going to the aruba classic!

Sooo today im running my normal routine(ap and cake), when i get a call from ap....they ask me what im doing this weekend, and eventually offer the 8500 package to me.....while im thrilled to be going, its also been very stressful trying to get a flight/hotel out there for a decent price.......the last thing I want during a big downswing is to be spending more money on unnecessary shit....the 3k doesnt go that far, as that is barely covering my hotel/flight, and thats only 4 nights! people who go the whole trip booking this late would be there 6-7 nights, and id spend prob 4k....throw in another 500+ for food, drinks, jetskiing,etc, and ur almost 2k over what they give ya.....oh well, this is a great experience that i cannot pass up, so hopefully it goes well...im also selling %'s of me if anyone wants a piece - 1% is 55.00 and u can ship to z06fanatic on ap or diaf fish on cake. i cashed last year for 8k, but this year ill be playing to win rather than cash....i played very nitty last year as the cash was 25% of my bankroll, but this year im not too concerned about 8k...

outside the trip, theyre finally shipping out my 5k tiffanys gift card....I plan on reselling it, so if anyone reading this wants a deal for say 4200-4400, email me or respond on the blog.....poker has been going terrible as of late - think im around breakeven or so for the month, easily being my worst month to date. Cake is still doing terrible, but im confident in my game and know im playing very well....downswings can be brutal mentally, but I think in the longrun theyre very profitable....this downswing has forced me to play better, and do more work with ICM....i seem to focus more now on hands and can make better decisions 12 tabling....oh well, maybe in aruba ill run like jamie gold and take the rest of this year off :)

still running like shit

im still running at a negative roi this month which is also entertaining.....ive been happy with my game though so i dont mind it all that much....on cake i had a glimmer of hope when i went on a 1600 upswing yesterday, but now that has fallen to a 800 upswing. Im still down a ridiculous number of buy ins but hey I guess we can call this late august/september run my second big downswing on the year.....the only positive that has come out of my past month has been being more comfortable 10 tabling - i feel i can 10 table now playing near 100% - i feel 10 tabling isnt really stressful....12 i still find somewhat stressful and taxing on my ability to play them 100%, but hopefully over time that will get easier as welll. I also jumped back in ap rebuys - my ROI in rebuys is in the mid 100s (small sample), so I think its necssary for me to play the 20r/30r as much as possible. With the 30r for example, a 100% ROI would make 120 per 30r played, and if the average tourny lasts 3 hours, thats 40 an hour off that single table......thats so ridiculous how i could do that tournament and 8 or 9 sngs that i have to get back in it.

Getting railed in September

Ive been bending over since the start of this month - Im probably down a couple grand easy on AP and my Cake roll is nearly depleted. Today I went to Sharkscope myself on cake - I was roughly -5600 or so without bonuses....thats fucking sick right there, considering my avg stake is around 55, bringing my swing to 100 buy ins......Im a little concerned about that as I dont think I should be dropping 100 buy ins where I would have an ROI of near 10%, but who knows.....Ive dealt with being a loser over 2k games before, so thats nothing new, but this is sickening.....anyways Im gonna keep grinding it out and hopefully things will turn around....I expected this kind of railing to happen on AP cause of my sick run in July, but this Cake run is really getting to me.

August comes to an end, new change of pace

So August has finally ended - including the 5k diamond Im up roughly 8k on the month :(....I havent gotten the official word about winning it, but after speaking to vip on the 31st, Im pretty damn sure its mine. I was hoping to crack 100k for the year in August but that will have to wait.....Another goal I set, to make 50k this summer happened, which was great....Last year I think I made 30k so Im slowly moving up the ranks.....So for hte month of September I decided to focus more on Cake - the games there are easier, even though im running like complete shit over there.....Also the games on AP (esp 100s) have gotten stacked lately with more regulars, so really my plan is to 6 table on cake and 4-5 table with game selection on AP.......We'll see how it all works out, but I plan on playing a ton of games this month and get cake where it should be....Im owed prob 5k in equity on there :(

Total yearly profit (93,000 est)