Still not making progress

Ok, so my $10 bonus got paid out, but it coincided with a pretty big SNG down swing. I lost a whole bunch in a row and then started playing HU PLO and then losing there too. In the end, I'm about even after last night.

I made $11 last night for finishing 7th in a 180-man tourney. Pretty disappointing, although I was probably lucky all in all to have even gotten that far. I won a couple flips late for my tournament life. Midway through the tourney I lost two huge pots with QQ to another guy's AA AIPF, and then a couple hands later I called an all in with A9 and the other guy had AQ, but I had him covered by a bunch. I was able to come back from those and make a late surge up the money ladder. I eventually busted out with AK to QQ. I was close to some real money, but even if I had won that flip, I still would have been a long shot.

I thought I played pretty focused poker. My laptop has shit out on me, so that I pretty much can't do anything on it but play poker. Instant messaging doesn't work, the internet locks up. Even the sound comes and goes. Given that, I have to pay a little more attention to what's going on. Definitely not good to play this way when trying to do other things, but if I'm just sitting down to play poker, it's not a bad way to go about it.

I've got a taste for the MTT now. Hope I have time to take one down this weekend.