Bankroll Challenge: From $58.30 to either $10,000 or $0.00
02-20-2019
, 07:43 PM
Blubb Blubb, Everyone
Who am I?
I am Issy and I want to start a bankroll challenge. I am 23, from Holland and a uni student working on the last 6 months stretch of my study, I’ll have a crazy amount of downtime between now and September, so I need a dandy little challenge. I am for all intents and purpose a fish. When it comes to poker, I can’t say I’ve ever beaten it. I got lucky with variance a few times, but my game is ****. If I succeed, it will be the first time I’ll have 5 figures on my poker account and only the second time on my savings account. But enough about me, let’s get to the challenge.
The Challenge:
I want to turn $58.30 into $10,000 on Partypoker by August 31st. I will do so by mostly playing 6-max cash games, with occasional tournaments and sit and go’s for variation. I will skip 2NL and start short stacking at 5NL. I’ll play either 1-2 tables of fast forward or 4 tables of regular 6max.
Bankroll Management:
I will start out short stacking 0.02/0.05 with 50$ which would give me 20 BI. As I move up, I will increase the Bankroll requirement as I presume the players get better and the games tougher. I will take shots with short stacks. That way I can reduce the risk just a little and still get the necessary hands at the higher stake to improve and move up. I know it is highly unlikely that I’ll reach 100NL but below is my “planned” BRM requirements per stake. For tourney's and SNG’s it’ll be 50x BI.
My “Strategy”
Again, I am a fish, so this might seem ridiculous to some of you, but yes this is my thinking. I’ll use PokerSnowie’s opening range and I’ll try not to play too aggressive unless I have something and very few bluffs. As I get more hands on my opponents, and the necessary experience I’ll try to exploit them here and there, but as I said before I am a fish. So, it is to be seen how far my exploitation will go. I will try to analyse ALL of my hands in the first couple of days, the trickiest ones I’ll feed to my PokerSnowie trial. Later on, as the number of hands grows into the thousands, I’ll filter out the most obvious ones and only analyse the important hands.
The only tools I’ll will be using are Pokersnowie (Trial and Preflop Advisor) and a Holdem Manager 2 trial.
Anti-Tilt:
I will try to limit sessions to bursts of max 45 minutes with a timer. I think this will allow me to concentration on the task at hand and not doing anything stupid. As I move up I might do away with this, but early on I will try to follow this. In my experience people focus best for up to 45 minutes after which they lose productivity. This will also reduce tilt, I also intend to take longer breaks after 4 BI+ loses. I also won’t drink or smoke anything while playing.
Extra
I would ideally like to play a minimum of 4 hours a day spread out over various smaller sessions. With a part of that time being dedicated to studying.
Tho I also understand with my position and experience $0.00 is closer than $10.000
I already started today and I will post an update tomorrow, once I reach 1000 hands, Wish me luck!
Who am I?
I am Issy and I want to start a bankroll challenge. I am 23, from Holland and a uni student working on the last 6 months stretch of my study, I’ll have a crazy amount of downtime between now and September, so I need a dandy little challenge. I am for all intents and purpose a fish. When it comes to poker, I can’t say I’ve ever beaten it. I got lucky with variance a few times, but my game is ****. If I succeed, it will be the first time I’ll have 5 figures on my poker account and only the second time on my savings account. But enough about me, let’s get to the challenge.
The Challenge:
I want to turn $58.30 into $10,000 on Partypoker by August 31st. I will do so by mostly playing 6-max cash games, with occasional tournaments and sit and go’s for variation. I will skip 2NL and start short stacking at 5NL. I’ll play either 1-2 tables of fast forward or 4 tables of regular 6max.
Bankroll Management:
I will start out short stacking 0.02/0.05 with 50$ which would give me 20 BI. As I move up, I will increase the Bankroll requirement as I presume the players get better and the games tougher. I will take shots with short stacks. That way I can reduce the risk just a little and still get the necessary hands at the higher stake to improve and move up. I know it is highly unlikely that I’ll reach 100NL but below is my “planned” BRM requirements per stake. For tourney's and SNG’s it’ll be 50x BI.
My “Strategy”
Again, I am a fish, so this might seem ridiculous to some of you, but yes this is my thinking. I’ll use PokerSnowie’s opening range and I’ll try not to play too aggressive unless I have something and very few bluffs. As I get more hands on my opponents, and the necessary experience I’ll try to exploit them here and there, but as I said before I am a fish. So, it is to be seen how far my exploitation will go. I will try to analyse ALL of my hands in the first couple of days, the trickiest ones I’ll feed to my PokerSnowie trial. Later on, as the number of hands grows into the thousands, I’ll filter out the most obvious ones and only analyse the important hands.
