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[QUOTE="ChuckTs, post: 410645, member: 467"]
it sounds like a definite state-of-mind thing.  You're paying less attention to your play and more on the state of your bankroll.

As the great swedish poker scientist F Paulsson once said (or at least something like this), "You should set goals that are achieveable and realistic."

Making a set goal for how much you want to build your BR to is a bad idea.  
I had my freeroll-initiated bankroll up to nearly 3000 dollars, but found myself looking at the money side of it rather than my quality of play, and it has since dropped back down to around 1600.  It was actually pretty recently that this happened, and I'm in my rebuilding stages right now.
I have a long term goal of a certain amount I want my BR to reach, but my realistic, short-term goal is to finish these 200 SnGs, which hopefully will also be a great bankroll builder.  I might even do another 200 or 1000 if I feel it's helping my game that much.

When I had started losing my BR, I damn near put it all on a 10/20 table (WAAAY out of my range) and gamble with it.  I think it's just a character thing; some people have strong will power, and can just tell themselves "No.  Don't do that, it's not smart".  Others just can't resist the urge of their other, evil side saying "awww why not - you can win at those stakes, why not play?".   Even the most common swing can destroy your bankroll if you're playing at stakes too high.

Anyways I'm rambling again, but I think it's a good idea to start a sng challenge, because it's an achievable goal and it's also a great way to consistently build on to your bankroll.

oh and there's of course the obvious possibility of this all being the turbos' fault ;)
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