This year I am not going to set goals for this thread. I briefly looked through a couple of my older threads and noticed that I would often have similar goals at the beginning of the year- move up to play more $5k-10k+, but then I slip back in to the $500-2k comfort zone and don't really bother moving up. So instead I am just going to go with the flow.

If I feel like playing $5k, I will. If I feel like playing $10k, I will. If I see that the 500z pool has 40 entrants (like the other night) I will not even check the cash game lobby, and instead I will go back to my 2017 roots and four table 500z instead.

I am not going to set hand targets, I am not going to have a poker/work routine. I'm at a point in my poker career where I have quite a lot of freedom due to my poker success in the past, so I want to take advantage of that and not feel stuck in some sort of daily/weekly/monthly routine where I am obligated to play x or y number of days or hands.

I also want to focus more on my social life this year, and make that more of a priority. I am going to Australia for a month in March, and Poland for a month in June. So my goal is to get the house fixed up as much as possible by the Summer, then rent or sell and move abroad for a year (at least).

The good thing is I have noticed a lot of my fear/trepidation has dissipated in recent months. Now I don't fear playing higher stakes or moving abroad, which I did (at least to a certain extent) in the past.

I will also try to write more poker related posts, perhaps once ever couple weeks- or just whenever I have a somewhat interesting topic that I feel like discussing. This will be on aspects of poker such as downswings/variance, live/online, study vs play etc. Hopefully that will be engaging for the more poker oriented readers.

I actually done some commentary on one of the Coinpoker cash game challenge streams last night, which was fun. It's available on Youtube for anyone interested. I randomly commented in their Youtube chat and offered to join their stream- going with the flow!

I want to embrace the unknown this year. Lets have fun and good luck in 2025!