[basementproject]

Never 'accept' being hopeless at poker. If you're breaking even, you're not hopeless anyway. Find some leaks in your game and plug them, get the winrate up. If you're playing without trying to improve at all, you won't be moving up anywhere- keep that in mind.

Also, 64k hands isn't a ton of hands by any means. A lot of people play levels a lot longer than that. There's really no set time limit you can impose on yourself to move up. For instance, at the game last night we sat with a long-time microstakes grinder. He plays 100NL and 200NL about 40hrs a week. I asked him how long it took him to get to those levels from playing freerolls, and he said about a year and a half. FWIW.