August coming to an end - weight loss/get in shape goal for September

So August is coming to an end and I figured Id post up the stats along with my weight loss plan for the month....the week started off good with a +3k day on Monday, but I leaked back that profit throughout the week, which included bricking the 1k on tilt and the 1k on ap....always fun! here was my bustout hand in the 1k

Stage #1853895732 Tourney ID 4570889 Holdem Multi Normal Tournament No Limit 300 - 2009-08-26 23:59:58.006 (ET) [ 2009-08-26 23:59:58 ]
Table: 17 (Real Money) Seat #6 is the dealer
Seat 6 - Z06FANATIC (6,809 in chips)
Seat 7 - BREAST MILK (4,205 in chips)
Seat 9 - LOCKDOWNTEX (11,435 in chips)
Seat 1 - THEBUBBLE1 (12,397 in chips)
Seat 2 - KRS528 (10,508 in chips)
Seat 3 - ALBARI (9,694 in chips)
Seat 4 - BOANERGES7 (12,735 in chips)
Seat 5 - POTROAST00 (8,896 in chips)
THEBUBBLE1 - Ante 25
KRS528 - Ante 25
ALBARI - Ante 25
BOANERGES7 - Ante 25
POTROAST00 - Ante 25
Z06FANATIC - Ante 25
BREAST MILK - Ante 25
LOCKDOWNTEX - Ante 25
BREAST MILK - Posts small blind 150
LOCKDOWNTEX - Posts big blind 300
*** POCKET CARDS ***
Dealt to Z06FANATIC [6c 6s]
THEBUBBLE1 - Folds
KRS528 - Folds (Preselection)
ALBARI - Folds (Preselection)
BOANERGES7 - Folds
POTROAST00 - Folds (Preselection)
Z06FANATIC - Raises 700 to 700
BREAST MILK - Folds
LOCKDOWNTEX - Raises 2,150 to 2,450
Z06FANATIC - All-In(Raise) 6,084 to 6,784
LOCKDOWNTEX - Calls 4,334
*** FLOP *** [3d 4c 8d]
*** TURN *** [3d 4c 8d] [3h]
*** RIVER *** [3d 4c 8d 3h] [Qh]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Z06FANATIC - Shows [6c 6s] (Two Pair, sixes and threes)
LOCKDOWNTEX - Shows [4s 4d] (Full house, fours full of threes)
LOCKDOWNTEX Collects 13,918 from main pot

I'll be playing about 20-25 mtts on Monday to end the month as well as a 25 seat qualifier to Aruba on Sunday. Ill update my monthly stats if I make anything significant. With that said here's where i stand for August

+13,738.02 MTT profit - 36.21% ROI
+1988.29 in staking
+1000 credits for cash
+554 in rakeback

+16,950.31

As far as the weight loss deal - I got aruba coming up early october and want to get in better shape so I decided to do a 1 month workout/diet plan. I've also been feeling really lazy lately and want to start feeling more active - even when I go to the gym these days I get lazy and leave alot earlier than I should. So my plan is to start on Monday and go one month - I want to hit the gym 4-5 days a week, trying to do 3 miles of running and a short weight training session as well - shouldn't take more than 45 minutes for everything. Eating Im going to keep a low calorie diet with 1 day a week being a maintenence day, and 1 day every 2 weeks being a day where I can eat above maintenence....Im not looking to lose any crazy amount of weight - Im sure 10 pounds is my best bet if that. Regardless though any weight loss would be great, and if it makes me feel more alive Ill definitely enjoy that. Hopefully I can crush that goal and also crush the tables.

First 10k day

Finally had a nice day in MTTs...last thurs I profited like 10.5k after winning the 30k sniper on ap for 7500, taking 2nd in a stars 20r for 3800, and a couple cashes here and there....it felt nice finally to show some decent profit for the month, as I was hovering around breakeven/+3k......Ive been looking at some HH's from top players along with talking to people about tournament poker and watching alot of PXF vids, so I'm definitely improving here and there.....I've also really stepped up the aggression on AP - the site is super soft and the players are very passive compared to Stars/FTP...Actually theres alot of adjustments to make playing AP vs the main sites - I open alot lighter, play more aggressively post flop, and call shoves alot lighter. Its funny how I can play a tournament like the 30k sniper and never get 3 bet outside of big hands, then play a 20 rebuy on Stars and have guys 3 betting me so light....Its definitely a big change, and alot of times I find myself having to fold hands that I would normally snap so quick on Stars....I've also started staking my stakee again - I talk with him alot about poker and he plays very well - hes already staked on stars/tilt, so I took him up on AP. My only problem is I worry he won't put in the volume, but if he does he should have no problem crushing...tomorrow I got the 1k to play on AP that I qualified earlier this week and the 80k sniper.....my only goal with these tournaments is to play semi well and not make dumb mistakes - I make a terrible play in the 6 max AP 20k today that I was pissed about, so hopefully Im not lighting money on fire tomorrow...heres the stats for the month thus far

