Thanks for the post, Jason. Your arguments are totally valid. Deep in cold depths of my pea brain, I know that if I was a winning poker player, I would eventually move up following proper BR management. But I feel that there is nothing wrong with risking a portion of your profit (as long as it isn't your whole roll) to speed up the process... if you fail, so be it... you took your shot and you still have things to learn (or variance killed you, which is probably why people tilt off their whole stacks).

And if you succeed, then you have saved yourself endless hours of grinding (which may or may not prepare you for the next level up anyways, due to the difference in styles between say 10NL and 25NL).

I think a mistake that people make is that they play beyond their roll for too long. I am currently experimenting with one month and one month only playing with only 8 buy ins. A recipe for disaster? Sure. But if I lose 4 buy ins, I will start grinding again at a lower level.

The thing that might save me is that even I'm not dumb enough to keep moving up levels with only 8 buy ins. Even if I win money, I will wait until I'm sufficiently rich (20 buy ins) to advance to the next level.

Good luck to you, Jason. Like you said to me on my blog thread, I'll probably see you at 10NL when I inevitably lose and drop down. Just don't three bet my blind steals, okay?