I busted the APPT Main Event yesterday in the last 20 minutes of the day.

It was pretty boring stuff. I didn't see AA, KK, QQ, JJ, TT, or AK. I never really had over starting stack.

I lost every hand until I had 20% of my stack left, then I won every hand until I had starting stack again.

Then I found no cards for 2 hours as usual and had 15bb during the last level.

Started shipping it in light cos I wanted to either bust and get to go home early, or have a reasonable shot at moneying if I was going to stay at least a few more days.

Got A6 allin vs 44, as always it came KKQ to keep it a flip, but then it blanked out and I was done.

Went to Mortons Steakhouse afterwards with Max (AceHighWine) and his gf Marie, and Grant Levy (Grunter321) and his bf Joel

It was pretty awesome but the portions were so ridiculous, even by American standards, and I ate about 1/3 of what I ordered.

So anyway I won a little bit for the trip thanks to the 100R, and though I didn't have a great time I have definitely been getting to know people in and around the Australasian circuit which bodes well for fun times in the future.

The other night I listened to the LeggoCast while winding down a long day, and heard myself talking to Greg about tournaments and how soul destroying they are.

It was pretty poignant to listen to myself saying these things, while about to pass out after being awake a looooong time (I slept for 16 hours) playing tournaments.

I like travelling to events, it's fun. It's cool to see new cities and countries, and having a shot at a pot of gold each time is very exciting (I thought it would be less so after winning one, but it isn't).

But doing that **** online, it's so bad. It's just so, so, so, so bad.

I need to balance the live tourney travelling by playing cashgames and seeing friends and being healthy during the 75% of the time I'm not on the road.

I know I've said all this before but it's just so true, and it's so easy to get trapped into P5 ranking wars or playing ridiculous hours to try and crack a huge score when all it really does is turn you into the same kind of filthy degenerate gambler we all pride ourselves as NOT being, as poker players.

So I hereby retire from online tournaments, outside of happening to be awake when ridiculous tourneys are starting (100+R, WCOOP etc) and sliding them into my wall of cashgame tables.

I've already been phasing cashgames back in, PLO is so swingy it's hard to tell where I am but I'll be playing 400-2K PLO probably across all sites, just mostly Stars atm because I'm clearing the stupid $4K bonus thing.

Graphs and stuff to come, I'm not gonna make any goals for Sept because it's still gonna be a disjointed month...

Next Tuesday I am flying to Sydney to be interviewed for a half-hour TV show on online poker in Australia, then in late Sept I am going to Seoul for another APPT.

In between though, I'm definitely gonna focus my priorities on going to the gym, seeing friends, and playing $1000 PLO.

Anyway even if it was mostly from a dumb donkament score, August was my best ever month.

I had about $30K net profit in online tourneys, $20K in online cash, and $190K in live donkaments hoho.