+13,427
52% ROI
234 MTTs played

Not the August start I was looking for

August has started a little slow - now I cant really complain as I'm still up for the month +2915 with a 24% ROI, I just expected a little better....Ive had one win on the month thus far, and a ton of getting to the final table and not getting top 3.....I don't think people realize how much MTTers spend in buy ins each week - I didn't even realize it till I started doing this full time....This month I've already spent 12,100 in buy ins, and even with 15,000 in cashes Im only up a couple grand. Crazy to think about. The one thing that I have felt good about lately is my late game play - I use to mentally think about the payouts and how much more I'd make moving up a certain place - after making alot of FT's with dissapointment, I guess I dont get my hopes up anymore when Im deep with two tables left....My goal is to win and I could careless about cashing for 2k, consideirng that just covers a day of buy ins....Hopefully my winning attitude translates over to actually winning some more tournaments :(

I also bought a new external monitor - its a 25" by Hanspree - some no name, but it was 250 bucks and does wonders for how many tables I can do. Now I can 10 table with basically no overlap, where before 8 tables was my max. If I can fit 4-5 more MTTs in per day that would be great and definitely worth the investment....My goal with the new monitor is to get in 25 MTTs a day, and try to do 100 a week. At 100 mtts a week, 400 a month, I should be able to invest 40,000 in MTT buy ins, and even at a 50% ROI thats 20,000 a month. I'm pretty sure thats possible to do, considering sites like AP/Cake where I do 7 MTTs of the 25 a day are prob 80% ROI sites, I just don't know what I can expect on Stars/FTP longterm. Either way I'm going to continue the MTTs for a while and see how things work out. Wish me luck.

July wrapup

July has came to an end, and because OPR/PokerDB are pretty inaccurate I don't have an exact figure on profit. PokerDB missed a ton of FTP this month - even AP looks low, and since Cake isn' t tracked it makes things even harder....I could rummage through account balances but Im too lazy so I'll try to give a ballpark figure. I did well once again this month on AP, lost on Stars, slightly up on FTP, and maybe even on Cake? I think Im looking at +7k roughly, so we'll go with that number for now. For August I'll be able to give exact amounts as a fellow poker player made a great spreadsheet where I just enter in the buy in and the result and the excel sheet calculates the rest....

Last week I had a brief 3 day trip to the Borgata in AC- we ended up playing about 10-12 hours of poker over the 3 days - all 2/5 NL. I didn't feel like getting tied down to MTTs while I was out there, and the 2/5 NL game is soft so I figured I'd give it a shot. I ended up maybe +450 on the trip - Im easily a winner in the game but shear boredom made me make some -ev plays...Another issue is figuring out chip stacks - I had one hand where an aggressive player opened in MP1 to 20 or 25 pre, 1 guy calls, I call out of BB with Q10s. Flop comes 244 with 2 spades. First guy checks , I check, original raiser bets something like 60 into a 80 dollar pot....I take a look over at his stack and decide to make it 175 to go with the intention of calling his shove.....It looked like he started the hand with 300 or so, so really the only course of action here is to c/r commit myself and hopefully get him to lay down on the flop here.....at this point he goes all in and I ask the dealer how much more it is to me......Dealer says something like 245 more to you - d'oh. Apparently he had like 450 to start the hand, and I had that covered, so here I am stacking off a FD for nearly 100 bbs effective, oops.....Anyways he turns over KK, I dont get there and now Im realoading another 500....its funny how when the money is infront of you how much things change - online I could careless about 500 but taking it out of your wallet and placing it on the felt is a little different feeling...

It was a fun though and a nice change of pace...It is wierd getting use to the chips though - alot of times I was making a bet and taking forever to count out as alot of times your dealing with the 5 dollar chips and they love to stick together....It definitely felt akward....another thing is how dirty the poker room is - those chips have been all over the place and I dont think they ever clean them or replace them for long periods of time....playing live poker and eating food immediately after with your hands is -ev and I wish I washed my hands more when I was down there...

more to come half way through the month - now back to losing this ftp 50r1r1a