Thanks for the ideas!!!

I'm a 5th of the way...

Palimax, thanks for making this, it's very useful!

I found an error in the sit'nlearn answers, could you edit it?

In the Aaron Bartley, Sit & Gos By The Numbers quiz, the answer to question 6 is not 10+1 but 11+1

You're welcome, and, you're correct. It was caught a day or so after I posted it by another astute reader.

I know that I owe you all some updates. It's been busy.

This one:

"At the final table of a MTT or MT S&G that started with 45 players or more, with 6 or more players remaining, win 3 of 5 pots without showing down."

Slightly confused. Does it mean of 5 consecutive pots I win, 3 of them are without showing down, or must I win 5 pots in a row and 3 of them must be without showing down?

Lindgren's right?

Win 3 pots without a showdown within 5 consecutive hands.

This one can be a freakin b*tch. Of the 3 times I've done this challenge, this is the one that took the longest. Hansen's 3 in a row uncontested is quite a bit harder though. You can do that at any time though.

I only did the 45'ers though. Had I done some 90 or 180 it might not have been as bad. You're fairly SS'ed by the time you're down to 6 in those. Even as a chip leader.

i completed part of the challenge and the software isn't recording it. it was lindgren's challenge limp ace on the button. if i email ftp will they fix it? or am i SOL?

Thanks for the clarification. This one might take a while.

Was it 3 or 4 handed? If you e-mail FT with the hand history they should fix it up.

I've had 4 instances of things not crediting and they've turned me down each time. I let it go the first 3 times, but I completed Harman's challenge in 1 brutal session and got no credit for anything at all. I dug up all the HH's and sent them the info and they refused. We went back and forth 3 times and still nothing. Finally, they said I "deactivated" the challenge. I don't even know how that's possible. Considering that I've completed about 100 challenges, I think I know what I'm doing. It was on a Sunday and the system is typically slower on that days. I have the page pulled up so I could reference it and when I do a task, I check every 10 minutes or so to make sure it credits. I didn't do anything different. It's not something I'd worry about that much, but that session was nasty. I lost a couple buyins trying to do the re-raise without a PP or an A only to get shoved on, and the calling without a pair and stealing it on the turn without a pair.

Ran across this thread out of curiosity, and I must say well done op, and I got some laughs too. Thanks, I like your style!

Maybe you have completed it 10 times already?

Only 4x's so far for that one. I have a spreadsheet that I keep track of how many times I've done each challenge.

just a heads up to anyone interested. I'm 90% sure you can grow your stack to 3x and THEN switch to this challenge and have it work.

+1

Thank you, recent posters.

I've been lax in providing updates for the half a dozen or so challenges I haven't covered because:

(a) Overall they are harder, and by nature, I've been shooting for the hardest ones first.
(b) I don't like trying to sound like an authority without having actually done the leg-work.

For example, I was QUITE prepared to tell you how miserable flat-calling with pocket sixes or better with a mid-size stack was going to be in 27-person tournaments. But after actually doing the challenge more than the first few times, I'm ready to downgrade it from "nightmarish" to merely "awful." You can still go dozens of games without the opportunity popping up, but it does seem to happen organically more than I first thought it did.

Do a 90 seater and it will probably happen fast. During the testing for that one, it took 10 of the 27 seaters for it to happen. I got it done in the first 90 seater I played for it. Though my 10th time through it took 4 of the 90 seaters. I was seriously considering bribing the table. All the other tasks were done but this one. Hate when that happens.

I did not see in this thread or the rules what happens if you are part of the way through a challenge and then switch.

For an easy example, suppose I am doing the intro to no limit and have played the required hands at no limit and pot limit, and have played 10 of 20 hands at capped no limit. Then I want to play in a SNG, and switch to SNG-related challenge. If I go back to the original NL challenge, will it remember my progress so I just need to finish the capped no limit hands? If it does remember I already completed some of the parts, will it remember I already played 10 of the 20 required capped hands or does that counter reset?

Obviously this one isn't a big deal, but I am thinking ahead to some of the harder challenges which might take quite a while and wondering if it is possible to switch out and back without losing credit.

Just started, at 100 points and counting....

Thanks.

It won't remember your progress if you do that. You can switch around to a degree, but not like that. Also, the switching isn't immediate. It takes about 5-15 minutes for it to update to the new challenge. If you select a new challenge, quit FTP and the reopen it right after, it'll show the new challenge as active though.

I was testing 2 newer challenges and 1 is pretty time consuming (tourney based). I switched from one challenge to the other to try and knock a task or two out, switched back while still in the original tourney, and got the tasks done for the original one after the switch. It still recorded them. That might be the only way to do it, which doesn't help at for cash game challenges that involve a specific # of hands.

If the challenge is tourney or SnG based, the task has to be active before you enter the tourney or it won't count towards it.

FT added 3 new Sit and learn activities you dont have spoilers for. Do i have to do every activity to be qualified for the freeroll?

I'll spoil those quickly - as that just takes a couple minutes.

Thanks for the head's up.

No, you just have to do ONE of them - but doing a couple gives you a few shots at top 10% for the final freeroll.

I think the spoilers are useful because some of the desired answers are just wrong.

For instance, Jennifer Harmon leaves a game when people call her down when she bluffs with AK, but my number one reason for leaving a game is because my kids need me.

Or is Full Tilt not intended to be a resource for parenting advice?

(I ended up taking Jennifer's quiz cold without watching her video because it is apparently the default quiz they offer you after watching a video that doesn't have it's own quiz, and after watching Howard Lederer tell me what no limit holdem means I found myself being quizzed on whether Jennifer thinks I should call a guy whose tie is crooked. Not going to make the leaderboard on this one. Didn't think to look at spoilers once I realized I was in the wrong quiz until too late.)

I did a few of the quizzes but forgot about the first freeroll. Still got into the main one though. Those are easy money. Decent pay structure and quite a few absentees. Not as bad as the FT WSOP Fantasy in the first year, but quite a few.

This is just like wow achievements except you're spending real money to do it.

lol.

FYP

And I am exactly the kind of person Warcraft achievements were designed for. I am willing to do all kinds of lame things I would not ordinarily do if I can get points for them and check them off on a list.

Now they just need to add the ability to earn titles by completing lessons, and you could be sitting at a table with "Guppy, Master of Bankroll Management".