RunitOnce Bankroll Challenge €16 - €1k (and beyond???)

Week 8
Hands - 18K
€ Net Won - €21.20
Rakeback - €8.80
Leaderboard - €25
Splash The Pot - €21.14 (*STP winnings do not appear on graph)
Total Bankroll - €235

Week 8 went really well comparable to the previous weeks. With a midweek leaderboard placement for €20 and a good few winning sessions I managed to hit a high of €245. The last 2 days I had a few dead sessions which brought my bankroll down a bit but overall I'm happy with the progress.
Hopefully this coming week I can make a good go and be in around €300. 4NL is starting to feel like a bit of a slog now the problem with having to jump 2 BI levels I suppose. If only I hadn't went on such a bad losing stretch between week 5 and 7 I'd be almost at 20NL but it is what it is.
Anyways here's the graph Link Text...

Hi there, good luck with your challenge!
And a small advice, you can drag and drop the pictures you want to display in the forum directly in the editor to display the content without using any thirdparty service...

Anyway, I will be following your progress!

Thanks! That will make things a lot neater for my posts. I'll be making this weeks post tomorrow so I'll do it that way then. Cheers for the support!

Week 9
Hands - 14K
€ Net Won - €39.20
Rakeback - €8.80
Leaderboard - €22
Splash The Pot - €27.60 (*STP money not represented on graph)
Total Bankroll - €305

Week 9 went well. I placed well in a few cash leaderboards and towards the end of the week I won a good amount at the tables. Certainly it is starting to seem a lot more money is made on the weekend days I haven't checked this up but I'd imagine that is the way it is.
On RIO the 10nl and 20nl cash leaderboards are all the one so to place one of the days I had to play a couple of hands at 20nl which fortunately went well and I won 1.5 BI at the level which helped with Net € Won. I'm hoping that this week I can push on a bit and be in around €400 and make a a go at 20nl.
If I can get to 20nl this week then next week I will post my log of All-in situations at 4nl. I like to keep a record of how I'm doing in 70-30%, 80 -20%, 50-50% etc so I know if I'm running well or not in those spots and helps keep my mindset good even if I'm on a losing stretch.
I'll include my twitch here if anyone wants to check in on my progress hopefully this isn't against forum rules https://www.twitch.tv/vicious746.
Here's the graph for last week;

Week 10
Hands - 15K (9k - 4nl / 6k - 20nl)
€ Net Won - €128
Rakeback - €54
Leaderboard - €5
Splash The Pot - €13 (*All STP earnings are not visible on graphs)
Total Bankroll - €505

During Week 10 I reached €340 with my bankroll and decided to take a shot at 20nl. After 9 full weeks at 4NL and about 130k hands I've had my fill of the stake and it was time to try launch myself clear of the godforsaken hellhole that it is.

Due to the structure of the weekly leaderboards on RIO when I decided to take a shot at 20NL the games were a bit slow moving as the prizes had already been wrapped up so for the sake of the challenge and for time efficiency I decided to make a deposit on GG. I still think RIO is the best place for cash players and will definitely continue on there. To keep the integrity of the challenge I deposited a similiar amount of money on GG and would from this point forward play both sites logging my wins/losses as the one record. Obviously RIO use € and GG uses $ but for these posts I'll just keep using €.

In saying all that the shot went well. Across both sites I ended winning almost €130 in total which puts me in a good enough comfort zone at the limit. Hopefully I can avoid sharp losing streaks like the one at 4NL but I feel that I am playing in a way that I can avoid massive losses as the last 50k+ hands show at 4NL. I feel confident enough that even if I don't win much I feel I won't lose much either and RB & promotions will keep me floating along. Although Poker does have a way of luring you into a fall sense of security, you go on 30k hand heater and you think you're the best player ever or a 30k losing stretch and you think the game is rigged lol.

The following is my final graph at 4NL. May I never return to its wretched depths! After this I'll also post my 20/25NL graph on GG and RIO, hopefully this won't be too confusing after this week.
https://www.twitch.tv/vicious746

Week 11
Hands - 15.5K
€ Net Won - (-€21)
Rakeback - €29
Leaderboards - €23
Splash The Pot - €14.70 (*STP does not appear on graphs)
Total Bankroll - €536

Week 11 was going well and reached a high of about €630 until the last session on Sunday night. 3 hands on 3 tables all within 5 seconds of each other. 3 stack offs and minus €75 all within a heartbeat put a bad taste on the week. Guess that's the way it goes something like that hadn't happened in a while so I guess I was due.

Here's this weeks graphs;
https://www.twitch.tv/vicious746

Is there maybe a leak in your gameplay? Your stats graph starts looking like a rainbow, and I don't think there is a pot of gold at the end of this rainbow.

