Alright my dudes here's the deal.

Former part-time Holdem player finds new burning passion for the game when he discovers you can actually double the number of cards in your hand while also doubling your winrate (at least in theory lol).

I have exclusively played PLO for the last couple months, and I can confidently say I am now at a level where I can fold the 2nd nuts to a river check-raise in under 3 seconds while only crying a little. Naturally, I have decided to move up to 50PL where they will hopefully give me the respect my hero folds deserve.

Enough chatter. Why are we doing this on a 50$ bankroll? Well, it's more of a coincidence. I checked Pokerstars for some new deals yesterday (only played on partypoker and some other sites up until now) and they gave me the '40% rakeback for 5000 points' challenge. 1k rake in 23 days and the free 400$ are mine.

Sadly I took everything except 55$ from the site when I stopped playing there (2-5% rb lol cya l8r). Since I need a few days to transfer the money to my skrill I just started playing on that 1 BI and lo and behold those 50 bucks turned into 550, then 350. That's why we play PLO boys.

So I thought let's make a challenge out of it and see if I can complete the greatest (dumbest?) bankroll attempt in all of poker.

Goals:
30+10 hrs/week for playing+study
gym 3x/week
uni stuff 20hrs/week (finals coming up)
Shower 5x/week


Wish my luck brotendos.

Settle in boyzz, dis gon be epic! *grabbing popcorn*

Start is looking good guys, roll is at 450$, if I keep up that rate we should be at 100BI in about 2 weeks



(Of course I will also have to keep up the rungood)

I also have an interesting bluff here. I do block villian's better hands but I am unsure if I will get enough fold otr if I think of his range that he gets to river with here.

What sort of person makes it a goal to shower?

a dirty boy

sick

Sick indeed, for I am the master of running above EV. First gold chest was 30$ btw

Roll at 710$

Last weeks goals:
Play Poker: 23h
Study: 13h
Gym: 0/3 lol
Showers: 3

generally love it. Only thing is, that his leading range on the flop is probably kinda weird. I mean he SHOULD be leading with a very mixed range, but in general people will not do this, at least in my experience. It's either only value (sets, top2), only draws (FD, wraps, oesd+pair) or only air. So yeah, the population is probably kinda mixed, lol.

That said, I like the flop raise in general. Makes it way easier to go forward in the hand by defining his range and you can easily barrel of or checkback turns depending on the runout. although i have to admit, i'd like it even more /w the bdFD, but thats life i guess.

So you barrel turn and if he only x/c you pretty much need to bang this river. His value and therefore slowplaying range is now 33 and the occasional 99 and MAYBE boardcovering slowplays like JJT9cc or QT99cc, as the population probably tends to not x/c sets on turns oop in these lines in general. And you block all of these at least to en extent. Your are uncapped and block the nutFD, so if he bluffcatches with a smaller flush -> so be it. I like it.

in b4 busto

yeah i think you're right.

I have always ever known one way, and that is up...



Also here is me getting destroyed so you can feel better about yourself (not sure if the river bluff is good, feel like people generally will underfold when they take this line)




Play time: 20h
Study time: 10h
Uni study: 8h
Gym: 1/3 (I can see some linear progression)
Showers: 3,5 (One time I just sprayed my whole body with axe body spray)

Motivation to play is starting to tank in relation to when I started with PLO. Might just be temporary or it might be the fact that the honeymoon phase of learning all these new concepts is over. Not that I am a good player in any way or form (yet). I'll have to find a way to consistently grind 30/40hrs a week. If you guys have any systems in place that help you do that I'd be happy to hear about them.

****ed up the image

Alright, so the bonus is cleared, here's the graph after about 16k hands



Running at about 16bb/100 allin adjusted. Obviously a small sample but I gotta say the stars pool is super soft (even the zoom games) and it's a pity I'll only get like 2% rakeback after finishing the challenge. I was actually even getting one gold chest per 7500 points, which is about 13% rb, but they must've seen me crushing and upped the points per chest to 48500 :/

So with the 400$ bonus the roll is now at 2160$ / 43 BI. Sadly we didn't quite get there, although I could of course continue the challenge on another site.

Gl with the showers

...and poker