Hello fellow TPE I have chatted with quite a few of you, some have not.  I have learned alot here and my game has came along way.  Thanks to all the vids, tpe pros, and members discussing certain situations that come our way.  I find myself doing things in certain situations that I would of never done without the training here.  C-bet, the 3-bet shove, I used to  let my stack dwindle down I now live by the 15-20bb rule.  I play mostly micro really nothing above the $5 mark.  But as I played the last 6 or 7 days my roll has taken a significant beating.  I am left to play the smallest of micros which IMO is a bit absurd.  Those that play them know exactly what I mean.  No way to even think about increasing the roll.  When I do get everything going chipping up nice, makin it through the early stages nicely etc, only to find myself gettin sucked out on when I get it in good post or pre.  My question is how do you know without telling yourself yeah I got it in good.  That you are on the right track? Has my game gotten better? Yeah I know the beats will happen, variance will take its toll.  But when variance beats the chit out of the roll n u r left to go lower than what u would really like to.  Whatelse is there to do? Thanks in advance for all the responses, advice, n help.