Positive week

Played about 4500 hands in the past 7 days, keeping it nice and light. Had one pretty much disastrous day where I dropped about $240 (just atrocious luck), but so far for the month I'm up about $500 and I've pretty drastically upped my playtime in the past week or so. My past 3,000 hands in particular have been quite good, back to a winrate of over 5.5PTBB/100. 3,000 is a pathetic sample size for winrate, but I feel like my running has gone back to normal over the past few days.

What was missing during the meat of my downswing were the people who would stack off to me with with reasonable to powerhouse holdings. I was on the receiving end of plenty of coolers, but wasn't delivering anyone, I wasn't stacking any overpairs in situations where they maybe sort of should have gotten away from it, and I wasn't laying any big bad beats on anyone (except for shortstacks), though I was on the receiving end of all of those. I'm starting to see those spots again and it's restoring my confidence. I never felt like my A game left me, but I was getting drawn into stupid spots and playing a little mindlessly. I feel much better about the way I'm playing, and I'm seeing the benefit to keeping my sessions relatively short.

Today I won close to $300 and never once felt like I wasn't in control of the table, losing only one significant pot ($50 down) on a cooler, JQ vs 88 on an 8JJ flop. OTOH I got two overaggro players to make very poorly timed bluffs on me, each for a full stack. The tables were pretty nice tonight and I ran silghtly better than normal.

I still have a lot of ground to make up if I'm looking to sustain any kind of lifestyle, but the fact that I went into this little ordeal with a good amount of money saved up is quite important.

I still have a ways to go before I try to step back up to $1/$2, but I feel like I can take a good shot at it once I get there, and hopefully stay there for a while.