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Then i do something situational like " I love this place, my first time here blah blah.."
That really sort of sounds AFC. I love this place. This is a nice bar. I live right around the corner etc etc etc.
Maybe you're getting your steps a little muddled. Seems to me that if you a breaking sets with HBs and getting smiles....
you are past the attraction phase. They are attracted to you.
Now you should be developing raport, showing value and building comfort. Forget attraction. It's there. Now is the time to get the next of items done.
Once you've shown value, built some report and made them comfortable, then you build seduction always looking for those IOI's.
In your case, maybe your're doing it, but tell them you can't stay for long and only have a couple extra minutes and sit down. That builds comfort. At this point you want to sell them to the point that they don't want you to leave. that's the hook. Now you're ready for the final phase of seducing one of them and hopefully "pulling " her from the group.
Look, it's just a generatlity, take it for what it's worth, but the basic path is
1. Attraction
2. comfort/raport
3. build value
4. Hook
5. seduction.
ANyways DUde, you are right where you want to be. Keep it up, you're gonna nail it.