Right now I've got $627 in the Stars account. Yesterday I played some $25 NL, got my total up to around $550. At this point I decided to 4-table some .5/1 HE with some full game and six-max. Needless to say, things went awful. Had a very pleasant downswing that put me to $435 at one point (eeeeeek!). But, I knew I wasn't playing bad, so I decided to stick it out and 4-table the $25 NL games. A pleasant upswing followed and I finished the night around $570. I'm keeping my tourney buy-ins to below $5. It's good practice MTT wise and not a cancer to my bankroll. Today, I did it again. Yup. I took a shot at 1/2. But this time I did it differently, I played one table of 1/2 six-max. This time I told myself I was going to approach it differently. Up until this point, I've usually let the size of the stakes effect me, and as a result there would be times I should have bet but didn't, and times I shouldn't of chased but did. So, I played tight and aggresive, and a few hundred hands later I'm up $50. This is a very good thing, because I feel like I've gotten past a mental block. I'm gonna put in a system: If I lose my buy-in of $30 on the 1/2 table, I'll avoid the tables for a while. Hopefully by mixing up one table of 1/2 six-max sometimes and 4 tables of $25NL other times, I can get my bankroll to $800 by the end of the month. That's the goal, anyways.

Source: The Poker Journal