This is the one area where I'm either a total idiot or a total exception. I play on UB. When I started playing, I deposited $25. I played the micros for the first part of december and was exstatic when I had made $5 after a week or two. I did what I now know (according to everyone) was wrong. I moved up from .01/.02 to .05/.10. With $30. And I won. Within a couple of weeks I was up to $80. As the holidays approached it became bothersome to find a game in the always-full .05/.10, so I moved up to .10/.25. And I won. By the end of my X-mas break, I was at $190. I had achieved my goal - making more over the break than my friends made on their trip to Vegas.

What makes this either completely wrong or delightfully right is that I did all of it playing with the min buyins. So those .10/.25 tables weren't costing me $25 to play at and if I busted, I didn't lose that much. I lost $5. Again, this goes against everything almost anyone here will tell you. For some reason, it worked for me (up to the point that a bad run of cards combined with too little sleep and a mistaken attempt to move up yet again - to .25/.50...a week in which I lost all but $10 and started over again at the .05/.10 tables). The rest is in my sig. I'm still trying to decide if/when to adjust my min-buyin strat. Just seems to easy to make more money than I could otherwise for me to give it up...

- Jeffrey