Hey mate, love your updates
i have some quick questions about BPC since you've tried it but i want someone with experience like yourself instead of their sponsors to answer:

1: When you did quit, did they take your secure deposit?
2: Do they take half of your profit until you finish the challenge?
3: You said you quit after nl10 because their requirement change after, what do you mean? Like is it harder to complete the hours or..?
4: Do you really have a personal coach which who skype or is it like an hour per month?
5: Can you already have an account with a poker room when you join BPC or you have to create an account through them?

Thanks for your time mate and gl for your challenge! will be following

As you can see a little swingy, but the games are good. I need to play a little more focused and try to add a few more tables if possible. I'm about 4 hours away from receiving my €150 cash bonus which will help.

A few plays today

Kansas St. -3

OK St. off a big win now playing on the road against a divisional opponent. Let down spot.

Arkansas +3.5

Florida are in the same situation against Arkansas here.

*Play from yesterday- Memphis -3

I've got work in a bit, but if I see Spurs at -4 I'll have to take them.

Hey man

1) Yes if you do not finish your contract they will not give your security deposit back.

2)Yes they take half of your profit until the contract is complete. You do get coaching, but this makes it really hard to move up.

3)So basically at 10NL you are allowed to "apply" to participate in the intermediate group. There are a few requirements. You must meet 5 of them. Play 160+ hours a week, have a high database score from the report they send you, make €500, have €300 from profits, Play a certain amount of hands. It was hard for me to hit €500 when I had to pay them my profits, even though I would increase my BR with my own work money. I was crushing 4NL, but they wouldn't let me move up until I met the requirements. I didn't feel like wasting time and so I left.

4) No you do not get a personal coach at the beginner's level. You can attend group coaching sessions in which you post hands and they will review your hands you post. You can only post like 5 hands or so though. So basically no coaching in the beginner's group, just videos to watch.

5)Yes you can already have a poker account. I do not recommend signing up thru them as your affiliate. If you sign up thru them you lose out on rake races etc. Also, once you leave or finish BPC you can never get the rake races back as BPC will not let go of you and just take your rake for free.

Damn, they sure get a lot of money from students! Hardest part from micros i think is to move up to run away from the rake and it would be hard by giving half of your profit for coaching, i think it's better to pay a personal coach on the side!

Thank you for your kind answer, and good luck with your challenge will be following!

Joker- Yea man I definitely recommend taking the amount for the security deposit and getting a coach for 5-10 sessions instead. Much more beneficial. Good Luck!

Sorry guys I wasn't able to update my plays today for NFL. I'm on that poker grind at the moment. Good news to come for tomorrow though. Anyway I basically broke even at 4-4. Two plays for tonight.

NFL Raiders pk

Going back over the season almost all Sunday night winners were home teams, and dogs have been very good ATS on Sunday nights as well. This means Oakland at home (opened a dog) is a good play. Revenge game here for them as well.

NBA Suns +4

Lakers are coming off their Super Bowl win of the season here after destroying the Warriors. Look for a letdown spot here.

One advice, 100k goal or whatever, it will never help you improve and actually become winning. Try to focus on playing your best game, make the best decision. If others draw out on you, so be it. You should have plans to make them call with the worse for your value hands. Then focus on bankroll management. If you are saying you will be short roll after less than 20 BI session, YOU ARE PLAYING OVER YOUR ROLL. You should make yourself comfortable even after couple losing sessions. If you are playing good poker, you will make up your losses.

Voker- Thanks for the advice I appreciate it. Yea I do agree my bankroll strategy is a bit risky. I'm trying to move up the stakes as fast as possible and hit 100NL by the end of this year. I really do believe in my game at 20NL to do okay, so that's what I'm relying on. Of course at 50NL or higher I will practice strict BRM.

