Hey 2+2 Community,

My name is Jonas I am 20 years old and a student at the sports University of Cologne!
I have been playing MTTs (mainly on stars and 888) during 2015/2016 and since I had almost no expenses it left me with a profit of almost 40K USD after 1.5 years, starting from 4-5 100$ deposits after busting the first couple of rolls and then introducing decent BRM. For me that is a lot of money but not enough to turn a professional therefore I made the hard decision to withdraw almost my whole Bankroll and started to go to university October 2016! After some month without Poker I realised that and focusing only on university doesn´t fulfil me! – I love to grind, no matter if it is 2NL or 200NL.
I decided to set myself a goal to 10x my Bankroll in 2017! That means to make 13.5k (1.5k -> 15k) playing cash only!

I decided to switch from MTTs to cash for various reasons:
- I am more flexible, means I can grind for 2h at the evening not risking to stay up all night as it might be the case when running deep in a tournament
- I can focus on my game much faster and more effective than in MTTs
- I can play live cash with a much smoother transition once I am rolled for 1/3 cash games.
I am not sure yet about the volume I can afford to grind per week regarding university and social life but I hope to put in about 1K hands on average per day probably about 4K on weekend and 3K during the week in order for the challenge to be realistic. I will play Zoom Poker only (two tables, adding a third when I feel good about my game!)

Bankrollmanagement:
Regular Grind: 600$ - 10NL
Shot: 720$ - 16 NL
Regular Grind: 960$ - 16NL
Shot: 1125$ - 25 NL
Regular Grind: 1500$ - 25NL <- I start with 1,5K USD on PS
Shot: 2250$ - 50 NL
Regular Grind: 3000$ - 50NL
Shot: 4500$ - 100 NL
Regular Grind: 6000$ - 100NL
Shot: 6000$ - 200 NL
Regular Grind: 12000$ - 200NL

I decided to start taking Shots once I have 45 BI of the Stakes I shot (eg. 100NL shots at 4500$ (=45BI)) this is very conservative and I might loosen up once I put enough work in my game to be confident to do so!
I want to review hands before every session (realistically about 10 min) and put work in my game whenever possible! I am pretty sure I can beat 25NL but will still put in the work needed to do so if not.

GOALS 2017:

- Crush university
- Keep social life where it was 2016

POKER GOALS:

- Reach 3K
- Reach 10K // Play live cash
- Reach 15K
- Study as 10 min before every session, 1h/weekend

Challenge starts on the 03.01.2017, I will hopefully play up to 30k hands until university restarts the 09.01.2017! This thread is going to be updated after every +/- 2 BI session, or every 5k hands! Moreover I will post a graph once a week or after interesting sessions!

See you at the tables- Jonas

Actually started the challenge right away and played 2.3k 25NL hands.
Session went alright, won 88$ peaked at 151$ then got it in bad twice and lost to stacks back but saved the hands for review

Current BR is at 1590.07$

going to get some sleep and hopefully go hard in da paint tomorrow! <3

Getting a good feeling how the overall player-pool plays! session went alright, put in the volume and peaked at 227$ profit, however played bad the last 30 mins and lost 3 stacks! have to fix the weakness of not quitting at the right moment! Overall feeling very well about my game and I think 25NL is defiantly beatable for me! Getting some sleep now and keep grinding tomorrow

current BR at 1711$

Felt good about my game the last two days so i decided to take shot and get a feeling for 50NL. This was a very bad decision, lost 180$ and decided to the most +ev decision is to stop! so i am basically back where I started to days ago but with more knowledge about how I have to approach the challenge...

will go back to 25NL tonight and hopefully grind back up some of the money..
moreover I have decided that the conservative shot taking is probably better for my mindset since a losing session like this one is worse than not moving up as fast as it might be possible with more aggressive shot taking strategy!

Going to get some stuff for university done and be back in the 25NL Zoompool tonight

current BR at 1515$

GL, subbed! Good job on stopping after losing $180 at 50z.