Breakout!?

My bankroll hit $500 on a few occasions over the last six weeks, but each time I quickly got slapped back down. A chart of my bankroll would have shown some reverse candlestick patterns and head-and-shoulders formations. But I now that I've bashed through $600, I'm maybe, just maybe, into breakout territory. My bankroll is currently $606.

Here's a rather annoying micro PLO8 hand I played:
PokerStars Game #69037539793: Omaha Hi/Lo Pot Limit ($0.02/$0.05 USD) - 2011/10/15 22:45:35 ET
Table 'Mauderli II' 6-max Seat #6 is the button
Seat 1: sashaneo37 ($5.94 in chips)
Seat 2: Hawk N Nancy ($3.38 in chips)
Seat 3: jimmmibondi ($3.08 in chips)
Seat 4: mickeyr777 ($14.29 in chips)
Seat 5: Luckboxing ($5.38 in chips)
Seat 6: plutoman20 ($6.19 in chips)
sashaneo37: posts small blind $0.02
Hawk N Nancy: posts big blind $0.05
jimmmibondi: posts big blind $0.05
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to plutoman20 [3h 5h Ac Jd]
jimmmibondi: raises $0.10 to $0.15
mickeyr777: folds
Luckboxing: folds
plutoman20: calls $0.15
sashaneo37: folds
Hawk N Nancy: raises $0.10 to $0.25
jimmmibondi: raises $0.10 to $0.35
plutoman20: calls $0.20
Hawk N Nancy: raises $0.10 to $0.45
jimmmibondi: raises $0.10 to $0.55
plutoman20: calls $0.20
Hawk N Nancy: raises $0.10 to $0.65
jimmmibondi: raises $0.10 to $0.75
plutoman20: raises $0.65 to $1.40
Hawk N Nancy: calls $0.75
jimmmibondi: raises $1.68 to $3.08 and is all-in
plutoman20: calls $1.68
Hawk N Nancy: raises $0.30 to $3.38 and is all-in
plutoman20: calls $0.30
*** FLOP *** [8d 7d 6h]
*** TURN *** [8d 7d 6h] [3d]
*** RIVER *** [8d 7d 6h 3d] [6d]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Hawk N Nancy: shows [5c 2d 4c 2h] (HI: a straight, Four to Eight; LO: 7,6,4,3,2)
plutoman20: shows [3h 5h Ac Jd] (HI: two pair, Sixes and Threes; LO: 7,6,5,3,A)
Hawk N Nancy collected $0.29 from side pot
Hawk N Nancy collected $0.28 from side pot
jimmmibondi: shows [4s As Qd Ah] (HI: two pair, Aces and Sixes; LO: 7,6,4,3,A)
Hawk N Nancy collected $4.40 from main pot
jimmmibondi collected $4.40 from main pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $9.86 Main pot $8.80. Side pot $0.57. Rake $0.49
Board [8d 7d 6h 3d 6d]
Seat 1: sashaneo37 (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 2: Hawk N Nancy (big blind) showed [5c 2d 4c 2h] and won ($4.97) with HI: a straight, Four to Eight; LO: 7,6,4,3,2
Seat 3: jimmmibondi showed [4s As Qd Ah] and won ($4.40) with HI: two pair, Aces and Sixes; LO: 7,6,4,3,A
Seat 4: mickeyr777 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 5: Luckboxing folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 6: plutoman20 (button) showed [3h 5h Ac Jd] and lost with HI: two pair, Sixes and Threes; LO: 7,6,5,3,A

Going nowhere

It feels like I'm going nowhere in all aspects of my life at the moment, not just poker. In fact if I was going nowhere in poker it wouldn't be so bad, but I'm actually going backwards. My bankroll is $422, $45 less than it was at the start of the month and $142 shy of the mark I attained on 11th September (my high point since I cashed out).

Edit: I've just started playing a pot-limit badugi tournament, thinking it was limit as I hit a smooth seven on the first hand. Evidently my opponent thought it was limit too, or at least played like it was.

September monthly report and the Tetris effect

September was a slightly frustrating month. My profit of $164 took my end-of-month bankroll to $467, nearly $100 off the high that I reached three weeks ago.

In the past few days on Twoplustwo there was some discussion of the Tetris effect. One of the posters in the thread (who, as it happens, won five figures in the recent WCOOP) assigns hand values to household objects. While I haven't suffered from the phenomenon to that extent, I do see deuce-to-seven hands all the time. Last night the rugby match between South Africa and Samoa drew a crowd of 29,734. Do I break that? At work I'll see a figure of $62,835 and hope it holds up. When I'm in my car I'll be following someone with 9874 on his number plate and wonder what positions I should open that from. Then just after I moved to Wellington I saw a trailer with the ultimate lowball hand.

Edit: The game between Wales and Fiji had an attendance of 28,476. Off the top of my head that's a number 15, which in rugby is a full-back :)