This is when I started the bankroll challenge some time ago.
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Originally posted by jonnyyman12
Week 1Starting Bankroll: 65$
PLO2 4 tables Zoom on Stars
Hands played: 11.491
Winnings: 2.129 BB / 42.58$
Bankroll: 113,30$Won some leaderboard $$$ which will stay in the roll and add to the challenge if that's allowed.
Not long after that post, I stopped playing and cashed out all what I had on the software.
Today, I decided to document my play, again, because I am playing regularly again, lately. I had some private stuff to take care of and that left no time for me to play in peace. That has been solved.
I wanted to play cash games at the start of April again on Pokerstars.
After logging in, I received a pop-up message that said something like "Whoa, you were gone 160 days! How about a welcome back deposit bonus?"
So I used the opportunity and deposited 60$. As a bonus, I received a 10$ Spin & Go Ticket which I used while walking my sister's dog.
It was a literal walk in the park, so when the little frenchy had taken his dump, my bankroll had already grown to 70$.
For the next 3 days, whenever I walked the dog, I played one table of 2NL Zoom, and from day 3 onward, I played 5NL Zoom three times a day for 20 minutes, and I managed to climb up to 90$.
Then my sister's dog was returned to her. I installed Pokerstars on my computer to play some longer sessions with more tables, and what shall I say:
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I suck at this game:f_cry: and it looks like I was just lucky in the beginning.
The enjoyment of playing cards slowly faded, once again. I felt dumb-witted and bungling. But then, out of nowhere: another fancy pop-up by Pokerstars!
"Earn 2.000 redemption points for a cash reward of 160$ until the end of April".
And I thought 'Well, this might be 40% Rakeback, but will it cover my inability to make money at the tables?'
I think it would not be worth the effort as I need to play a ton of hands in no time to actually fulfill the requirement of 2k redemption points.
I doubt that this challenge is easily doable on 5NL, so I looked up how many Flash Spin and Go's I would need to play for those 2k redemption points.
I receive 0.8 points per 2$ Flash Spin, so that would make 2.5k 2$ Flash Spins to get the 160$ Rakeback chest.
'That sounds much easier than a gazillion hands on 5NL,' I thought, so I started playing 4 tables of 2$ Flash Spins for 2 days in a row. The result is one that I cannot interpret, to be honest.
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I think I ran hot, and additionally to that, 2$ Spins seem to be quite soft. So my plan for the rest of April will be to get in as many games as possible to accomplish the chest reward and boost my bankroll.
The overall goal for this bankroll challenge is to build a live poker bankroll of something north of 10k, plus another 5k that I can dump on my wife and say 'go buy nice shit!'
Because I love her and she is very understanding with me regarding any of my stupid ideas.
So I would like to call myself back in the Bankroll Challenge program:
Start April 01, 2022.
Bankroll: 60$
Bankroll goal: 500$
Update April 18, 2022
Bankroll: 209,66$
Bankroll goal: 500$
Please excuse my previous lack of documentation on how this new high of my roll came together. I opened a lot of chests since April first and that alone might have been 70$. I can't tell for sure.
Good luck to all of you.
Cheers
