Quote Originally Posted by Parasurama
I'm not really sure because I didn't track my hands but I can give you a rough estimate of the number of days I played at each level, by the end I was 6-tabling FR, and probably played about 3-5 hours a day.

2NL: 5 days (I started with $100, which is overrolled for 2NL, so I just played to see if I could beat it)
5NL: 20 days
10NL: 30 days
25NL: 60-70 days, I broke even for probably the first 50 days, lost for another 10 and then went on a sick heater.

All of this is pretty irrelevant though, it's just to show you that it's possible. Just play.
I just ran 3 months (sep - dec '08) through HEM where I went from playing a $300 roll at 10nl into playing $3.6k (minus some withdrawals) at 50nl. That's roughly the same % increase Para was talking about.

I played 23k hands at 10nl, moved up at $900 for 35k hands at 25nl. Moved up at $2k to 50nl, but I withdrew rather than tackling 100nl 'cuz I knew I wasn't ready to beat it, yet. Made another $1k at 50nl in December (not including a FTP bonus that added $600) over 23k hands. I was playing 8 - 10 tables of FR at the time.

All of that was a 4.2 ptBB/100 win rate. I was studying a ton every week and really focused on my game every day.

I don't always learn so much or do so well, but I have learned to shut and play. And to keep withdrawing poker profits.