Figured I'd give one of these a shot as I think it will help me stay accountable and more focused on my goals.

I guess a little bit about me. I've been playing poker for a living since the end of 2003. I played Limit for the first half of my career then thankfully found my way to NL sometime around 2008. (LHE is a horrible horrible game, heh). I fell in love with rush style poker after it was introduced which sadly caused me to have my entire roll on FTP when Black Friday hit, and double suck is that I'm an American. I moved to Canada in August of that year to keep playing and now hop between there and the US depending on various life stuff.

My biggest weakness as a player has always been my volume. I pretty much played 10-15 hours a week during the heyday of poker, and honestly still don't play much more than that. I just make a lot less doing it now than when it was literally printing money. I've never really cared much about material stuff, and to me poker has always just been a way to live life on my own terms without having to answer to anybody. I love that I can look out my window at 2pm on a weekday and decide I want to go for a run. So while I don't truly regret nor am I upset with myself for my lack of dedication back when poker was easy and I could have locked up a retirement, I don't plan on making that same "mistake" again. My current goal is to be in position so that if regulation happens in the american market I can take advantage of the short boom that it will create, and to basically just lock myself away for a year and grind myself as much money as I can so that I can then go back to my lazy ways. But I want to be ready to go when the gun goes off, not spend the first few months building up the mental skill it takes to put in big volume or the playing skill it takes to maximize my win rate.

I pretty much never have systematically gone over situations and worked hard to deeply understand theory behind the various aspects of play. I think that is the most underdeveloped area of my game. I've pretty much survived on sound logic and a really strong mental game. That cuts it less and less as time goes on. I think if I truly want to be in the best position possible, that I need to start developing myself in those areas. I don't have any illusions or goals of being some high stakes crusher, I don't have the passion for poker that it takes, nor really the desire. I would however like to get closer to being the best player that I can be.

So my short term goals are to start to systematically go over spots and work to understand them better and identify my leaks in them and ways to play them better than my opponents. Also, to work on increasing my volume. So thats what I will most likely be updating this thread with, the various aspects of those two pursuits.