OK, so not a week yet, but I wanted to update. I didnt even realise this till I went through it, but I actually dropped 8 buyins in my first 4 days on Everest (almost 6 in that one shocker day, and the rest in 2 of the 3 others, only 1 profitable day out of the 4). Well, woke up early this morning and got a 50 min session in to get back to even (actually like $2 up).

Been running pretty hot, havnt found how to get ptBB/100 per session in HM, but the last few days I've been running around $50 per hr 4-tabling 25NL, so at 2 stacks per hr thats right at the top of my 'good' range.

A good question to reflect on is if its just been a variance swing, or if I'm playing better. I think a bit of both. Dont forget I hadnt played cash for a fair while prior to moving to Everest, and wasnt that successful before anyway. I definately took some bad beats early too though, with 6 hands in my 3.5k sample where I was 80% or better when the money went in and lost. In the last few days I havnt taken any of them, so thats definately variance swinging back around (no suckouts either, just been getting my money in good and holding up).

As for playing better, I think I'm getting good value out of weak hands now, and I think I've had a good mix of making good folds, and making good calls. Since I havnt really developed soul reading skills, some of that will just be luck I guess. Even the fish start to notice I make laydowns on later streets, so I've found some value in calling with some weaker hands. In some cases they've obviously played and floated with ATC just to bluff me off pots, which may be concerning, although its tended so far to mean I've layed down some small pots then called to win some big ones, so probably need to think it over more.

Definately still make mistakes and bad plays, but I think I'm making less of them.

BR - $860.