Getting some confidence back

So the past couple days I've spent a decent amount of time playing 2/4 and 3/6 to try and get some confidence back, because I've lost quite a bit of it from my recent swings. It really makes me want to work a lot harder at this game so that I don't have to deal with such vicious swings. The last time I updated I talked about how I just implemented my first stop loss ever pretty much. Well.... later that night I played some more and continued to run like crap and had to implement a 2nd stop loss for the day, frustrating but whatever.

The last 2 days I've made about $2500 in 5K hands or so playing mostly 2/4 and 3/6. Most of my profit is coming from 3/6 however as I cant seem to get anything going at 2/4. I'm going to continue to grind these limits and game select 5/10 a little bit better to raise my confidence.

I'll go ahead and post some interesting hand since my last update.

No-Limit Hold'em, $10.00 BB (5 handed) - Hold'em ManagerConverter Tool fromFlopTurnRiver.com

Button ($4561)
SB ($4512)
BB ($2080)
UTG ($2117)
Hero (MP) ($2820)

Preflop: Hero is MP with K, J
UTG bets $35, Hero calls $35, Button calls $35, 2 folds

Flop: ($120) 9, 5, J (3 players)
UTG checks, Hero bets $90, Button raises $240, 1 fold, Hero calls $150

Turn: ($600) 5 (2 players)
Hero checks, Button bets $485, Hero calls $485

River: ($1570) A (2 players)
Hero checks, Button bets $3801 (All-In), Hero calls $2060 (All-In)

Total pot: $5690

Results:
Button had 5, 9 (full house, fives over nines).
Hero had K, J (two pair, Jacks and fives).
Outcome: Button won $7428

This hand was pretty frustrating, I'm still not quite sure how I feel about the river call but hmmmm. Villain in this hand is a very crazy mid/highstakes regular. He plays like 40/32 or something like that. I just sort of figured that he would have enough busted draws in his range for calling to be profitable. I need to be right like 36% of the time, and I have a feeling its pretty close to that. If I assume he plays hands like QTs/o, T8s, KQs, AJ, 99, and 55 like this then its a call. Even taking out all of the combos of QTo, and adding the 1 combo of JJ he could have, then my equity is like 45% on the river and it is infact a profitable call. However it seems that I'm constantly running into the top of people ranges in these spots, or maybe it's just that I am making terrible assumptions about their range. I dont know.

No-Limit Hold'em, $4.00 BB (5 handed) - Hold'em ManagerConverter Tool fromFlopTurnRiver.com

UTG ($285)
Hero (MP) ($800)
Button ($400)
SB ($989)
BB ($222.50)

Preflop: Hero is MP with Q, A
1 fold, Hero bets $12, Button calls $12, SB raises $50, 1 fold, Hero calls $40, Button calls $40

Flop: ($162) Q, 9, A (3 players)
SB bets $110, Hero calls $110, 1 fold

Turn: ($382) A (2 players)
SB bets $250, Hero raises $638 (All-In), SB calls $388

River: ($1658) 8 (2 players, 1 all-in)

Total pot: $1658

Results:
SB had J, 10 (straight flush, Queen high).
Hero had Q, A (full house, Aces over Queens).
Outcome: SB won $1655

This was a pretty fun 2/4 hand.

No-Limit Hold'em, $4.00 BB (6 handed) - Hold'em ManagerConverter Tool fromFlopTurnRiver.com

UTG ($400)
MP ($955)
Hero (CO) ($816.10)
Button ($1790.65)
SB ($992.35)
BB ($800)

Preflop: Hero is CO with 10, Q
2 folds, Hero bets $12, 2 folds, BB raises $42, Hero calls $34

Flop: ($94) 9, 2, J (2 players)
BB bets $65, Hero calls $65

Turn: ($224) 6 (2 players)
BB bets $105, Hero raises $704.35, BB calls $583.25

River: ($1600.50) 9 (2 players)

Total pot: $1600.50

Results:
BB had K, K (two pair, Kings and nines).
Hero had 10, Q (one pair, nines).
Outcome: BB won $1602

I don't really like how I played this hand, it's not terrible but I think calling the turn and then bluffing the river a lot if he checks to me or he bets really weak again is better. I sort of just pounced on his really weak betsizing, and got called by quite a speculative hand that unfortunately removes 4 of my outs. It was pretty apparent to me on the turn that he had a fairly weak hand that he was sort of timid with, but I think shoving there is a little bit too much and actually looks weaker than calling which I guess is why he snapped me off with KK no spade.

No-Limit Hold'em, $10.00 BB (6 handed) - Hold'em ManagerConverter Tool fromFlopTurnRiver.com

CO ($3528)
Button ($486)
SB ($2320)
BB ($2015)
UTG ($2699)
Hero (MP) ($3803)

Preflop: Hero is MP with A, K
1 fold, Hero bets $35, CO calls $35,2 folds, BB calls $25

Flop: ($110) J, 2, A (3 players)
BB checks, Hero bets $70, CO calls $70, BB calls $70

Turn: ($320) 4 (3 players)
BB checks, Hero bets $230, CO calls $230, 1 fold

River: ($780) 2 (2 players)
Hero bets $530, CO calls $530

Total pot: $1840

Results:
Hero had A, K (two pair, Aces and twos).
CO had J, A (two pair, Aces and Jacks).
Outcome: CO won $1837

This hand is against the same villain as the very first hand I posted, and all I can say is that this river bet by me is a little to thin, but I'm not sure whether c/c'ing or c/f'ing the river is better especially since it was 3 way to the turn.

Anyway those are the interesting hands from the past couple day. Hope you guys are running goooooood. Later.