but i think i won too much for my own good.

here's the story: couple of nights ago i had the best session of my extremely short poker career thus far. I'd recently gone up to playing NL200 with a bankroll of $17000, and won $1000 in one night session, on the end of winning $580 in the day and a half preceding. And yesterday night it started to unravel.

Got back home after teaching, had dinner, relaxed and then fired up for another night session. Lets say it's been a combination of rotten luck and bad play. I mean, make no mistake i was lucky that night. My good hands held up, and the coinflips landed in my favor. In 2 big pots with 2 draws I managed to hit one.

Now my opponents are hitting their mispriced flush draws, going all in with flush draws and hitting them. I'm to blame too for going in with bottom 2 pair and I lost a coin flip. That's okay. I knew my good luck wasn't going to last forever.

But my play can only be described as reckless. I win $60 pots and I don't even feel that good and twice today I've managed to go up about $100 and i lost it back with interest. I'm less judicious with cont bets. I don't know what's happened to me. God... I just managed to get myself bullied by a short stack.

I feel as if winning too much put me on tilt. I've had downswings before. But I don't think i've lost more than $600 or so on a downswing yet in my poker career (but at 200NL it's only 3 buyins, and one was a bad beat and one was a lost flip, straight flush draw all in on flop). I feel exasperated. My mindset is negative. Even winning a nice pot doesn't make me feel happy!

I've been grinding it out for about 6 months, from starting at 0.25/0.50 hunting for bonuses to build my bankroll, to NL25 at party and skins (back when reloads were plentiful and the skins were attached to party). With a bankroll of about $8000 I'd play NL25 and $15+1 SNGs... i mean it was just something for fun i did in spare time that was more rewarding than video games. My dance studio closed over christmas and january, as I went up to 50NL late december - beat it for 2400BBs and went up to 100NL early january and beat that for 1700 BBs and went up to 200 NL about 4 days ago.

I feel as though I have the discipline and the knowledge to beat the game consistently, and I've proven it in the last 6 months. But unfortunately it seems the best 2 days of my poker life has stuffed me up completely. I've been on tilt before from losing... and it's funny in that I haven't lost half of what I won in those 2 days. I feel as though I'm transforming into one of those GambOOLers that I've been beating the stuff out of for the last 6 months.

Who's been there? What do I do? I know most of you wish you had this problem yourselves LOL.