Hey all, this is Ben, born in Australia and living in Switzerland since I was little. I've been playing poker for over 8 years, just about only MTT, made about 90K online having a 17$ ABI. Due to a great time these traveling these last 5 months after taking out most of my BR and also running a small (but good) stable, I've decided to start anew and challenge myself to something new. I'm willing to start with 350$, start with 2.50/180s and 3.5/45s until I reach 500$, then will add 5$ PKO and slowly add 1.50r sats and 3r/180s once I reach 1K$. At this stage I will also start adding MTTs up to 10$ on various sites. But this is all in the future so for now here are the goals for this month, starting today:

Pokerwise:

() play >1K games
() reach goldstar
() make 500$
() review at least 10 full games

Real life:

() run 80km in July
() eat healthy
() 2 HIIT training per week
() 2 strength workout per week

Let's gooo!

Day 1 is over, played 76 games yesterday and it went well:



We're now 22.5% into the month and I played 7.6% of the games I want to be playing this month. Having started on the 6th I'm not too worried about it. Should be able to get the count to 300 by the end of this week hopefully.
Will put in a small session this afternoon and another one later on tonight so I can do some sport in between even though it's ridiculously warm outside again today.

Let's do it!

Day 2 is in the books. Played 2 sessions and put in 114 games. Played too many tables (up to 25) and my computer was lagging like crazy so that didn't go too well. Still manage a small profit of 54.49$ but will have to keep the multitabling under 20 in the close future. Also got a nice run yesterday of 10K in the midday sun which wasn't optimal but still nice. Also did a strength workout this morning so I'm about on track for my goals.

Total count since challenge started: 190
Total profit/loss: +238$ (228$ winnings and 10$ RB)

Won't be playing today as I'm off to a bbq and meeting friends, but will put in another session tomorrow.

Goal until sunday: () 400 games, one HIIT session and at least 10K running

Following, gl!

Awesome I'm exactly where you are with my current bankroll. Will be following!

Played a session last night so that was day #3. Put in 43 games over 3 hours, ran well in the beginning and not so good towards the end, but all in all an OK session (+14.3$). I will put in another session tonight and another couple this weekend to get the count to 400 for the week, which would be a good boost towards playing 1000 this month. So for now here we are:

Total count since start: 232 games
Total profit/loss: +252$ (242 winnings and 10 RB)

Still have the same goals before sunday, let's do this!

Thanks mate, GL to you too!

Hope you do well with that small BR and thank you!

Day #4 was rough. Been getting stacks then running like absolute crap in the late game. Think I played well so not too worried about that. I played 51 games and lost 102$:



I'm going to go for a nice run this morning, get some food and grind a 100 games in the afternoon, I'll also grind my fpps playing sats and hopefully making some money out of that. After that I'll either go out tonight to see friends or put in another session, depending on what's on offer I won't update before our weekly update on Monday but this is where we are for now:

Total count since start: 283 games
Total profit/loss: +150$ 140$ winnings +10 RB

I hope to make it to 400 games by sunday before starting a new week and celebrating my gf's birthday on Monday and put in another 300 games or so next week. If I reach 700$ I'll also add 7$/45s which I think I like and if I reach 1000 I'll also add 3r/180s but that's for the future.

I also wanted to post a couple of hands but apparently forgot to save them, doh! So I'll post a couple next week.

GL to everyone grinding this weekend.

So that's it for the first week of this challenge and time for a little update:

I played 407 games so we're just on track with that (39% of the month done and 40.7% of the games played). Moneywise this first week was ok, though not perfect by any means. Think I ran decent but not overly good neither so here's hoping this week will see a nice upswing. For the time being I'm still just playing 2.5$/180s, 5$/90s PKO and 3.5$/45s, hope to be adding 7$/45s by the end of next week and hopefully get the average profit up a little. My computer's been having a few issues so I'll keep 20 tabling max for the time being until my computer gets better at multitabling. In real life I've been following most of my goals too so for the week it looks like this:

(X) 400 games
(X) on track for 80K running in July
(X) eat healthy
(failed) Reviews: done none till now since I put most of my time towards grinding, but still have time to review 10 before the end of the month.

Total count: 407 games
Total profit/loss since start: +227$ (217$ winnings + 10$ RB)

And for this coming week:

() 250 games
() 20% ROI
() start playing 7$/45s
() review at least 2 wins
() run 20K
() 1 HIIT session, 2 strength workouts

Let's do this people!

Nice progress in week 1! Hope week 2 is just as good