Posting my $10k milestone may have acted as a doom switch . Immediately after that, I had a decent downswing. There's been some bad luck, some bad play, and I haven't been able to put in the volume I would normally prefer for both last month and this month. My wife took an accelerated stats class and has been hogging the computer preventing me from playing. Although, I did get to play a lot of MarioKart 8

We are also in the process of adopting a 4 year old girl. Her mother, a friend of my wife, has terminal cancer and we agreed to adopt her daughter. That has taken a lot of our time and attention. To top it off, the dog that my wife and I got together when she moved in when we were dating has had health problems needing two surgeries that weren't cheap. So, the stress level hasn't been conducive to be able to play or be on my "A" game.

Mid-year results:

Total: $8,180.42

Year ---> Month ---> Cashout
2014 ---> 1 ---> $518.59
2014 ---> 2 ---> $2,053.53
2014 ---> 3 ---> $2,637.87
2014 ---> 4 ---> $1,896.78
2014 ---> 5 ---> $2,425.73
2014 ---> 6 ---> -$1,352.08

At the moment, I'm up a bit for July. Hopefully with my wife's stats class now over, most of the adoption details taken care of, and our dog has been doing well so far, things will settle down back to how I like ... hopefully .

I'm also planning to get a new PC so if my wife ever needs one, she'll have one and I'm ready for a new one anyway. I just updated to HEM2. It took some doing, but so far so good. I need to learn the skinny on Notecaddy. It looks like a worthwhile tool.

It's funny that this is now my 3rd shot at $200NL and last I checked, I have an 8 buy-in discrepancy in my all-in EV. According to HEM2 all-in EV, I would expect to be UP 3 buy-ins but I'm unfortunately down 5. I wish there were more tables running more often as I usually only have one, maybe two, but I guess one or two is better than none. The rest of the tables I'm grinding are $100NL on Merge and $100NL on Bovada. Bovada has been really swingy. I've cut back from 4 tables there to 2 or 3 until I get the hang of it and that seems to have helped. I deposited $750 and between the welcome bonus and table profits, I've got my account to $2k for the moment.