General Q about tourney bankroll

[BarryLyndon]

For some of the regular posters out there, when you were at $2600 in bankroll, what tournaments were you playing.

A little background: I played poker a year and a half and totally sucked. I didn't read anything, didn't read posts, didn't discuss the game with anyone, and played mostly based on personal frustrations / "feel" (where "feel" is mostly all-in bluffs at NL100). I also took absurd shots at games way out of my skill level (i.e., built to 1500, jumped into NL400).

Also, I'm strictly part-time: I'd say I play 12 to 14 hours a week. I have a full-time job, tho I do spend a considerable amount of time reading 2+2 whenever work is slow (which can be frequently).

Anyway:

I'd say at around January of this year, I started to really read 2+2 tournament forums. I finally bothered to play based on stack sizes and to discipline myself not to bluff terribly.

The first couple of months were painful, but then I had a decent score - I qualified for a $75 and placed 4th for $800. Two weeks later, I played a $30 and finished 4th for $475 (AK < A7). Three weeks after, I won a $10 for $950. I also finished 89/1500 in the FTOPs PLHE tournament. I feel that my game is coming a long.

My BR is now at $2600. I have yet to win at ANY $24+2 mega size tournaments (600+). My late game (final table bubble) needs a lot of work. For the past couple of weeks, I have been playing some $30 SNGs and doing well (so far, the players there have been AWFUL) and a lot of $20 heads up games (competition here has been unimpressive as well).

Anyway, I'm not sure if any of this is relevant, but where do I go from here? Should I take some shots at the $75s on FT? Should I try to qualify for them? Should I get some experience in $50 SNGs, maybe play ten of them? Should I keep plugging away at $24s on FT, even though the fields are ridiculously larged / mixed? $20 rebuys? I'd really like to start playing against some better competition, smaller fields w/ bigger prize pools. But, I don't want to dent my BR too badly (which could be a psychological thing, as when I once had a BR of 2K, I totally sucked + was clueless + had no discipline and lost it in one night)

Barry