Thanks Erpel for the advice. Thanks also Daven but I'm not entirely ready to give up on my poker just yet, and past losses don't come into my thinking, what's gone is gone is my philosophy.

But yeah something has to give I'm incapable of grinding a BR that much has been proved! I start a new job next week working from home (have been a free man for past 3 months so loads of time on my hands).

The underlying problem with my BR management has always been that I am too eager to get to a meaningful sum of money in my BR and am not capable of sustaining a disciplined approach to BR over a period of time because I am too keen to start seeing some decent money. Meaningful money is relative but for me I'd say mentally about 2k pounds.

In six months I haven't withdrawn 1 cent from poker that isn't because I don't have the playing skills (BR management aside) to beat players, I do now at the lower stakes thanks to FTR.

So for the next three months I'm trying an experiment.

I will only play $50nl. At the end of three months I'll re-evaluate and see where my BR is. Things can't really get much worse, I have a finite amount of money to spend on poker so there is no risk of a magnified loss. I'm not advocating playing outside of BR strategy unless a last resort but for me I think it is now. I've given my best effort to grinding a roll from 2nl over the last six months and it hasn't worked so now I'm trying something different.