Outlaw and HarleyGuy, you guys seem to have done well this month. HarleyGuy, bah, don't worry about the dip at the end, look at the whole graph and relax.

Robb, you do realise you have your own folder now in my poker directory lol. Having to paste all the gold you write into one place coz it's a) long b) valuable and c) difficult to take into my micro brains in one go. So i'm going to study your out pourings and come back to you with specific questions. Again, thanks a million.

I'm really concerned about these sudden impacts that we all get out of nowhere, it is just like a downswing virus. What the hell is it... it's so unpleasant. See now i have to factor in those things, i naively thought that graphs just go: up up up down up up up down etc. as long as you're nice and comfortable at your stake. But the best of us can have hideous: down down down down down up down down down ... periods across tens of thousands of hands. It's fine as long as they don't sink the boat as it were, but it's especially harsh when trying to go up or trying to stay up, really fucks with one's progress.

So from now on, i'm just factoring in 10 buy-in downswings per stake. I think it's the only way. The main thing is to make sure we survive them coz one day when we're all playing 100nl it'll be safe to say we've 'made it' to the first main plateaux of earning potential. And we have survived the swings to get that far.

Looking back on my breakeven stretch i feel a little humbled now. But from this far up 'the mountain' i never know what the fuck is around the corner and how big the beast will be if and when it rears it's head. Fuck.... poker can be so intense