The idea...
Hey everybody. My name is Andrew. For no reason at all I decided to try a bankroll challenge wherein I make $10,000 profit on Global Poker without a deposit. If you're not familiar with Global Poker, they give little bits of real money ($0.25, $0.50 or $1 per day depending) away in cashier each day that you can claim for free. I grabbed $20 worth of their giveaway cash over a few weeks and decided to try and run it up to $10k playing HUSNGS.

Twitch.tv/andrewships
I'll be streaming the challenge grind on Twitch. I'm not familiar at all with Twitch or the streaming world really so I'll be learning that as I go.

As for this challenge - I plan to play 1-2 hours a day most days per week. I have to start at the $3 stake. If I bust I'll have to wait to reaccumulate free monies as the point is to not make a deposit. I'm not sure what my bankroll strategy will be but I'll have to be more aggro about moving up/down than advisable until I can get things going. I'll try to be on a regular schedule with the stream and make it usually start around 12pm central most days.


Some background
I've played poker since 2009 and I still play full time in 2021. I've played most formats of NLHE and have grinded HUSNGS primarily although I currently play 6m cash and live tournaments as well. In 2017 I final tabled the $2,620 Marathon event at WSOP and cashed for $92k. I coolered the **** out of people in that tournament and chipled the thing with less than 20 left but couldn't ship her home. Here's me tired and cold in the RIO during that event...


I live in Austin, TX and I'm a musician as well.

I play guitar in a metal band called Expander. We recorded our second full length album in Feb of 2020 right before the pandemic and cancelled a European tour in April 2020 that if we'd embarked on we likely would have been trapped in Europe for who knows how long....
http://expander.bandcamp.com

I play bass in a rock band with my brother (who also grinds poker and lives with me) called City of Ships. We've recorded 3 full length records and toured North America, Europe and Australia with this band.
http://cityofships.bandcamp.com

And I also have a solo ambient project that is synth/guitar music for chilling out. That project is called Cliffdiver and it's a recording project that I think of as a "no rules" music project. Longer songs with loose structure, no vocals or percussion. Imagine the Pure Moods compilations you'd see for sale on TV in the 90s...kind of.
http://cliffdiverambient.bandcamp.com

Outside of poker and music I try to cycle as much as possible. I currently ride a Marin Nicasio 2 pictured here:


I've got two pugs - a fawn named Bugg and a black one named Flick. Funny story about the dogs; Two of my best friends are Dan and Dillon Ott - great dudes and sick poker players. Dan Final tabled the Main Event in 2017 and got 2nd place. My partner Stephanie and I with our two pugs were all on the rail and the dogs made it in the ESPN coverage of the Main that year. Here's me holding Bugg on the rail.



I love drinking beer and I usually want it every single day but I've had some success making a rule of no drinking on weeknights so I'm gonna try to stick to that for a while. Unless it's an occasion...or I'm traveling...or I have a really bad day at poker...or a really sick day at poker.

Follow along if you'd be interested in this sort of thing. For now let's see if we can get this bankroll off the ground.

Results so far


tl;dr
- Gonna try and run a non deposit amount up to $10k on Global Poker.
- 32 y/o luddite will stream the attempt on Twitch whilst learning platform
- Loves pugs, guitar riffs, sad ambient music, bicycles, beers.

streaming now for an hour or so.

swinging 8 buyins at $3s is something i wasn't hoping would happen but wygd?

nice, GL! will check back in

GL cool challenge! I'd rather do like $100-$10k if I were you because almost everyone can put up $100 to try to start to grow their bankroll I guess, but it's definately cool to see you can do starting with nothing if you really want

This challenge should be doable if the games are still like they were when I was playing there, but don't know why you'd waste so many hours playing micros lol.

Anyway, good luck!

Thanks, dude. (My brother in the house yall^ )

Thanks for chiming in.

Yeah it's not about not having $100 to have a roll there. I just like the idea of starting from no deposit and running it up. I have no idea what to expect for how long this challenge will take. Depends on how I run in the beginning.

However I'll still be grinding $100 - 500nl 6m with the majority of my time, like I've been doing. Maybe I'll stream some of those sessions too as I get more comfortable with Twitch.

When I checked in you've rejammed A4o vs a minraise 17bb deep with villain flopping T-high trips sheesh that was a bummer. Interested how streaming HUSNGs will go, never seen anyone doing it.

Good luck for going from no deposit, it's quite nice Global poker have this. So much for the heart though, subscribed

Very interesting challenge, glgl!

Do you also play live cash or just online?

Thanks, guys!

I don't play live cash often but I go through stretches where I will.

Streaming now btw....bankroll barely hanging on lol

runnin so ragged all in so far



here's the whole challenge so far

streaming for a bit.

daily sesh


challenge all games

feeling myself get tilted in $3s because i want to move up so badly lol. interesting feelings i hadn't considered having. but regardless won 6 buyins today which is solid. right now i just really don't want to bust the bankroll because it might be 2-3 weeks before global gives out enough $ to keep going.

question: when should i shot take a few $8 husngs? that's the next highest stake. I'm thinking at br $50 i could shot it and if i lose 2 buyins go back down.

I think that's a sound plan you don't need a big BR for HUSNGs it'll just grow very slowly.

when u have 800 dollar u may play 8 dollar tournament

streaming now for an hour or so.

http://twitch.tv/andrewships

we hit a milestone today which was doubling the starting roll.

Well done, will definitely be following this along.

thanks for your thoughts. we're getting close to shotting

while it's good to have 100 buyin br for sngs...i think turbo husngs 30-50 buyins is plenty if your roi is 5% or better.

thanks so much! make sure you guys follow on Twitch if you haven't and you wanna get notifications for when we're playing.



we officially have a $50 bankroll without depositing.

we went on some heat in the $3s today. won 12 in a row. $19 starting br is now over $70.

Nice heater!

Are you planning to post some hands, too?

Global doesn't make the posting of hands convenient. Obviously discussing spots would be beneficial for many including myself but I'm not sure how to do it. Maybe I'll start multi streaming to youtube and just video timestamp any spots.

I'm motivated for this challenge and all but I have to leave the challenge and go for my normal grind each day so I can't spend forever obsessing about spots in $3s and $8s.

I'm thinking of moving the streams away from Twitch and over to YouTube. I think it'll be better because the challenge will get cataloged, we can discuss hand histories in the comments, and i can make other videos centered around the experience or any related subject.

where's that youtube link?

All of the streams will be available for replay on the youtube channel. Here's the link for today's stream. We took our first shot grinding the $8s today after profiting 20 buyins at the $3s. This video is just live play at the $8 level.

If you enjoy the video please like and subscribe to the channel as it's brand new and I could use the support.

Cheers everyone.