$500 Challenge

[DeanReeves66]

Originally Posted by stjimmy

back up to 11 dollars...

nice 1 jimmy my moneys on u to make the $500 first
so dont let me down

[stjimmy]

Originally Posted by DeanReeves66

nice 1 jimmy my moneys on u to make the $500 first
so dont let me down

just been playin some bingo on ring table with hex n roly, back down to 5 bucks lol. ok ok, ill try properly now...

[CODYDOG]

Originally Posted by stevo_58

I started a thread elsewhere asking if anyone has set themselves any personal goals for their poker this year

Your 2010 poker goals

One of the goals I set myself was to try and go from $0 to $500 by the end of the year without making a deposit. A few people said they would also like to try and do the same and to see who could achieve it first.

If anyone wants to join in, just for a bit of fun, no prizes etc then post on this thread and we can keep track of how we all go. So if your interested post how much you currently have in your account, then updated this thread whenever you want to.

All I ask is that people are honest and treat if as a 'fun' competition. Whatever the outcome I am treating it firstly as one of my own personal goals for 2010. The rules I have set for myself are simple.....I have to do it without making a deposit but I can use whatever options the site provides, e.g. entering tourneys with 'Poker Points', selling bullets in the RPG, using Outlaw Tourney tickets to play Outlaws Tourneys. I have until midnight on 31/12/10 to try and do it.

$500 might not sound like a lot but I think it may be harder than a lot of people think. Just as matter of interest Pro player Chris Ferguson set himself an online challenge to go from $0 to $10,000 playing on one well know site. He set himself strict bankroll management rules that he had to play by. It took him 7 months to get to his balance to stabilize at $6.50, then he entered a $1 tourney and won a $104. But it took him another 9 months to break through the $10K barrier. Great story, very interesting.

So $500 for a recreational player of my limited ability should be a huge challenge, but that's the whole point.

Good luck to anyone else you want's to take up the challenge.

OK as of today, 03.01.10 I have a balance of $0.09

i will try it m8 i at .05

[rolyoc]

i started at $35 the other day got down to 23 at the start of the day withing 2 hours was down to $15 i know have

$24.18
434 pp

[Uyto]

Good luck

[stevo_58]

OK time to update my balance. Still on $0.09 LOL. Used two outlaw vouchers, got 4th both times. Played lots of free chips games and not won a sausage LOL,

[ARSENALRULES]

Ok my update started on 60 cents lol.at beginning of year. went up and down over the last week this morning skint only 10 cents and 12pp so played $5 freeroll which I won $2... then placed in ultra and came 3rd in Outlaws another $1.20 then sit and goes 50 cent double up which I was placed in.. So now sitting at $3.73...long way to LOL but good morning

[SimonLGreedy]

Originally Posted by stevo_58

OK time to update my balance. Still on $0.09 LOL. Used two outlaw vouchers, got 4th both times. Played lots of free chips games and not won a sausage LOL,

How much is a sausage worth?

I'll be in it. I got about 3 bux i think

[Virtus11]

turned an outlaw voucher to $93 two weeks ago.
lost it all in 2 days...

started from scratch again.
now here's my balance

jan. 15'10

$28.60

[tony48]

i am on the board nothing to $1.20 thanks outlaws

[jim1961]

Originally Posted by tony48

i am on the board nothing to $1.20 thanks outlaws

yep my pattern has been

$1.20
$0.00
$1.20
$0.00
$1.20
$0.00

lol

and it only took 3 months

[stevo_58]

My update, now at $5.42

Lot's of ups and downs so I figured I'd post now before it goes down again LOL.

By the way Simon, I tried to find the price of a sausage but it's not listed in the Financial Times, nor the ASX or the Wall Street Journal. I did extensive searches on the Net, went to see a financial advisor, a stockbroker and contacted my local MP, but still couldn't get anything conclusive.

As a last resort the wife suggested I popped down to the local supermarket LOL. They have some funny ideas sometimes eh?

Well just to humor her I did and blow me they had some. With the price on too!!!!

But wait, it's not quite that simple. As it turns out there are several different types. (Yea I was surprised too. I always thought there were only two types, cooked and uncooked) Anyway, unfortunately without knowing which particular type of sausage you need to know the price of I don't think I'm going to be able to answer your question mate.

Sorry.

[unclepony11]

ok...im going to join in....did have about $50 in my account but was pissed last night and woke up with £0 ....i still have 2 outlaws vouchers to use so hopefully they will help kick start my mission

good luck all

[Earp10]

ill give it a shot . what the heck. started out with squat got up to 40 dollars and down to 9.67 dollars but years early

[tony48]

whoop whoop another 18c $1.38 only took me all day should have $500 by 2030

[toptim999]

I'll give it a go. Won an outlaws voucher, then the outlaws to gain $5. After a few sitngos, one of which I lost, am now at $5.58

[Virtus11]

here's my update...
i am now at $40.18

[DirtyGirlie]

Ok I will join the fun. I put in 50 dollars and entered into a $30 tourney this afternoon and wound up 2nd with 800 dollars! Never won so much in my life! Let's see if I can build this balance up and not lose it at the end of the year.

[toptim999]

Originally Posted by DirtyGirlie

Ok I will join the fun. I put in 50 dollars and entered into a $30 tourney this afternoon and wound up 2nd with 800 dollars! Never won so much in my life! Let's see if I can build this balance up and not lose it at the end of the year.

Wow! Great! How many people in the tourney? How long did it take? How was the standard of play? Did you find it hard work to get that far or did you find you could out play the others easily?

Just so we know for when we get the bankrol to play the $30!

[CaptainSandy]

Update...

Start - £8
Week 1 - £104 (here's how...My Good Week)
Week 2 - £112

* spent $8 on bullets

This week not as good as last, but still going in the right direction.
Have had bad luck on the $5 sin and go's, placing in 4 out of 9 so a net loss.
Placed in nearly every $1 sit n go though, and placed in both the $3 sit n go's I played.
Still no ring tables, I want a bigger bankroll first.