looking to stake people part 3

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Started off playing poker at a local homegame 2 years ago, 1/2 & 2/5 FR. Played 20 sessions or so, winning about 14 of those and killing the game for > $6000 overall. I spent all profits immediately (furniture, TV, a week in NYC). I figured I could beat the game indefinately, safely on a 2 BI BR. Few weeks later busted a BI @ 2/5 when I got it in with QQ against KK in rr-pot on an 8-high flop. Tilted off 3 buy-ins that night ($1500), and decided to quit the game a winner overall. No poker for the next few months, then one day, bored, I deposited $200 @ FT. Within 2 hours I'd run it up to $1400 playing 1/2 FR, moved up to 2/4 FR and bustoed in the next 1.5 hr. Redeposited 2x that night, for a total of $800, and went promptly busto. Thought, Wow, I'm a degen and poker will break me, so I quit, I thought for good. One year later (5 months ago), I still hadn't stopped thinking about poker, so I bought and read some books (HOH, TOP, NLHAP, Poker Mindset, et. al.), found 2+2 through TOP, obsessively lurked, and decided to put my newfound NL knowledge to the test. Deposited $500 3 months ago, 4-tabled .25/.50, ran up my BR to $1900 @ 7.22 PTBB/100, moved up to .5/1, doubled the roll to 3900 @ 5.78 PTBB/100, moved up to 1/2, played 4k hands @ +9 PTBB/100, then had to bust my roll because my dentist (who I hadn't seen in 7 years) said I needed 2 root canals and 16 other fillings, and I had no other way to pay for the $5200 of dental work but to withdraw my BR. Now my roll is $287, or will be when last month's rakeback comes through, and I'm starting again this Saturday, looking to grind my way back up from (LOL) .1/.25. I'm really dreading the lower limits because I've never played so low before and $25 just doesn't mean a hell of a lot to me. A stake would be huge.

My ambition is to improve as a poker player and make some good money doing it. I'm intelligent (1590 combined SAT, back in the days of the 1600 point scale, and, according to the International High IQ Society, I have an IQ of 139, documentation available by request), and I have a real interest in excelling and improving at poker. I'm competitive, studious, driven, and I listen and learn well. All of this is documentable one way or another (PT graphs, screenshots, dental records and bills, SAT reporting, etc., etc.). If interested, PM me and I'll send whatever info you'd like to review.

Edit to say that I'm a 6-max player. I haven't played FR, with the exception of like 200 hands @ 1/2, since early '06.

Edit2 to say that I'm interested in staking for .5/1 or 1/2 but would like to play 2/4-5/10 eventually.