Variance or new found discipline?

I told me wife and the best I could get out of her is a, "is that good?" followed by a "well that's nice."

About 2 years ago, I really started getting serious about self discipline. That means folding pre more often, calling less often, and betting/raising more often when checked to and it is unclear if I'm ahead. But mostly it means that when I take a bad beat, I get up and leave the table because I really suck at playing under the influence of tilt.

Likewise, and just as important for me, I made serious efforts to avoid happy tilt. Too many times I had thought the poker gods were favoring me, so I played loosey goosey when I was hitting everything. Too often that resulted in a big loss because one of my junky hands had hit the flop hard, but not quite hard enough to win.

Last year in a little over 1000 hours, I made 15.4 BBs/HR. I was proud of that. It was my best year ever in terms of BBs/Hr. I set a goal of 20BBs this year.

After 109 hours (I can't play as much this year) after flirting with my goal of 20BBs / hour numerous times, I finally broke the barrier. I'm at 22.1 BBs/hr at 2/5.

I admittedly had a lucky night tonight. My big hand was a DBBP with QQ. I flopped top set on board 1 and 2nd pair on board 2. Six people were AI with me being the big stack. I scooped the top 3 side pots and chopped the rest. That was a $1500 win over and above what I had put in the pot.

Maybe I'm on a sun run this year. It isn't enough hours to brag about my brilliance, but it sure is fun.