New Years Goals (and a FT)!

Frustrating... that's the one word I'm gonna use to sum up this week. Played some great poker and I really had some tough luck. Down to 10 people in one of my tournies, 9 make the final table where all the big money is, I'm sitting 3rd in chips and get AA and lose to the guy whose second in chips when we get it all in on a flop of J55 (turn was a two outer J). Also I had a rough week in my cash games despite playing pretty well.

HOWEVER, I just finished another tourney up in 7th place. I played pretty well up to the final table, I thought, where I didn't get cards and didn't play that well. I'm not dissapointed though since making any final table is a damn good feat, especially in a 1000+ person field.

I'll list off a couple of quick New Year's resolutions/goals. I only have one big resolution for the year (with a couple of small ones built in). That's to get on a better schedule. I want to try and be getting up between 10am and 12pm and be getting to sleep around 2am. This will allow me to get on a better playing schedule and also to get on a regular workout schedule. I did really well this week and was actually getting up around 8am or so each day and getting to sleep around midnight. I got some workouts and a run in this week and I think being on a regular schedule helped that out.

My poker goals for the year are simple:

1) Don't go on tilt
2) 100k
3) Play in 1 big live tourney

First goal is pretty easy as I find that I rarely go on tilt (playing badly after having a bad beat put on you). It doesn't happen often but to be one of the best players it should never happen! So I'm going to try and keep track of when it happens and see if I can't find some ways to counter it.

Second goal is just a number to shoot for. If I put my hours in (goes back to my resolution) and play my best poker this should just come naturally.

For my last goal I'm going to shoot for a WSOP event. Either the 1k, 2k, or 5k buyin (maybe the 10k main event!?!), whichever I feel my bankroll can handle when the WSOP gets here.

Well it's 10pm on a Saturday... I gotta go find something to do!!!

P.S. The nose and face are doing much better! The nose is still tender and might be factured. I'll know more after my doctors appointment on Thursday. The swelling is gone and my black eye is starting to disappear... I should be back to my ugly self in no time! :)