I think alot of ppl on this forum have done something similar actually, or at least built a healthy roll from like $100. I've done a free $15
bankroll to over $25k in about a year w/ pretty low-moderate volume and that is nothing special at all. One guy on ipoker ran $2000 up to like 1.2M in a couple of weeks/months. Durrrr started w/ nl10, matt hawrilenko only deposited $100, etc. etc. A guy i know moved from nl50 HU to nl5k HU in under a year. I think that ferguson thing is probably the most overrated thing in poker, as it is pretty easy to make money once you move out of the micros.