I'm in graduate school now and I don't have nearly the free time that I did when I was slacking off my senior year of college. I was playing 30K hands of poker a month back then, now I'm lucky to get in 10K. That being said, it's very important for me to take advantage of what free time I do have and put it to good use, instead of screwing around on the Internet or playing breakeven poker because I'm not bringing my A game. So I decided to start one of these "operation" threads to record my progress and hopefully force myself to do a better job of managing my poker time.

I just moved to northern California and I want to be able to make lots of weekend hiking trips starting next May when the weather warms up, so I'll need a car, which I currently don't have. I don't feel safe driving on the highway in a beat up old POS so I'm looking to spend between 8-12K on it. Accounting for taxes, that means I need to make about 15K from poker over the next few months. I'm sure I could do it if I played more often, but since school started I haven't been playing enough / well enough to get there. I'll record my progress in this thread.