Want to Up My Game

[DeadMoneySimm]

Hello all. I'll start out by saying thank you in advance for your help and advice.

A little background: I've been playing for over 3 yrs now, mostly .50/$1 NL in home games and $1/$2 NL in casinos and clubs, anywhere from .10/$.25 - $2/$4 NL on various internet sites. I consider myself a solid player when I'm clicking on all cylinders and have had great days both off and on-line with profits of over $1000.

Lately, I haven't been playing as much live and have been getting killed online because of trash-playing donks that you can raise up to 50% of their stack pre-flop and they'll still call with garbage hands. Enough ranting.

I want to get moving to higher levels. My next step is 2/4,2/5,5/5 on a consistent basis. I'm not so much concerned with what I need to do except bankroll management.

My current plan has failed over the long haul. I have been trying to slowly build up my roll online by playing in micro limit games and moving up, but I usually need to cash out to repay deposits or I hit a streak that wipes out my roll after doing well for a while.

I'd like to start off with a roll of 10-15 buy-ins for 2/4, but it would take me a while to save $4-6k. I don't want to go back to playing 1/2 because there's truly no respect for money at that level. Not that I think it will be way better at 2/4, 2/5, but at least a little better is an improvement.

Right now, I'd say I have about 1200-1500 to work with. What are your reccomendations?