I made a nice recovery the past few days.  Considering how bad it was a few days ago, an up week is definitely a confidence boost.  43K hands in a week is just absurd.  Up 4 days in a row now!  Normally, that would be a "yawn," but I'll take what I can get.  I was up 9 buy-ins yesterday, which is a pretty good day.  What's weird was that I went thru a long stretch where I felt like I was getting playmastered by everyone.  It just felt like I kept putting money in the pot, only to have it taken away.  Anyway, still trying to figure out what spots I should be more aggressive and what spots I should avoid putting myself in.

The weather seems pretty nice, so I think we're going to grill outside.  Nothing like a nice piece of dead animal and a glass of wine to make everything all right.

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I think I play with shorter stacks reasonably well, so I've also been experimenting with the shallow tables (may buy-in is 40 big blinds).  To be honest, I've found it difficult to remember which tables are shallow and I always end up making suboptimal raise sizes and 3bet sizes.  It hasn't helped that I run like ass at those tables.  I think I could adjust the 20 big blind strategy I used to use against the short stackers and play the shallow tables effectively, but so far, all it does is aggravate me.  Anyway, I usually try not to evaluate anything until I have 100K hands, but I may have to lay low for a little while.  Some of the payers on there look so bad that I just can't help myself tho.