The only tools I’ll will be using are Pokersnowie (Trial and Preflop Advisor) and a Holdem Manager 2 trial.
Anti-Tilt:
I will try to limit sessions to bursts of max 45 minutes with a timer. I think this will allow me to concentration on the task at hand and not doing anything stupid. As I move up I might do away with this, but early on I will try to follow this. In my experience people focus best for up to 45 minutes after which they lose productivity. This will also reduce tilt, I also intend to take longer breaks after 4 BI+ loses. I also won’t drink or smoke anything while playing.
Extra
I would ideally like to play a minimum of 4 hours a day spread out over various smaller sessions. With a part of that time being dedicated to studying.
Tho I also understand with my position and experience $0.00 is closer than $10.000
I already started today and I will post an update tomorrow, once I reach 1000 hands, Wish me luck!
02-21-2019
, 03:53 PM
Day 1 is already an eyeopener for me. This is much tougher and more variance heavy then I hoped it would be. One thing is certain to me, there are few regs out there who have me as a fish in their notes.
Partypoker has “missions” for new players which are similar to Pokerstars' Challenges. One of them is named “Pocket Pairs” requires you to win with every pocket pair at showdown in descending order from Aces till deuces. So, trough out this day I was just trying to get the volume to achieve this goal as it would increase my bankroll by +- 50%.
In order to get it, I thought I'd just play a few hundred hands of fastforward which is Partypoker's zoom equivalent.
I barely got any of the pairs I need. I still need to get 99 - 22.
The New Plan:
I don't think i can beat 5NL Fastforward yet. So I have new Idea, I will withdraw my balance (68$) and redeposit it tomorrow so I can use a PartyPoker bonus code. The bonus code will grant me 100% up to $200 released by collecting PP points. This bonus code combined with the existing rake back and reward will allow me to put together a sizeable bankroll.
Value:
So I could potentially add to my bankroll
My initial $58 balance
The $10 5NL Fast Profits
My additional $32 deposit.
The 25$ I will be able to release from the Pocket Pairs mission
The 100$ I will get if I manage to release the bonus
at least $20 worth of Rakeback and maybe more depending on volume.
+ Any potential profit I'll make playing poker between now and next Wednesday
Studying and Beyond
For now I'll be trying to figure out how I can beat 5NL. I will analyze my hands and then back them up and start from scratch. I want a completely fresh outlook on this particular format of this particular game at this particular stake. I want my next graph to be nearly perfect. I also want to start at $100. I don't remember why I ever choose $58.30 as a starting point, but $100 makes much more sense. I will also reset my profit to $0 rather than commit to the mess of adding and subtracting numbers. So for my next post which will likely be Saturday or Sunday, I'll be back at 0.
Partypoker has “missions” for new players which are similar to Pokerstars' Challenges. One of them is named “Pocket Pairs” requires you to win with every pocket pair at showdown in descending order from Aces till deuces. So, trough out this day I was just trying to get the volume to achieve this goal as it would increase my bankroll by +- 50%.
In order to get it, I thought I'd just play a few hundred hands of fastforward which is Partypoker's zoom equivalent.
I barely got any of the pairs I need. I still need to get 99 - 22.
The New Plan:
I don't think i can beat 5NL Fastforward yet. So I have new Idea, I will withdraw my balance (68$) and redeposit it tomorrow so I can use a PartyPoker bonus code. The bonus code will grant me 100% up to $200 released by collecting PP points. This bonus code combined with the existing rake back and reward will allow me to put together a sizeable bankroll.
Value:
So I could potentially add to my bankroll
My initial $58 balance
The $10 5NL Fast Profits
My additional $32 deposit.
The 25$ I will be able to release from the Pocket Pairs mission
The 100$ I will get if I manage to release the bonus
at least $20 worth of Rakeback and maybe more depending on volume.
+ Any potential profit I'll make playing poker between now and next Wednesday
Studying and Beyond
For now I'll be trying to figure out how I can beat 5NL. I will analyze my hands and then back them up and start from scratch. I want a completely fresh outlook on this particular format of this particular game at this particular stake. I want my next graph to be nearly perfect. I also want to start at $100. I don't remember why I ever choose $58.30 as a starting point, but $100 makes much more sense. I will also reset my profit to $0 rather than commit to the mess of adding and subtracting numbers. So for my next post which will likely be Saturday or Sunday, I'll be back at 0.
Last edited by valiacus; 02-21-2019 at 04:05 PM.
