hello my name is obg and i will be carrying out a challenge for the next 12 weeks. my challenge is to reach the highest stakes i can while also achieving my goals.
my goals will be as follow:

• move up stakes using solid bankroll management
• play with as much focus as i can sustain
• play as many hands as i can while maintaining focus
• post interesting hands here for criticism and discussion

i will be 2 tabling 6-max zoom on pokerstars
i will start with a bankroll of $50
i will begin by playing 2nl
i will move up to the next stake when i have 20 buy-ins for it and move down if i am down to 30 buy-ins for the previous stake
for example i will move up to 5nl when i have $100, and move down to 2nl if i have less than $60

on this thread i will post graphs and hand histories as well as reply to any questions and ask my own

my background is that i am relatively new to poker. these are the results for all of the cash game hands i have in my database before i start the challenge

Good luck I have just started a similar challenge at Zoom NL5 full ring so will be watching your progress

Bankroll management looks very aggro. I'd suggest moving up at 25+ BI.
But good luck to you

im willing to increase risk of ruin to move up the stakes more quickly because the goal of the challenge is to get to as high stakes as possible
and thanks

thanks, good luck to you too.

starting up the grind now.

day 1 over
went well
but would have liked to have played more hands
will go over hands later tonight and post any particularly interesting ones

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table

it's getting late
so i'm only going to post one hand



no real reads on BB but from what i had seen he seemed like a standard 2nlz fishreg
of course, i'm a fishreg too so any comments will be appreciated

flop - thoughts on bet sizing are that i want to get value out of QJ+ hands, flush draws.
in retrospect i think i could have raised a bit bigger.
i just call so that he's more likely to bet the turn with his top pairs and flush draws (on non turn cards) and because i wouldn't exactly be happy to get bottom set in 230bb deep in such a passive game where he does flat QQ and 99 here a lot and doesn't get much else in so aggressively imo

turn - i think i like calling here because people in 2nlz overfold to raises here. raising is definitely an option, dunno which is best really.

river - deffinitely think i should have raised here. was over-scared of better boats but really he can have flushes and top pairs and tbh i've even AA and KK flat pre sometimes, god knows why, so that too

starting up the grind again
going to play at least 3k hands today
last time i played pretty spewy/unfocused for the first hour or so
going to try to focus from the beggining this time

day 2 over
played pretty poorly
decided not to play 3k hands because of that
still ended up a little bit in terms of all-in adjusted profit

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table

played two heads up $1.5 sitngos
one regular speed nlhe
one regular speed 8-game
i won them both so broke about even for today

Much bigger flop, raise big turn (loadsss of draws in there we want to charge him a lot to see another card) & as played yes very easy shove.

thanks for the help sam !

going to focus on reviewing hands and refining my thought process today
so probably won't get as many hands in

i didn't post graph and table yesterday because i played poorly and lost $9 and was embarrassed

but i'll post it now

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and as for today things went better


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will post challenge-to-date graph at the end of the week
but in case anyone's interested, as of now both my actual and all in adjusted win-rates are just over 7bb/100

day 5 over
went ok
didn't get much volume in today because I went into town

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btw i'm not planning on doing too many hand histories until i get to 10nl or something because 2nl is about as boring as it gets it seems. i think ive been playing pretty poorly so far but i'm improving pretty solidly so there's that . . .