Hi! Instead of placing a bet on where you'll be, I'll respond to the fact that you posted this in the Learning Poker forum.
First of all, you don't have nearly enough hands to have meaningful stats on how you play.
More importantly, since you have a hand-tracker, post some of your big loss hands in detail (we have a forum for that!) and let's see what it is about your poker playing that makes you think you suck.
So my question to you is, are you serious about learning and improving your game?
Thanks for the response Nabmom. I am serious, and I can beat higher limit cash games, which is why I'm so baffled I can't beat $2NL.
I've actually recently bought a subscription to Ryan Laplante's LearnProPoker course to try and improve my game-- but he focuses mainly MTT's and I do want to improve both my cash and my tourney play.
I will post hand histories here soon for review since you suggested that! thanks for taking me seriously.
First congrats on making a buck on the streaming of stormers. It should boost your income for the micros. I play higher stakes. I had a buddy of mine bet i couldn't do the 0 to 1000 challenge so i took a while to get used to the software on ACR and even joined cc because of the lucrative free roll with limited players.
Its been rough start but winning cc free rolls wasnt a hard as i thought. I'm a cash player too. I find it difficult playing the 2nl because unless your willing to nit up your not going to win.
My biggest challenge is notes. I seem to never play against the same players. Good luck
If you mean they call to much on lower stakes - you don't have to nit it up. Just value-bet thinner.
First congrats on making a buck on the streaming of stormers. It should boost your income for the micros. I play higher stakes. I had a buddy of mine bet i couldn't do the 0 to 1000 challenge so i took a while to get used to the software on ACR and even joined cc because of the lucrative free roll with limited players.
Its been rough start but winning cc free rolls wasnt a hard as i thought. I'm a cash player too. I find it difficult playing the 2nl because unless your willing to nit up your not going to win.
My biggest challenge is notes. I seem to never play against the same players. Good luck
It’s hard to explain. The $2NL players in ACR are especially good. Mainly they are nitty with GTO like postflop ability.
You are playing 2cent NL, not $2NL. 2cNL should be the easiest of the micro stakes, and it's the highest limit I've played myself (and the lowest lol), and no, I am not profitable either, just close to breaking even at best. But I will never play higher stakes until (if ever) I achieve prolonged profitability at the 2cNL.
Its not necessarily true that its the easiest stake. Also depends on what site you are playing on. 25nl on some sites is easier that 2nl on others.
2nl is correct. It means 100bb buy-in is 2. Just like how .50/1 is called 100nl or nl100.
So $100/200NL is called $20,000NL?
yes or 20kNL
So $100/200NL is called $20,000NL? I personally never heard of that. Maybe that lingo was developed by some microstakes players who were ashamed to admit they were playing penny tables
Thanks for the response Nabmom. I am serious, and I can beat higher limit cash games, which is why I'm so baffled I can't beat $2NL.
I've actually recently bought a subscription to Ryan Laplante's LearnProPoker course to try and improve my game-- but he focuses mainly MTT's and I do want to improve both my cash and my tourney play.
I will post hand histories here soon for review since you suggested that! thanks for taking me seriously.
dude, Im telling you the 2nl on ACR has become very difficult even if you are an experienced players. Im amazed at the depth of knowledge of some of these players. $5NL is even tougher. The 2NL in my opinion is like playing 5/10 in Atlantic City. At least at those tables, you will find some fish.
Thanks for the response Nabmom. I am serious, and I can beat higher limit cash games, which is why I'm so baffled I can't beat $2NL.
I've actually recently bought a subscription to Ryan Laplante's LearnProPoker course to try and improve my game-- but he focuses mainly MTT's and I do want to improve both my cash and my tourney play.
I will post hand histories here soon for review since you suggested that! thanks for taking me seriously.
dude, Im telling you the 2nl on ACR has become very difficult even if you are an experienced players. Im amazed at the depth of knowledge of some of these players. $5NL is even tougher. The 2NL in my opinion is like playing 5/10 in Atlantic City. At least at those tables, you will find some fish.
if this is true why don't you only play higher stakes? why waste your time at 2nl?
I want to beat every limit for at least 10,000 hands, just sort of a personal goal. Trying to be disciplined but oddly enough I cannot beat $2NL.
ok but it makes no sense since in higher stakes games players are making a lot less mistakes
ive played 2nl on acr recently and the players are pretty bad and the games are good, the rake is crazy high though so it requires some adjustments from higher stakes you might not be making
plus as discussed earlier you are looking at tiny sample sizes, if you beat 2nl for 10k hands it means almost nothing in terms of your true winrate, if you beat it after 100k hands then you have a somewhat accurate picture of your winrate
Let me just get back to you after I've put in some decent volume. I don't disagree with you. Each stake level has its own nuances. Point is, I figured if I can beat higher stakes, that $2NL would feel like beating up on kindergarteners. But in my particular case, not really. I still have to try hard just to eek out 3bb/100.
I think my problem is that it's hard to get paid. You just have to accept taking down small pots. The $2NL players, in my experience on ACR, just play like nits. Predictable nits though. I just have to adjust to the nit style. It takes some losses to realize that the $2NL players always have it on the river if they're betting, versus higher limits where they start bluffing at more correct frequencies.