Hello,
My name is Asj Taylor, 21 year old grinder from New Zealand, known in the online poker world as Asjbaaaf. I have been a decent winner in mid/highstakes mtt's in the last 2 years. (edit: if anyone is curious my first name is pronounced similar to "Ash" with a tiny bit of emphasis on the J at the end.)

I have to decided to set a challenge for myself in which I will start with very few resources and attempt to work my way back to the top.

Here is a graph to show my lifetime results. these are across pokerstars and FTP, with the majority of the volume being MTT's apart from when I was a breakeven STT player for the first 13000 games.



The challenge: To start with $4.20 USD in my pokerstars account and run it up as far as I can. I also have 222 FPPs which I will use to play microstake sattelites and farm $T.
For starters I will play 100% of my volume on pokerstars, playing microstake SNG's and as I mentioned above FPP sattelites (potentially some freeroll mtt's aswell). As I progress I will add Micro MTT's and eventually venture over to FTP to play some of the games on there.

Why am I doing this:
Boredom, mixing things up, i've always wanted to do something like this.

One of the main excuses I hear from recreational players or not so successful regulars is that "They've never had the roll for it" or "never had that one win to start them off". I hope that if this challenge shows even one person how ridiculous these claims are it will have a positive impact.

I also would like to make some changes to my non-poker schedule and think that combining these 2 changes at once will be positive.

I'm nowhere near busto and neither am i looking to make bets on this challenge.

Starting:
I will likely start this challenge sometime over the next few days. At the start of my first session I will make a post to make a "start point" for future reference. I will do semi regular updates.
The only real end goal is to have a decent bankroll to grind WCOOP in september from this challenge.

here is a screenshot to show my starting balances (note I have kept a bit in my cashier in euros as I have a horse for low-midstakes mtts. I will use these funds for his transfers only.)



And my sharkscope is officialy reset to 0 games ready to start a new journey. I will likely unlock it eventually but I'm super interested to see how long it takes for me to progress.

In the case i go bust (i don't think its very likely but i guess it could happen) i will likely just start again at least a couple of times.

cheers for your interest and let the games begin

Gl dude subbed

Wait, you're doing what?! I've seen you around a fair bit at the tables so I'm surprised that you're just ditching the midstakes. I can only assume it's not your sole income.

Will be following. Should be very interesting. What BRM will you be using for when you start playing purely MTTs?

Also, gotta ask, why $4.20?

glgl op

Your assumption is correct.

I have never been a big fan of setting a strict BRM and prefer to just go by feel. I will likely starting playing $1 and under mtts fairly quickly and just slowly move up as I bink some stuff.

I think the question answers itself :P

edit: on serious note I actually used to do **** similar to this before I was a professional. I would start at $5 which was 50 buyins for 10c 360 mans and see where I would end up. $4.20 seemed more appropriate though

In for the 4.20. Shoulda posted at 4:20 tho!

Lol glgl a roll decent enough to grind wcoops by september is quite the challenge

gl! subbed

Good luck man. Interesting challenge: I will follow ya for sure

I reckon starting from $420 would've been tough to grind up a WCOOP roll so this should be pretty fun.

Gl, sounds like a fun challenge!

thanks for the support. i am starting my first session now (6.30am NZT 23rd May)

gl will be following this

gl cool challenge.

GLGL

I don't get why $4.20. I'm not a cool kid. I basically still think tree fiddy is new and fresh.

GL with the challenge!

gl will follow along

gl baaf

Very cool, subbed. GL, Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaf

Very nice sir, gl and im gonna follow you!!!

Please help me understand why with your skills and poker's limited lifespan you opt to waste half a year of your life on a silly challenge like this instead of focusing on setting yourself up for life? Unless you're a trustfund baby I really don't see the point.

And to all the guys saying, interesting challenge etc, it has been done before on multiple occasions in all kinds of different ways. Epic waste of time and skill

Agree 100%. Sure it's cool to say "I turned 4$ into 10,000$! I'm the best!", but when you're crushing as hard as OP it really does seem like a waste of time/talent.

good luck man, subbed. What time you going to be grinding now? still early morning NZ?