stevesbets

Dear Readers,

So lately I have been straying too much from my goals in both poker and life. This prompted me to make a prop bet with my buddy Nat tonight. I’m posting it here as a way to pound into my head that THIS is my lifestyle for the next couple months, and I will stick to it and I will win the bet. Here are the terms of the bet: between now and Feb 1, the only games I’m allowed to play online aside from MTTS are Pokerstars HU sngs at the 500, 1k, and 2k level. I need to play a minimum of 600 sngs total in that time frame. That’s it, if I am able to do those two things, I win the bet.

This seems like a slam dunk for me to win from the outside. 600 sngs in approximately 2 months is peanuts, and it should be no problem fulfilling that minimal commitment. The hard part of the bet for me, VERY HARD, is playing NO other games. I get easily bored and want to play PLO, o8, NL cash games, limit cash games, and everything else under the sun. The bet is for $1000. It will be interesting to see who wins.

In addition to this poker goal, I have other goals for the next few months. I don’t have a bet on these, but I hope to pursue them with the same ardent fervor as I do the SNG bet. They are pretty simple:

1) Finish and submit my business school applications. Work on the essays at least a little bit EVERY day until they are done

2) Go to the gym EVERY DAY

3) Do whatever it takes to stop biting my nails (to this day I’m not sure how I got started with this terrible habit but I’ve been doing it for as long as I’ve been conscious).

If I do these 3 simple things along with win the SNG bet I will be very happy with myself come Feb 1. I’m easy to please I guess.

I’m posting this online not because I have the delusion that other people really care much about the details of my life but because I crave the negativity that comes with putting your goals out there in a public arena and then failing. I ask you all to please make failure not an option for me. Criticize me mercilessly and tell me how pathetic I am if I fail. All of these goals are process oriented as opposed to results oriented, so if I do fail I can’t blame luck, or other people, or circumstance, only myself. As I wrote that I realized I was biting my nails, NO MORE. It’s time to take some responsibility for things that are within my control because god knows there’s enough in our lives we can’t control. I’ll post occasional updates to let you know how I’m doing on each of these goals so I can be ruthlessly blasted if I fall short.

Thanks,

Steve