Stepped it up today

I haven't been able to play the past few days and today I had a meeting in Pittsburgh that prevented me from playing until about 5:30 pm. I did manage to squeeze in a little over 300 hands before I got to hungry to function. What was different about today was that I'm taking another shot at 2/4 and will continue to unless I lose too much money. I've had sort of 2/4 curse in that every time I move up, I lose a bunch of money, get depressed, and drop back to 1/2. I think my game is a lot better than it was this summer and I think a big part of my problem was that I had a case of Fancy Play Syndrome. I would always try to make these big bluffs and would bloat the pot so much preflop with marginal hands that I would losing buy-ins with no pair bluffs. I realize that playing my normal game should be enough to compete at these levels, and hopefully I will keep getting better. Here are the highlights of my session today:

I played way too timid in the beginning, mainly because I wasn't used to the blinds and the sizes of the bets, but I also had my past 2/4 history in the back of my mind.

Playing Timid
I had raised a few hands so my image wasn't tight but it definitely wasn't loose either. Normally, I would continuation bet just about any flop here with position, but I told myself I was getting a call/raise from a good portion of his range, plus like I said, I was playing timid. Checking behind is probably pretty bad looking back on it, as I could most likely fold out any medium pair and Ace face other than AQ. The one thing I did like about the check though was that I felt there were a lot of good turn cards I could bet/raise. If an Ace or King came, I would surely bet for value and any club I was willing to make a semi-bluff, but that didn't happen and I folded like a girl.

Implementing this more
I am starting to use this play more because I really feel people like to raise light here, and a 3 bet from me preflop is almost too obvious of a resteal, so I like flat calling and then taking it away on the flop. The fact that I had mid-pair here is inconsequential as I would make the play with 6 high (do have more outs here though if called). I really am trying to work on my post flop play lately because from what I've seen, most people are pretty good when it comes to preflop (like squeezing and 3 betting) but a lot of them get very lost when it comes to post flop play.

I should be able to play a large amount of hands tomorrow as I don't have anything planned until the Dave Matthews Band concert in the early evening. I would like to put in a nice 1,000 hand session at 2/4 and see if I have really broken away from my old 2/4 tendencies...