Hey there, I just got on this forum, and I decided it was a good idea to post about a challenge it set up by the end or March. I also post on another french form, and I thought I was a good idea to talk about it on another forum (here). I'm pretty sure there's a lot of great players here, and i think I can get good advice and tips to help me throught my challenge.

Quick explanation. I play on PokerStars since a few years. I've deposit a couple of times 'cause I didn't care that much about BRM. I could play cash for 0,10/0,25 buying-in with 12$ from a 30$ bankroll. I was like "If i bust, I'll make another deposit." I could play 5$ S&G. But I've been taking poker much more seriously lately, and my last deposit was in last november (30$, i know, it's not much). I grinded it up to 50$, then, i finished January (2010) pretty much even, then i lost 5$ in Febuary, lost another 10-12$ in march. I was startging April with a 25$ bankroll. And then, I decided to set up a challenge that I called "The Double Up Challenge". I want to double my bankroll every month. It might look a little hard, but it comes to win a buy-in a day. I started April pretty roughfly. I lost, and I tilted, and after 4-5 days, i was down to 12$. Now, i took a step back. I wanted to double my 12$ (actually make it +13, to get back to 25$) in 24 days. Sounds pretty easy... 50¢ a day. I mostly play cash game (001/002) HE, a bit of PLO too, and I play some S&G also. I wrote myself some rules. Very important rules. My first one is : Do Not Lose More Than a Buck Per Day. (or a buy-in) If i lose more than that, it's pretty hard to recover, it takes a couple of days. Second is : Do Not Try to Win That Extra 10¢. When my daily objective is to win 75¢, and I'm up 65¢, I should not try to give that litte shot to try and win the 10¢ missing. The few times that I tried that, I changed a +0.60 day into a -0.95 day...

Here's my April month graph.


I didn't complete my objective, I finished the month at $23 instead of $25. But I was so close, that I consider that I completed my objective at 92%. Which is not bad at all.

Now for May, i got to double my bankroll again. I should win an extra 25$ to get to 50$.

... And i'll post tonight, 'cause I really gotta go to work... sorry... to be continued...

ok, I can't find how to edit my post, so here's the next part.

I was talking about May. I started May pretty hard, I was a bit short on my objectives, and I was wining and losing to be pretty much even. I had to try to win $0.75 per day. One day, I was playing a PLO H/L S&G and a guy gave me (and another player) $10. Just like that. So that gift brought me back on track, exactly where I was trying to get. Then, it's like a big pressure on my shoulders was released and I had a very good week, followed my bankroll objectives pretty good. Then, I started to struggle again. And here is how my month of May looks to this date.



I noticed something. Winning a buck a day is the hardest thing to do, when you have to win it. Since a couple of days, I'm starting to wonder if my challenge is well built or not. I took my monthly objective and divided it by 30 (or 31) days. That gives me a daily objective. That should actually be an average winning. But I kinda feel like I just have no right to loose! I got to win every single day, pretty much 100% of my poker sessions, which is totally impossible. So, I thought about another plan. I could get my same monthly objective, but divide it by 20 days instead. That way, I'd have 10 free days in the month. I could use these days as days off, or to try to win back some money I lost in a previous day.

Here's what it would look like.



But now, I wonder if it would do any diffrence. I guess I'll be more able to see it on the next month, since I made this graph after having played my month of May.

So, to this date, I got a bankroll of $39,43 and it "should" be to $45,75. Or, I got $10,50 to win in the next 5 days if I want to successfully finish my month. I expect I'll have to work hard, but I think it's doable.

What dou you think... Am I better to try to make a good cash out in a S&G? Or should I grind it on cash tables? I have to say that I don't use any tracker (maybe later), I usually play 2 to 4 tables short handed. And I buy-in for $1. What I like about the S&G, is that if I get to the top 2, it gives me a real good help for my challenge. But the bad side is that if I don't make the money, I should quit for the day. (Because of my rule #1). But one win equals 2 (some times 3) days of accomplished objective.

Thanks for reading, and tips and opinions are welcome

Edit : ok, I found the Edit Button, it just doesn't appear on my first post.

Very interesting challenge! I think cash games would be your best bet, since your Rule #1 can make your days extremely short for sng's. I'm assuming at 2NL that you can play fairly nitty and not as likely hit your stoploss. I have a few questions:
Are you going to try to double up again in June?
Will your stoploss be higher than $1 in June?

good luck

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BAEVentures

Nice chart) gl man!

