Make up your mind....

So in the past few years I've gone back and forth between cash games and tournament play and had little success in both but never really enough to keep me locked into just one. With the recent lack of quality finishes in tourneys I figured it might be benificial to give cash games a shot to clear my mind of the methadical tourney play. With my bank roll sitting around $500 I figured .25/.50 would be the right limit for me to jump into. I began six tabling this limit in 1000 hand sessions which would take a little over an hour. Things looked to be going great in the first few session, winning 2 and 3 buy-in's each session. The play at this limit is pretty atrocious and I was able to exploit this inexperience with ease.

I though all was going well and that I was about to hit the 1K mark with my bankroll until last night happened! I was again 6 tabling the .25/.50 and about 400 hands in having an average session...nothing crazy happening and chiping up at each table. I think the point when all hell started to break loose was when this hand occured. To preface my play at this table, something I'm really trying to work on while playing these lower limits is opening up my aggression while in position. This meaning winding my range when opening the pot and also widing my re-raise range as well(in position). So it's folded around to me on the button and I raise it up 4x with QQ
and get re-raised by a maniac playing 57/22/5 in the BB. There was very little doubt in my mind that I was behind so I decide to take a flop and take it from there. The flop comes 6 3 9 rainbow, and he checks to me...I lead for 3/4 the pot and he raises me 3x more(at the begining of the hand we were both playing 200bb's deep) and I push and he insta calls with AKoff and spiked a ace on the river(fuck you Greenstein) to ship him the pot. From there it really was bad beat after bad beat. There were a few miss steps here and there on my behalf, but I wasn't getting out of line and simply put, wasn't getting paid when I made hands!

When the 2,000 hand session was done I was down 6 buy in's and my bank roll was back to where it had begun...right around $450. The crazy thing about last nights debacle of a session was 80% of my losses were on one table. I couldn't leave either, because the player who had all the money was the donk. He deffinetly had my number and beat me in most pots with inferior hands! It was so frustrating!

I track all of my cash game sessions in poker tracker so I'll be able to post some stats here when I'm back on my laptop. I think for the most part, through roughly 3,500 hands I was up $412 with a win rate of 17bb's per hundred hands. This was looking great until this past session and now I think I'm hoovering around even, and maybe in the red a bit.

With my roll back down to almost nothing I really don't know what I want to do? I know I can crush the .25/.50 short handed games, I just had a rough night last night. The only thing is, I can't afford another session like this past one or I'll be googling "how to tie a noose". I think what I might do is grind out the $4 180 mand SNG's for a while and try to get my roll back around 1k and then go from there.