What percentage of poker cash game players can beat 2NL?

I don't know if you use a HUD. I use PokerTracker and there you can see the stats of the other players (for the hands you played with them) and i think that only about 5-7% of the players actually makes a profit.

bet most people couldnt beat 2NL, especially considering high micro stakes rake

I've been playing 2NL for about a month now (~10 hours per week) and I do think it is beatable, but I am playing without a hud, so I do much better when taking notes to help me remember regs vs. fish. I've chatted with a few people that play 5NL and their contention is that if you fix your leaks at 2NL you will be a much stronger player at 5NL.

Play tight bro: pre flop and post flop

Poker247 said:

I've been playing 2NL for about a month now (~10 hours per week) and I do think it is beatable, but I am playing without a hud, so I do much better when taking notes to help me remember regs vs. fish. I've chatted with a few people that play 5NL and their contention is that if you fix your leaks at 2NL you will be a much stronger player at 5NL.

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This is the stage I'm up to now. I currently have a 6bb/100 win rate at 2NL over 50k hands, the vast majority of which I played without a HUD, so I can safely say that I've beaten 2NL, but I'm getting absolutely slaughtered at 5NL (-33bb/100 win rate over 5k hands). I think I need to accept that even though I've beaten 2NL, I still have a lot of leaks that need fixing before I can hope to beat 5NL.

TeUnit said:

bet most people couldnt beat 2NL, especially considering high micro stakes rake

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I agree with this. It's not enough to be above average and expect to win. You have to be sufficiently above average to be able to beat the rake.

Matthew Southall said:

This is the stage I'm up to now. I currently have a 6bb/100 win rate at 2NL over 50k hands, the vast majority of which I played without a HUD, so I can safely say that I've beaten 2NL, but I'm getting absolutely slaughtered at 5NL (-33bb/100 win rate over 5k hands). I think I need to accept that even though I've beaten 2NL, I still have a lot of leaks that need fixing before I can hope to beat 5NL.

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If i look at blackrain's post, and i believe him, you really crush 2NL when you have a winrate over 20bb/100 for 2NL. i think that 6bb is the start of good play . I had about 11bb/100 on 2NLzoom and i'm still getting crushed at 5NL.

http://www.blackrain79.com/2014/06/good-win-rates-for-micro-and-small_6.html

NL2: 40bb/100
NL5: 26bb/100
NL10: 18bb/100