Thanks. And yeah, I'm gonna try to double up every month. In June, I'll try to get from 50$ to 100$, so I'd try to win an average of $1,75 a day (or $2.50 on 20 days). And then my stoploss would be around $2, $2.50. It's about a dollar for now, but it's actually a buy-in.

So here's my plan :

June : get from $50 to $100, Buying in at $2 (stoploss 2, 2.50) Still 2NL, avg.win per day : $1.75
July : get from $100 to $200, Buying-in at $3.50 (stoploss around $4) now 5NL, avg.win per day : $3.25
August : get from $200 to $400, Buying-in at $6.50 (when i'm @ $300, i could start buyin-in at $10) (stoploss around these amounts) still 5NL, when I feel comfortable I can give a try on 10NL, avg.win per day : $6.50
September : get from $400 to $800, buying-in at $13.50 (@450 = $15 / @600 = $20) 10NL, @600 = 25NL, avg.win per day : $13.50

... and here, I made a Plan B... I called it "The Grand"

I could try to win $300 in the month, so i'd get from $400 to $700 (2 months with the same objectives, and I'm at $1000)
It's quite simple : win $10 a day. (stoploss around 10 too) same buy-ins as "september" except that my avg.win per day would be $10 instead of 13.50. If I repeat the same thing the next month, I should get to $1000.

October : I'll see then, but if I wanted to keep going with my double up thing, I'd try to get from $800 to $1600. Buy-in at $26.50 (@1000 = $33 / @1200 = $40) 25NL, at $1200 = 50NL, avg.win per day : $26.

... or if I take "The Grand" path, when i'm at $1000, I could try to win another $1000 in the next month, (avg of $32.25 per day) buyin at $35 (@1500 = $50) Or, to make it a little easier, i could try the $500 step... going from $1000 to $1500 to $2000...

I made a graph from April to July :


The second light blue line under is 75% of my total objectives.

I'll see how it goes one month at the time.

Thanks for your support

... and for the edit thing, yeah, i thought about it

I was behind, and i had a hard time winning this week. So I set up some new goals to end my month. Yesterday I had $39.43 (target was $45.75). If i wanna finish my month at $50, i have to win $10.57 for the last 5 days of May.

It started today. I'm off workin' so, I gave a shot.

Thu.27 : +$3 √ (3.24)
Fri.28 : +$3
Sat.29 : +$2
Sun.30 : +$2 (or 3?)
Mon.31 : +$1 (or not?)

So today, I played over 300 hands, mostly NLHE. A little bit of PLO, and half an hour on a 0.05/0.10 Limit Hold'em. (On which I won $1.50). After one hour, I was up $0.40. Not much. I took a small break, took a little bit of air, on that wonderfull sunny day. Then I came back for some PLO. I won $1.46, and then I won another 1,37$ on 3 NLHE tables. (001/002) So my day is done (have stuff to do tonight, plus I might go play live). I'm very happy with my $3,24 winnings for today. I wish the next days are going to be as good.

Oh, yeah, and I'm now at $42,67 (target at $46.50) getting closer.

It's going very well. I played for my challenge today too. I played 2 hours and a half, taking little breaks once an hour. Played 404 hands of 001/002 NLHE for +$1.93. I also won $1.02 on a PLO table, and lost a small 0.16 on PLO8. So I finish my day up $2.79. I had a $3 objective, but since I won $3.24 yesterday, I'm up $6.03 for the last 2 days. My bankroll is now at $45.46 (target was at 47.25) so I'm still reducing the gap. I want to end the month at $50. So I got to win $4.54 by the next three days. I think I'm gonna get there.

hmmm... not quite sure anymore. One last day. The thing is that I didn't have time to play on saterday. Didn't matter that much. $4.50 in 2 days is quite doable. I wok up this morning, played a little. 50 minutes for a $0.16 winning. I thought the might be hard.

I stopped 'cause I had a freeroll tournement on another site. 44 players, one WSOP seat to win, and a bit of money for the 2 to 5 finishers. After 7 hours of play, I went out 6th, on the bubble. AK, allin PF (19 000 with blinds at 700/1400/175a). I'm called by BB (chipleader) he had KJ. I was happy... untill the flop came JxK. Then nothing and a Q on the river. But I don't really mind, i'm ok with it. I had lots of fun.

