OK, after several refresher reads concerning beginner strategy, assessing the differences in my stats over the last week compared to prior stats, and looking at what I had changed that began my downswing I have come up with a few conclusions.

1. I do not have the post flop skills to sit down with max buy ins yet. Someone posted that going from 50bb to max BI will magnify my strengths or weaknesses and was dead on. My main weakness is post flop discipline and that was glaringly obvious.

2. I am calling post flop way too much, with way too little, ignoring my odds and ignoring my reads half the time.

3. Full Ring > 6 max for my skill level. I assumed with less players in the pot I would see less suckouts and that just was not the case.

4. Fold fold fold. I read an article on NLH betting and folding when RR'd. Forgetting that has cost me a ton.

What it all boils down to was pretty much spelled out in "The Newbie Circle of Death". I played a little and had some minor success so I thought I could start calling bullshit and that's what I got in return, bullshit.

After tightening back up and focusing (once again) I managed to turn things around a bit. I had two sessions that were not losing sessions. The first I finished about even. The second I finished up two BI's.

Focus needs to be my main priority. Not aggression, not CBing everything. Focus.