1 - 35 buyins is fine, as long as you mean what you say (moving down if you downswing).2 - Not mad, but maybe not so likely right away if you haven't played in awhile.  Mental control is everything, you have to stay focused and motivated, yet be patient with results and improvements (tough to balance).  1000 games is good, that's a very good number to play each month, but make sure your volume is good volume and not tilted/tired play.3 - Comfort is important, anywhere from 25 buyins to take shots to 35+ buyins to move up and make it your primary game.  Add in some $30s when you feel comfortable and have been winning, no need to make it a "black and white" type "I either play $30s or $15s."4 - Basically any player you see often that is a winner will be called a "reg" at this level.  It's not worth worrying about, just avoid rematching guys that are winning a lot unless you want a challenge or truly see some big leaks (and don't be a guy that isn't winning money at the level that decides he just positively has an edge on this 10% ROI player, that rarely ends well, and when it does it's usually kind variance).5 - If anything I would say that is backwards.  The major problem with the smaller sites is that they have much less action, especially as you climbin stakes.  Therefore, it's usually only advisable to play smaller rooms if you 1) are starting out or playing lower stakes 2) the room isn't really that "small" and has sporadic (but very soft) action at higher stakes (Party Poker is a good example of this for HUSNGs).You shouldn't worry about mixing in different poker rooms right now, you should get plenty of volume until you hit the $50s at least, and by then your options will be very few anyways.  Plus, get used to one site's software so you can totally focus on playing and improving.  By the time you switch poker rooms you should be a solid, winning veteran, ready to take advantage of softer opponents or mixing in soft action to your regular grind.  But we're talking about $50+ buyin levels, you don't need to think about that stuff until you're at least at the $50s.Good luck!

Hey, i played you 2 games earlier, maybe you remember me when you see my nick here, its pretty similiar ;) 1. 35 buyins is more than enough, if you feel bad when losing money at the 15s move down, i currently play with the 20 buyin rule but its because i dont really tilt that easily. 2. 8% roi is sustainable at the microstakes, at the 15s i guess you have to be decent and used to twotabling or just singletable. 3. Me personally will take shots at the 30s when i have 700$ and then move down if i get down to 500$. Make a plan and stick with it, do not gamble with your BR.I wouldnt try the 30s before i feel like im better than most of my opponents at the 15s.4. Not really that many regs at the 15, if there is i couldnt notice them. Get a sharkscope subscription could be a good choice, but at the 15 there is usually instant traffic so its hard to check someone up and then join the game.5. I would just stick with stars at the moment, ipoker is decent but tbh there is no reason not to play at stars, just as much fish and alot mroe games/hr. As for our match, i think you need to play more aggressive, you let me run over you by folding so much PF and you had 100% fold to 3bet too..

70 games split up into sections is what, 7-12 sessions?  That's wayyyy too small of a sample to think that you're starting off playing badly then doing better (the results you're seeing are reflective of say a 30% winrate for games 1-3 then a 60% winrate for games 4-7 and that is basically impossible).If you started strong and ended bad you'd likely be asking about wearing down quickly.  It's very likely to be variance, and if it's not, it likely means you're thinking about it too much and not focusing on the game (or doing something very extreme to where your edge is just a drastic difference early session vs late session).  Comfort is important, but being comfortable isn't going to make you notice tons of more victories in the short term (you might go 58-42 on average instead of 54-46... that's a very big difference long term in profit, but you won't notice it in individual sessions).In short, the differences and impact of this stuff is real, but it does not compare anywhere near to that of variance, so much so that you cannot really see the difference of all these little things in each session/game.