Self-indulgent history:

My dad taught me to play draw & stud when I was a wee lad, but didn't really play all that much until my friends started playing NLHE donkaments a few years back. I wanted to actually know what I was doing, so I read a few books, then started playing MTTs (mostly the stars 4.40/180). I did fairly well, won a few, but got burned out with the robotic grinding of the MTTs.

Someone suggested I take up the 'more interesting' cash games, and last last year I started donking around 25NL with nowhere near a proper BR. I went from $50 - $150, then started "operation impatience", the goal being to grind up a proper BR for 25NL. I finally did it, then donked away most of it at 100NL and 200NL. Took me all of 7 hands to run into a set over set at 200NL with a BR of $450. The poker gods weren't through with me yet though, as they gave me a FT appearance in a $33 MTT & I luckily managed to restore my lost BR.

Then I decided to actually adhere to something almost resembling proper BR management, grinded 25NL up to $800 where I took a stab at 50NL. After a few times dropping to $700 & moving back down to 25NL I finally managed to crack $1k. I'm currently sitting at $1400 after losing $250 in the last couple days.

I ran about 4PTBB/100 at 25NL, but my 50NL winrate has been shite so far. I swear I've been on a cooler, but to be honest, the bad beats wouldn't be so noticeable if they weren't coupled with stacking off too easily with TPTK/overpairs vs the wrong types of villains. I still feel like I'm relatively new to the cash grinding game -- maybe logged 80k hands in total since I started using PT so I'm sure there are still gigantic holes in my game that are seriously costing me...

I have a feeling it's my postflop game that needs the most work, but I'll post my stats here anyway in case you guys can use them to diagnose my condition: