Tortoising Along

Ignoring for the moment that who knows if "tortoising" if a word, I feel like it's an accurate description of the month so far. Not much going on, but making incremental progress. Three final tables, one 8th in the Cake 30R, and two 4th places in the AP 20k. Up about 1900 for the month, which I suppose isn't that bad for this point in the month.

The AP 20k tournaments were both sort of disappointing, because in both cases I thought I played really well. And I'm not easily impressed with my play. Made the final table last night and lost two big flips. When we got to four handed only one of the other players was really playing with the requisite aggression, though unfortunately that was the big stack behind me. But I thought I picked my spots pretty well. I was also 3 betting very aggressively when there was an aggressive player behind me earlier in the final table. Clearly I'm awesome, as I reread this ego stroke of a paragraph.

Am I still in a downswing? I dunno, last month still sucked, don't feel like I've quite had the breakthrough because of the lack of a big cash since the beginning of last month. Honestly sometimes my play has just felt a little bit off. Part of it is just a lack of focus that I've seen to have lately. Don't think there's an answer to that other than force myself into better mental habits while I'm playing.

Watching Liverpool beat Real Madrid today, then I'll be playing tonight.