As far as the hands go, seems fine, you're just unlucky. How does everyone keep finding Ax in the blinds?! What I want to draw attention to though, is the following:
When you're 3 handed, UTG is not really an accurate description. You are on the button.
It seems like this is quite an important point that was breezed over.
I know I'm a massive pessimist, but I don't know how I'd live if I thought "UTG" instead of "OTB" (on the button)!!
Again, I really hope I don't come across as condescending here, you might know all this stuff and have made a genuine mistake when writing it up. As you lose players, and the table becomes short-handed, hand values go up in strength (because of a bunch of reasons, but mostly because there are less opposing cards. A2 is not strong against 16 randomly assigned cards, but is huge against 4 randomly assigned cards.) For this reason, we should adapt by effectively removing weaker positions from the table.
For example in this 3-handed arrangement, even though UTG and the button are the same position, we adapt correctly by removing the weaker position and playing our hand as if we were the button. Similarly, at a 4-handed table, UTG and UTG+1 become the cutoff and the button respectively. We should play UTG as we would normally play the cutoff position, and so on.
Seems like a small point to dwell on, particularly if you already knew all this
But it's a good thing to think about, especially now that you're moving up and a lot of your competition is going to have a decent grasp of these concepts.
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