I appreciate the concern. Like I said, I struggle to not get defensive, it's part of my personality. To be honest I'm not sure why I jumped up. I actually broke one of my goals in order to do so. My goal was to get the BR up to $400 before I jumped up, instead I jumped up and got the BR up to $340 now. However, I did show myself something at the higher level. I used to play the .10/.25 tables with a short stack between $7-$10 dollars. instead of the max $25. I could grind it up to $15 but if I lost one hand or got cracked in a hand I wasted an hour of work. When I jumped up I played with $35 dollars, still not the full $50, but much less short stacked. It made a difference because I played tighter and without realizing it (I just read about it yesterday, finished Tournament Poker for Advanced Players in about 2 hours) I was using the "Gap Concept," playing better than usual cards when someone of decent skill opened in front of me, something I should consider more often. I didn't have to sit on "monsters" but generally the quality of my cards was a bit higher because I wasn't worried about blinds eating away at as much of my ammo. Unfortunately, last week my roommate got kicked off campus and I no longer have a computer to play from, I had borrowed a friends computer this weekend (I made the most of it), but I believe I will move back down to the $25's playing with a bigger stack and playing a similar game when I get back to playing online every night. If I play 2 table's with say $40 -$50 dollars in play on .10/.25 limits, rather than 1 table of .25/.5 with $35 dollars in play, I may have more at risk (and I don't know the exact math), but I'm willing to bet my variance will be a bit lower, and even if my profits dollarwise are lower, in the long run I will probably show a more positive curve. I could be wrong, but I'm willing to bet that I'm pretty close to the right answer on that one. My goal is to get my BR up to 1K by Christmas, I should be getting a computer around the 20th of the month, so that gives me a month to do so. 35 days to add ~700 to the account. That's $20 a day. I think that is feasible-- aggresive, but feasible. I'm a voracious learner and a quick study and I think with all of FTR's help, this can be done. Later....[/u]