Updated on 21 Feb 26 by
Barry Carter
Poker Expert

Bankroll Challenge: Second Royal Flush in a week

Some major rungood for some of our members this week and we celebrate the return of a PokerStrategy legend, in our Bankroll Challenge.

Busy dog

You can take the boy out of PokerStrategy, but you can't take the PokerStrategy out of the boy. 

This week we welcome to the Bankroll Challenge mjperry, who was a former news editor for the site before he left to work at a well known poker site.  

It's great to have him back, because not only is he one of the funniest guys you'll ever meet in poker, but he also has an interesting blog. As well as juggling a full time job he wants to play 6,000 hands a week, exercise five times a week, read eight hours a week and write four hours a week. Somewhere in there, no doubt, there is also sleep. 

Joining the challenge this week we have whitewalkerm1rceaalvisr and dsjekov

The Beers are on these guys

It was also a good week for an existing staff member teddypoker who hit a 100x multiplier in a Spin & Go to become our biggest winner of the week! Beers are on you Teddy!

Wow! Remember livethelife7 who made a Royal Flush last week? Well.....he made another one this week. We've changed our mind, the beers are on you!

Well done to pianist8716 who showed huge discipline by folding Pocket Aces on the flop at NL5 - was it a good fold? 

Finally congratulations to nathanrenard who played the most hands this week and is the lucky winner of a Status Upgrade this week!

You can win an upgrade too. Join our challenge today!

Top  of the week!
Rank Nickname
Profit Rang 5 teddypoker $1470
Hands Rang 2 nathanrenard 29,745
Bankroll increase Rang 5 snapscus 53%

Overall results to date
Rank Nickname Hands/
MTTs
BR BR+
  $
BR+
  %
goal
Rang 6 lemon36 11338 $1434 432 43% $2,500
Rang 5 elpsycho 13156 $2427 10 0% $5,000
Rang 5 damlqv 1990 $5031 -170 -3% $10,000
Rang 5 bonecore 6860 $440 59 15% $1,000
Rang 5 coreysteel 2725 $355 -142 -29% $1,000
Rang 5 teddypoker 134 $6000 1470 32% $12,000
Rang 5 snapscus 496 $2268 786 53% $5,000
Rang 4 kidzoltan 0 $8547 0 0% $20,000
Rang 4 husky333 83 $967 224 30% $2,500
Rang 4 n00b11 $7254 0% $20,000
Rang 3 pianist8716 13027 $334 36 12% $1,000
Rang 3 drdunne $780 0% $2,000
Rang 3 sftpn $484 0% $1,500
Rang 3 gooncal1 $376 0% $2,000
Rang 3 kkngroup $223 0% $1,000
Rang 3 gonchan 2444 $414 38 10% $1,600
Rang 3 vonki 3624 $240 36 18% $1,500
Rang 2 rmsjoshua $93 0% $1,000
Rang 2 alenstrat $146 0% $1,000
Rang 2 nathanrenard 29745 $60 55 1100% $1,500
Rang 2 tonypmm 62 $335 -5 -1% $1,500
Rang 2 alphavillain $507 0% $2,500
Rang 2 nathandavidlee $233 0% $1,100
Rang 2 alleen86 3022 $1150 3 0% $5,305
Rang 1 livethelife7 4500 $247 -42 -15% $10,000
Rang 1 8runo 2535 $30 -12 -29% $1,000
Rang 1 rayfluke 0 $26 -11 -30% $1,000
Rang 1 whitewalker 11442 $57 41 $1,000
Rang 1 m1rcea $7861 $40,000
Rang 1 alvisr $30 $1,000
Rang 1 dsjekov $100 $3,000
Rang 1 mjperry $500 $5,000

Our challenge continues and you have the opportunity to join at any given time. Being late in is not a problem at all. 

Simply register, create your blog and share your results with our other participants on a weekly basis. We want to give you a regular update once a week - this requires that all participants give us their updates once a week. Failed? No Biggie! We'll remind you with the , but a second one would mean you're out until you re-join. Feel free to request holidays in the reporting thread - so we know you're off!

We wish you the best of luck and hope you accidentally register for a 2-7 Draw Tournament......and win it. 

Get rich or Die Tryin' - The Bankroll Challenge

Poker Expert

Barry Carter is the editor of PokerStrategy.com and the co-author of The Mental Game of Poker 1 & 2, Poker Satellite Strategy, PKO Poker Strategy, Endgame Poker Strategy, GTO Poker Simplified, Mystery Bounty Poker Strategy and Beyond GTO. In 2025, he won the Global Poker Awards for Best Book and Twitter Personality of the Year.