What is your reason for playing poker?
Some more sick results from our Bankroll Challengers as well as a lot of our members pondering the greater meaning of poker.
First of all, congratulations to summerhigh who just completed their $30 to $3,500 challenge in fine style. Their new target is $5,000!
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If you want to see a sick PLO hand, check out this €3,553 pot (over 400BBs) from our cash game grinder padelbro.
Another live poker trip for mantelo in Malaga and sadly it was a bad result for him....but fear not. Look, he has already won his next two live poker trips this year:
Everything is on the up for superior1712 who recently got their bankroll to over $1k and has started taking shots at 25NL.
Finally, why do we play poker? That is what some of our Bankroll Challengers have been wondering lately. fagin gave lots of reasons but they were mostly around keeping his brain sharp and challenged.
fredjen also wondered out loud while giving us his June summary and graph. Money is important but he also cited things like routine and study for being the reasons he enjoys the game. How about you?
Bankroll Challenge Standings
| Position | Member | BR | Profit | Goal BR | ||
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| alonohara |  |
478,00 | 18 | 500 | ||
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| dupin2000 |  |
437 | 20 | 600 | ||
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| ghaleon | |
21683,00 | 339 | 30.000 | ||
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stackoffski | |
479 | 178 | 750 | |
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milianto |  |
1.490 | 37 | 2.500 | |
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tara771 | |
11914,00 | 1766 | 20.000 | |
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kostja007 |  |
290,00 | 37 | 500 | |
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fagin | |
860,00 | 107 | 1.500 | |
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retrograde87 |  |
2.525 | 21 | 5.000 | |
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rosscoe | |
418,00 | 0 | 875 | |
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ossenberg | |
475,00 | 29 | 1.000 | |
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gmxhexe | |
9.374 | 498 | 20.000 | |
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lod999 | |
9800 | 25.000 | ||
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cochalo | |
217 | 39 | 559 | |
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californication09 | |
371 | 163 | 1.000 | |
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almightytt | |
359 | 14 | 1.000 | |
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fredjen | |
3577,00 | 951 | 10.000 | |
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realbess | |
3810,00 | -90 | 10.777 | |
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oodoleoo | |
3372,00 | 61 | 10.000 | |
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dekals |  |
635,00 | 8 | 2.000 | |
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mariussica88 | |
3118,00 | -44 | 10.000 | |
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meangreen | |
310 | 38 | 1.000 | |
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mooharius | |
283 | 22 | 1.000 | |
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djalbert182 | |
27109,00 | 0 | 100.000 | |
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rhodriguez | |
1571,00 | 328 | 6.000 | |
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deadlifter1 | |
130,00 | 500 | ||
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mantelo | |
15155,00 | -3319 | 60.000 | |
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rra1der | |
571,00 | 24 | 2.500 | |
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yahto | |
111 | -6 | 500 | |
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morrischord | |
203 | 1.000 | ||
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6079,00 | 30.000 | |||
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thedreamisstillalive | |
19.530 | 100.000 | ||
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tonyozhelev | |
106 | 75 | 600 | |
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deadman | |
131 | 750 | ||
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irieill | |
1.216 | -38 | 7.000 | |
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shortsweather | |
800 | 5.000 | ||
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visionboard | |
78 | -19 | 500 | |
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padelbro | |
8.236 | 928 | 55.000 | |
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tondy88 | |
70 | 500 | ||
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tupeeh | |
536 | 4.000 | ||
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padelbro | |
7308,00 | 55000 | ||
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georgezsiga | |
92 | -110 | 702 | |
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novak53 | |
60.552 | 500.000 | ||
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abomb1 | |
563 | -38 | 5.000 | |
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gui7oliveira | |
1.611 | 18.000 | ||
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jacojacek | |
49 | 560 | ||
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431,00 | 5000 | |||
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humhom | |
430 | 10 | 5.000 | |
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bigdog63 | |
486,00 | 3 | 6.000 | |
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justice2007 | |
70 | 1.000 | ||
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horschd77 | |
39 | -14 | 750 | |
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42 | 1.000 | |||
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indiciuz | |
16 | 2 | 500 | |
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ichithekiller2517 | |
96 | 0 | 15.000 | |
What is the Bankroll Challenge?
In the Bankroll Challenge we encourage our members to get better by blogging about their poker journey and setting some ambitious goals.
Our members found that having a blog kept them accountable to their goals and it's a great way to help them get to know their fellow PokerStrategists. As the saying goes 'what gets measured, gets managed' and simply having a blog keeps you on your A-Game.
To help you on your journey and with a little bit of luck you can win $100 that we will raffle once a month among our active bloggers, regardless of where they play, accompanied by a special badge for their forum avatar for anyone succeeding in their first Bankroll Challenge.
How to join the Bankroll Challenge
The challenge is open to all PokerStrategists and you do not need to be tracked to us to participate. All you need to do is:
- Start a blog in our forum.
- State your starting bankroll, your regular stakes/games and your poker room in the first post.
- Set a long term bankroll goal of at least $500 and/or a minimum of five times your starting bankroll.
- Sign-up to the Bankroll Challenge in our registration thread, with a link to your personal blog, your initial bankroll and your goal.
- Post at least once a week in your blog.
Once a month we will raffle $100 among all eligble PokerStrategists participating in the Bankroll Challenge regardless of where you play.
Double Dip with the Blogger Raffle
After running our community raffle in familiar fashion for years, with one or two special editions sprinkled in, we're now switching things up permanently!
There are brand-new weekly prizes to be won that you can get your hands on and a whole range of new tasks that go along with the new Blogger Raffle.
As the name suggests, there are now way more ways available for active contributors in our forum to win one of the weekly prizes, alongside weekly StrategyPoints milestones and various other tasks. Commenting news, watching videos, or most of the other old website tasks won't result in weekly raffle tickets any longer, though.
We're also mixing things up when it comes to the weekly prizes, making sure all our weekly winners will be able to cash out their prize right away through our Tell-a-Friend account system, whichever way they prefer.
Check out the latest winners right away
| Rank | Prize |
|---|---|
| 1 | $150 |
| 2 | $75 |
| 3 | $50 |
| 4 | $50 |
| 5 | $50 |
There's a total prize pool of $375 up for grabs every single week, with the following tasks available for you to complete every week or once as a one-time boost in order to earn tickets for the new raffle.
After the official first run of the raffle, we've slightly adjusted the amount of tickets collectable through earning StrategyPoints or posting in a member's blog, with the former now bringing less and the latter more tickets than before.
| Weekly Blogger Tasks | Tickets |
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| Post an update in your own blog in our forum | 25 |
| Post in the blog of other community members | 10 (up to 5x) |
| Get a reaction of other members in your own blog | 25 |
| Other Weekly Tasks | |
| Earn 1 SP in a given week | 1 |
| Earn 100 SP from Monday to Friday | 5 |
| Buy a status in our Points Shop | 25 |
| Refer one new player | 10 |
| One-time Tasks | |
| Reach Silver status for the first time | 10 |
| Reach Gold status for the first time | 10 |
