134th time is the charm! NEW!! Cash game challenge to be finished by a strong 5 digit tournament WIN

Week 1 goalZ
Limit: NL2
Volume: 30k hands
Results: BE +-0BB/100
Study: Minimize preflop mistakes, go over NoBS-6max, PF Bible etc.
Activity: learn/remember how to post hands and other content on blog

GL @ the tables

Good luck with the grind !

Why do you start at NL2 with that Bankroll ?

Originally posted by AgapieGheorghe
Why do you start at NL2 with that Bankroll ?

Hi, thanks!
This is a warm up, plus i want to have a positive bb/100 on a 100k sample on NL2

Originally posted by nmilan84

Originally posted by AgapieGheorghe
Why do you start at NL2 with that Bankroll ?

Hi, thanks!
This is a warm up, plus i want to have a positive bb/100 on a 100k sample on NL2

I hope you get really warm really fast!

I find that when I play NL2 it is hard to make good choices, because I just don't care enough.
We're not supposed to be results oriented, but it is necessary to be somewhat interested.

Doyle Brunson said in one of his books, "You must want to win, but not care if you lose".
I'm not entirely sure about that. You must care enough.

Best of luck climbing the ladder...
Cheers,
VS

Originally posted by VorpalF2F

Spoiler

Originally posted by nmilan84

Originally posted by AgapieGheorghe
Why do you start at NL2 with that Bankroll ?

Hi, thanks!
This is a warm up, plus i want to have a positive bb/100 on a 100k sample on NL2

I hope you get really warm really fast!

I find that when I play NL2 it is hard to make good choices, because I just don't care enough.
We're not supposed to be results oriented, but it is necessary to be somewhat interested.

Doyle Brunson said in one of his books, "You must want to win, but not care if you lose".
I'm not entirely sure about that. You must care enough.

Best of luck climbing the ladder...
Cheers,
VS

Yeah sure, last week was a definite eye opener.
after 6 months+ on NL5-NL10, dropping down to NL2 was just
Multi tabling 8-12 tables was impossible, as all the decisions villains are making were instant, and I had no time to react, table select, mark, note etc. It was just an auto mode with lots of loose calls, rushed moves, misclicks.
I am very well rolled for NL5-NL10, and will just admit that NL2 is not beatable for me

Week 1 results
Limit: NL2
Volume: 4234 hands
Results: -12.18 BB/100
Study: Minimize preflop mistakes, go over NoBS-6max, PF Bible etc.
Activity: learn/remember how to post hands and other content on blog
MTTs: +259.35$
BR: 499$

About the MTT profit.
I got a ticket from GG on friday for a 25$ Omaholic tournament. Havent played Omaha since 2019., so went trough basic stuff, ebook, notes (as I was in a CFP program on Omaha as well), got prepared, but got out coinflipping bad, pretty fast. They just gave me the ticket to help me remember how addictive omaha is so on sunday played a sat to Omaha Millions bounty and managed to enter as well as survive day1 (w/o any bounties earned), sat at day2 w 8BB and flipped good first hand. Waited until bubble, and busted first hand after cashing

Hi man,
Looking out to see your improvement, gonna follow you blog!

Sometimes its good to wait out the bubble, even when you have prem hands like AKo/QQ, just fold them

GL on the tables

Originally posted by nmilan84
Yeah sure, last week was a definite eye opener.
after 6 months+ on NL5-NL10, dropping down to NL2 was just
Multi tabling 8-12 tables was impossible, as all the decisions villains are making were instant, and I had no time to react, table select, mark, note etc. It was just an auto mode with lots of loose calls, rushed moves, misclicks.
I am very well rolled for NL5-NL10, and will just admit that NL2 is not beatable for me
I used to be able to play 8 double-or-nothing STTs on Party without much trouble, since they're basically fold-fests, but any other game, where you have to actually pay attention to players, yeah, 8 is next to impossible. I find that now the quality of play suffers greatly if I try to play more than 4 tables cash at once.

As for opponents making their decisions too fast I suggest setting the pace yourself. Take the full decision time allowed whenever possible.
This works even better if there are some players who actually get annoyed by this. Annoyed opponents are +EV

Cheers,
VS

Originally posted by VorpalF2F

Spoiler

Originally posted by nmilan84
Yeah sure, last week was a definite eye opener.
after 6 months+ on NL5-NL10, dropping down to NL2 was just
Multi tabling 8-12 tables was impossible, as all the decisions villains are making were instant, and I had no time to react, table select, mark, note etc. It was just an auto mode with lots of loose calls, rushed moves, misclicks.
I am very well rolled for NL5-NL10, and will just admit that NL2 is not beatable for me

I used to be able to play 8 double-or-nothing STTs on Party without much trouble, since they're basically fold-fests, but any other game, where you have to actually pay attention to players, yeah, 8 is next to impossible. I find that now the quality of play suffers greatly if I try to play more than 4 tables cash at once.

As for opponents making their decisions too fast I suggest setting the pace yourself. Take the full decision time allowed whenever possible.
This works even better if there are some players who actually get annoyed by this. Annoyed opponents are +EV

Cheers,
VS

Yeah those guys that keep hitting sleep emoji while I'm on another table, seen plenty of them, funny people

Week 2 results
Limit: NL5
Volume: 5095 hands
Results: -4.15/100
BR: 396$
Notes: Only a single playing day! Terrible time management, also spewed some $ on MTTs

Week 3 results
Limit: NL5
Volume: 10943 hands
Results: +10.27bb/100
BR: 485$
Notes: Three days played, but not full time, results are getting better

Week 4 results
Limit: NL5
Volume: 2864 hands
Results: +6.63bb/100
BR: 494$
Notes: Only one playing day, spent most of the week cooling off on the lake

Even for one day that is not bad.
How many tables do you play?

Originally posted by VorpalF2F
Even for one day that is not bad.
How many tables do you play?

I normally play 8-12 tables.
So this is like a 2 1/2 hour session for the whole week and that is pretty bad.

As for your comment in the report thread:
I live in Belgrade, capital of Serbia. It lays on two rivers Sava and Danube. And river Sava forms a lake on one point and a peninsula that we call Ada Ciganlija. So it takes us 15min walk to the boat that takes us across the river to the peninsula where we stay on the lake for the whole day swimming and cooling off on these high temperatures (35C to 38C in Belgrade these days).
And we use every opportunity to go there and relax.

Sounds nice!
I've never lived that close to water.
At best it was a half-hour walk away -- and that was cold ocean.

Cheers,
VS

Hi , nice blog ! nice challenge .

i have something similar too

:f_thumbsup::f_thumbsup:

Week 5 results
Limit: NL5
Volume: 971hands
Results: +3.25bb/100
BR: 732$
Notes: Terrible volume, even worse than last week, however I played Omaholic tournaments whole weekend, managed to enter trough satellites day 1 of ME for three times, finally lasting out on the third one to progress to day 2. Started very good got to half a million chips stack, but its Omaha and I just didn't flip that good.

Originally posted by aafrancis
Hi , nice blog ! nice challenge .

i have something similar too

:f_thumbsup::f_thumbsup:

Hi, welcome.

Thank you, will follow your progress also.

GL @ the tables