Hello everyone, to be honest I really do not know how to start this post so I told myself to just start typing and hopefully things would come naturally, so here we are. I suppose a introduction is in order; I would consider myself a poker pro, although there always seems to be a debate on what that actually means. I currently play mid to highstakes online (500-1knl), mostly on Bovada and Global. I made a twoplustwo account for pretty much only two reasons and that is accountability and mindset. I feel as if posting my goals and progress on a public forum can help me stay motivated, and also keep an open mind towards new ideas. Although I do not know any of you, I hope to soon in the coming weeks and months.

In regards to my goals I think its best to split them up in to short term and long term.
Long Term
Beat 2knl
Work on defining and simplifying my strategy

Short Term
10k hands this week
14 hours studying. This week mainly BTN vs BB SRP, after all this is the most common spot in poker (perhaps some hand review or random spots I felt uncomfortable).

How come I havent already accomplished my long term goals? Honestly I think it is mostly a consequence of ego. I am only 22 years old and I rose up in stakes fairly quickly, but when discussing strategy I was close minded, I think this is the main reason for my stagnation. I recently challenged myself to think of one spot - one board - vs any positions - SRP, 3BP or 4BP where I knew what to do with my entire range; and to be honest there werent many of those spots. This mental exercise really brought me back down to earth. Sure I have gotten a lot better over the past 4 years but I still have a long ways to go.

If you made it this far, thank you so much for reading. The plan is to post weekly updates on goals and also graphs and results.

Hello, Khurizma!
Welcome to 2p2.

Recently, there are not many players playing high stakes on the forum.
It is interesting to know about your way to nl1k.

How did you learn, what BRM did you follow and how long did it take?

Good luck!

Hello, firstly thank you for taking the time to read and respond to my post.

1. Im a big believer that the most effective and efficient way to learn is to get a coach. There is a lot of noise in the poker community, and I feel like the best way to bypass all the distractions is to have a small group to study with and a mentor/coach to learn from. At least thats the approach I took and it has worked out well.

2. As far as bankroll management, it is important to be honest with yourself about your win rate in the games you are playing. Once you have a decent idea of your winrate you can plug the numbers in to a variance calculator to see how many buy ins it suggests (https://www.primedope.com/poker-variance-calculator/). As for myself, I started out on stake so I took a pretty aggressive approach. My rule of thumb was once I had 20 buyins for the next stake I would move up (ex. If i was playing 100NL and got my bankroll to 4k I would move up to 200NL) and if/when I lost 10 buyins at the new stake I would move back down (once my bankroll hit $2000 again I would move back down to 100NL). Basically just keeping 20 buyins for the stake I was playing. For the record I would definitely advocate for a less aggressive approach maybe in the neighborhood of 40 BI.

3. To be honest the timeline of me moving up stakes is kind of unclear. I started at 50NL on stake with a coach about 2 years ago, and honestly had a pretty slow start; I had some big mental blocks in the beginning. At this time most of my volume was on globalpoker so I was game selecting really hard and moved up fairly quickly once I got into a groove. I started playing on bovada once I reached 500NL and got off stake. Also had some live tournament scores which propelled me pretty fast.

Again thank you for the response.

hey, good luck with your goals! sick results so far! got any cool graphs?
22 is a great age to pursue dreams!

Thank you for the response too

I also think that hiring a coach is the fastest and cheapest way to start making money in terms of money/time ratio.
Many players have been stuck on the spot for years, absorbing tons of chaotic and unstructured information from the network.

Hello Everyone!

Firstly, I would like to apologize for being a few days late with the weekly update (not a good start )

Below is my graph from last week. The graph is mostly 500NL on Bovada with a couple ACR sessions mixed in.


I feel as if I accomplished a lot this week not only in terms of volume and results but more importantly just getting better. I focuses on mainly BTN vs BB SRP; specifically on flop floats and x/r and I think I made a lot of progress.

Looking to accomplish the same goals for this week in terms of volume and study time. Also still want to focus on BTN vs BB perhaps for IP this week.

If you read this far thank you so much <3