Poker:

So I'm doing pretty well so far. The good news is that I just unlocked the €150 cash bonus so I just need to play a bit to unleash it, but it will be a very good boost to my bankroll. From what I remember I think it will take about 20 hours of play to unleash the entire bonus. So hopefully by this time next week I'll be sitting on at least €350 before profits and hopefully €500 with profits. Anyway, we're moving closer to a 50NL shot where we can actually make some good money.

Monthly Progress: €200/€1000


Sports:

I am going to get $100 in 5dimes cash. Once I receive this we can officially begin to track the bankroll. Over the weekend I went 6-6 which is alright I guess. Sometimes it's hard for me to get plays in on time since I'm busy a decent amount of the time and a lot of times I wait right before kickoff to try and get the best line.

Bills vs Seahawks under 44

I've been doing some calculations and I definitely need to get over to fast poker as soon as possible. There is just so much more money to be made in that variant, especially thru rakeback. There is a lot more variance so I'll have to wait until the end of the week really.

A few plays

Spurs -1

Arkansas +7.5

Marshall +8

Celtics -2


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3-1 yesterday...

Bucs +2.5

Jags -3

Seahawks +7.5

Rams -1.5

Poker:

So poker has been hit and miss lately. Although things are starting to come around, I just need to get some decent volume in which has been tough due to school obligations. I've got around €90 to unlock from bonuses. After that I'm moving my funds and playing some iPoker speed tables. I really do think I'll get to €1,000 by the end of the month.

€276/1000

Sports:

We went up $80 over the weekend. Very good result and we'll keep this momentum going. I'm going to be playing the under on the Bengals-Giants tonight, but I'm waiting to get a good line out of it. I don't know if I'll be able to post it here when I do get it.

So in just over a few days the sports BR has doubled! $200 currently sitting at 5dimes. Getting closer to the goal of $500 by the end of the year. I expect I can at least get another $100 thru sportsbook cash by then as well, so I'll really need about $200 more to complete my goal. I'm usually betting around $20 a game which has been a very aggressive approach. I'll continue betting this amount, but I'll be a bit more conservative as my bankroll increases. I've got an exam this Wednesday evening, but afterwards the grind to €1000 continues. I'm going to play most of my time over on the 20 NL iPoker speed tables. My goal is to post a 5bb/100 winrate while 3-4 tabling to get in ~1000 hands an hour. After doing some calculations, if I hit this goal I will have around €3.5k to go straight into some 100NL to start the new year. If I post a 0bb/100 winrate, then I should have around €2.5k thru RB to start the new year. This is assuming I can get in around ~120 hours.

Leans:

NCAAM Michigan St. (vs Kentucky)

Are Mich St. really going to start 0-2? Even if they do they only have to cover around 7-8 points. Kentucky haven't scored much from the perimeter so far this year and Izzo is going to pack it in. Mich St. are more experienced and Kentucky will probably be starting 4 freshman at Madison Square Garden.

NCAAF UCLA (vs USC)

Huge letdown spot against UCLA here after USC took down one of the best teams in college football.

NFL Panthers

Wow did they blow the game against the Chiefs. Unfortunately, the Saints blew their game as well, otherwise this would be an extremely confident game. But we've got the last place Panthers going up against a divisional rival seeking revenge for a game they lost earlier this year to away. I mean if allowing 17 points in the 4th quarter to lose a game doesn't show the Panthers were looking ahead then I don't know what does.

Buccaneers

Fade the Chiefs on their insane comeback victory.

Eagles

Seahawks just played a very emotional game against the Patriots. Let down spot here.

Teaser- Giants/Steelers

The Bears are a turnover machine and they just lost their best WR. Steelers just lost a big game and there's no way they can't cover -3 against the Browns.

Took a few plays for tonight. I'll probably play the Raptors and the under. It might not be posted though.

Taken so far:

Michigan St. +7

Panthers -3

San Diego St. -10

Teaser- Steelers -3, Giants -1

Colorado St. -4.5

UCLA +13

Eagles +7

I've gone on a very bad downswing at the poker tables and now I'm going to have to take out some money as well. I'll update totals later on.

