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[QUOTE="westside1950, post: 2606010, member: 133792"]
I've read lately a text from Viktor Blom (Isildur) about his poker beginnings and it got me thinking.,
Long story short: At one point he had around 2k$ on his account and he decided to play 300$ SNGs, and after he won a few, he moved up on to the 500$ (like, wtf??), took some bad beats and went busto in  the end of that night.
Then he tought about it for weeks, again and again, and then decided to give it one last shot (with the same tactics) and he managed to succed.

Many players today idolize him (and similar players like Dwan,Hansen,Sahamies..), but for me what he did was just pure gamble and luck. 
Okay, today we can say that he is one of the most skilled players out there, but what if he busted that other time?  How many potenitally great players busted their poker careers playing like that and remanied unknown?

I remember when I started playing on PS; I grinded my way from NL2,NL5 to NL10. I played for months on NL2 and NL5 until I finally made nice profit playing and when I considered I cracked them I decided to move up the stakes.
For me, true pro worth admiring is some who grinded his way up from the lowest stakes; 
not someone who took a gambles like this thinking: '' I'll take another 1k and it's my final shot''
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