50r ownage and where I am since making the full time switch

April was off and kickin - Monday was my first day back at the grind and it turned out pretty successful - shipped the 50r AP for around 4800.....I think I also had a cash for 1k so overall about a +3800 day.........Tuesday I bricked, and Wednesday I ended up shipping the same tournament for 6600 this time, due to the bigger Wednesday field. I've felt real good about my game the past month or so - Monday was great because I felt like I made no bad decisions - I remember playing that 50r and not questioning one play - granted running above reality makes things easier when you don't have as many tough spots, but I just felt in control the whole time....On wednesday I had about 250k of the 900k in chips 10 handed, so it was real easy to run over the table and chip up....Ive head plenty of times your big advantage in tournaments in abusing people later on so noticing whos playing tight or just poorly is definitely key....there were a couple players obviously trying to move up the pay scale so I attacked their blinds.....another thing is attacking stack sizes - its great raising the blinds of people with under 15 bb cause they have to think you're calling them alot when they reshove, especially when stacks get to say 10 bbs...because of this they have to pick up a hand so its easy to pick up chips that way.....Another thing I learned in the past month is slowing down vs overaggro players - I got HU actually in the 50r about 3 weeks ago with Tazedspur - very aggro big winner whos been on a hell of a heater as of late so I had to adjust.....My normal raises got owned when he 3 bet, and when I 3 bet he put in the 4th........now its rare I run into people that play like this cause I don't play much HSMTTs, but I realized with a player like this the best basic strategy is to raise garbage and strong hands Im willing to 4 bet, and hands that have some value but not a ton to limp in especially when im position......I ended up losing but it was an eye opening experience

So its been about 10 months since I made the switch full time to MTTs, and in every regard its been very +ev.....Ive made about 230k in the 10 month period thus far, and its amazing how far I've came playing wise....I remember so many basic spots with say 20 bbs early on I'd have no clue how to play - or picking up QQ early on with 100 bb and what the fuck do I do.....now things are alot easier - I actually remember back in say June I was playing the afternoon 30r on AP right after rebuy period - Wisco murray had opened to 250 at 50/100 - I had roughly 7k - I was dealt QQ and it folded around to me? What did I do well I shoved - what was my reasoning? I wanted to overshove to look weak and get him to call with worse - he ended up calling with AA and I sucked out...how terrible that was and the logic behind it....overall though Ive worked real hard on improving my game - countless hours on PXF, looking on the forums, and talking to good players on AIM to get insight...I guess the big thing is if I lose on a certain hand that I misplayed it bothers me through the day and I must find the solution to any situation that I might of misplayed.....Sometimes with MTTs theres alot of spots that are borderline that you just gotta take and when they work its great, and when they dont well that sucks! Either way though I try to analyze plays that are questionable - Id rather not toss losing up to being unlucky but rather bad play.....everyone tries to blame losing on bad luck and while there is alot of luck especially in MTTs, alot of these people especially in higher stakes don't have the edge they think they do. Thats why I stick to what I play - I might be a winner in say 100r's but Id rather take a large edge in a 109 than take a small edge in a 100r.....in regards to variance over my 10 months it hasn't been too bad - heres a quick recap of what Ive experienced

-500 game breakeven stretch
-2 10k downswings
-400 game stretch of running 4 times over my expectation

Overall thats not too bad at all for what I play....while Im running above reality, theres also some things I do to keep variance down. I play smaller tournies on AP/Cake so variance is reduced, I play alot of Cake/AP tournies where my edge is large so variance is also smaller, and obviously I work on my game to constantly get better to increase my ROI.....People who play say Stars only experience the worst variance cause the fields are huge an their edges are small.....to each their own I guess

Anyways thats it for now.....I ended the week up 7500 after losing 8 tournies tonight, so its a great start to April....with the SCOOPs and FTOPS coming up hopefully I can ship big and take a vacation for the rest of the year (well maybe not).....gl to all