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Can't believe we're almost to June already.

For me this year marks the return to a game I've always loved but took a very long hiatus from (years). Also made a few friends and am starting to see some benefits from coaching (insert PygmyHero plug here).

Since I'm always up for some motivation, I was wondering what kind of successes you all have had since the first of the year. Are you on track to hit your goals? What was the single biggest thing you learned this year so far? What, if anything, are you going to do differently going into the second half of 2010?

I also wanted to thank the DC coaching staff and community in general for making this such a great place to be.

I think the biggest thing I've learned this year so far is how absolutely critical the mental side of this game is. I think it might even be like 70% of what makes a good poker player.

accomplishments: Made it to 200NL from 10NL
Goal: Try to make it to 600NL and be a regular at that stake by end of the year
Wishful thinking: Tie grindcore's record and make it to 1000NL by end of the year

My biggest accomplishments so far: become a profitable player and playing at 2 tables at once. Since May 1st, I earned around $17 so far at NL2 from 6132 hands (13.83 bb/100).

Worked my way up from 25NL to 200NL from end of last year until now, and would've been playing 400NL had I not cashed out parts of my bankroll for personal needs.

Also learning a bit of PLO, thanks to DC!

2010 switched from sngs to play cash full time, moving up 3rd limit right now since i moved to cash games. Been working on my tilt factors and thinking about the game, thanks to Tommy Angelo video series and few other good videos I think im doing very good on those aspects and its probably my biggest accomplishment of the year so far.

Have gone from NL25 to taking shots at NL200.

However the main success I have found is my mindset from 'making money' to making the 'right decisions', along with a motivation to improve my game and get as good as possible.

Loving poker more than ever right now and hope the year continues like this

March was my best poker month in my life.

I'm currently doing better than that in May.

I took my first shot at 15/30 (it was one hand and I lost it, haha)

I think the biggest thing I've learned this year so far is how absolutely critical the mental side of this game is. I think it might even be like 70% of what makes a good poker player.

pretty much this. the mental/emotional aspects can make or break you.

underestimating the power of tilt kept me off my goal to be rolled for 200PLO by now. but I learned a lot from the first half of this year and gained a ton of confidence from it.

going into the 2nd half of the year I'm going to do more to keep my focus to my play and study the best I can while expanding my poker network.

I think the biggest thing I've learned this year so far is how absolutely critical the mental side of this game is. I think it might even be like 70% of what makes a good poker player.

+1. Knowing what to do is easy. Doing it is hard.

Unfortunately, even though I think I learned a ton, I'm still at the bottom. I think about poker differently than I did before(Thank's to Tuba, Vanessa, DJSensei, WoT, Krantz, Bossox64, Ansky, BalugaWhale and many others), but I just can't put evrything together and apply all the knowledge to practice. Oh well, may be that day will come sometime.

I had my biggest cash in a tournament, took second for $1675! I also have become a winning 50NL player in both 6 max and full ring. DC has been very helpful, probably my favorite series has been 8 Fold Path to Poker Enlightenment, really helped me out!

today managed to keep my cool and come back from 3 bi's down to some crazy villain at 50nl HU. won an all in pot where we both started the hand with over 400bbs .

I finally won my first Stud Hi MTT after final tabling more than a few last year. My cash game is also responding much better since I started watching the vids here and got my mental game in order. Thanks DC!

Great accomplishments all...let's keep the thread going!