Let's say that you have a propensity to call big bets early in SnGs with top pair only regardless of kicker. Let's say that you also will call big bets having not paired up anything but bottom pair, thinking you'll "outplay" the person on the river, and you just happen to hit a 2nd pair. Let's say that you do this type of shit, and it holds up for about a month or so. Well, you'll probably increase your roll quite a bit during that time.

At one point, however, top pair weak kicker for half your stack won't be any good. Bottom pair won't hit a 2nd pair, and you'll have your opponent so pot committed that he couldn't possibly be bet off the hand. And, these things are much more likely to happen year around than the instances above. All that money you made starts to slowly trickle away. Little by little it goes, and you're not having fun anymore. You start to not only repeat stupid mistakes, but you act out of tilt.

And, you find that you are back at square one, right where you started, 2-3 months ago.

You really thought you made a breakthrough. You put a stat sheet together, and really started keeping track. You developed a basic strategy that you really thought worked. You basically said that you'd pretty much play fairly tight early, playing pots here and there, trying to give action to get action, but not getting in big pots with garbage.

As it gets down you increase your aggression stealing blinds, and antes, and when it gets down to four, you are most aggressive. Once you are in the money, you continue your aggression to the win.

Yet, you're not really doing that so much. You're getting mad at players thinking they don't have a thing, and calling them down with virtually nothing. You're top pairs with weak kickers are not holding up. Players are staying in longer, and by the time the blinds are 50/100, there are still 7 players. You are essentially needing things to go exactly your way, and they are not. You were playing by a set of certain circumstances, and those circumstances are no longer there.

News flash...you have to play the lowest level on Stars now. You have to start ALL over. Right from the beginning. Sure, you could deposit, you could put in a couple hundred dollars and be right back up at the top again. You could then play your 5.50, and 6.50 SnGs again with a new sense of confidence.

But, you won't do that. You're going to play 1.20 5 table NLHE SnGs on stars until you get 70.00 in your account. You read that right...70.00. That's how bad it's become. You won't spend money on poker anyway, and then you'll only spend a little.

At this point, you have 30.00 in your account (roughly).

You are on a 1.20 SnG quest for an additional 40.00.

From this point until 70.00, you'll have a daily goal post and it will be expressed as + or - with a starting point of 30.00. So, if you make 15.00 (and are up to 45.00), then you would have:
Running tally: +15
Account: 45.00

It is a running tally, so it will reflect where you are from the start. So, if you have 50.00 in the account, your running tally will be +20.00.

You are right to think this is pathetic. It is. But, I will not deposit again. So, you have to go with what you got. I don't care how much I will be bored, and how much I hate to play at lower limits, I will have to do it. Period.