Hi guys, I'm not new to PUA but I am new to applying it in my life. I've had very little success with women, maybe 3-4 in my life, only 1 of which turned into sex/relationship. We've been broke up for over half a year now. I'm 27/white/athletic/5'9".

So last night I went out to this country bar in my city because it's the only busy place on Thu, my city sucks for bars/clubs but I was trying to get some night game practice in. I'm going to go over the 6 or so experiences I had this night and hopefully I can get some feedback. My biggest problem is AA and closing but once I start talking I can hold a conversation and I have lots of stories as I traveled for years and am just a very social person (except when being direct with a women).

- HB7 with one of those shirts where the back is all cut to shreds, looked hot and wanted to talk to her about it, probably a bad opener anyway but it was situational so I thought it wasn't bad at the time. She was with 2 friends at the bar waiting for drinks, I already had one and used that logic to say to myself I shouldn't get in line because I had a beer. Seconds before her and her friends were totally out of reach, after getting there drinks, I from behind touched her back with my hand and said who knows what about her shirt, she looked back with a look of wtf and left. I did so many things wrong here but it all started with not just going right up to her I feel, as it always seems to be.

- HB8 walks past me, drunk to shit, I am eye fucking her (can't recall why I thought that would do anything) and she actually makes eye contact with me, holds it and puts her hand on my face, she was piss drunk and hot and just intimidated me somehow. I grabbed her hand before she could pass me and pulled her near and asked her for her name and shook hands (best I could think of) then I literally froze solid and 3 seconds later told her I was too drunk to think of anything else, I wasn't, I was just being AFC to the max and intimidated by her being all sexy and such.

- 2 x HB5.5's where sitting at a table I was walking by and I saw they had like 30 empty beer bottles on the table so I asked if they were all there's (judgmental I see now but I said it with a smile) and they said they were and it was the 1 girls birthday. I gave her a high five and then said "Let me guess, 21?" jokinglyish which was kinda cheesy as fuck as she looked 23-25, she was 24 she said. I got into some kinda almost math argument about when she would be born if she was 24 now. No idea how but the girls seemed kinda aggressive about it, but perhaps it was me, my body language or I was just misinterpreting it. Either way things fell apart right away and I ditched.

- While outside bumming a smoke I talked to 2 HB5.5's on either side of the wall I was leaning on. I started both conversations with "How's it going today?" I think. I really need better openers I think but maybe not, just better follow up perhaps. Either way they were both really friendly and kept the conversation going with me, no idea if I could have closed but I didn't have interest in them at all, I see now writing this that it made me better at talking to them when I didn't wanna fuck them, I need to get in that mindset more but I find it hard. Also smoking and drinking was beginning to loosen me up, likely I did this on purpose but I wish I hadn't because drunk me isn't the same guy and the AA goes away artificially.

- I ran into a mutual friend who has a BF and was with her 2 GF's on a girls night kinda thing. I talked to her for a while, shes prob a HB7, I honestly feel I did great, started with a hug, touched her often, had funny stories. But I think I got stuck on hanging with her group and forgot about working on my AA at all. Her friends were like HB7.5's and I really feel that me and this one were exchanging some dirty glances but perhaps I misread the IOI's, either way I didn't do a damn thing about it, I introduced myself and it turns out I had already met her once before that night, I'm bad with names sometimes and I guess I was drunk enough to forget meeting her. So I fucked that up royally I feel. The mutual friend went back to our place as my cousin/roommate came to the bar and his GF is her BFF so she felt safe, there was 0 opportunity to get near her and she had a BF anyway.

I have so much work to do, any advice would be great. I know my AA is a big issue, as is my ability to read IOI's and close. It's possible I have been too horny and just not thinking straight, I'm always wanting a f-close right away which makes no sense, I'm just so frustrated with my inaction in situations that it bums me out sometimes.