I did something very similar to this. At the beginning of January 2010, I had $1.27. I sat down at a 5NL cash game and tripled it. Split it up on two 5NL tables and ran both of those up. I jumped up to 10NL eventually and ran good enough to take it up to 25NL. About a week later, I had $300, withdrew half of it, and kept playing. I withdrew another $100 a week later, and had about $400 left over. I got into the micro MTT contest and went pretty deep in a few tourneys, with a FT in my second ever PLO tourney. The next day, I won a $4 $2K guaranteed tourney 1000 cap for $750. I now have a roll to work with, and wifey is happy cuz I withdrew a bunch. It DEF can be done.

Yeah well I didn't do a good job of updating and keeping this blog.....But I did manage to grind it up to $6.5k and now comfortably play the O8 tournies I desire to.