Mid-August Update and More on Aggression

On August third scottwire made his post about aggression which really got me thinking about whether my low aggression was the key to turning it around. It's been 12 days, and I think that the results look fairly decisive in some ways, and not so much in others.

Here's 7/14-8/2:


Amongst other things, we'll notice that my winning streak was despite losing money without showdown consistently. And although I ended tiny winner for that 15k hands, I lost $700 without showdown.

My numbers during that time were 23/16/2.25

Now, 8/3 - 8/15:




Now, I'm a net winner without showdown. Unfortunately, I appear to be showing down quite a bit worse than before. Nevertheless, still a net tiny winner.

Numbers: 24/19/2.85

Aggression up over 25%, a bit looser than before, which I think needs to be corrected, and a higher % of pots that I open for a raise.

In addition, on the aggro front, I've increased my 3bet preflop % from 5% to 9% in the latter period, and my att to steal % has gone from 30 --> 35.

August goals
[ ] On track for 20k hands
(only 6k. as predicted, i didn't play for 5 days while my bro was in town. still think 15k is very reasonable).
[ ] 5ptbb/100.
(um...no. still working on that)
[x] Get/do coaching
(still swapping hands with littlebu and scottwire)
[x] Consider cardrunners
(yeah, i considered it. it looks like people like deuces cracked better, and i'm still considering it, and working on setting it up. i'm even more motivated now that i'm not killing it the way i thought i was briefly).
[ ] 2+2?
(haven't really spent much time there. maybe i'll hit up littlebu for some direction, b/c i know he's been using the microstakes forum for help).

I haven't quit, although I'm not pumping out hours with a frenzy like last month. For now I'm just trying to stay even-keeled and keep rolled so I don't need to move down :(.