Wellp, I've finally jumped up to $2/4nl for good. It's taken a dozen tries, but I'm pretty set at those tables now. Last month I 2 tabled $4nl, and this month the plan is to 3 table it. I honestly don't expect to play anymore tables than that in the future. Poker is more fun when I'm not just coasting on autodrive. I enjoy thinking through every hand, and looking at every opponent and figuring out how to exploit them. I'm still obviously learning, but I think I can hold my own against most of the regs; a few of them are still giving me probs, but that is just more opportunities to learn.

Here are my stats for the first 15k hands I've played there this year. I realize it's a small sample, and I could break even for the next 60k. So this isn't really a brag pic. I'm simply happy that I've busted out of the $2nl rut I was in for a year.

My goal for the next few months is to average 1k hands per day, and study my opponents as much as I can. The leap to $3/6nl from $2/4nl (a 50% increase) is much smaller than from $1/2nl to $2/4nl (a 100% increase.) So hopefully it won't take me too long to play those tables too. Just gonna take a lot of hard work and focus.