AH! Excellent topic!

(Cheers Legend for pointing me this way)

This applies very much with my recent history of playing.

I signed up for a site and got handed what converted to about $9. I'm too poor and stubborn to put in my own money in on top of this and have been trying to build a bankroll too.

I suffer terribly from the things you've forseen here fork;

I have limited selfcontrol over when to play and not to play. My bankbalance acts somewhat like a yo-yo, a problem which I am trying to solve.

I don't leave a table when I double up. There are ups and downs to this.

As I am learning the game it can of course at times be costly. On ocasions when I play the odds against draws it can be darned well frustrating (more than normal as I am underbankrolled for the tables). More commonly thogh I loose a lot of money making mistakes myself.

The advantage I've found are that I am learning how to be a big stack at the table now, rather than in later days when I intend to move up to bigger blinds. In the long run I reckon it will make me more profit, albiet it will take longer for me to reap any rewards.

I know you've already decided to change your rules, but further to what you've done I'd suggest you make the following your key concern.

Are you tilted over a hand you just lost (or anything else in life for that matter)?

Are you tired? Have you had a busy, stressful day?

Are you getting over excited about hands you just won?

These, I reckon, are the sorts of things you need to consider as rules, if you are any of them you should obviously not play.

I just wish you better luck at following them than I've had. It's a real trick being honest with yourself I find.