Nervous

So I played my first session tonight, and it didn't go very well. First off, rather than the normal 3 tables running, with the next one filling up fast, there were none and only 2 people in the waiting list for the next one. So I went to Hollywood and Tower to play some low stakes 10PLO8 (.10 blinds) and 25PLO8 (.25 blinds).

About 20 minutes later, the PS tourney table finally opened, and on the first night, I violated my rule of focusing on the tourney. I continued to play the cash games until the second tourney opened up.

In the end, I finished 8th, 3rd, and 7th. In the game I finished 3rd, I began to feel nervous around the bubble. All of a sudden, cashing became more important than winning. I'm gonna have to work through that. Normally, I don't care if I end up 4th, because if I continuously attack and raise when there are 4 or 5 players left, I end up stealing a lot of blinds and giving myself a huge advantage to finishing first. That's the key to success here, finishing 1st every third tourney like I've done thus far (7 out of 22).

Night #1: 0/0/1/2 -> ($51)
Cash: -> $10.04
Total: -> ($40.96)