I’ve adjusted to my crazy schedule and doing the little things like going over my past mtts and watching pxf vids. In 35 mtts I’ve made 4 final tables, unfortunately none of them have been in a buy in bigger then $11 and the highest I finished was 6th. I went deep in the 3r and a ftp $26 16k where in order to knock out of the 16k I had to lose nearly 3 consecutive hands AK

The 3r I raised AA in ep, bb called on a Q64 board I bet a little more then half the pot as we both had around 55bbs and the bb seemed to be a pretty competent player. At that point I put him on a weak Q, a set, a middle pair, or some kinda of connector like 56, 54, 57. The turn was a 6, which is a really great card. Villain checked and I checked. I checked for a couple of reasons, 1 this player was good enough that if I 2 barrel he folds everything except AQ, maybe KQ and calls with hands that have me crushed. This way maybe I get value on a river bet against underpairs and and QJ type of hands. River was a blank and he fired out a psb. Usually that means they got a hand, I just thought AQ, KQ were definitely hands that this guy would bet along with monsters, so I snap called and he showed 67 for trips. I was very happy that I lost the minimum, but obviously not happy to lose 40% of my stack. Then I raised AcQc and a good player otb called and the good bb called from the bb. At this point I started the hand with about 27bbs. The flop was Tc4c2x, so short of flopping a pair this is a monster flop for my hand. Now I know the button was good so I fired out a slightly less then half psb if I remember right hoping that if I got raised I could jam and get maximum fe vs a good player with an under pair or weak tp. Well the button called my bet and raised the pot, bb folded and I jammed and missed everything vs T9.

Some things I’m doing much better after spending a little time looking over my game:

1. Being more aware of how I’m sitting stackwise and adding this to my criteria of if I want to risk making a big call, raise, or bluff. Essentially if I’m at an easy table and I have a very marginal hand and have to call a large chunk of my stack that will limit what I can do later I just fold.

2. Being more selective of who’s blinds I raise from lp.

3. Punishing limpers.

4. Making a few more cbets.

5. Defending my blind more often by calling pf vs opponents I think I can exploit.

6. Stop calling/shoving with horrible hands when someone raises my bb when I’m sitting on 6-10bbs.

7. Over betting big hands like ops vs donks who can’t fold. I did this 3 or 4 times in the 3r after the rebuy period. For example I raise with AA in mp, a very bad loose calling station calls from the bb. The flop is KTx. donk checks, I pot it he calls. Turn is a blank, donk checks and I shove 4x the pot and got called by QT.

8. Playing small ball with effective deep stacks.

Although I’m stuck almost 10% of my starting bank roll for the month, I’m super happy how I’m playing. It’s only a matter of time before I hit a big score.

I had a horrible May. I had my second worst month ever playing only half my normal volume. I can’t say I’m playing my A game as often as I did on my old schedule, but I’ve been getting unlucky over and over. I’m basically on about a -$900 swing in the last 8 weeks. To some that’s not a big deal but when that constitutes 1/3 of your bank roll it starts looking a bit serious. sngs have kind of been my variance “reducer” but not lately. I’ve ran super bad in those, having sessions where I cash in 1-7 while finishing 4th or 5th in the others.

Some things I’ve noticed that I haven’t been doing on my downswing are reviewing my play, watching videos, and posting on the forums. I used to load up a hh replayer and record that hh with pc recording software as I commented on my play, then watch the recording at least 2x afterwards. What this does is separate you from the mtt your playing, basically you act as an unbiased observer and really makes you think about how you play. I have really slacked off in watching videos on pxf, which I’m now looking for a new vid site as I just canceled pxf. I used to watch a minimum of 3 a week, I need to stop slacking. I also have stopped posting as often, this needs to change, even reading through a thread once a day is much better then what I’ve been doing.

I’ve made a decision to buy a house. For the last few years I’ve held back on this decision as I feel it cements the fact that I’ll never do anything in the computer programming world. I think I’m scared that I’m going to end up working for a company that treats it’s employees like shit in something that doesn’t even closely resemble my field which is Computer Information Systems for which I spent quite a bit of money to go to school for.

I think there is nothing wrong with buying a house and if I have to move out of the area, which I won’t be leaving for at least 2 years, I can sell my house and hopefully break even given the housing market. Quite frankly I’m tired of living in an apartment with no garage for my mustang and only 2 bedrooms. I want to have a computer room, a garage, a work out room, and a washer and dryer that is my own. I’ve only went as far as looking at houses online to see what I can get for what I want to pay. The next step is contacting a real estate agent