Quote Originally Posted by boostNslide
As many of you know, I built my roll from nothing to just under 1k in a month.
I did this on 3 seperate occasions in my first few months of playing poker before busting out on each occasion, when I was still a losing player overall after the last bust (and frankly, not very good compared to where I was just a few months after this). I kind of have the same type of thing where I'm never really satisfied at being at a specific level, and am always looking to improve, which I think is a good thing for poker overall.

To be honest, I think your problem was mistaking your big upswing as a mastering of the game, instead of what it more likely was, which is a very lucky streak combined with good play. Then as you say you felt like you didn't have anything left to prove anymore in SNGs, but really that goes against your personality, and your striving to improve, and if you're not moving forward in your game, more than likely you're probably moving backwards.

Keep at it, man. With enough determination, studying, and experience, you'll get to a higher level of play where you won't be going through as big of swings anymore, and I'm sure you will be able to move up to higher stakes, as your personality already pushes you in that direction. I just get the feeling that you need some more experience under your belt to go along with that.

Also, I don't feel like you'd have to stick to SNGs to be successful by any means. I really feel that any half-way intelligent person can learn to be a successful player at any form of poker, at some buyin level, as long as they are willing to work at it, study the game in some form (talking with other players, reading articles and posts on forums, reading poker books, etc.), and most importantly if they're willing to give it time. You'll probably just need to give yourself more bankroll room with MTTs as opposed to SNGs, as you don't have as much experience in them.

Be patient and stay within your bankroll as much as you can, and the rest will come.