I'm still kinda mass tabling but my default sizings now are

This immediately jumped out at me.

I don't multi-table anymore, beyond maybe having two MTTs going at once. I've gone casual and multi-tabling isn't any fun.

So, to read "mass table" and "default bet size" in the same sentence really jumps out at me. They are almost synonymous it seems.

Elsewhere you talk about the nitreg. Presumably, you recognize the nitreg because they are at a dozen of the same tables as you or your HUD tells you that you have thousands of hands against them. I recognize the nitreg after I've been playing half an hour or so and my reads are firming up. You have the benefit of being able to react to them immediately but I think I have some benefits that go with recognizing them later, namely, I have everyone else at the table.

This is something that I recall from past play, from past study on HUD-games and multi-tabling; the focus of many grinders seems to be on the other grinders. Maybe it is because the waters are thinner and there are more grinders. Maybe it is because the other grinders are the best at the table and if you don't learn to tighten your game against them they can exploit you too much. Maybe they are just a distraction. For myself, the grinders, or the regs, are just one stop in the orbit. They play mostly straight-forward and I can depend upon them to do a few things consistently. As a result, I maybe spend even more time focused on the others at the table as I do on the regs. It's the non-regs that have some sort of agenda for that evening, that have a pace to the game that they are trying to realize.

If I can find the guy taking a shot, I know some extra things about his game. If I can find the guy tilting off the last of his roll, I have an idea or two about how he'll be playing. If I can find the other guy like me, playing Rounders clips in his head while he tries to outplay "this guy, this hand," then I can take some guesses about his cards too. They all have slightly different but somewhat predictable approaches.

As a result of all of that, I don't have any standard bet sizes. Each bet is tailored for this situation against this guy. I get opportunities to make all sorts of 'non-standard' moves in just right places for them.

At the end of the day, you have a more dependable income than I do. You multi-table for a consistent winrate and bring the long-term to you in the short-term. But maybe trying a little bit of my style would be the break you'd need in that downswing to get in some analysis while racking up a few FPP at the same time.

It's worth considering anyways. Next time you struggle with your game, instead of moving down or going to the database, consider just one-tabling and see what you can do without the HUD. Put your poker instincts and bag of tricks to maximum use by focusing them all at a single place. It might help you discover some options you didn't know you had or rethink some of your 'default bet sizes.' At the very least, it'll let you get some back from a few of those nitregs. They aren't so tough when you just pick your spots. After all, you know what makes you fold... you usually don't even need cards to take a pot off a nitreg, you just need to decide to do it.