365 with Freebie

Hi Sassulo,
Welcome to PokerStrategy.com

Since you're doing a challenge, and have a blog, be sure to sign up for the Bankroll challenge.
Full details here: https://forums.pokerstrategy.com/forum/thread.php?postid=3255945#post3255945

I have the idea that poker players are today better in general if you compare it with 2023.
Off course bad players will always exist.

Good luck with blogging and you're poker challenge

Cheers,
SDK1987

First update DAY 1-3

As I mentioned before Top Up my account of 20$. With first deposit I choose free tickets as they have bigger value compare to 100% deposit bonus.
In Total I got 52.5 $ in 2.5$ and 0.5 $ tickets to AOF Sit And GO.
My first impression about AOF is more likely one Big gamble but got Lucky and so far after redeem 3 days tickets managed doubled my Bankroll from 20$ to 40.59$ .
Meantime I really like daily Freebie and slowly start playing Spin & Gold 0.25$ max6 players tables

Site: GG Poker
Starting Bankroll: 20$
Current Bankroll: 40.59$
1st Goal: 200$
Played Sit and Go Tables: 10
Played daily Freebie: 3
Played Free Bonus : 16

Thank you

Originally posted by Sassulo
Thank you
You're welcome and you start looks good, but still a long way to go.

Update DAY 4-8
Hey everyone here is my update number 2 after 8 days in GG poker.
If want to describe those days I would say Insane roller-coaster
just upside downs from Tilt to A game. Definitely can say need to keep my emotions under control as after 2 Bad beats in 1 hour I went ballistic First Bad Beat went All in with AA against pair of Jacks and suuuure River killed me . I said ok let's move on. In next 15 min gt another shot with full house agggrhhh
And then went everything down LoL that was my 5th day of playing and lost more than 10$ .
Lucky for me I stopped at that moment and just cleared my head to be ready for following days.
Days 6-7 started playing bit more tight and less Loose Aggressive game and fruits started coming even I prefer playing more aggressive style which obviously contains bigger wins also bigger loses.
My Current stats on Rush Hold'em game

VPIP - 23%
PFR - 18%
ATS - 28%
3BET - 13%
Played hands : 4257
Any suggestions were I should push bit more ?

Site: GG Poker
Starting Bankroll: 20$
Previous Bankroll : 40.59$
Current Bankroll: 67.09$
1st Goal: 200$

Hey! Welcome and nice to see a fellow blogger. You tripled your bankroll in 4K hands, can't get much better then that I'd say. But I recognize the insane rollercoaster grinds especially on the zoom or rush formats but that's just part of the game, especially on zoom/rush formats.

Good luck with your challenge and blogging

Originally posted by FriskyArt
Hey! Welcome and nice to see a fellow blogger. You tripled your bankroll in 4K hands, can't get much better then that I'd say. But I recognize the insane rollercoaster grinds especially on the zoom or rush formats but that's just part of the game, especially on zoom/rush formats.

Good luck with your challenge and blogging

Be honest first double up was from free deposit tickets so not too much to be proud of it I started playing zoom/rush formats on day 4 so it's like 1K hands per day
hehe

Hi, and welcome to Pokerstrategy,

Nice start in this challenge of yours, I'm curios what do you play after building your bankroll a bit. Will you be playing all kind of games, or just focus on one type?

Good luck to you,

Originally posted by Sassulo

My Current stats on Rush Hold'em game

VPIP - 23%
PFR - 18%
ATS - 28%
3BET - 13%
Played hands : 4257
Any suggestions were I should push bit more ?

Your stats are good. If you continue to keep them in this range you will be making $$$. I don't know exactly how they change when you move stakes up.

Originally posted by mariussica88
Hi, and welcome to Pokerstrategy,

Nice start in this challenge of yours, I'm curios what do you play after building your bankroll a bit. Will you be playing all kind of games, or just focus on one type?

Good luck to you,
Hey mariussica88,
So far I am fighting on all fronts : )
- in cash games still in 0.01/0.02 and marking guys with colors
- Sit and Go also only micro stakes 0.25 buy ins
- And tournaments .. so far so good
Will see as you mentioned one day when I go for higher stakes things will probably change but I want to keep my variety of games.
Do don't want to focus only on 1 type as all those 3 games mentioned above has it's own charm .
To be honest after I changed poker room from PS to GG was surprised with number of players playing GG and really considering to close PS ♦
Really enjoying Bounty Hunters tournaments now days reminds me old days in Full Tilt .

Anyway
Thanks a lot to look at my stats and believe on day we meet in room somewhere

Update DAY 9-14 part I FREE FALL
Hey guys,

Long time no see you .
Honestly been busy wit family, holidays, ect.
I will put my update in 2 parts.

First part couldn't have better name than FREE FALL.
I believe everyone came across period when you have feeling all going your way.
Almost every hand you play switch to the money ... I felt INVINCIBLE ♠_evil:
Until...
Shitstorm came faster than my dog when I open bag of treats .
Game by game I started loosing hands pocket A's pocket K's on river
Lost handful of Full houses against bigger one's and can carry on . Obviously Tilt was waiting just behind the corner until I loose my shit.

