Updated on 21 Feb 26 by
Barry carter
Poker Expert

Join LemOn36's 40,000 Micro Hand Challenge

Think you can beat our coach over a large sample at micro stakes poker? Now is your chance to prove it, and win money!

lemon36 40,000 hand challenge

For the next six weeks LemOn36 will be playing 40,000 hands at NL5 and NL10, and he will be streaming most of it on Twitch. 

In the first week he will be streaming between 17:00 and 19:30 CET on March 21, 22 and 34.

If you think you can do the same thing and have the best winrate of our community, you will win $100! If you can do it while streaming on Twitch, make that $200! To participate: 

  • Sign up to this thread saying "I'm in"
  • Start after March 20 playing NL2 to NL10 (You can mix your play at these levels)
  • Play 40,000 on one of our partner rooms
  • Give us an update in this thread every 5,000 hands and let us cheer you on
  • The player who has the highest winrate over 40,000 hands (completed before May 1) will win $100
  • You have to provide proof of your results upon request 

If you are a Twitch streamer, we'll double your prize. Please use PokerStrategy Microstakes Challenge as your stream name and link to your channel here. We will broadcast it on ours when we are not online. Don't forget to add your Tell-a-Friend link to your channel to potentially make more money. 

Good luck beating our coach and, finally, make sure to subscribe to our Twitch channel

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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.