Some more mediocre play on my part going on in the past few days. I just feel like I don't have it as I did when I was playing well at the end of August.

I have been playing a decent amount of tournaments and doing shitty in them. I placed in a .10 and .25 buy in for a little bit of money. And I played in the $10, $30K guaranteed yesterday afternoon. I was playing great and had double the average chip stack with about 650 people left with the bubble at 540. I had QQ and raised, the player behind me, who had called every1 of my raises called. Flop came K52 and I bet he calls, I bet again he raises minimum - TIME TO FOLD, well I ddin't, I overplayed the QQ and ended up becoming crippled and busting out about 5 hands later just before the money. I learned that I DONT need to win every hand! Lay it down with losing 2/5ths of your chips, it's better than becoming crippled to needing to move all-in afterwards.

The positive part of my tournaments is that I feel like I can win everyone! I've been reading soupie's guide on MTT and it has been helping. I plan to stay out of the $10 buy ins and stick to the $0.10 - $3 buy-in tournaments.

My buddy, who was down about $120 who I had kept lending money to because one, I knew he was good for it, and two, I know how good of a poker player he is, finally got a big win. He had won a $4.40 and 180 man and a $2.20 180 man tourney, but had then played out of his bankroll even though I showed him many times this site. Well he played in the $3.30, 3K guaranteed tourney last night and took it down for $860. I am very proud of him and again I am going to preach to him to make sure he plays in his bankroll.

This month after 3600 hands I am up $42 playing cash (-$15 from $25NL and +$57 at $10NL. My winning rate is at about 6.5BB/100 which is far lower than I would like. I would like to be around 8-10/100 at this level. And then from tournaments I am down about $30, so overall I am up about $12 on the month. Better than losing!

BR: $285