Believe me, I am not offended, I stated myself that I was lucky but when better to push your luck than when playing with someone elses money hey.
I understand what you say about variance and I have been playing a little while and the way I improve my odds and avoid the negative side of variance is table hopping.
Everyone who plays knows that even though luck does not make a player a brilliant player who hits a streak of bad luck will sink and if you sit at the same table long enough then the luck will pass and variance comes into play... chop and change tables frequently then you can avoid it to a certain degree.
HIT N RUN I believe is the term BUT when you are relying on the income from poker to avoid the stresses and strains of a 9-5 then who cares how you play the tables.
Now I have used the initial $50.00 to get to where I am I will now split the whole amount into $50.00 "sets" and will use each set carefully and build it up as much as possible, sticking now to BRM... technically I reckon ( and I know u will disagree ) I can turn my initial deposit into around $22400 in less than 4 months..... Watch this space