How and why this challenge was made
Im 20 from Scotland, have a full time job, made my first deposit and playing for real money a few weeks before i turned 19, went from having no money no job at 18, didn’t have much qualifications from school it was horrible times, to finally getting a basic office job. First wage i made a small deposit on a poker/casino site to play poker. The first small downswing and i just went and dumped of the money in frustration. The following months pay i made 2 small deposits and managed to get of to a good start ran well and cashed out all the money i had ever deposited as soon as i could and a little more so i was playing with profit. I then played aggressive with my roll with a lot of confidence playing what i felt like playing and within a few weeks i had around $4000 in my account...fish on a major heater, i went from no money no job then within a couple of months i had $4000 online and money saved from my job, and i cashed out $2000 leaving me with 2k online and a couple of thousand in my bank, i had never had this amount of money to my name before and it all happened maybe a bit to quick for me and i thought “i will never be broke again..”. Anyway with my 2k roll online i tried not to but i did occasionally dabble in roulette like 2 or 3 spins at the end of a session of poker and no major loses, and then something i didn’t think i was capable of, thought i had more control of my self at the time but i busted by roll online within a few minutes of madness on roulette, i was still up a decent amount at the time from the site i thought but it was sick to throw away what i had online. i stopped playing on the site for a while and my savings in my bank was dwindling as it was a low paid job and slowly with other expensive i had at the time i soon found myself busto! blowing what i had left on a lads holiday last year!.
Throughout 2011 i was working full time a small wage and i became a serial depositor on stars started of me trying to run a roll up very fast as thats how i had in the past, so i deposited around $250 on stars jumped into playing $16+ sngs soon realised stars had much better players and there wasn’t too much fish compared to where i previously played on so busted it quickly. Then over time i had made a few small deposits maybe just $10 sometimes $100 and i would play for a while and ether break even for a spell then get frustrated and dump it, or i would hit a small downswing after consistently winning then dump it in frustration.
Im really really good and running up a roll consistently over a period of time then dumping it without cashing out therefore wasted all that time. Turns out iv deposited onto stars around $1200 in the last 18 months which has really effected my confidence and its a horrible monkey i want to get of my back!, i attempted to clear this a while ago started with $100 trying to turn it into $10,000 but i got it up to $1600 over a few months then dumped it off with out making cashouts, such a fish.
So iv since then found out im $1200 in the red on stars and want to cash out $1500 so can i get the monkey of my back and get on with my life. Im going to start of very small but make regular cashouts! Instead of trying to run up a roll really big then make one big cash out, im going to try and make around 5 or 6 small ones to try and clear this.
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The challenge
I am breaking this challenge into 5 stages, one reason is if i fail at stage 3 or 4 ill of still cashed out.
STAGE 1
Turn $10 to $200 then cash out $100
STAGE 2
With the remaining $100 turn it to $400 then cash out $200
STAGE 3
With the remaining $200 turn it to $600 then cash out $300
STAGE 4
Turn the $300 to $800 then cash out $400
STAGE 5
Turn the $400 to $1,000 then cash out $500
If i ever complete stage 5 i will of cashed out $1500 and be in the black on stars also leaving a roll online if i chose to play with after.
I will only stick to micro stake sngs for the duration of the challenge will stay away from all other tourys or cash games. I will start at the $0.10 360man turbos and play no higher than the 4.50 180's.
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Outside of poker
I will have some goals for fitness
Also planning on finding a 2nd job in my area
I also plan on leaving home this year will be potentially renting a property with two others later in the year, so i kinda of milestone in my life or whatever you wanna call it.
Might start to learn to drive, not a huge ambition of mine but we will see.
Could be going abroad this year
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I dont think ill start playing any poker until the start of June so no updates for a while but will try make a quick update every couple of days and put up graphs once a week.