Bills +2.5

Buccaneers +7

Rams -1

*Might add Colts if I can get them -3 live

So the weekend went alright. I think I broke even, but I did manage to win a few points in BTP. Anyway, my 5dimes cash was at $170. I also had about €115 in my poker account and I ended up running that up to €175 over the weekend. Yesterday I had to withdraw €145 of that poker money and I currently have a pending payout of $170 from 5dimes. My brother is coming into town and I want to treat him to some cool things. He's only a freshman in college so I don't want him spending his money. Starting today I then took the $30 I left behind in 888 and so far I've grinded it up to $70. My winrate over at their 10nl snap tables is currently 10.5bb/100 over 4.5k hands. Small sample and winrate should drop, but I do have a 9evbb/100.

Anyway, what I'm going to do is hopefully grind this money up as much as I can and then withdraw at the end of the week and move my funds over to Bwin. Over there I'll be getting a pretty insane RB deal and I'll be able to get a lot more hands in per hour.

So the month is coming close to an end now. I'll have to officially list my bankroll for the month of December, but it should be ~$200 sports, and $400 poker. I'll start by playing some 25NL fast foward at Bwin Poker. Bankroll strategy a must though at these formats. So if the bankroll hits under $200 I'll have to play 10NL. A $200 (8 BI) cushion with a total of 16 BIs at that stake is pretty decent to start with. Before winrates are even calculated I should be making around $9/hour. With a decent winrate this could be $15 hourly. The goal is 20 hours weekly. I'm heading back to the U.S. for the holidays so it would be nice to bring a little cash over with me, and hopefully transfer some on to Ignition. The end goal for the month in regards to poker is $1,000. Now some funds will be taken out for various reasons as the holidays are upon us, but I do get to play more hours near Christmas time on the supposedly very soft ignition poker.

The sports roll is currently at $200. I have a few plays tonight that I will post later on. I'm going to be aggressive with this roll so that I can try and turn it into a decent amount of money before the holidays begin. I also have a x5 rollover I must reach, so $1000 needs to be bet in total.

So far...

Jazz +2

Divisional rivalry against a more defensive team in the Jazz. I fully expect them to bring in tonight.

Pistons +2.5

Hornets on 4 games in 5 days. I doubt they will bring energy, and even if they do there is always the 4th quarter for the Pistons to do some work on a tired team.

Liverpool -1.5 vs Leeds

The subs will try to prove something tonight. Leeds have not performed too well when away.

Pelicans -6

Fishiest line of the night. Pelicans lost big time to the Lakers earlier in the season, and now they are -6? I think this line is telling us something.

So Yesterday went very well! After the liverpool game hit I decided to put an extra unit on the Pistons...The profit for the night was $100! So sports bankroll now sits at $300 and I should have my poker bankroll ready to go for tomorrow; Friday at the latest. Anyway, I'm going to continue trying to rollover and increase my bankroll. I can be a little more aggressive with my bankroll now that we went on a nice little win streak! Lot's of plays today...

Louisville -6

Saint Mary's -3.5

Ohio St. team total over 53.5

Indiana +5

Pacers +7.5

Teaser- Bulls -5, Spurs -4

So we won 2 units last night putting us at +6 units over the past 2 days. A pretty good run. Remember I'm playing games I wouldn't normally just so I can rollover my 5dimes balance before the Holidays begin. I think I have around $800 to rollover which is about 40 bets at $20 a piece. I'll probably be leaving to go back to the U.S. around the 20th and 5dimes give out a free cashout for me on Tuesday so I've probably got about 10 days to complete this rollover. At the moment I am trying to receive my first ever bitcoin payout, and if that goes well I will be able to leave these funds in 5D and then just transfer them to Ignition Poker or take them out at an bitcoin ATM in the U.S. I am trying to roll this over quickly so luckily we are up a few units because variance will hit at some point.

