[Closed] The Chris Ferguson challenge

after 1 week of fulltilt freerolls i finally made my first cash in coming 7th place to cash in $4. Now i have a problem of keeping a bankroll without going bankrupt.

I first played a few $1 turbo sitngoes both mtt and 1 table making my bankroll $12.58

I have now decided to play sss at nl 10 until i have the bankroll of $150 to play nl25 and I will also play some mtt's with a max buyin of $1 till $100 then I will play $2 games max. I understand that I may well go bankrupt again still and will carry on trying at the freerolls if i do.

I will post graphs weekly to show you my progress and will have a bankroll counter which i will update whenever possible.

Titan br:$700
total br:$700

Interesting project. I look forward to be following this thread..

good luck

Good luck. Keep us updated.

DON'T play SSS on 10NL at full tilt, 10% rake kills you
good luck!

Great stuff - I would stick with the sng's to be honest. As said 10% rake is bad.

GL

Paul

well its more like 7.3% including rakeback which i think i can live with. If i fail getting into a manageable bankroll the first try then atleast i have something to blame it on. thx for the interest already people.

don't forget to play the 1k guaranteed 10c rebuy every day without rebuying
just playing that might actually be the safest way of building a bankroll.
could take a very long time though

after playing some 700 hands of sss on fulltilt i have decided to quit playing sss until i have atleast 30 buy ins. The reason is the variance is just too high! heres the graph of what happened.

I now have around $4 again after this swingy experience. I dont think i played any hands wrong stuck to the beginner articles word for word which i think is the best thing to do at first then adjust play after a good 5k+hands experience. Im going to go back to the $1 sitn goes decided to only play the 90 people double stack until i have 30 buyins for anything else as to make the money is soo easy its crazy and i cant be dealing with any variance (at all :P) until i have enough buy ins.

So with this in mind i have decided to post some goals for this week starting on thurday 16th july

1. post and review 10 hands (1 so far)
2. dont go bust
3. get a bankroll of $15
4. go to atleast 1 sitngo coaching and 1 sss coaching

wish me luck!

I think you definitely already made it past the hardest part by winning money in a freeroll. I still remember being beaten around rank 250 when some idiot busted my flopped Nut Flush after calling a pot sized bet for two thirds of his stack with Q3o and only one 3 in the flop, then hitting runner-runner for the full house.

You'd think by then all the idiots would have dropped out already. Haven't really played any freerolls there since. Not like it's that easy to get in one for that matter...

yeah i did have alot of problems with that I played about 10 freerolls before cashing in and I really dont want to go through it again as im sure next time itl take literally months to get itm.

gone bust! didnt get itm on either 4 sitngoes and am therefore bankrupt so back to the freerolls! I will pretty much be playing any and all freerolls i can on any site I can.

Im not looking forward to this...

You already cashed once in these freerolls so you can do it, but as said before it can be a pain in the ass again :(.... Why not try to make 10k out of 1$ ♦ U restart with 1$ bankroll everytime you go bust? ♦

Good luck!

I wish you luck with your challange.
Actually I have the same challange and I manage to get to 500 dollars within 4 months.

I was a bit lucky tough and won a MTT winning 100 dollars or such a few weeks into the challange.

I thought to take up challange 5000$ to 1 million without going broke. Phil Ivey had that plan. I also see few problems. If I reach even @ 10 000$ mark, I would probably like to cash out smt like 2000$, so I wont move up so quickly as I could and if I manage to reach 100 000$ then ´I would probably like to cash out 50 000$ lol.

I have pretty much done this challenge with every poker platform i have.
Played freeroll after freeroll and only playing $1 SnG's until reaching $30 then starting SSS 5/10c.
But with pacific poker i play the 1/2c and 3/6c tables to avoid loosing my bankroll.
Gl with your challenge.
It's 100% possible.
Patience Patience Patience.

Good luck with your challenge. The hardest part is actually the way to $50+ since that is where you have problems applying bankroll management. I would stick to tournaments and SNGs until you have a large BR (since especially on FT microstakes cashgame rake is very high)

Best regards,
SoyCD

hmmm these full tilt freerolls arnt so bad after all came 17th in my first tourney since i went broke again to claim another $2 lets hope i make something from it...

not too suprisingly im back to square came 3rd in 3 turbo sit n goes $1 then lost one to pocket rockets v my kings. Then lost another on the bubble playing a8 suited on the sb against AA on bb o well back to the drawing board again I suppose...