For goodness sakes, buy Doyle Brunsons "super system" and or "super system 2"; He made a lot of moola, but keep in mind you really should start at the pennies level. This is the real nose bleed level, becasue there will be a lot more people thinking "it's only xx cents" instead of "I'm not really getting the right pot odds". If you can show a consistant win rate at the lower stakes, then you ar ready to move on. It's way more math in a cash game, where losing is acually acceptable sometimes. That's right-being a donk sometimes can pay off over time. If the odds are xx, and u lose in this situation xx times, you can actually make money by losing becasue the yy number of times you win will more than cover it....lots of this kind of stuff are how many play, so what you think is a donkey is actually someone who knows if they dont make it 6 times, they will make it 8 times, and therefore show a profit. Good Luck. And for goodness sakes, dont start with 1k, YOU WILL LOOSE IT. Who said that? Are they insane, Or would they love to have you at a table?