Journey of a Thousand Miles: 1/2 to High Stakes

This is the beginning.

I'm taking the first step on a long road to high stakes.

Beginning on 1 Jan 2025 I will attempt to undergo a life (and more importantly bankroll) challenge to go from broke uni student to high stakes glory, and I have set goals for both poker and my non-poker life for the first year, which I will be documenting on this thread to keep myself accountable. I will update this thread every week beginning from 1 January to keep records of my hopeful progress. The thread is merely a way for me to hold myself responsible in working towards my goals, but feel free to follow along, or provide any advice if you feel like sharing.

Any other suggestions for goals are welcome and encouraged but below is what I have so far - keeping in mind that I am a full-time, dedicated and hardworking student and also want to have a social life - hard to document socialising in a goals format lul - I think this is a good start on my poker journey while trying to at least maintain or improve the other important elements of my life

While I have played lots of poker and been moderately successful at low stakes before it has been much less serious, and poorly tracked. Nonetheless study will probably be key if I want to earn a not **** hourly that I'm dedicating my life to. I have a feeling there are lots of minor leaks that I will be patching up at the beginning of the year before being able to earn said non-**** hourly - lots of little stuff that goes under the radar when playing with friends or gets forgotten in the tilt of the 9th hour of a bad poker session.

Hopefully I continue to document my goals in this thread for years to come, as I attempt to climb the stakes and improve myself along the way.

Poker Goals 2025:
- 1000 hours of gameplay
- Study/Review all hands played
- 200 hours of additional poker study
- 20000 total profit
- move up to 2/3 (at 6000 profit) and then 2/5 (at 10000 profit) - move down if below those thresholds again

Life Goals 2025:
- Maintain current GPA or above in upcoming semesters
- Additional income of 5000 from non-poker sources (for life roll and travel)
- Lifting 5x/week > cut down about 5kg by the end of February and reassess fitness goals after this

Wish me luck!