Afterward, I came back on pokerstars to play for my challenge. Maybe I had too much poker today. I lost 2 pairs vs bigger 2 pairs (on flop!) I lost with KJ on a flop 4KJ (there's a bet 2 calls, I raised, one call) turn 9, she bet, i shove, she calls (I just wish she doesn't have... oh crap... QT) So my day end up loosing $1.62. But for a $4.50 to get in 2 days, it became a 7$ goal only for tomorrow.... and I'm working tomorrow. So it looks pretty bad. Still, I'm still between my 2nd line. And if i finish the month at $43, i still got a 86% achievement. I think i'm not gonna try to win $7 tomorrow, but just try to reduce the gap as much as I can.



I won't give up...

Keep at it man, I found sir cuddles guide to beating the micro's was really helpful for me.

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/78...micros-430637/

Hey, thanks for the link! I didn't read it all yet, but I will.

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Now here's some updates for my Double Up Challenge. Today was the last day of May. I'm a little disapointed about the conclusion of the month. Nothing too bad, but I didn't achieve my goal. I've been close, but I failed to get to $50. First, I haven't had time to play on saterday. I play music with an orchestra and I had a concert, and I went to get a beer with my musician friends afterwards, and all. I came back home pretty late, and I wasn't in the right mood to play online poker for my challenge. I thought it was riskier for my bankroll if I played. Sunday, I had a tournement on another site, which took me seven hours of play. Then, maybe it was a lot of online poker on that day, but I tried to play for my challenge. I lost. I lost with 9-7 on a flop : A97 (the other had A9). I lost with KJ on a flop : 4KJ. One bet, 2 calls, I raised 3x (maybe not enough), the bettor called me. The turn brought a : 4KJ-9. The other bet, I pushed all-in over the top... then I thought "oh no, don't tell me you got QT"!! I've been called, and he had QT... I took a break, and I wanted to play a little of PLO. I lost another buy-in in 10 minutes. I had AJxx on a flop KJJ. I bet all the way, I'm called all the way... by KKxx. He had me since the beginning. So Sunday ended up with a loss of $2.62 Then today, monday, I started to play a little cash game this morning before going to work. Lost $0,50. Then tonight, I came back home, and I was like "ok, lets do a last S&G". But no body was in registered for the games I wanted to play (PLO8 or H.O.R.S.E.). So I started to play more cash game. I played 0,05/0,10 L HE. Lost. And I played a little bit of 0,04/0,08 Razz. But after a couple of hands, I noticed that my head wasn't quite there. I stopped. Monday : loss of $1,63.



I'll reajust my goals for the month of June. Here's why. I achieved 73% of my estimated winnings, and I got 82% of the bankroll I was aiming. I end up my month with $41,21.



Let's look at some numbers now. I won an average of $0,21 per hour in cash game. It looks tiny, but it still is 10 big blinds. I played 3511 hands of HE with $8,50 of profits. I played quite less of Omaha for this month. 471 hands only. Losses of $2,18. I made money in 50% of my S&Gs but I'm pretty much even for the ROI%.

Now this is what my new graph will look with my reajustment.



In June, I'll try to get from $40 to $80. I'll have to win an average of $1,35 a day. I'll keep buying-in at $1 on 0,01/0,02 games. When I'll get around $70-$75, I'll try to give a shot at the 0,02/0,05 NLHE. I'll take the minimum buy-in of $2. I think I'll be able to start playing HeadsUp matches too. It starts tomorrow! Wish me good luck

Thanks for reading. Any comments/suggestions are still welcome

I'm a little disapointed. I just finished a poker session. I'm maybe a little bit on tilt. Is it that hard to make money on cash games at 1¢/2¢ ?? In live, I'm a regular winner on NL50, and even NL200. It's ridiculous. In fact, I lost the first day of the month, and I came back winning for the 3 following days. I was then a little above my aimed bankroll. But tonight, I lost a little $1.70, and I should try to win $4 for tomorrow to be back on track?! Crazy. And I guess it's just gonna be tougher and tougher as long as my daily objectives are going to increase.

Anyways, here's my first week's report.