I took a good few games last night...

NCAAF

Wisconsin -2.5

Oklahoma St. +12

Florida +24

Clemson -10

Temple +3

NFL

Saints -6

Cardinals -3

NBA

Jazz/Heat Under 189

Rockets +10

Tiger woods finishing over 15.5 position

Magic -2

S. Bradford pass completions over 24.5

*I will also be taking the Bucks later on most likely

So I started some 25NL fast poker. I went up a BI and then proceeded to end my day down 2.5 BIs. I've allocated around $400 to poker so that leaves me $335 left to play with. So not the greatest start, but I'm sure things will turn around. I'll go analyze my play and see what mistakes I made and how much it cost me. Also, 5dimes can no longer give me my bitcoin payout for some technicality, so I currently have $418 sitting in my account now with around $530 to roll over. With the games I currently have placed I'll only have around $300 left to rollover come Monday. This is way ahead schedule of course. Hopefully the bankroll increase!

Well guys I fell asleep early last night and I wasn't able to take the Nets bet. This is a downside of being in Europe and trying to get the best line. Even though it worked out last night, it is really annoying in the long run. Anyway, I ended up about +1 units last night. So far I'm doing pretty well, and I'm rolling over my cash in 5D. Balance stands at $435.60 with A LOT MORE games to come. Obviously I know eventually I will hit a bad streak, especially with the amount of games I'm playing, but as long as the bankroll is over $200 I'm honesty content.

Plays incoming

Nuggets ATS

The Rockets just won an emotional game against the Warriors who had knocked them out of the playoffs last year. The game went to 2OT and the players are going to be very tired, especially because they'll be playing 3 games in 4 nights tonight against the Nuggets. The Rockets now need to go travel to the Nugget arena which is not the easiest place to get to, and go play in high altitude to end their 5 game road trip. Last year the Nuggets beat the Rockets twice at home. I'm considering going bigger than usual on this play here as I think there is a lot of value to be had, it also rolls over my cash quicker.

Bulls ATS

This play really depends on the line I can get. However, I think the line will be at worst Cavs -4 and most likely higher. This isn't a game I love mainly because the Cavs have lost 2 in a row, but for the right line they can be a standard play. A bigger bet I'm willing to make is on the Raptors who play the Cavs their next game after the Bulls, especially after losing by 4 and 3 points this year. They want so badly to beat the Cavs after getting knocked out last year.

Another big spot to come is going to be the Clippers vs Warriors next week. I'll be big on the Clips for that game.

Some explanations for games taken...

Temple +3

Apparently Navy winning messes up the scheduling for the bowl games. If there is any game that is going to be rigged I would bet it would be this game. Even if all the money in on Temple, the NCAAF committee doesn't want teams waiting around and only giving them a weeks notice or such.

Oklahoma St +12

Oklahoma have not been great this year and this teams are ranked #9 and #10. Both teams are overrated. Not my favorite pick though.

Florida +24

SEC championship and Florida have a very tough defense. Last year Florida lost by 14 in the title game without a QB. Alabama have to score around a touchdown more than Florida each quarter to cover this spread. Sure Alabama could wipe Florida clean, but they have at National Championship to contend for which means most likely 2 more games after this. That's a lot of football games and I don't expect Alabama run this score up.

ALRIGHT BOYS TIME TO LAY OUR D*CKS ON THE TABLE AND SHOW HOW MUCH OF A MAN WE REALLY ARE...

Nuggets -2.5 vs Rockets (2.5 units)

Falcons -4 vs Chiefs (2.5 units)

If these plays lose then I'm $40 away from where I started and if I win then I'm up $255 from where I was 3 days ago...LOL

I'm also going to be playing a best bet parlay of 11 teams. So far I've got Nuggets -2.5, Falcons -4 the rest are open spots. $10.