2 Months 2k - An Italian Adventure

Good luck

In bocca al lupo

Originally posted by matel17
Good luck

In bocca al lupo

Thank you, I'll need a lot of that But on the other hand, the waters are fishy - the average level on .it poker sites is lower than in the .coms.

While I'm waiting for Monday, I'm trying to refine my strategy. I might be able to 6-table instead of 4-table, and I will be observing very strict 25BI brm.

This means I'll start 6-tabling nl2 at 50eur, 6-tabling nl5 at 125eur, and mixing the stakes too. In other words, since

(125-50)/6 = 12.5

I will play one nl5 table for every 12.5 euros I have over 50 euros and drop down in the stakes immediately when needed, with no excuses (I'm usually good at that part).

It would be fun to make a side bet with users in the forum, but I have a hunch that this probably isn't allowed by PS (or is it?)

I'd also love to set the goal to reach platinum by September, but the challenge is already hard as it is

I'm just done playing a 1-hour session at nl2, 6-tabling, and I'm up 16eur (8 stacks). That's my personal record - ok ok, I've only played BBS for 4 days so far, maybe it's not that much of a record, but whatever :P.

Biggest hand was when I tripled up a 180bb stack: shoving trips on the turn at the 3rd spade on the board, getting called by flush and ace-high flush draw, lucky river gives me a boat which is good for my morale because I was running well below EV up to this point.

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Now my BR is up to 65.04eur and I according to my BRM can start adding a nl5 table. And the challenge hasn't even started yet! A good day

I mean, not even a day has passed by and you have already changed your requirments? Adding 6 tables instead of 4?

Nice work man...hope u succeed with u'r challenge.I`m playing BSS too ..nl5 on stars..but yeah .. more like massive multy tabling ♦ - 24 tables.Good luck mate!

Originally posted by nathanrenard
I mean, not even a day has passed by and you have already changed your requirments? Adding 6 tables instead of 4?

The requirements are not set in stone only because the challenge hasn't even started yet :). You have a point obv, and the requirements will obv be fixed once the challenge starts ♦, but I wrote them up a bit too quickly and more importantly, I didn't think I could 6-table on that room, but I found out I can (with some difficulty though, because the software isn't among the best!!).

Once the challenge starts, I'll update the first post with my definite requirements. For now though, I'm still changing things around That should be the only change though.

Originally posted by CryoGenic
Nice work man...hope u succeed with u'r challenge.I`m playing BSS too ..nl5 on stars..but yeah .. more like massive multy tabling ♦ - 24 tables.Good luck mate!

Thanks Massive multitabling can be good for a lot of things but I never really liked it, I prefer to concentrate on a hand and learn to extract max value. In these last few days for instance, I feel like I learned a few tricks to extract more value from calling stations than I thought was possible.

@outspan sure thing bro. Keep on' grinding.

@CryoGenic what's your screen name at stars? I'm moving up to NL5 pretty soon, might have to play some 24 tables at the same time against you.

Played only a short session (I had no time today) and I'm up to 70.43eur. The opponents' level on nl5 seems to be only marginally better than nl2 on the one table I played.

I also realized what my biggest leak so far is: once I'm doing something new (trying BSS for the first time, playing my first nl5 table, etc) and there's more money on the line than I'm used to, I tend to gamble too much, shoving a bit too light. I just lost 2 full nl5 stacks (10eur) that way, even though I was ahead and got 3-outed in the second one.

NOTE TO SELF: I have to remember that my edge is too big to just gamble and I should just fold AKs preflop if there's too much action in front of me. When I gamble I effectively LOSE money, because I lose the edge I have when I play postflop.

Ok, going out now

I managed to play another short session late this morning and I'm up to 83.26eur. Must be because it's Sunday but I could see little difference in the players' ability in nl2 vs nl5.

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My brm now allows me to play 2 nl5 tables and 4 nl2 tables. I will probably play another session before the challenge starts - would be nice to be able to start the challenge with 3 nl2 and 3 nl5 tables :).

Anyways, if this is the true level at nl5, I should have no problem to make the level up to nl10 soon. So far it's been easy money, let's see for how long this keeps going.

Played another session, the last one before starting my challenge, and I'm up to 90.82eur. I'm starting to love the low variance in BSS ♦

And for good measure, here's a video of my soon-to-be buddy Scrooge (man, the guy has an attitude problem!):

Good luck buddy:)

It's August 1st and I have exactly 90.82eur in my account. The objective: get to 2090.82 eur bu the end of September. Time to start grinding

Thought I should blog this... in the first day of the challenge, I reached 3 figures I have 101.43eur in my account, and now the poker site seems to have some temporary problem so I'll come back later for another short session.

The level at nl5 isn't quite as horrible as I had anticipated, but I still have a big edge because most villains play with their cards face up. I just haven't caught a lot of cards though, so I made most of my profit from the nl2 tables (where the level actually IS horrible).

Godd luck man, will be fallowing the blog

I could not login to the site for 2 days. Just played another session and was down to 90-ish but now I'm up to 119.03eur. On this site, I seem to costantly alternate between sessions of big bad beats and lots of luckboxing ;).

I'm considering adding 2 more days to the challenge, since I could not play for the last 2 days, but I'd rather not if I can avoid it. For now, I'm just going to keep track of it and I'll decide later on, depending on how things are going.

Now my BRM allows me to play 5 nl5 tables and one nl2 table... first level-up coming soon

I just had my best session yet! After a forced 2-day break, I'm now up to 148.74eur ♠_biggrin:

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As with this afternoon's session, I started bad (3-outed) but then recovered. Now my BRM allows me to play 5 nl5 tables and a nl10 table (!!) which I haven't tried yet. I knew I had an edge on these players but honestly, didn't expect to level up so soon!

I also set another record... at one point, I was sitting with 25.52eur on a nl5 table ♠_love: I will have to get used to play with 5x5 + 1x10 = 35eur on the table at a time... up to just a few weeks ago, playing sngs with a 100BI brm, the max I'd ever had on the table at any one time was 12eur.

Another session (after temp problems to my Internet connection) and I'm up to 179.45eur. Now I can play a mix of nl5 (4 tables) and nl10 (2 tables). Starting to see a couple of what seem to be regs at nl10, so things might get a bit tougher soon... so far though, it's been smooth sailing ♠_love:

I haven't been able to play cash these last few days. There is a problem across all .it sites in cash games. Cash was just introduced in Italy and is regulated by AAMS, which controls and supervises all transactions. However there is a problem with AAMS, with people sometimes losing their buy-ins as they sit on the table on every poker site except pokerstars.it.

The day after my last post I sat down and lost 30 euros that way. I know I'll eventually get the money back (I already have 20 back) but I'm not sure I want to keep playing on this particular site because it's too unreliable, so this challenge might end now. Meanwhile I've transfered 50eur on pokestars.it (where I can use HEM) and played a bit of NL2:

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Now I have to decide between a) modifying this challenge into "2k in 60 days of grinding" (which doesn't sound as appealing ♦) or b) start another BSS blog. I'll wait a few days for my last 10 eur to be refunded, play again on that site and see if the problems continue.