July wrap up and a new start (long)

Pretty solid month as far as MTTs go.  I had a solid start July 3rd taking 5th in the 33K gtd KO for $2.2k and then on friday I shipped the $2 rebuy PLO RUSH tourny for another $881.  Took 4th in the micro team comp and had some fun..sucks it was only 1 week and I didnt get to play as much as I wanted or we could have had some better results.

July Goals

- play atleast 400 MTTs this month - I played 313
- Achieve Platinum Star (got Gold Star last month, was silver star by july 3rd, so should be easy) - I still missed this by about 2000-2500 points but I am Gold Star still for August
- bink 1st 5 figure score (this will always be a monthly goal) - 5th in the 33K GTD for $2.2k(not 5 fig but i'll take it)
- ship 2 tournaments - $3.30 1k CAP 4-max for $480 and $2r PLO turbo RUSH for $881
- profit for the month - $2356
- win the 1v1 competition - huge fail...ended up busto in the Quarter Final Rnd.
- end stake with backer and be on my own bankroll by August 1st - wooo, not much profit for him but we still ended the stake.


July was pretty solid from my Goals stand point. no 5 fig score :(

on to August....

I'm in another Team Comp for all of August on PTP. Pretty solid team right now, already have some nice finishes and it just started Sunday.  I havent played since Friday night win.  I'm currently in the process of moving at the end of August and helping the new room mates move in this weekend. Should be a good time, both of them are pretty pumped to start to learn to play some online so I will try to teach them as much as I can and hopefully be posting their montly graphs as well. 

After chopping and squaring everything with my backer I have a starting roll of about $1100.  Pretty much back to square one, jan 1st 2010.  I'm 10000000% better than I was back then so this shouldnt take long to build up.  I will most likely be withdrawing atleast $400-500 a month hopefully to pay for rent but still continue to grow my BR.  I'm going to shoot for a goal of bare min. $15k by December 31,2010, really I would like to have somewhere between $20k-$25k to start off 2011 (the year I will become a pro, hopefully hah) This would be the ideal situation...possible?  maybe?  I'm only up about $10k this year in MTTs so I think if I stick to the game plan and grind these bitches out I can hit atleast $10-$15k or so by the end of the year.  I've been close to winning more than I'm paid at my current shitty ass job so its possible and only a matter of time. I make some crazy plans about bankrolls I'm going for and it always seems to fail. So we arent too worried if I dont get there...I just want to have a consistent side income that pays for my living expenses for the most part so I can some cash too.

August Goals

- Play atleast 450 MTTs (I'm pumping this up from last month because of the month long comp..last comp I played around 600 that month, I think I can get over 450 easily)
- Stay Gold Star on PokerStars (I'm playing lower limits than used to for the time being so I dont think platty star will be something I can do so I'll try to hold on to gold)
- 5- Figure Score
- 4- Figure Score (this should pay rent)
- Win the PTP Team Comp
- Win 4 tournaments any game

Pretty much looks like last month....I doubled the tournament wins for this month to give me some motivation.  This is going to be the first month I will be trying to 'pay myself' which is motivation in itself.

My starting bankroll will be $1114.23. I'm going to use my own discretion on what to play...sadly the $26's will my 'shot taking' right now....really anything under $11 will be fair game. $3r and under and mixed in $22's and $26s until I can get above 1700ish or so.  Try to keep around 100-150 buy ins and if shit hits the fan I'll reconsider my approach but this has worked the last 7 months so hopefully I wont fail at life and go broke AGAIN.

also I bought about $150 worth of PS bonus that I can hopefully clear this month to add on to the BR.


Bankroll: $1114.23