ending to a long but good month

So theres 1 day left in the month so I dont have an exact profit amount as Im not gaurenteed 9k in this race or to breakeven tomorrow but ill post amounts as they are as of now.....overall I didnt run that good in sngs - I made money but I think I ran below expectation. Im so glad this is coming to an end though - I put in a 60 hour week, 50 hour week, and this week prob around 70. I also generated about 23k in rake which is about 7k more than I ever did before...Im also glad the 25/50 cash games are over - Im not sure how I ran in them - I think of might of slightly profited but considering I was playing a nitty game while 12-13 tabling, I doubt I made much at all....The good thing about the cash was I got a taste of 6 max action and how things play out - suprisingly the 25 50 players are better than I expected - maybe I just didnt run all that hot but I thought the play there was better than in the sngs I play.....its funny how easy you can double up in a sng or get value bets on the river called vs the cash games...it seemed tough really getting paid on some bigger hands against better regulars....I also found myself incorporating minraising into my game - it really is a good tool to bluff with against a decent player who can fold....Anyways heres the details of profit

Profit from SNG's on AP - 7500
Profit from SNG's on Cake - 800
Rakeback - 7k
AP Race Cards race - 8 or 9k (hopefully I can hold onto 3rd)
Rakebreak Rake race - 1500
Points for Cash - 1k
Points for 5 ps3s - 1500

Total est - 28,300

So for November im considering staking a sng player in the 10s-50s on AP.....Im also considering going back to 200s and taking my shot....I played a couple 200s this month and theyre still really soft if you table select, so Im thinking I should table select them in November and play the easy ones...Ill prob do the same for 300s and maybe take a shot at a 500 here and there.....Im so worn out from this race Ill definitely take the weekend off, but im hoping on monday I can start another 40 hour week and continue with that through the month....This promotion also helped me get near this 150k goal on the year so im hoping i can pull out 25k over hte next two months

been taking big swings + a little rant on tipping

first ill get to the poker - the swings have been all over the place - past couple days went +1300, -2500, +1800, +3500, -700,etc.....not too many breakeven days.....Ive moved up to 8th on the race - im putting on the heat putting up 5k fame points a day, smoking the guys right ahead of me....Im thinking 5th place for 7k should be easy to obtain.....Im also using some ap credits to purchase a bunch of ps3s from the ap store - im going to resell them on ebay since ap caps the amount of credits u can trade infor cash monthly....should be a 20k+ month easy

so I was reading something on 2p2 in regards to tipping....I think tipping is ridiculously overrated and overdone in this country....When I think of tipping, its the idea that you give a tip when service goes above and beyond expectations...If Im at a restaurant for example and the waiter/waitress does an amazing job, then I should be tipping...the sad part about this country is these employers pay employees shit and thus the employees are forced to rely on customers tips.......the funniest example was when I was in aruba - we all went out to eat at a nice steak restaurant - anyways the bill came to 480 or something like that - included in the bill was a 15% service charge....First of all this service charge is a joke - its just a way to sneak in 15% ontop of bill and theres not much you can do about it....then we leave no tip on top of that and the waitress comes over complaining about it......you seriously want us to leave you 30% of the bill ontop of paying the bill?? its not even like there service was any good - they didnt really speak english andwere alittle slow with the orders...they shouldnt of been tipped anything, not even that 15% service charge....bottom line is a tip should be given when service goes beyond expectations...if the service is just alright, then no tip should be given......tipping in general is way out of control and employers should really stop forcing the customer to pay employee salaries

October going smoothly

So thus far on AP im roughly +4-5k on the month and +800 or so on Cake excluding all bonuses....Ive played roughly 1100 sngs on Ap so far this month, along with 400 or so on Cake. The AP racecard race has been going decent - I think Ill be in 9th for tomorrows update, making my way up the ladder...some of the guys ahead of me are slowing down, so Im thinking that 7th place for 5k will be achievable. Im thinking I can make 10k from AP/Cake, 5-6k in RB, 1k for credits, 5k for AP race, 1200 for Rakebreak race, making me around 22k or so on the month. We'll see how things go.

back from aruba and grinding for a big ap promotion

Aruba was amazing....I got in on monday and met with some ap players and a couple people who work for the company. I spent alot of time with a guy named AD who seemed to be a higher up at AP - we talked a little about what needs to be changed on the site and a possible deal they might work out with me....they might be adding a higher vip level to award the long term grinders, that would hopefully give SNE on stars a run for their money. The tournament itself was a let down - day 1 I ended with 23k. Day 2 I planned on opening up my game and going deep. I chipped up to about 80k at 500/1k when my downfall began. first I lost a 30k pot pre with AQ vs 79. AQ proved to be my downfall again when I was rivered by a flush and had to fold top pair on the river to lose 12k more. Finally I flopped the nut straight, c/r'ed all in the turn to a turned straight/flush draw and she hit. gg me.

So now that Im back AP is running one of their biggest promotions yet - a 100k race giving 15k to first and coming down, with 7th getting 5k, 10 getting 2k. Sadly missing 3 days of the month put me in bad shape to get top 3 in this, so Im shooting for 7th(5k). Games have been running strong, and between AP and Cake I got in about 850 sngs this week, making about 3500-4k(outside bonuses). Amazingly Im up roughly 1k on Cake this month, still putting me in the red on sharkscope but a possible sign that this ridiculous run is turning. I also put in a solid 60 hour week, which comes to about 14-15 games per hour. My goal is to continue with atleast 50 hour weeks the rest of this month and hopefully break my previous rake record of 16k, and play atleast 2500 games. If I can run like I should Im hoping to do atleast 20-25k with all the bonuses. GL me.