[Marlow]

As a NL player, you should view losing 2 buyins as a bad streak. A good NL player's normal bad streaks are usually not worse than 3 buyins. So losing 2 with regularity is very very bad.

Here's my guess: you play very LAP weak until you get pissed off enough to start playing real cards. Then you begin to become more aggressive and more sharp. This happens to me occasionally, and it scares the hell out of me. It sounds to me like you need a little tilt to get your game on. This is fine until you run into a true bad streak and drop 5 or 6 buyins in a session.

Anyway, you obviously have the skills. You just need to get over whatever psychological hump is in your way every session. My advice: start playing fast, and then make your adjustments from there.

Good luck.

Marlow