Even if you are winning and can tolerate the grind, as soon as you go up in stakes you lose most or all of your edge and variance goes way up. The ugly truth a

Even if you are winning and can tolerate the grind, as soon as you go up in stakes you lose most or all of your edge and variance goes way up. The ugly truth about poker is its only fun if there are fish feeding chips to the good players. As soon as it gets truly competitive you might as head to the roulette tables because at-least there you have consistent odds and don't have to grind out hands for hours to get your gambling kicks.