Its 4:28am and I just finished up about 60 SNG's (started late with a long break in between). Won about 22 BI's over the session. Felt good to win. I took about 2 weeks off from SNG's, ever since I started my live cash game schedule. Before that, I was on a pretty nasty downswing, running way under EV. The goal is to maintain a 15% ROI over a large enough sample. I did that over 900 or so SNG's until I took that nasty beat down over 2 weeks. Hope I'm on my way back up. I've heard "Jackal" talk about maintaining a ROI of 15 w/ 40BI's. But like he says, at the smaller limits, a good player should def be able to maintain a higher ROI. There are so many fish at these levels and a 20% ROI should not be out of the question what so ever. The limits I play at as far as SNG's go don't contribute to my income. All I want to do is put in enough volume so that I'm prepared to move up and up. I was chatting with Cincy_Swag this evening and he's trying to do the exact same thing. It was funny actually. I fire up 6 sng's this afternoon when I started and noticed that he was at 5 of them. We never really battled in any of them. I 3 bet him once, with AKs...only to have him shove. I also ended up calling a BVB shove pretty light with K high because I know he's a good player and is BVB smashing in the right situation. We have sweat session scheduled for the weekend and I'm sure we'll both gain a lot from it. Its always good to collaborate/share with others who have the same mindset and goals. This is something I'm gonna work on doing. I really think it's so beneficial for all parties involved. When I was teaching, collaborating with other teachers was one of the most fun and rewarding things I took away my experience. No reason why poker should be different.

Other than that, I just want to say that I'm very happy about my new schedule. Playing live Tuesday to Friday and having Saturday through Monday off is awesome. At first I thought I'd spend Saturdays at the casino but I'm starting to think that I want my Saturdays to be completely poker free. Maybe I'll just go to the casino 1 Saturday a month or so. Sundays will be spent recovering from Saturday night's (if required) and playing 10-15 MTT's. This Sunday was def spent recovering. I only played the 42K guarantee on FT where I made it to just before the money. I ran KK into QQ, only to have a Q knock me out. Today, I went grocery shopping and also stopped by the bank. Mondays are going to be my erands and life stuff day. Started going to the gym. I'm in the worst shape of my entire life right now. I have 1 year to look like a Greek god! Goodfella's destination wedding is next summer and I don't want to wear a shirt the entire two weeks we're at the resort. I have a loooong way to go. I also need to get my sleeve finished and chest work started before that too (tattoos). I currently have 6 but have already drawn up 4 more that will completely cover my left arm and will also reach over my shoulder and on to my left tit. Btw, if anyone is wondering about the weight loss prop bet I had with his uncle Gino... I lost 9lbs. As far as total body percentage, we were actually pretty close but he did win. I owe him an uncapped dinner/drinks night.

Tomorrow is Tuesday and I'll be playing for the next 4 days. I've analyzed a lot of hands from last week and I'm confident that I'm aware of any mistakes that I'm making and have a solid plan for the week. I spent a lot of time this weekend just preparing/studying/analyzing. I asked a friend, who's often present at my live sessions what my table image is as far as the other players are concerned. He said I was "Deliberate Aggressive". I asked him wtf that meant and he said some where between LAG and TAG. I'm constantly changing gears and hopefully that's where he gets the idea from. I don't know why but I like that term. I don't want to fit into any mold. I want to be hard to read and want to keep my opponents guessing throughout all of my sessions. I'm very excited about poker. I've already decided that Poker is first and foremost for me right now. Everything else comes second. I'm gonna follow through with my plans for law school in the near future and before that happens, I want to dedicate my entire life to poker while I can. I'm just ready to kill it for the rest of the year! I plan to ship the living shit out of it this week. Wish me luck.

Hope everyone had a good weekend and hope you guys all run good this week.

Peace. 2.