Quote Originally Posted by speedcake
If you played poorly enough to donk off 92% of a $500 roll over a short time then I wouldn't even start at 10NL. I'd play 5NL until I beat it over at least 25k hands.

THEN move up to 10NL and beat that for at least 3/100 over at least 25k hands.
I recommend something close to this. Play 10nl with 50 buy-ins for a while. If you drop to $350 then move down (to lose 15+buyins is more likely bad play than variance). Move up to 25nl at BR = $750, with a stop-loss to move back down at $600.

also see spoon's post above

I was a bankroll nit starting out from scratch ($200) late last year - mostly cos bonuses were inflating my bankroll before I was certain I was beating the limits I was at - similar to your MTT cash. Now I'm as nitty as ever with my bankroll. I fnally moved up to 100nl with 50+ buyins, and I'm not even thinking about 200nl until I have $10k+