Tue.1 : I played a bit of cash game. Won on HE lost a little on PLO. I went to work up $0.50. Came back on the night and I played a Double of Nothing SnG. I finished bubble on a stupid mistake i did. We're 6. 5 are paid (5th has same thing as 1st place). We're 6, i'm 2nd in chips, there's one guy with not even two rounds in front of him, he's out in a few hands. I'm BB with 8-6. SB limps. Flop : 976, (pair+open ended straight draw). He bets, I shove, he insta-calls with AA. Turn, river : 976/Q/K… out… If I folded, I was paid. It would have given me a +$1,40 day. Instead of that, I got -$0,60
Wed.2 : I won a little 20¢ waiting for my HORSE sng to start. Finished 2e. +$1,40
Thu.3 : 2 sessions of cash game on HE gave me a : +$1,89 day.
Fri.4 : I lost $1,50 in cash game (!), and then I played a Limit HE sng and won it. Day at : +$1,80
Sat.5 : Tonight. I shouldn't have played, if I had known... Cash game. 4 tables of NLHE... win a bit, lost a bit more, tilt, evening at : -$1.70

It started pretty good, but one losing session, just one buy-in and a half, and I'm in trouble. That discourages me a little. Anyway, maybe tomorrow it'll go better. Here's my graph for the first week of june. Nice start, bad saterday.



Tomorrow is another day, as we say.

Don't be shy if you got a comment or any kind of tips/suggestions/quetions.

Here's some updates about my double up challenge.

June started good for a few days, but then I went down. 5 days of loss in 8 days. That disapointed me quite a lot, more and more day after day. But friday I won a 18 players sng for a $5.36 gain net. I was quite below my bankroll objectives, but that win brought me closer to my target. Still behind, but closer. Here's a graph since the beginning of June.



... and here's another graph. It shows my global objective from april to july. As I explained in an earlier post, I reajusted my target for this month.



... but I started to wonder if this goal is still worth it. I started to read "The Poker Mindset". And it says that a poker goals about money is not a good idea. Because 1. It's a short term target, and poker is a game about long term. In other words, I don't have much control about the money i make every session. 2. If I miss my target, it doesn't teach me much about my game. I can lose while playing good, taking the right decisions. I'll just go on tilt and depressed about my challenge. (and I must admit that I experiment that on the last week). 3. When I get to my daily objective, I may play less than optimal way, scared of losing what I won in one session.

At first, I thought it was a nice challenge, but I discovered that it was harder than it looked like. But now, after reading that section from The Poker Mindset, I understand why it is a hard challenge. And I'm starting to wonder if I should give it up?? What do you guys think about it? I think I'll try to keep playing it, I'll see what's going to happen by the end of the month, and then, maybe I'll reevaluate my challenge.

Week 3 of June.

I been close to 21¢ to get to my weekly goal. I've been a winner the whole week. Today, I played, I won $1,69, I was in real good shape to successfully complete my weekly goal. Then I noticed I was 21¢ away. And tomorrow, I'm working in the morning, and I have a concert in the afternoon/evening. I'm pretty sure I won't have time, or be in the mood to play my challenge when I'll get back home tomorrow night. So today, I had time, I said : "I'm gonna play tomorrow's day right now."

So, I played a little cash game, not enought patience, I sat out even. I played a PLO Double or Nothing SnG. I thought it was the easy way to win, since a couple of days. hum hum, not today. We're still 10 at the table, and we're at level 3 or 4, average stack is about 7.5 times the BB. That's bad. To make a short story, I finished on the bubble (while I was 2nd in chips 2 rounds before). Saterday's loss : -$1,13. It's not that bad, but it's just the fact that I was so close to my weekly goal...

Here's my bankroll's graph...



and the week's summary...



Sun.13 : winner in cash game PLO and HE : +$1,61
Mon.14 : winner in cash game HE, loser in PLO, won a PLO DoN : +$1,55
Tue.15 : small wins in cash game HE, won 2 PLO DoN out of 3 : +$1,06
Wed.16 : small losses in cash game PLO, but winner in HE : +$1,50
Thu.17 : 2e of 8 in a HORSE SnG, plus little wins in cash game HE : +$1,83
Fri.18 : winner in cash game HE and won a PLO DoN : +$1,69
Sat.19 : mini-loss in cash game, and bubble in a PLO DoN : -$1,13

I'm a little disapointed, but it's still my best week up to now. (And I won twice as much as the last week). I'm still behind, but I had a good week, won everyday (except today "for tomorrow"). I still have time to try to fullfill my monthly goal. I don't know if I'll succeed, but I have a week off by the end of June, so, I'll work on it. I did a trend curve on my bankroll graph, and it appeared that I was gonna end up my month around $58-$60. I'll by happy to get over this, and I think it's pretty doable. But secretly, I hope I can get to $70-$72. I'll see how the end of the month will go, but if everything goes right, I might try some 0.02/0.05 NL in the beginning of next month. (I'd try some sessions with a small $2 buy-in). And maybe also some $2.20 Headsup SnG's.

