Hello 2009

Welcome to the year 2009! I'm just going to show some of the goals I'm going after in 2009. I'm going to include both some personal goals for myself in poker and some outside goals on the year as well. Here's to a great 2009!

Some goals outside of poker include some weight loss and college goals
Maintain 4.0 college GPA
Lose weight gained since high school (about 20lbs)
Start to work out again
-Run 3 times a week
-Walk 5 times a week
-Lift 2 times a week
-Eat healthier
Continue Writing
-This blog
-Articles for bleacher report and a few other websites
-Write some more short stories I haven't written since high school
-Finish the current novel I’m writing

Now to the poker goals for 2009! We're going to have some goals for live tournaments, Railbirds tournaments, and the regular tournaments on Stars and Full Tilt!
-Continue bankroll spreadsheet (started from December 2008)
-Win at least one live tournament (Daily, and local count. After I turn 21 of course)
-Don’t TILT! (Almost never do but trying to not at all).
-Win more prop bets than I lose
-Win at least one HORSE Pick’em for a live major event
-Don’t get addicted to Chinese Poker

Railbirds
-Win at least 1 RMR a month (12 total on the year
-Win a Monthly RMR Ranking
-Finish Top 5 for Monthly RMR Rankings for 3 different months
-Qualify for Railbirds WSOP Freeroll
-Finish Top 10 RMR Yearly Rankings
Full Tilt and Stars
-Win a $24+2 MTT on Full Tilt (21k, 27.5k, 28k, 32k specifically)
-Five 4 figure+ scores
-At least one $5000+ score
-Be profitable in cash games
-$200 HA, PLO, Hold’em (By end of year)
-$3/6, $5/10 HORSE, Triple Draw, Badugi, Badeucy (Hopefully, one time stars?) (By end of the year)
-Play at least 5 total SCOOP, WCOOP, FTOPS, etc. events on the year

That's all I can come up with on this early January late night/morning. I'm probably going to add goals as I obtain some goals. I know some of these goals are lofty, but I want to set my hopes high. You can stay tuned to this blog as I will keep track of these goals and many other things as they happen through out the year. Have a great 2009!

Peace, Tim!