Hey Rip,
I can feel your pain. After focusing on SNGs and learning how to adjust my play a little, I got to winning a fair share. But I have been on an excrutiatingly frustrating down cycle thats eating me up (and my bankroll).
Between jumping into SNGs without the time or mindset to focus, getting killed by a few really bad beats and finding myself playing way to loose, I've just about lost my perspective.
I went back through poker tracker and found that I was getting beat by some really dumb plays on my part much more than I should. I think that I've been kind of seduced by the rush at the end, when you can play just about anything. As I looked back over the last 20 or so SNGs, I saw that I was starting to loosen up earlier and earlier.
Does anybody know what I mean? When you play ring games, you keep a pretty clear picture of what starting hands you're willing to play. But when you get down to 2 or 3 in a tourney, you gotta play a lot of cards you wouldn't touch otherwise. So all of a sudden 89o seems like the kind of hand that you ought to play with 5 left, then 7. "What the heck" I find myself saying, "I hit the 9 on the flop last game, and the 8 on the turn to take first, IT COULD HAPPEN AGAIN"
Anyway, I've taken a week off to get my perspective back, and I'm starting to win again. And I'm back to a game that I feel good about.