Haha there's probably a lot of leaks but I'll struggle on. Have to note also that Splash the Pot winnings are not registered on graphs. So there is 100's won but not registered which puts a better look on things. Part 1 of the challenge is almost complete BR is above €800 so closing in on €1k

Week 12
Hands - 14k
Net € Won - €229.50
Rakeback - €28
Leaderboards - €54.50
Splash The Pot - €54.40 (*STP winnings do not appear on graphs)

Nearly there!! Probably would of made if I hadn't blown 8 BI's playing heads up. Let my ego get in the way and made the same mistake on 2 separate occasions stupidly enough.

Hopefully I can be quite close to the completion of stage one of this challenge by the end of this week. If I can get a good placement in the leaderboards and maybe reach the next tier of RB that should be close enough. Barring any ridiculous mistakes (Like playing HU again) or any extensive losing streak I hope to get there by next Monday.

https://www.twitch.tv/vicious746

Anyways here are this weeks graphs;

Nice going keep it up

Thanks man!!

Week 13
Hands - 13.5k
Net € Won - (-€489)
Rakeback - €23
LdrBoard - €48
Splash The Pot - €37.50 (*STP money not represented on graphs)
Total Bankroll - €430

Complete disaster!! The worse week of the whole challenge by far. 13K hands of poker butchery. 20+BI plummet. Could not win a stack off if my life depended on it. The following are my all in results in losses;
- x3 50% -x2 55% -x2 80%
- x4 85% -x1 65%
- x3 70% -x1 95%

Also KK vs AA 7 times, however I got away from it and folded twice so really 5 times. On one session in less than 100 hands I lost 4 all ins (which equated to 6 BI's) to a complete maniac who was turfing every hand x1-70%, x1-80% and x2-85%.

Now with regard to the KK vs AA I feel I was probably due because I distinctly remember thinking to myself a few weeks ago when things were going well that my KK was never running into it, lol, so that was probably always going to happen but holy god when it rains it pours. Think I read somewhere that on average at 6 max its only meant to happen once every 10k hands or something so that puts things in perspective.

Throw never connecting with boards in 3B hands, no sets, no made flushes and when I say 'no' I'm not exaggerating I mean 0. Sitting to the right of 2 or 3 people with 15%+ 3Betting and yet somehow they never walk into a 3B of KK, AA or QQ. A perfect storm for bleeding money. A massacre!!

People can talk about all the poker strategy in the world but the stuff that's happening here is just pure variance. It's something like 22 BI's gone in 13k hands to simple poker decisions that anyone who plays poker good or bad would make. I always see posts on forums about 'oh your losing streak shouldn't be greater than this or that amount at these limits' what are they talking about, you can lose a fortune by being in the best position you can expect to be in.

On a good note I'll have my monthly RB coming soon so that might make things look a bit better. I'll probably stop playing for a few days until that goes into my account and makes me feel better lol. When I start back I might drop to 4/5nl for a bit until I feel like I'm making some hands and the game is flowing in my favour. It now seems a long way to go again. So close but now so far!

Here's the graphs;

Week 14
Hands - 31K
Net € Won - €261
Rakeback - €146
Ldrboard - €90
Total Bankroll - €788

So after the disaster of week 13 I took a little break for a week and a bit playing very sporadically an hour here or there, mostly at 5NL, until I felt like my bad run was over.

When starting back at the beginning of last week I decided to give 25NL zoom a little a go and have been running ok there after 30K hands or so. I've regained most of my losses so I'm nearly back to where I was. Hopefully in the coming week I can push on and finally break the 1k mark.

Here is my graph which exclusively covers 25nl zoom,

Week 15
Hands - 21k
Net € Won - €157
Rakeback - €31
LeaderBoard - €26
Total Bankroll - €1001

Part 1 Complete . As of today I just crossed the 1k threshold having. It was an up and down week having come within €20 to €30 twice and going back down. Having come within €50 the third time I dropped to 10nlz to get over the line.

The Winning Hand - https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1001515389

I'm delighted to have finally completed stage 1. It's taken me 15 weeks to make over sixty times my starting balance, now on to stage 2, 10k!

I'm no mathematician but that should mean in another 15 weeks I should have about 60k, lol.

Anyways here's my graph at 25nlz for last week. I won't include the probably 5-10k hands i played at 10nlz

Week - 16
Hands - 18K // 12k(zoom) 6K(NL)
€ Net Won - (-€100)
Rakeback/LdrBoard - €64
Total Bankroll - €970

Card dead, 30/35hrs of losing €100 and winning €100. Riveting stuff!!

Here's the current zoom graph

The stats look healthy, well done!

Aaah, they're up and down lol. It's a slow process but nearly at 50nl now. If I can just hit a little streak soon that would be lovely