BR now up to about $680, playing 2oNL FR. The original goal is obviously done and I need a new one, so I'm aiming now for BR of $1250 and stepping up to 50NL. I'll update the sig shortly.

Man, these guys at 20NL are so tight! I try to cherry pick tables with high average pots and high players/flop, but I seem to find myself surrounded by multi-tabling 9/6 nits all the time. I'm already aggro, but against these guys I'm something like 28/23/6 over my last 5K ...

Had a mega-variance weekend. I had 3 sessions of about 500 hands each - down 3 buy-ins in the first one, up 4 buy-ins in the second, and then down another 2.5 in the third. Overall down 1.5 or about $30. Looking through my biggest losing hands I was getting the chips in good more often than not, but I just had more than my share of negative variance. That tells me I wasn't being a complete spewtard the whole time (and considering how well I've been running lately I can't really complain too much) and I don't need to panic about getting stacked a couple of times.

Don't get me wrong though, there was also some pretty bad play in there too! A good example was the biggest pot I've ever played - $90 on a 20NL table. I'm sitting in MP with a $45 stack and raise it up to 4xBB with QQ, got 3bet by a nit also with a $45 stack in the CO, I 4bet, he shoves, I call. If the 3bet wasn't a strong indicator of AA/KK, then the shove certainly was, but I'd been stomping all over this table and in my excitement saw no reason to slow down here. Sure enough he flips AA. Dumb.

I could probably slow down a little, because I don't think my post-flop skills are strong enough to maintain a decent long term winrate playing FR at 28/23, but at the same time its working against these nits at the moment and by doing it I'm probably developing my skills more quickly! I think my focus for now should be on controlling my reverse tilt tendencies and picking my spots better both pre and post flop. Slightly more controlled aggression. Consider how likely the blinds are to play back before stealing from CO/BU. Treat 3bets with respect. Fewer hero calls when I know I am most likely beat. Stop and think a bit before clicking the raise button. That will require more discipline around putting people on ranges and acting accordingly, which was and still is a huge leak for me.

And I am going to post some hands soon - I have already identified some that I could use some feedback on, but I'm not on my home PC right now and I just need to get around to posting them ...