Harrington on Hold'em Series
  
• Zen and the Art of Poker

Pickup and read the following book(s):

• The Poker Mindset
  
• Every Hand Revealed
  
• Super System I & II
  

Profit enough to pay for the following poker items:

• 6 month subscription to www.pokerpwnage.com ($149.94)
  
• Poker Tracker ($89.99)
  
• Parralles ($49.99)
  
• Windows XP system disc to load onto my Mac ($95.78)
  
• 2nd Monitor for my Mac
  
• 23" ($899)
  
• 30" ($1,799)
  

Start putting back some profits to pay for a possible trip to Vegas in 2009.

Update Personal Blog:

• Update weekly
  
• Update bi-weekly
  

I have also started working with a coach to improve my game and this showed with a deep finish in the Early Double on June 6th. 

Other than that, nothing much has been going on. Just working on improving the game as much as I can and looking for that next big score.

Until next time,

Merch