'worst' month since I turned pro

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June was a swingy month again. I started the month with 30K hands of breakeven and then had a massive upswing. The last days of the month I've been playing not so great poker. Paying off river bets when I know I'm beat etc, etc...
Overall I still managed to make about $15K in about 100 hours of play, so that's about average (looking to hourly rate).

I also want to point out an interesting post on Brian Townsend's blog, he points out the difference between a mediocre and a great player. The example below is a very good one to think about.

"An example of this would be if you were playing someone HU and raised preflop. The flop came down Kh Qh 2c you hold A8o and bet the pot and are called. The turn brings the 5 of clubs and your opponent checks and you check. The river brings another five and your opponent bets pot. Many players would say I have ace high I fold and if they held QJo instead they might say I have middle pair I call. But the best players realize that these two hands have the same value on the river as an opponent value betting a queen is unlikely. I feel mediocre players would be more likely to call with the queen and top players would call equally with both hands. This is one of the little things that I look for when I am up against a new opponent, and to be honest very very few players call with QJ as often at A8 in that scenario, probably myself included, but the truly great ones call equally with both hands."

I tried to find an example of a hand like this in my own database and think the hand below is also a good example of were lots of players probably call more times with a hand like A6/99 (myself included) then with A high, but they both have about the same showdown value (not completely true, cause villian could be 'bluffing' with 77), but villian often has air or close to the nuts (an 8 or 34) here, he is not value betting mediocre hands on a board like this.

So I'm not sure you should call equally with A9/99 here, as 99 has some values against worse bluffing hands (77), but I do think that the balance between a call with 99 and A9 is far out of line with most players.

EverestPoker Game #1741766955: Table Bamako-6 - $2.00/$4.00 - No Limit Hold'em - 16:44:58 - 2007/06/30
Seat 2: BldZwtTrn ($545.00)
Seat 3: merwin ($467.00)
Seat 4: marcko1983 ($400.00)
Seat 5: camaleones ($116.80)
merwin posts the small blind of $2.00
marcko1983 posts the big blind of $4.00
The button is in seat #2
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to BldZwtTrn[Ac 9c]
camaleones calls $4.00
BldZwtTrn raises to $18.00
merwin folds
marcko1983 folds
camaleones calls $14.00
*** FLOP *** [8d 6c 5h]
camaleones checks
BldZwtTrn checks
*** TURN *** [8d 6c 5h] [2d]
camaleones bets $28.00
BldZwtTrn calls $28.00
*** RIVER *** [8d 6c 5h 2d] [8h]
camaleones bets $70.80 and is all-in
BldZwtTrn calls $70.80
*** SHOW DOWN ***
camaleones shows [Tc Ks]
BldZwtTrn shows [Ac 9c]
*** SUMMARY ***
Board: [8d 6c 5h 2d 8h]
BldZwtTrn collects $237.60

June only:
Hands played : 64,050
$ Won in cashgames : $14,668
PTBB/100 : 4,01
MT ratio : 6,99
Hourly win rate: $143,80