Bracelet Hunting

I like having tangible goals - things I can work toward, achieve, and say, "okay, I did that.  What's next?"  So far, the main goal in my poker journey has been to simply become a better player.  That's important, but it's also not tangible in a simplistic sense, and it's also something with no end date.  In poker as in life, the goal should be to improve until the day you die.

However, I now DO have a tangible goal.  I want to, and will, play in a WSOP bracelet event.

"Bracelet Hunting" is a term used by some pros, including Jason Mercier, as a hash tag on their tweets about the WSOP, and is also the title of a YouTube series by Jason Somerville, chronicling his experiences at this year's WSOP.  It also happens to be a quick and easy way to describe my goal.  I want to save up enough money to play in one of the lower buy-ins.

I understand that it may take some time to save up enough money, and that's fine.  But as soon as it's close, the planning will begin, and I'll make it happen.  I hope that a number of my friends can get there for the experience, because God forbid should I go on a heater I would love to celebrate with everyone.

To be clear: I have no dilusions about being able to win.  I highly doubt I would even cash.  But I would be in the game, and you can't win if you don't play.  And even if I don't cash, I would have the experience.

Every day that goes by, it becomes more important to me to be in the game.  And by "game", I don't mean just playing poker, I mean life in general.  Get out there, have experiences, make memories.  It just happens that playing in a WSOP event is one of the things I have wanted to do for some time.  By shooting for this goal, I am proving that I am done talking.  Time to make it happen.

Here are two pics from the WSOP Facebook page that give a pretty great impression of what it would be like if I actually, by a string of luck and miracles, won a bracelet.  The first is Mark Radoja after winning the $10k heads-up tournament; the second is Jonathan Taylor after winning the $1,500 NLHE: