More cash game theory

So I played a lot of cash games in February and I lost a lot of money! I read a lot of books and forum messages and websites on cash game theory. I moved down limits to the micro levels and still lost. I played in the local CA casinos and lost some more.

Eventually I turned it around and started winning. Some significant adjustments I made regarding how to play include:

- play position very strongly but only with cards that can improve and only if the pot is worth it. For example if it is folded to me on the button with only the blinds to go I will not bother with raising any marginal hands because the pot is not worth it. However if there are 2 or more people in the pot I will play marginal hands because the pot is likely to be a decent size.

- in limit poker I was chasing draws to the end calling down bets on the turn and river when the pot was pretty small - I now will only call down to the river IF the pot is large. Most of the times I still miss my draw but when I gt the miracle river card the payoff now makes up for all the times I miss.

- I have upped the aggression. There are lots of limpers and weak players wanting to keep the pot small. I now raise much more than calling and c-bet more than 50% of flops that I have raised with a large near-potsized cbet. The idea is to get rid of the raggy cards preflop and get rid of the draws on the flop. I tend to fold to an aggressive flop re-raise unless I have a made hand.

- I am doing a lot more reading of my opponents and trying to understand pokertracker and its various statistics.  I am looking for tight weak players who will limp a lot into the pot preflop and fold to a raise either preflop or when they miss the flop.

- I am only playing the marginal hands from late position and being much more picky. It seems in cash games too many players now play 1 and 2 gappers trying to get lucky from the wrong position. I am trying to play less of these hands and focus on suited or high unsuited connectors from late position only and only when there is already money in the pot.

- tilt. I am trying to understand good poker players gamble their stack when they think they are ahead and therefore must lose sometimes. So if I lose my stack nd have to rebuy, no big deal. The beats I have taken have been sometimes very tough - KK v KK and he gets  a flush, A v JJ and he gets a straight etc etc. - No big deal. I now realise the other guy got lucky and I will often win those chips back by keeping my focus on the game.

Thats about it......