Hey guys, the reason why im creating this blog is mainly to get to know the community here in 2+2 and also for me to keep my progress recorded.

ME AND MY BACK STORY
Im 29y.o. originally from Slovakia, but currently living 6th year in south of Spain (Marbella)
I started to play poker when i was around 15 in high school ,i never had a regular job and i have been playing poker professionally since 2010 so almost 10years now both live and online games.

POKER TODAY
I moved to Spain couple of years ago mainly to play live games and travel for live cash games. Im playing currently in local casino Marbella 2/5 € and 5/10€ NLH games and im on regular basis playing private game where we play only 4card PLO usually 5/5 or 10/10 with mississipi straddle up to 25€ or 50€.
The games here in local casino are amazing during the summer ,but it gets worse during the winter time so im sort of forced to either play online or travel, so i have been travelling to play poker a lot lately,mostly Miami ,because we have very good flights from Malaga to Miami (cheap and fast) and the game in Miami is always better than average i would say.
When it comes to online poker i havent really played much in the last couple of the years, but i used to grind a lot online when i was starting out.

CHALLENGE AND REASON FOR BLOG
Well since as far as you all know ,because of the coronavirus and quarantine we have to stay at home so i figured out this will be very good time for me to try it online again.
My challenge is gonna be go from 2k to 50ki dont have any specific set time frame for this i just want to prove to myself that i can beat online poker and maybe during the silent times in my local casino i will be able to make an income from online poker.
WHERE: Pokerstars.es - i dont have many other options since im living in Spain,but there is a lot of traffic since they play together with France and Portugal, you can easily play up to NL1k
STARTING BANKROLL: 2000€ - i can deposit more if i need to ,but i hope it wont be necessary
STAKES: NL50 from the start and later climb the stakes, since i havent been playing regularely online poker for some time i dont think its a clever decision to start at bigger stakes, eventhough my BR will allow me to i wanna grind it up
BANKROLL PLANS: win 25BI in each stake to take a shot for 5BI on higher stakes ,when i reach NL200 stay there for some time and study a lot ,because i think NL200 is already very tough limit to beat at reasonable winrate ,but you can also make significant good amount of money monthly
VOLUME: i have all the time in the world now since we cannot go outside here in Spain so i want to dedicate atleast 40hours a week for play and 10hours for study


I will be posting here graphs/hands and my progress as often i will feel like ,but every 10days of the month i will always post my goals and progress for the last 10days,plus i will always post results on the end of the month.

Oh yea and im also starting to workout and eat healthier , i will try to loose 15kgs until the end of the year.

Thank you for reading and send me some positive vibes

Mareccc90

I started this challenge about 2weeks ago and since then i already played more than 30k hands so here the graph for March:



Exactly where you see the redline going down thats where i started to taking shots at NL100,eventhough im doing good at NL100 i have to change some things ,because of the redline.
Do you guys have any explanation why is the redline linear playing NL50 and all of the sudden it goes down when im taking shots at bigger stakes?

RESULTS FOR MARCH:

• PROFIT: +1811 €
• RAKEBACK: 375 €
• HOURS PLAYED: 47
• HOURS STUDY: 3

BANKROLL: 4186€


PLANS FOR APRIL:

• PROFIT: 4000€ take a shot at NL200
• HOURS OF PLAY: 180
• HOURS OF STUDY: 25
• Post regularly here
• Start working out with my GF,we got a little gym at our terrace so use it !

PLANS FOR DECADE 1st-10th April:

• PROFIT: 1000€
• HOURS OF PLAY: 80 i want to start the month with more hours
• HOURS OF STUDY: 14 i need to start studying the game more if im thinking about taking shots at NL200

Im going to post some interesting hands soon to talk about it
Talk to you later
ciaoo

Mareccc90

GL I'll be following. How many tables do you play? And are you playing regular or zoom?

Im mixing, i would like to play only regular ,but since its just 4tables max thats not enough,but i found out that regular tables are much softer than zoom for sure.

Where do you guys study NLH these days? im member in runitonce and i kinda like the NLH videos there,but i was wondering what are the best options for you guys?
thanks for any recommendations

Today i had a very good day, i tried to play less tables today and concentrate more on the game and all the ranges.

graph from today



i finally kept the redline sort of linear ..i felt good about my play today and it ended up in winning some flips and bluffcatching in the right spots.
i will post some interesting hands later tomorrow.

ciao

Mareccc90

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You still playing Marecco? What happened in 2020?

Can some moderator delete this thread please? i wanna start new one and i dont want to have this in my history of threads, thank you very much.

Hi, i play in those 2/5 & 5/10+ games when Im in town which usually would be 4+ times a year but due to covid I havent been able to get to my home out there, whats the situation like Marbella, is the casino still closed? What are they saying about summer time?