Finaly, if I zoom out a little, I won almost as much as the whole month of April, and almost half of the month of May, this week only. I guess it means something good

Week nbr.4

Losing week, so that's bad. Very bad. But there are still good news throught that. I started to play 6 tables simultaniously. (used to play 3 or 4). Even better, I did some longer cash game sessions ending up as a winner... on 6 tables. I changed a little bit the way I was playing that challenge. I used to get on tables, trying to make some small hit-and-runs. Sat at a table, won a pot, sat out with a little 25¢ profit. Also, I used to quit a table when I was starting to loose, let's say, 25¢ deficit.... just to get onto another table. Pretty bad strategy, when I think about it... like if poker was all about fast and short term results... No, now, I started to set myself onto 4 (or 6) tables and I don't even care about my stack size during the session. I try to play at least 300 hands. That way, I'm not trying to hit and run. I can focus on my play instead of my stack. No matter if I'm up or down, I play a minimum of 300 hands. I noticed that playing that way, I felt more relax, more patient, and I risk so much less (almost not at all) going on tilt. Only good news.

Here's my Bankroll Graph for this week.



Quite sad, isn't it? I fell under my 75% low line. My 2nd time since the beginning of this challenge. But I think that the best thing to do with that is not worry to much about it. I want to stop stressing out with this challenge, I put myself under to much pressure. I will instead play a given number of hands, and see how my win rate's gonna react. I was thinking about steping up to the next limit (0.02/0.05) while around $75 (buying-in at the minimum) and play it more regularly around $100. But I changed my mind. I'll step up to the next limit after X hands on my actual limit. I found a chart on another forum that suggest to play NL5 after 31K hands at NL2. Also with a bankroll of $125. So, for the next month, instead of trying to double my bankroll, I'll try to play X number of hands per week, to get to my monthly goal. When I'll get close to $125, I'll check on my number of hands played and my win rate. (on PTR, it says I have a little over 10K hands with a win rate of 3,6BB/100). I'd like to get it close to 5 after 30K hands (but 3.5 - 4 is still good).

Now, here's the summary of this week.



Sun.20 : lost in cash game : -$1,04
Mon.21 : Lost a Heads Up SnG : -$2,20
Tue.22 : Won in cash game : +$1,37
Wed.23 : Lost in cash game : -$0,60
Thu.24 : 1675th out of 5306 in a NLHE MTT at $1,10 with $5K Grtd. and lost in cash game. “AA beaten by a backdoor flush / Set on the flop beaten by a hidden gutshot hit on the turn / all-in preflop with QQ vs. AK who hits a K on the river” for a total of : -$2,58
Fri.25 : 7th out of 18 in a NLHE SnG (-1,20) but won in cash game : day at +$1,62
Sat.26 : little cash game session in late evening. 62 minutes on 6 tables for 317 hands : +$1,35 exactly my "daily objective".

For the next 4 days, I'll try to win $6. Then, I'd end up my month at $60. It's less than I was hoping for, but I'd be on my 75% bottom line. Plus, I'd be on the tendency curve I made at the beginning of the month. Obviously, if I wan get a nice cash out in a SnG, I'd like to get closer to $70, but I'll see how it'll go.

Even if I'm telling to myself that I changed my strategy, that I'm now playing the "300 hands" thing instead of a few small hit-and-runs to win a buy-in a day... no. I wont make it. June might be the last month of that Double Up Challenge. I've been loosing 7 days in the last 10. I'd have to work very hard to end up the month at my 75% bottom line. I'm below my expectations. I planned to easily finish the month at $60 even if the last week would be a copy of my worst week of june. The thing is... this last week is even worse than the previous one. If I don't win $10 within the next 2 days (which is likely to happen) I'll have won half of my last month's winnings, and approx as much as the first month of that challenge (april). I try not to worry to much about it. Maybe it's the fact that I changed my way of playing (longer sessions) and that I started to play 6 tables (instead of 4). After a loosing session, I try to put things in perspective. I lose coin-flips, or I'm in with the best of it and I get sucked out. I think it's a good sign. My decisions aren't that off (i think). Still, I expect my performances of June to be disapointing. Lots of red on my routing sheet. No worries, at least, i'm still up...

