Not sure why I am posting this. Probably to organize my thoughts mostly since I don't have a blog. Here goes.

I have been 24 tabling 1/2 for awhile. Yes 24 tables. Sounds really hard, but you just get used to it to the point where anything less seems like torture (live poker was yawnnnn) I cascade the tables... tiling drives me crazy anytime I try to do any more than 9 tables.

I have done pretty well lifetime, but I feel like my play has suffered lately. I don't feel like I am playing particularly well for a number of reasons and it has showed as I am barely a winning player ($50/hr) over the last 50k hands (after winning about $200-$250/hr on average for the last 6 months). Obviously $50/hr is not that bad, but fairly disappointing by comparison.

Here are a couple ideas of why I could be doing poorly:
1) Money doesn't mean as much to me as it used to --> making erratic plays
2) Boredom. Has lost a lot of the fun factor. Find myself gambling more and raising more hands PF, perhaps to try and compensate for the "grind" feeling.
3) Too much emphasis on PF stats... was proud of being a top player while playing 20/16 (extremely LAG for full ring) and I try too hard to maintain these stats by raising too many hands in EP (suited connectors, any pair, etc.) when these hands are probably -EV to play up there.
4) Regulars have caught onto my style and I haven't adjusted. I think this is a big one with how prevalent the everyday regulars are at 1/2. I am getting re-raised much more often preflop and my continuation bets are getting "floated" (called with speculative hands or air) a decent percentage of the time.
5) Trying too hard to win every pot I am in rather than maximizing the $ I make. Seems common sense, but my competitive edge gets the best of me sometimes.
6) Other players are getting better while I am standing still. The games continue to get harder everyday, and while I think I have improved, I think playing so many tables (the "robot" factor) has really stunted my growth as a poker player. The limited time for decisions usually just leads me to go with my first instinct and I usually do not have time to see the results of the hand much less to process them and update my reads or analyze if I could play a hand better.