Making the best of a bad situation

The shitty run continues, but at least I'm being constructive.

I know it's not all about the cards and I've been reevaluating my game a bit. Looking for holes and some explanation as to why I've dropped 1/2 my roll over the last 3 weeks. Dug through some HH and, though I hate to admit it, about 1/2 of the losses are strictly due to stubbornness. There were a couple of pushes and 3 or 4 calls which total about $400 that I could have gotten away from.

Again, it gets back to me trying to be too aggressive and getting caught. Now, I'll also say that I've had some sick hands during this run, but it didn't have to be quite as bad as it has.

Had a new kind of sick beat tonight, the disconnect beat.

I get A7 of spades on the button, two limpers in front and I make it $4.

Flop is A 5 7 rainbow. 1st limper bets out $5, call....and my fucking computer locks.....disconnected and kicked out of the hand. By the time I reconnect I see that there was a $100 pot that hand and the other two had TT and 99.....fuck me. Thanks Full Tilt. I now see the benefit of all in protection.

I'm putting the brakes on this week and will play very little. On Wednesday, I'm taking my son to the Drum Corps World Championships in Madison, WI, so no poker from Wed - Sun....which is a good thing

Actually, I'm kind of in limbo as to what to do, play, etc. I'm down to about $700 from a high of $1300 back in early July. I'm still up for the year, but it hurts to be down that much in such a short time. Then again, I shouldn't be playing higher that $50NL with what I've got and I've been playing $100NL and some $200NL. I could throw some $$$ from my new roll, but I'd like to keep from doing that. I some ways, I'm still a tad leery of throwing real cash online. Weird, I know, but I've been playing on the same money forever and really don't want to get into "my" money if I can help it.

I'm starting to play more MTTs and remember for all the sick beats and frustrating situations, I still prefer that style of poker. I really feel like my game is more tournament friendly and that's where I'd like to go. My plan was to let the ring games cover my MTT costs, but that hasn't been working out lately. Hopefully, I'll plug some of these gaping leaks and get straightened out before I go broke. :P