After busting my roll, I had 300 fpp pts at stars to work with and 5 tickets to a $2K freeroll on Saturdays.
I played the Sat freeroll and left the trny at 22nd place with 28000 chips (I had to go to take my daughter to a birthday party). When we got home a couple of hours later, I had won $7.00 for a 44th place finish. The tourney had about 650 runners to begin with.
The following week I did the same thing (played and left the tourney after 1-1/2 hour play due to family affairs) and won $6.00. I know I could win the tourney for a $350 1st place finish but I could not sacrifice the day (tourney is at 10:30 a.m. PST) for my kids not to enjoy the weekend because of poker.
I grinded the money I had won ($13.00) plus a win on the 280 fpp trny for an $11 trny dollar to $402. THat is right, my BR now stands at $400 after two weeks of playing $3.25 45 man sng's. 18 man SnG's, and $2 180 man MTT's.
When my BR reached $20 or so, I started playing cash on 6 handed .10/.20 and moved up to .25/50 while still playing some SNG's.
I can now control my biggest leak which is my tilt. Now I can leave the table when I'm up even at $5 or $120. I can also leave th table if I was losing $5 which I could not do previously.
I hope I can continue this and get my BR up to $1k by the end of the week. Right now I sometimes only play for 1 hour or 2 a day.