Evaluating my progress @ .5/1

[DanoMak]

So I've put in 13K hands at 0.5/1. My play has been mainly at Hollywood or Party when they offer a reload. My initial goal is to build my bankroll from scratch while I hopefully improve my game, and Hollywood had a nice sign up bonus.

I have no intention of moving up in limit in the near future, however I would obviously like to improve my BB/100 from its current 0.6.

You'll also notice from the graph that there is no real trend, so the 0.6 doesn't mean much to me. Hopefully a larger sample size will tell me more in the future.



Now prepare for my likely idiotic questions and I will prepare for the flaming.

My monster (AA, KK, QQ, JJ, AK) win rate has dropped from 75% to 60% since hand 9000. Is variance like this normal?

How much does site selection effect win rate? I feel like I'm grinding at HW right now. I know the whole "if you can't beat bad players you shouldn't move up" point of view, but I also know I've seen respected posters on the micros talk about their downswings. So I'm not sure how to gauge my progress.

If anyone has any remarks or helpful hints on how they evaluate their improvement, I'd appreciate it. I'd be happy to add any extra info if someone deems it necessary.