I’d say +4,500 constitutes for an upswing…  And now, I drink!

I relinquished a 2 to 1 chip lead heads-up in Step 6.  In the early stages I held QT on a flop of QT5r.  I bet and was called by two players.  The turn was a Q.  I check-called 300.  The river bricked and I check-raised all-in.  He had 55.  Very lucky!  Thanks for the cooler flop though PS.  With 4 players remaining, I had the chip lead after winning a number of small/medium size pots.  Then, I picked up KK and limped at 200/400.  The big blind raised 1000 more.  I raised allin.  He had AA and I flopped a king.  Very lucky and thanks for the cooler yada yada yada.  I made a coupe cr bluffs then lost K2 v. A6 for 35% of the chips in play.  Back to the lower steps for me…