Double Up Challenge : It’s a Wrap ??

Maybe. I endend up the last four days of June losing. Oh, well, I won a little on the 30th. But way under my "daily goal". In the red for the last week. Here's the summary of that last week.



Sun.27 : Lost 2.51 in cash game. 2 sessions on 6 tables for a total of 445 hands. I lost 2 buy-ins ($2) on coinflips. QQ all-in PF called by AK getting his K on the river. And another QQ called by AT, hitting his A on the flop.
Mon.28 : Lost in cash game. I was still aiming for 300 hands. Then, I made 2nd out of 8 in a PLO8 SNG. -0.45
Tue.29 : Won a bit in cash game. 11th out of 18 in a NLHE SNG and 6th out of 8 in a HORSE SNG. (I'll talk about a stud hand in a minute). -1.95
Wed.30 : Won 0.45 in an hour playing cash game. Only 2 tables (I was doing other stuff).

Now, here's the Stud Hand that cost me the HOSRE sng.

We're 7 on the table. The stakes are 60/120 with 12 ante.

-I bring in for 18 with AA/4 (I just bring in to kinda "hide" my hand, I'll probably re-raise if someone raises.
-xx8 folds
-xxJ calls
-xxA folds (I didn't notice that, maybe he clicked on the "auto-fold" option) If I had noticed at first, I guess I should have open with a full bet.
-xxK folds
-xxQ calls
-xx5 folds

4th street

-I got AA/42 (2 hearts and 2 spades)
-Vilain got xxJJ he bets (single bet of 60, even if he could have double bet)
-the xxQ gets 5 and folds.
-Back to me, I raised the Jacks, to show him that I'm stronger than Jacks. Still there, I only single raise him to 120 (I could (and maybe should) have raised him double to 180).
-He calls, indead.

5th street

-I get : AA/426 (2 hearts, 3 spades)
-He gets : xxJJK.
-He checks
-I bet 120
-He calls. (I'm trying to get at least Aces up, or a small str8 or a flush)

6th street

-I get AA/4268 (3 hearts, 3 spades)
-He gets xxJJK7, and checks
-I bet 120
-He calls.

7th street

-I didn't improve : AA/4268/3
-He bets 120
-I think for a minute, and I call...
-He made Jacks Full : K9/JJK7/J (even Kings up had me beat)

I lost pretty much half my stack on that hand, and didn't survive long after that. I think playing the way I played my hand was a mistake. I think I should have checked back every time to get free cards, and I'm pretty sure Vilain never bets into me on the 7th with only a pair of Jacks. I played it fast the whole way, he knew he had a trips or even a straight beaten. I didn't think about it enough, and lost quite a big pot.


Now, here's my month's graph.



The end is pretty sad, heh?! I think that I already gave up on my challenge after the 4th week. Plus, I started playing 6 tables instead of 4. And I started to aim for a number of hands instead of a small gain. I think that with those changes, I have an adjustment to do. I acheived 21% of the winnings I was aiming for. And I acheived 62% of the bankroll I was aiming for. I won less than April, and half of what I won in May. Besides all that, when I look at my 2010 online graph, I can see that this challenge was a good thing.



The lowest point of the curve is the end of march, beggining of April. Just when I decided to start my challenge. The line ends up on today's date.

Now, for the month of July, I already passed 3 days not playing. I think I'll play more on Everest Poker. Because I got a $10 bonus if I reach 100 Summit Points before July 24th. I played a bit on that site on the end of June and I got already 17.48 points. If I play 4 tables (still NL2 cash game - and a bit of PLO too) I can make around 5-6 points per hour.

About my PokerStars account, I'll take a break of my Challenge. In fact, I'm not even sure that it is well built. I think I'll change my objectives. I'll aim for a certain number of hands, instead. Or maybe I could try to play A Game A Week. One week I play only Stud (cash game or SnG), the next week I play razz, the next week is only Omaha, the following week would be Hold'em. But still, I'm not sure, maybe it's gonna be tough on the bankroll. I'll think about it. I'll concentrate on my Everest account for my 100 points bonus.