Slumping

Frustration abounds in Eeyore land these days. Because of a sick daughter, I've had the (apparently unfortunate) opportunity to jump online quite a few times in the past few days. The results have been consistent. Consistently bad. From my (intraday) Cake Challenge II high of $201, I've now dropped over $58, and now sit at $142.51.

As I noted in my last post, I stepped up the stakes a bit, but I don't perceive that that was the main culprit for my woes.

** Overall, in $.05-$.10 6-max NLHE, I dropped a whopping $3.47, according to HEM (yes, I'm a proud new owner -- thanks Chuck and Marsh for your enduring technical support). The $3.47 loss is arguably deceiving, because on the day that I reached $201, I busted out at two different $.05-$.10 tables where I was approaching $20 (had bought in for $8 and more than doubled up), but then went haywire and lost it all.

** I played a bunch of double up SNGs, and I believe I dropped the most dough there.

** I have had good success with the $2 10-person double ups (11 of 16: profit $8.80 for investment of $35.20 -- 25%).

** But, I've been miserable at $3 6-max (3 of 8: loss of $8.40 on investment of $26.40 -- 32%) and $5 10-person double ups (0 for 4: loss of $21.40 on investment of $21.40 -- 100%). So, that's where $30 of the $58 went.

My overall evaluation is that I've played far less disciplined this week. I suffered a few painful suck outs a long the way, epecially last night. Ugh. [If I could get the Cake hand coverter tool thingy to work, I'd show you a few, but you've all seen suck outs before.] But, beyond that, I've been stabbing/pushing too much and hero calling way too much. Because of kid health issues and general exhaustion, I would've been smart to simply walk away from the CC II this week, but I've needed something fun to do, and so that's the price I pay, I suppose.

Going to firmly stick with the lower stakes for now and try to muster a reversion to discipline. Hopefully, will get back to the $200 range soon'ish rather than later'ish.