This should be fun to watch.

Good luck

Just finished up day-1

cliffs:
Registered ~5 hours, played ~80 games, Won an early 10c 360 man for $6.80 and then registered for $3 worth of MTT's. Made a run in the hot $0.55 getting 18th for a little under $10, would have been interesting if i had won that on day 1 of the challenge with $500 up top. Meanwhile i was pumping out volume in 10c 360s, 25c 45s, 25c 90 mans, 50c 180s and 50c 360s. I think I got heads up in 3 or 4 10c 360s throughout the day. I ended up 1 tabling the last 50c 360 man and took 2nd place for $24.30.



ending balances:
$45.48 USD
$1.38 T$
49.48 FPPs

Thanks mate. I am planning to be playing early morning (3am, maybe earlier) eventually. for the moment I will play a slightly later schedule and play shorter days than I normally would.

baaafin'

glgl

Ha gl with it

Nice. Gl with this!

Haha such a boss glgl sir im rly looking forward to following this vamooooooo baaaaf

day 2



today was swingy and didn't start off very well. managed to pull it back at the end with a win in a $1.50 18 man for $9 and a $6 score in $1 time tournament. Ended up down a bit overall.

tomorrow looks like a good day to be lowballin with the VIP freerolls. will prob play the supernova one but not count it towards this if i get a score as it seems kinda counter productive.

balances:
$33.57 USD
122 FPPs

Wow nice one, Asj! You've ran it up pretty well already. Keep it up.

Waste of time iyam these kind of challenges w/o prop bets.
But whatever makes you happy, will be following, gl!

God speed

looks like fun, gl buddy

tell me WHY

GL subbed

Think this is pretty pointless to say the least. You're a good player, from the look of your graph you were maybe playing a little over your limits or running bad? That shouldn't be the reason to start something like this, get staked or funds somehow and play the games you should be playing. If motivation is what you're searching for just take a look at all the poor people in the world and maybe give some of your winnings to charity or to your family to keep you motivated to win you shouldn't waste your potential with a challenge many have already done just my personal opinion, gl whatever you decide to do

As I stated in the OP funds are not a problem. SCOOP was not great which is the downswing near the end. It was not a big deal. I used my 2013 TLB prize aswell as selling action the MP to essentially freeroll the series. FWIW I regularly donate to local and online charities aswell as helping out family when they are in need.

Motivation is an issue, you are right here. Incorrect mindset, tilt control, lack of study, poor health choices, I can list 50 things that I am going to work on over the coming months that will have positive long term benefits.

Sure, it may be an in-optimal use of a small chunk of time. However I think this will be net positive experience.

The reason I did not want to place bets, is because if in 2 weeks time im sitting here grinding $2 180s or whatever and I realise that it is indeed a waste of time, and I am not gaining as much as I could otherwise be, I might just say ****it and deposit 20k and jump in some 109turbos or whatever it is the cool kids play.

sorry for walls of text, just my thoughts. edit: thankyou for the feedback/input also.

day 3 was another slight losing day. I will update bankroll etc after sunday prob.

Also, I am aware the idea is not original, and I drew inspiration from Chris Ferguson's $0 to $10k series from ages ago. Anyway, thats all i will write on that matter. nobody is forced to be here and I created the thread mainly as a way to track the progress for myself. If people want to follow along then that is great also. Is it so wrong to veer from optimality for a short period?

Not able to make a very long reply cause im typing from my phone but that was a very good post and after that, all I can say is you're focusing on the right things and seem to have figured out what to improve to improve your game and love for the game. Which basicly means living a balanced life. It sounds much easier than it is, but I still haven't figured it all out yet. Best of luck, will actually follow this thread

glgl OP!! Sub'd

Might be a real interesting thread, subbed, gl

baaaaaaaaaaf it's the softest grinding months skip the challenge for some other time and start grinding so much money to be made. another thing i notice u play almost always u gotta take some breaks, relax, socialize live life and nz is a beautiful country u should explore it cheers

u should come up to AKL next weekend for the NZ open, may be a bit more interesting than grinding those micros.. either way GL GL

Cool challenge Asj wish you the best of luck.

I also started the year pretty short on br sth like ~$400ish and playing really small.

That's how it's going so far:

End of day 4 (and im going to do a weekly graph after each sunday, so end of week 1)



today went well. i was down to about $15 after a couple of bad days. Started off only playing 10c 360s / 25c 45+90s and had a couple of nice scores to top up the bankroll.

I then started taking shots at 0.55c mtts and $1 time tournaments (these are great and low variance imo). I managed to get a $20 score in one of the time tournaments and outright won a 55cent 500cap MTT for $25ish.

Rest of my session I loaded up $1 mtts and under aswell as 50c 360s and 180s. Had some positive variance in the 180s with a couple of final tables.

Week 1 graph:


Was an interesting couple of days and it's definitely a different game down here. There are very few regulars (not sure if they are regulars or just really nitty fish sometimes) who seem to all have similar strategys of playing around 10% of hands regardless of position/blind level/stack size and then only continue after the flop if they hit strong.

I think that these players do not value information enough, and are focussed only on their wholecards. There are limitless sources of information on players that need to be used throughout a tournament/each hand, and the regulars at this level are struggling to use the majority of these information sources. They also struggle with bet sizing both post and preflop and do not value bet enough of the time and definitely need to work on shortstack shove/calling ranges.

The fish are just crazy in general, ranging from stats such as 90/10, 80/60, 50/25, anything really. They will never fold a pair or any kind of straight/flush draw, and often call 90% of their stack on the turn and then check fold rivers. These are the extreme majority of the playerbase.

bankrolls:
$67.31 USD
52.72 FPPs

Going to be an interesting week, plan to play $0.11c-$1 mtts and $3 and under time tournaments tomorrow aswell as mixing in a range of $1.50 and under SNGs.

GL with this! I'm also trying something similar at these buy-ins, although I'm not a previous higher-stakes boss! How many tables are you usually playing at once? How long are your sessions?