Wow, I just threw myself a curve ball. I was chatting to Taipan about reaching $3k. He mentioned withdrawing due to the price of the aussie dollar to US dollars (0.71 for him, 0.655 today). Thats free money I decided I couldnt pass up.

I just withdrew $1050 dollars from my roll. Should convert to a touch over $1500 AUD, which will achieve my first two personal monetary goals from poker. It will pay back poker (all the money I've spent in deposits, training sites, books, software, everything), and enough left over to buy a new lamp for my home theatre projector.

So it should be awesome to make my first proper withdrawal, but in reality I'm very nervous about the affect it will have. Leaves me with $2015 in my roll, so I kind of need to make my 100nl start all over again, and if I run bad instead of good this time, then I'll need to drop back.