Hello everyone,

I'm an italian 26 years old guy who recently joined the essential membership program of RIO.

This thread is for who wants to follow my poker journey and share ideas, suggestions and anything that could help me in achieving my poker goal for 2020 / 2021: climbing the cash game stakes starting to NL5 Zoom.

Brief introduction:
I've playing poker since I was 18 with decent results (both cash and MTTs). I decided (and I'm excited about it) to focus only in cash game from some months and I easily beated the micros (Ipoker, normal table NL2 - NL5, 10bb/100 over 50k h).
Poker in Italy is not very attractive because the poker field is restricted to italian people and the only platform offering Zoom Poker with decent traffic is Pokerstars. I know that PS offer no rakeback, but I have a full time job and limited time for poker so I need to play this format to increase the hourly number of hands played.
Zoom Poker in Pokerstars.IT runs with decent traffic until NL50, so my goal is to get there as soon as possible and to beat the level (that's why I will try an aggressive bankroll approach at NL5 and NL10).

Approach to the goal*
Starting with a roll of 30 stacks at NL5 (150€), I'm committed to:
- play a range of 25 - 30k hands per month
- as soon as I get 300€, try NL10 with the five stacks rule
- as soon as I get to 1000-1250€, try out NL25
- play NL50 only when I've beated NL25 with a decent sample

Commitment rules*
During the challenge, I'm commited to:
- post here an update at least once every two week
- regularly post hands in forum
- dedicate at least 20% of poker time to study and improve my game (hands reviews, RIO videos)

I'm very interested in grous of fellow players who wants to review hands, share ideas and help each other, so in case you're looking for something similar just PM me.

Thanks in advance for anyone who will support me in this journey and see you in two weeks for the first results of the challenge!