Luckily it took me a while to get through these steps. Three weeks after I started I won my first tourney...a freeroll at Dynamite Poker (R.I.P.) Got a whole 6 bucks. Their tourney for the winners the following Sunday I got lucky and won it so I had 26 bucks. A month later I got third in the quarterly tourney and got 400. Then I started playing too many hands. Bankroll got cut in half before i took a look at what i was doing wrong. I have had a few dry spells since then but nothing too major.