Talking about shifts in one's game, I came to this conclusion latley after a huge downswing, playing uber sucky sucky:

I have only played on Ladbrokes for a couple of months, but have won money slowly and steady. I think I can thank a tight game, and a patient waiting for the right cards to show up.

Then someting happened. I used empirebacker.com and got 25$ for free at Empirepoker, and decided to try it out. I quickly made those 25 into 125, hitting some good tables and some very fishy players. I tought "hell, this sure is easy" and loosenes up. I played almost every suited connector from every posistion, played KTo and A9o and so on (which I ususally don't do). I started to overvalue TPTK like hell. And I won.

However, when I returned to Ladbrokes after some crazy beats on Empire, I had really caught some bad habits. My game was really loose and over agressive. I kept losing and I couldn't understand why. I tried Empire again, but didn't hit those crazy tables and quickly lost pretty much everything. My whole game was wrecked, and in combination with some bad beats it turned really loose/over-agressive.

I guess I had some bad luck hitting some crazy for a few days tables at Empire, and when I played some normal games I kept playing crazy. I will really try to tighten up again, and play my "A" game like I did before. I need to slow down and think about my game. I should not let a few days of luck ruin my whole game when the luck ends.

My 0.02$. Anyone else experienced this?