Nice post.

I currently am able to play on level 2 but I am only a small stakes player who started 3 months ago.

I find a lot of what you say applies to me. I am totally robotic while 5-6 tabling and I hardly think anymore. The only time I will stop and think is when my opponent's betting pattern doesn't make sense, or I am put into a tough decision by my opponent, which is like once every 10-20 minutes after a few hundred hands.

At these stakes I rarely make a mistake. It's hard for the small stakes players to even bluff me because they bluff scared, or they don't pay attention to how they played out their own hand. Nor do they pay attention to how their image is on the table.

Im not sure if it is time to increase it to level 3 yet. I do not think about what my opponent thinks I have, because most of the time with small stakes, they are still playing level 1.