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[Kevvo]

Ok, you may have seen various pokerplayers do such things, now I want to take on this challenge.
For a start I will attempt to go through the struggle of going from as much as 0$ to 500$ by the start/end of january '10.

I have not yet decided wich poker platform to use, anyone knows any platforms with some good cash freerolls?
I would prefer direct cash freerolls and no satellite tournaments.

I will also try to update my struggle in this topic through statistics.
So what I'm asking from you guys to begin with is a poker platform where I can play a nice immediate cash freeroll,
since I'm not into any platforms outside of pokerstars.


Thnx.

[Museki]

FT belgian freeroll

[fastcolt]

FT belgian freeroll

Taking prop bets on this one?

so in one month, ull go from 0 to 500?

if u take prop bets, what odds are you giving?

[Kevvo]

lol @ you trying to make money off my challenge.

Anyways, I have an account on full tilt and I have seen the belgian and 150$ freeroll as an option to start off with.
The grind starts I guess.

[Kevvo]

First attempt: ended 73th after a bad beat I held a pair of 6's made a strong bet pre flop with no overcards and NO 3's to push others out of the pot.
I went all-in. only 1 other guy called me (out of 3) and had A3 so it was really looking good, until he hit a set of 3's on the next 2 cards.
So I went Helmuth style cuz I don't know why he called my all-in with A3 having nothing on the table.


Anyways, too bad my play was on point and I will play again tomorrow or in the weekend.

Edited by Kevvo, 19 November 2009 - 10:35 PM.

[Museki]

First attempt: ended 73th after a bad beat I held a pair of 6's made a pretty strong bet pre flop with no overcards and NO 3's to push others out of the pot.
I went all-in. only 1 other guy called me (out of 3) and had A3 so it was really looking good, until he hit a set on the next 2 cards.
So I went Helmuth style cuz I don't know why he called my all-in with A3 having nothing on the table.


Anyways, too bad my play was on point and I will play again tomorrow or in the weekend.

lemme know if you play tomorrow, i might play aswell.
i ended 27th in my last attempt (which means 2$) just need to have some luck at times.
(i assume u got my msn?)

[fastcolt]

First attempt: ended 73th after a bad beat I held a pair of 6's made a strong bet pre flop with no overcards and NO 3's to push others out of the pot.
I went all-in. only 1 other guy called me (out of 3) and had A3 so it was really looking good, until he hit a set of 3's on the next 2 cards.
So I went Helmuth style cuz I don't know why he called my all-in with A3 having nothing on the table.


Anyways, too bad my play was on point and I will play again tomorrow or in the weekend.

its freeroll, people who are broke play it, hence, they arent good players , hence, unpredictable, hence need more luck then at actual stakes

i mean its strange already that he didnt fold A 3 to a preflop raise , its so EASILY dominated

and synchron you know i love you :$ i dont try to make money off of you xD

but i just think its very unlikely/impossible to make 0 to 500 in 1 month UNLESS you risk your entire bankroll, (for example u win 10$ inf reeroll, u go all in with 10$ at cashgame, you got 20 now, etc)

but if you apply bank roll management i think its impossible, if you win 2$ ull have to play 2NL probably, one bad beat, and your back to square one....

if you look at how chris ferguson did something like this

it took him 3 years to go from 0 to 10.000 lol and going from 500 to 10.000 is easier then going from 0 to 500

the sickest thing i ever saw was someone going from 5 to 1000 in 1 week, but its easier then your challenge, he started with 5$

eitherway im not trying to break you down in any way, i love you wanna do this challenge, and hope u will succeed really

[fastcolt]

Ye iguessed 3 years but 18 months could be right as well

didnt it take him like 9 months? to go from 0 to 500?

[R3NZ0]

gl lol kevvo..

quit this online shit and play poker real life, more money, more fun!

[R3NZ0]

gl lol kevvo..

quit this online shit and play poker real life, more money, more fun!

[Inou]

Why waste time on this free roll bs?

Start with 10$. End with 1000$. You got 1 month.

Going from 0 to 500 wouldnt impress me. You need a lot of luck next to your skill to win free rolls cause your playing maniacs and
chances are you'll get beat by a wrong image or just luckdonks that go all in with any two. Next to that, people do these challenges
mainly on cash tables because that's skill, pure skill. EV+ Grinding go ahead, the challenges is only to go fast, thats what makes it interesting.

I'm not saying tournaments don't involve skill or anything as such. The opposite is true, you need a lot of skill to win tournaments but you cant win
tournaments without a bit of luck. I've never seen a player that only made 2 hands win a big tourny.

Then again, if you can make 500$ in three months online, thats a fair deal. Good luck.

[Kevvo]

I put the deadline end of januari so that means I have december + january to play just to make this clear.


i've made a fair amount of money both in real life and online poker, I made 300$ from 2.50$ pokerstars gave out for free a long while ago.
But ye, we'll see how this works out.

and actually, the point is to get the first dollar(s) from a freeroll and step over to cashgames, I'm obviously not going to attempt and reach 500 through playing tournaments.


1 thing I don't get from the ferguson challenge is, he had to work 7 months to get a stable 6.95$ <- wtf?

Edited by Kevvo, 20 November 2009 - 07:24 PM.

[vilzeh]

Got up with 350€ to 2500€ =)

[vilzeh]

35€*

[fastcolt]

0 to 100 is the hardest path of building a bankroll

+ at the time he was playing best u could do at full tilt was WIN a freeroll and get 2$

not like now win and get 15$ lol

AND i cant agree more with inou, but in cashgames ofc, u gotta realise even if u play + EV all the way, at some point, one day, you will have played every hand right, and still lost some money... simply because sometimes u get beat

getting it all in with AA vs KK gives u 80-20 but most people forget that 20 out of 100 times they will actually LOSE.

so if u have 2$ play 2 NL get bad beat, RESTART, thats basically what happened to ferguson, and has 0 to do with skill, its just running bad

@Renzo

your post is wrong in so many ways, play online = play MULTIPLE tables = better brm, tighter game, + more experience + more chances to make money, if you play good solid poker and up lay 9 tables online or 1 table live, ull make more online ...

BUT i agree, more fun

[vilzeh]

from 35€ to 2500€

I r rich!

[R3NZ0]

ok but still its more fun real life with friends, each put like 10-20€ in pot

[Kevvo]

2nd attempt flopped hard ended like 600 or something of 650 lol.

situation:


I catch QQ, 3 people left in the pot (one had 395 left).

flop comes 5 5 8 both check I raise all in cuz I was pretty sure neither one of em had a 5.
I got called by both, guy with 395 had K 10 other guy had A K.


ended 5 5 8 4 K

not that I rly made a bad play, I guess I just got a bit greedy and unlucky but I might have been able to avoid it but I couldn't lay the pocket Q down for some reason.


I guess my QQ made me QQ.

Too bad.