July to Date
I was in Pittsburgh from 28 June to 06 July doing the family-in-law thing. I took my laptop, but there just wasn't time for much poker. I dabbled at Pacific a bit and came away about even.
Since returning home I have played a bit at VIP. I wanted to claim one more $10 increment of that bonus and then cash out before they became a Prima skin and everything tightened up. I had a juicy loose $3/6 table, but lost $25 chasing that $10 bonus. Crap happens.
I had a wild ride at the InterPoker/InterCasino chase on Friday. I posted about it in the High/Low section of the forum, but in a nut shell, I was killing it at Blackjack and then moved to a juicy £3/6 full ring game needing just a handfull of MPPs for that bonus completion and got SMOKED. When your set loses, your stack suffers. 
Party gave me a $40 bonus and I have played 4 $6 SNGs with it. Highest finish was 4th. No luck at all, although I have to say I pretty much donked away the third one all on my own. I was tired and frustrated and my play showed it. I took the remaining $16 to the NL $25 tables and ran it back to $44 in about half an hour. Here's an easy formula for you. Good tables + good cards = Bull wins.
Played the ITH People's Championship on Sunday. The first hour it was raining cards on me, but the play was so tight I could not turn it into a huge stack. I rivered a straight flush, but the player holding the nut flush on an unpaired board would not re-raise the river. A player flopped a set of aces, but slow-played it allowing me to draw to an inside straight on the turn for free. I probably could have stacked that player on the river, but I failed to re-raise - I still can't quite figure out why I didn't - the play was too obvious with the big river raise. I guess I'll chalk it up to being an MTT noober. I was getting some chips, but I was also getting an inordinate number of low pocket pairs that had to be laid down on the flop, and those were costing me some chips.
After the first break, the play loosened up a lot, but I couldn't catch a break with the cards. The only decent hand I had was a pocket KK that took down the pot pre-flop when I re-re-raised all-in. I laid down a top pair hand on the flop on an all-in re-re-raise from SANDSSTORM, and then I got all in 3 times on essentially coin flips and lost all three. Poof, I was out 27 of 42.
I think I will be back to cash games and bonuses tonight. My taste for tournaments is waning again.