Hello tilt, my old friend
I've come to talk with you again
Because a vision softly creeping
Left its seeds while I was sleeping
And the vision that was planted in my brain
Still remains
Within the sound of silence

Than.. wuaaaa here we go .
FREE FALL till around 17$
That really hurt TBH.
Need it break so I focused on other things like family and dogs , yoga , relaxation .
Anyway .. Shit happens we have to move on ...

Update DAY 15-21 part II RISE OF THE SASSULO
Dogs
Yoga
Wife
Study of my hands
Disconnection helped took some lessons from Pro's and worked on my game
And results start coming faster than I expected. Started playing more aggressively Set up my starting hands and positions.
Found excellent times for fishing and ..

Rising up, back on the street
Did my time, took my chances
Went the distance, now I'm back on my feet
Just a man and his will to survive

So many times it happens too fast
You change your passion for glory
Don't lose your grip on the dreams of the past
You must fight just to keep them alive

until to day look like this

Site: GG Poker
Starting Bankroll: 20$
Previous Bankroll : 67.09$
Previous Bankroll : 17.69$ DAY 9-14
Current Bankroll: 79.61$
1st Goal: 200$

VPIP - 22%
PFR - 16%
ATS - 25%
3BET - 11%
Rush Played hands : 18,138
Sit & Go 0.25$ - 376 games
Sit & Go 1$ - 91 games

Update DAY 22-35 On the bumpy road

Hey fellas,

Another update form Poker GG Bankroll challenger .
Since I had small tilt and need to reconsider my game play things changed.

As I mentioned before started focusing more not for the game as game is only part of success but mainly to my state of mind.
I believe that's the main issue of many players after few bad beats they go ballistic and they are far far far far away from the optimal game.
Also for some players specially if playing tournaments after hours sitting front of the computer with not big effect get the game boring... Yes talking about tournaments with estimated duration 6+ hours. That was beating me as well .
Here is small advice ... as playing tournament make sense only if you are in top 9 otherwise those hours you spend playing and win peanuts are not worth it.
My strategy is to save some time so I almost never go into tournament first couple of hours and do Buy-In in last 30 min of registration.
Yes most of you have the same question. If you do buy-In in late registration you don't have enough chips .
So let me tell you something.
If you consider yourself as winning player go for early buy and build your stack.
If you have no patience and want to use short cut than go for tournament in Late stage. Why?
You need max double up to be on average stack and save yourself 2h of torture and slow play .
Of course this come with risk and not always is pay off, but also after closing late registration it takes approximately 1 -1.5 hours to be in paid places .
So no need to do too much effort and don' t forget. This is about the winning the tournament not to get your buy in back

Yes I am not the player who want's to sit at the tables for hours to get my 5$ back. I rather take bigger risk and go with short cut

Site: GG Poker
Starting Bankroll: 20$
Previous Bankroll : 79.61$
Current Bankroll: 181.24$
1st Goal: 200$
2nd Goal: 500$
Slowly finishing my first goal so preparing to next goal which will be 500$

See you at the tables

Update DAY 36-40 Staking and no money making

Little update after BIG LOSS .. As all went well tried to Stake Brazilian player Felipe Ramos . Unfortunately Pro Player from GG poker burn like falling star from sky and finished at 216th place. Also with him mine more than 100$
Sadly said really bad beat.

But we have to move on .
Did some small update and from now on you can check some of my tournaments at GG poker live on Youtube /@sassulopoker where will be live stream

Site: GG Poker
Starting Bankroll: 20$
Previous Bankroll : 181.24$
Current Bankroll: 43.53$
1st Goal: 200$
2nd Goal: 500$

Update DAY 41-47 And here we are

Hey Guys,
Another week pass and it's time to summarize what happened.

In my last blog I already mentioned big loss and following week need it to catch them...
Now I can say was success. Even tough I had to play more tournaments than cash games.
Started to mainly focus for Flip & Go 0.05$ and 0.50$ during the week a won few of them and also some final tables.
In the end of the day I was always in Green numbers and managed boos my bankroll to nice numbers.
Also I played other tournaments in order to prepare myself for Tomorrow 16/09/2023 as I will play and also stream LIVE 2 GG Masters tournaments
1. WSOP Online 25$ GGMasters Euro Classic 19:00 CET
2. GGMaters Bounty 25$ 21:00 CET
Will be my first kinda big Tournaments so far and I decided to Sell 25% of my actions .
So guys if you like to support me Shares are available on GG poker

Ok now let's go back to some numbers

Site: GG Poker
Starting Bankroll: 20$
Previous Bankroll : 43.53$
Current Bankroll: 204.81$
1st Goal: 200$
2nd Goal: 500$

LIVE Stream $25 GGMasters Euro Classic

Youtube

/sassulopoker

Originally posted by Sassulo
LIVE Stream $25 GGMasters Euro Classic

Youtube

/sassulopoker

1. WSOP Online 25$ GGMasters Euro Classic 19:00 CET

Finally on money

Good luck tommorow with the live stream. Hopefully you will run well

Originally posted by SDK1987
Good luck tommorow with the live stream. Hopefully you will run well
Finished in 123rd place