Thanks for the tips gents.

I dropped down to 25nl earlier this evening as 50nl was reg infested and felt like a kid in a sweet shop! When you drop down a stake, you really do realise how poor the standard is at the lower stake and wonder why it took so long to beat it comfortably at the time. I guess it's like anything in life though in the sense that development takes time and is incremental and it's important not to forget that.

With anything in life too, I definitely think you can progress much quicker sometimes by throwing yourself into a new, harder challenge (as long as you can at least compete early on and have the BR if it's poker). Having a first-hand awareness of how better players play a sport or how more experienced staff operate at work by competing with them is a steep learning curve for sure, but sometimes well worth it.