Weekday grinding and 2k10 goals

Had a good session last night. Continued to crush the $1.20 45 & 90 man and $1.75 18 man Turbo SNG's. Out of about 15 games I played, I scored two firsts, a second, and one or two other cashes to have one of my best sessions to date on Pokerstars. That was nice after having a losing session last time I played. Not big for some, but hey you got to start somewhere!

I have decided to make the move to only playing turbo's on weekday sessions as I can put in almost twice the volume of play as regular games in the same amount of time. The fish are still abundant, the games are juicy, and the money's just begging to be taken.

One of my most recent goals I set (after the new year mind you) is to make it into the SNG leaderboard top 100 on a consistent basis. This is a pretty cool format that PS has with scoring points for every 20 games, or block, and keeping tabs. They also have a 100 game block per week, but with all the other games I mix in that one may be hard to hit. The scores only count for 40 or less players and since I mix a good amount of 45 man plus in my games that makes it tough to hit 100 SNG's in a week. Oh and they have different buy in levels for the micro grinders like me all the way up to the high stakes, making it possible for anyone to get there. With my move to turbo's only on weekday's though who knows? Last week was the first week I actually completed a 20 block score and although I started out hot as hell I cooled off with a losing session and ended up ranked 2180th. A good place to start though!

Some of my other goals for 2k10:

1.Play a set schedule. I work a full time job that often times requires weekend work as well. I also like to exercise at least three times a week doing cardio and lifting weights. So I plan to play 4 days a week, with the option of taking one of those days off if I feel mentally unable to concentrate or give it my all. I only like to play when I can give it 100%! Weekdays are reserved for SNG's only as they are the best bankroll building games and allow a ton more volume to be played in a short time span. Weekends I will play a good amount of SNG's with a mix of MTT's in there. Since my bankroll is limited at this time I am limited to which ones I can play, but the $1.10 offer huge player fields and could offer a huge boost with a deep run.

2. Play a minimum of 100 games a week, or 400 games a month. This is by no means a huge goal as some grinders like Boku87 play 400+ games daily. They do not however have a full time job other than poker so that is easy for them. I think this is easily accomplishable, and although I have fallen short to start the year thus far, I plan to ramp it up even more with my turbo SNG only weekdays. Along with that I would like to hit the $1/game mark by mid year. This would at least give me $400 a month in added earnings that would be very nice to have. Don't get me wrong, I'm not starving here but any added income is nice.

3. Keep in shape. Exercising has become a very important part of my life in the past 2 years. Although I am not where I want to be and have fallen back a time or two, I plan to hit it especially hard this year. Going along with that is eating right. All of this will help my mental focus at the tables and concentration on beating the games.

Those are my major goals for this year, along with strive to be the best player I can be and improve my game every time I play. There are always new ways to look at things and spots that may or may not be evident to the casual player but that can be so positive expected value (+EV) to the trained eye. I have the want and the burn to be one of those trained eyes!

I will include more goals as I think of them or accomplish old ones. It's always good to keep things fresh!