December goals

My online Poker goals for this month will not be high. I am going to be busy for about a week going on a trip to Michigan with some friends. And then I am going on a family vacation during christmas time. There is also big live tourney coming up which I will be playing in. This will probably take a few days trying to qualify for as well. It is the Heartland Poker Tour Championship event which is being held at the Majestic Star II casino in Gary, IN. About an hour from chicago.

So my real goals for this month will be 20K hands and win $10,000. I really don't think this will be too hard as long as I can aviod a big downswing.

What I would like to do is make the TV final table of the HPT event. And also win a frekin sunday major. UB is hosting some tournament series this month as well, I would like to win one of those events. I will also be trying to get some coaching this month to help me with my 6max game. Hopefully it will go well.

December 1st

Wow, horrible end to my November. I was up almost 9K at one point, then went on a disgusting downswing and lost a lot. I did play a lot of hands, but I failed to reach my goals for the month.

I did however final table the sunday UB 200k gtd., first place was 45K, but I ended up going out in 7th place. I had pocket 8's and lost to A7o, what a dissapointment. I probably could have won at least 5K more than I actually did if I won that hand. I still took down $6500 for my 7th place, but it was a very dissapointing cash.

While I did still make good money this month, it was nowhere near what it should have been. If I plan on doing this for my soul source of income, this is just unacceptable. On to the results...

MTT's
+ $4,350.73

Cash play
24,030 hands
+ $2,247.50

Total
+ $6,598.23