Day 13 - Decided to make a rule. If I ever have 3 losing days in a row, I'm to take a day off.
Sensible idea I think, the fact that when I finished work I was completely dogged helped me come about it. I'll try to stick to it, should I ever have 3 bad days in a row again. (Might not happen 
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I start work tomorrow at half five for the 100 re-buy at CinCins. We're likely to be at capacity so I don't see me getting off till very late. If I'm too cream crackered, I won't play when I get back. If there's no Day 14 update that'll be why.
I'll be sure to get back to you and let you all know how Day 15 goes though.
Falling behind I know, but when the new computer gets delivered, I'll be experimenting with 6/8 tabling. If that works out I'll hit my target with greater ease.
Day 13 Results : Day off, to break the negative momentum.
Day 15 - Sorry folks I would have updated last night (by that I mean 9am-10am) but was really tired. Just woke up and now I'll let you know what's been happening in the wonderful world of Turbo STT's
Day 14 wasn't worth updating. After getting back from Cincinattis, I only played one batch of 4 before deciding that I was too tired to contine. Wish I had updated now, I won $7.5, at least that would have been a win to report, as it happens I'm afraid it's another red day today.
In fact last night I spotted the first signs of tilt. I didn't enter any more tournaments immediately after the following happened.....
In the big blind. Blinds were 100/200 6 left, I have just over 2k in chips (13.5k on the table) I have JJ. There is a raise to 400, then a re-raise to 800. Alarm bells 'R us. I should be folding here all day and all night. I didn't, I went all-in, sure enough the re-raiser shows the Aces and I crash out of the tournament in 6th. This is such a horrible play and I was ashamed of it, even before the AA called and turned his cards over.
Definately time to quit for the day if you find yourself doing something like that. 34 was a decent amount to get under the belt anyway.
Day 15 (and 14) Results: -$597 (+3272.8 total)
ROI : 17.1 % after 319 tournaments played (Much closer to the 15% I was originally anticipating)
Although the variance in STT is much lower than playing MTT or cash games, it is still very much there. A lot of my edge will come from winning more than my fair share of heads up encounters because my opponent is not as aggresive as he should be. This can't come to bear if I'm going through a streak of finishing 3rd too often.
If the ROI stays above 15% after 500 tournaments I'll be a happy bunny.
