Bit about me. Just got back into poker, had many great years being a recreational player during the Moneymaker era. Never taken poker serious until recently, however I did read HoH series when MTT's were the hype. I've started tracking my hands and with the limited time I have(1-2 hours a night 3-5 days a week) I've forced my self to practice good bankroll management and grind grind grind. I started with $100 and with more than enough 50 buyins for 2NL to be exact I started playing zoom mainly after a week or so In fullring after getting use to it again.

I play 2 Tables of zoom focusing on my game. Good thing about Zoom is you play around 200-250 hands per hour each table and my goal is to try and do 4000 hands per week.

Now onto some stats I'm willing to share to you guys. I've been contemplating moving up since I've hit my milestone of $150 but now that I'm on $200 I feel as if I am more than ready to go up and If i fail I can always grind it back up in 2NL. I've also taken some shots before contemplating this move up at 10NL and 5NL I feel I need to continue practicing good bankroll management and go with 5nl for now and I will evaluate once I've played 25k hands at 5NL. With this all in mind and my goal of playing full time 10NL by end of September this year should I move up officially ? (Y)(N)

First of all the graph from 2NL only both 6max and Full Ring.

+33 buyins so far in just over a month.

Postional 6max Stats


By stakes


My favourite bad beat so far.

tl;dr
but if this is your favorit bad beat to mention so far you should stay a bit more at nl2

card0 true true. Just that it's the biggest pot I've played in 2NL to be fair.

In terms of winnings this is encouraging. This is a small sample but it's very likely that you crush 2nl. You should definitely move up and not waste too much time there. But without proper stats, we can't tell you anything else.

This beat is pretty standard however.

Move up. I would move back down though if your bankroll hits sit £140 or something similar.

Discipline is key

Looks good. Im halfway there, my graph looks almost like the first half of yours (i also had this break even start period before it got off)
When i played another 10k and mine looks like yours, i will surely be moving up.

My graph seems to be a bit more smooth so far though. I see some 10 buyin downs in your graph. Is there any tilt in those ?
Of course it is perfectly statistically possible without tilt, but it might be a factor and if it is, its something to think about.

Max 6 is my largest. mix of bad play/unlucky but normal variance when playing zoom.

I've had max of 5.5 buyin downswing no $20 downswing on my graph dunno what you're looking at.

I suppose i was looking moreso at the orange line which went down very nearly 10 buyins around the 8k hand mark and again between 11 and 14k.
The green one surely went down surely more than 6BI between 12 and 14k hands.

Anyway, sure it was a bit exaggerated. But it wasnt an attack in any way. Just mentioning it because myself i even notice that my 3bI downswings are not purely a result of bad luck. I dont know where we should draw the line and call something tilt. But there clearly is a difference in how i play one day to the other.

Some days i look at the river bets, at the player stats and i know by his stats that he is the player that would not have checked on the flop or turn with the hand that he is representing now on the river and thus can confidently conclude that he is bluffing. And on these good days, i do this purely rational and it works out.

Other days i dont do it that rational and just think more in the lines of `ah the ****er cant have it again` or `if i keep folding to bets like this, he can bluff me too easilly, i need to call sometimes`.

Clearly the latter are the days of downswings. I limit their size by closing the tables right away when i catch myself doing this non rational stuff It also starts happening when i play for more than 2 hours straight usually, so thats also when i need to end my sessions.

As said, it might just be pure variance for you, but i know it isnt for my even smaller swings. Thats why i mentioned it.

Orange line is just all in luck dw about it too much for example the sessions I lost 6 I won back all in one sitting plus more. I don't care about stop loss at 2nl nothing to worry when you have 50+ buyins(session goes for a min 1hr not recommended for beginners that learning game). I use no HUD, all my reads come from noting and watching interesting hands. No offence taken! love to talk poker especially river bets in micros and I find it's the trickiest to play.