Let me help you kick off your 2025 poker journey with some SMART Poker Goals that are sure to lead you to success!

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Listen as you follow along below then set your own SMART Goals:

Failed Goals Can Be Great Lessons Learned

My failed goal for all of 2024🙁:

I will play 10,000 hands per month in order to reach 100,000 hands in 2024.

Why I failed: Long-term goals are tough because your priorities can change (and mine did). Plus, you may think your goal will get you what you want, but shortly after starting it, you realize otherwise. For me, I thought 100K hands in 2024 would make me a better player and coach. But, with my limited time available for play, I was cramming in too many tables and my play suffered.

For Me: Less tables = more brain space to make reads and plays = better player and coach.

2024 Goal Setting Lesson Learned: We learn and grow over time. We also dream in the future, but we live and work here and now. Shorter term goals work for me as they’re more relevant

#1 Tip: Keep your dreams alive, but… Make weekly, monthly or quarterly goals.

SMART Goals

• Specific – Clearly states exactly what actions you will take.
• Measurable – There are trackable quantifiables. You hit ’em or you don’t.
• Actionable – Action rules! No “wishing” for results.
• Relevant – This goal fits your current priorities and achieving = good.
• Time-bound – Give yourself a deadline/specific time frame to achieve

SMART Goal Formula: I will ACTION+TIME in order to DREAM/WISH.

My First Smart Goal of 2025

RIGHT NOW (Relevant to me): I want to complete my new Poker Forge Course…

SMART GOAL: I will conduct 2 workshops/week (Monday Strategy, Friday Quiz) starting Jan. 6th in order to complete my “How to Steal More Pots Course” by February 21st.

Example Goals to Help YOU Kick Off 2025

Dream: I want to learn how to exploit with GTO strategies this QUARTER.

SMART Goal: I will run a GTO analysis and purposefully play to practice what I learn every Mon/Wed/Fri in order to learn how to use and exploit w/GTO strategies.

Dream: I want to earn 1,000bb’s this MONTH as a +10bb/100 hands player.

SMART Goal: I will play 35 hours this month (~10K hands) in order to earn 1,000bb’s at my +10bb/100 hands win rate.

Dream: I want to finish and learn from Post-flop Online Poker this MONTH.

SMART Goal: I will read 10 pages/day and practice what I learn (gives a few days grace) in order to improve my post-flop skills and results this month.

Dream: I want to learn how to xr bluff the flop this WEEK.

SMART Goal: I will watch 2 videos on Mon & Thu, practicing what I learn and reviewing 20x hands per day in order to become a flop xr bluffer!

Dream: I want to play for 20 hours this WEEK.

SMART Goal: I will play 2 hours after work on weekdays and 5 hours on both Sat/Sun in order to achieve this new milestone.

Schedule It

Putting it in your daily/weekly calendar makes it more likely you’ll work with purpose to achieve it.

It’s a task on your to-do list you MUST get done!

Take Action for All of 2025

Schedule it and get to work!

After you achieve your first SMART poker goal, set another!

Support the Show

These goal achieving poker peeps picked up my Flopzilla Pro Course. Many thanks to Chris F, Christopher C, Freddie T, George V, Stephan H, John S, Ray S, John D, Alexander K, Alex R, Luke F, Gary A, George K, Fred W, Doenghoon B, Chris F, Tom H, Evan R, James G, James C, Nicholas M, Sergio T, Ben C, James A, Rolston H, Mark W, Georges S, Gerald C, Frank T, Jerry S, Joe V, Dustin T, Kevin T, Octavian P, Mutsuki K, John M, David Wr, Jan W, Gema R, Robert F, Shankar P, Abdallah Y, Thomas S, William W  and Vijay T.

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