So it’s pretty much the start of the new year and I have
been thinking about things in my life and in my poker game a lot recently. I
was going to write an article about my new year’s resolutions but frankly I don’t
think y’all really care to hear my personal goals of donkey punching some broad
this year or giving a woman a mushroom tattoo or the more normal things like
losing weight etc. You all only care about poker, so this article will entail some
items that I want to accomplish in my poker career. (Yes, it’s a stretch to
call it a career, but bare with me, and live in my fantasy world for just a few
moments)
When I first started thinking about these things it was the
end of last year and one of my goals was to make the final table of a
tournament with more than 200 people. Well I have already done that twice. So I
am upping the stakes here is my list :
1. I want to make the final table of an even cost more than
$50 with more than 200 people.
2. I also want to win one of these events.
3. Next I want to win or place in the money in a tournament
and have a pay day of greater than $10k.
4. Making 4 trips to Vegas this year and making 3 of those 4
trips profitable.
5. Go to the WSOP maybe not to play but to just be there.
Now on to the hardest of my poker resolutions, this
resolution is not something I have decided to do lightly and it starts
effective as of the post of this article. I will no longer be telling bad beat
stories and complaining of bad beats. I
am not saying with this resolution that I won’t discuss hands in an effort to
understand why something happened or to get better or to help someone else get
better. But you won’t hear me sit there and say “man the other night I was
playing and I flopped top two pair and some idiot caught a runner-runner to a
flush. What a fucking donkey!” This is also not to say that if I suffer a bad
beat at the table etc that I won’t mouth off or spew fourth some explicative. I
consider this part of steaming and not complaining of bad beats or telling bad
beats stories. Granted you may be saying “Tommy why not stop both?” Well the
fact of the matter is that I am a weak, weak man look at me I am a fat ass I
give into my habits and desires. So lets just take things one step at a time.
If anyone would care to join me in a quest for a better
poker year please do and lets talk about your goals in the forum.
