How to turn T$1000 into $10 000 cash

Just hopped in to wish you all a Happy New Year, and may all your goals for next year come true.

Originally posted by mariussica88
Just hopped in to wish you all a Happy New Year, and may all your goals for next year come true.

Thanks mariussica88 I hope you have a pleasant exciting 2023!

Happy new year, have a good one

Hi everybody and Happy New Year 🥂

Last week of the year has a bit low on poker tournaments played, but I still managed to get some nice results. I played only 20 tournaments and some satellites to some of the New Years Series events on Pokerstars.
During the week the only one notable results was in the event 9-L the $3.30 NLHE (6-max) where I finished 1671 and cashed.

On Sunday morning I managed to qualify to the New Year Special event - L from a $2.60 sat. and I finished the tournament late last night on 2647th for a min cash. So I started the year ok

Also I played the last 3 tournaments from the Scholars Event but didn't reach top 50. I don't know if this series will continue this year because I don't see any future tournaments in the Pokerstars client.

So the Bankroll at the beginning of the year is:

Played from 26.12.2022 to 01.01.2023

Starting Bankroll: T$1000.50
Last week Bankroll: $842.23 +T$ 699.97 = $1542.20
Current Bankroll: $898.39 + T$ 667.27 = $1565.66

Profit from last week: + $23.46

Goal: $10 000

Have a good week guys and let your goals for 2023 came true

Hi everybody,

In the last weekly I forgot to mention that I also have some tournaments tickets that I plan to use this week

Take care and have a great week.

Unfortunately Pokerstars removed the Scholars tournaments starting this year, due to a business decision. Luckily I managed to win it once

This is from their twitter account

Hi everyone,

In the last week I was focusing mainly on the New Year Series, I played a lot of qualifying satellites to the $11, $22 events and played some $2.20, $3.30 and even $5.50 events. I played also some $4 Spin & Go's to get some tickets and also on Sunday I played some $1,50 Sunday Millions Spin & Go's to try and see if I can get a entry to the Special edition of Sunday Millions. Unfortunately I did not qualify to it, the best prize that I had at my tables was an $11 ticket.

Only on Monday I played the platinum CC freeroll and finished 19th, after that I played only in weekend the $300 CC Freeroll.

I won my ticket to the New Year 65-L event via a $2.20 satellite on Thursday, played it and got $20 in bounties but exited when there where 300 players left to the money places when I played poorly A7o in BTN and called an all in re-steal form the BB which turned out to have KK. I should have been more patient.

Also on Saturday I played with one of the $11 tickets that I won during the week the Road to Sunday Million satellite which is a PKO format tournament and finished 148th for $9.59 and $5 in bounties. That tournament ended brutal again with me in BTN, here is the hand:

PokerStars - 1800/3600 Ante 360 NL (8 max) - Holdem - 8 players
Hand converted by Holdem Manager 3

BB: 160,073 (44.5 bb)
UTG: 99,399 (27.6 bb)
UTG+1: 145,291 (40.4 bb)
MP: 101,695 (28.2 bb)
MP+1: 139,297 (38.7 bb)
CO: 258,904 (71.9 bb)
Hero (BTN): 55,327 (15.4 bb)
SB: 93,678 (26 bb)

8 players post ante of 360, SB posts 1,800, BB posts 3,600

Pre Flop: (pot: 8,280) Hero has A♦: 9♠:
5 folds, Hero raises to 7,560, fold, BB raises to 11,520, Hero raises to 54,967 and is all-in, BB calls 43,447

Flop: (114,614, 2 players) J♦: 3♥: 4♥:

Turn: (114,614, 2 players) K♣:

River: (114,614, 2 players) 8♠:

Results: 114,614 pot (0 rake)
Final Board: J♦: 3♥: 4♥: K♣: 8♠:

BB shows 7♦: 7♠:: (One Pair, Sevens)
(Pre 56%, Flop 74%, Turn 86%)

Hero shows A♦: 9♠:: (High Card, Ace)
(Pre 44%, Flop 26%, Turn 14%)

BB wins 114,614

I need to learn 📖 from this mistakes. It's costing me 💰

So after all this the Bankroll for this challenge today is:

Played from 02.01.2023 to 08.01.2023​

Starting Bankroll: T$1000.50
Last week Bankroll: $898.39 + T$ 667.27 = $1565.66
Current Bankroll: $1061.83 + T$ 524.07 = $1585.90

Profit from last week: + $20.24

Goal: $10 000

Take care everyone and good luck at the tables.

Its simply inspiring to follow your slow and steady work and progress.
Keep on track!

Originally posted by Mizzzzz
Its simply inspiring to follow your slow and steady work and progress.
Keep on track!

Thank you very much for this nice words. I decided to make it a long term challenge because time is our most valuable asset and most of the players play it for fun. So I want to show that it can be done without spending all your time at the tables ( I will definitely take longer ), and that everyone can make it with proper discipline.

Originally posted by mariussica88

Originally posted by Mizzzzz
Its simply inspiring to follow your slow and steady work and progress.
Keep on track!

Thank you very much for this nice words. I decided to make it a long term challenge because time is our most valuable asset and most of the players play it for fun. So I want to show that it can be done without spending all your time at the tables ( I will definitely take longer ), and that everyone can make it with proper discipline.

Yeah man keep it up I've opted for smaller goals that are reachable but won't take as much time. It's important for me to see I am at least making a tiny dent every day or week. If I set out to big a goal, it's like I don't feel like I am making much progress, and this can lead to frustration and then eventually to tilt. Someday I will set out a big goal like yours

Originally posted by jiffybag

Yeah man keep it up I've opted for smaller goals that are reachable but won't take as much time. It's important for me to see I am at least making a tiny dent every day or week. If I set out to big a goal, it's like I don't feel like I am making much progress, and this can lead to frustration and then eventually to tilt. Someday I will set out a big goal like yours

I get that. My first challenge was to make it to $1000 from $37 and managed to finish it in 1 year, here is it From Recreational to Regular

It was a up and down experience, but having a blog helped a lot.

Hi everyone,

In the past week I haven't played that much poker as I would have wanted ( mainly do to work stuff ), I played some New Year Series events with the two $11 tickets that I had won via Spin & Go's last week but no cashes into them. I played mostly from my phone and only on weekend I managed to play from my PC but I did play only freerolls because I was distracted and did not want to waste my bankroll if I can't play properly.
The only cash this week was in the New Year Series event 112-L the $2.20 8-max, where I managed to finish in 1676th and make some good use of the $2.20 ticket that I had.

For the upcoming weeks I will not play that much on Pokerstars for this challenge since on GGPoker has started a new edition of the MiniMillions and since now I have build a nice bankroll there I can play a lot of the tournaments that I want from this series including the Main Event. For the past months I build a really nice bankroll on GGPoker from scratch and I really enjoy the tournaments there.
This are just some results that I had this week :

So for the next 2-3 weeks my focus will mainly be on GGPoker.

I will still be playing on Pokerstars but maybe I have to select the tournaments that I can play.

So the bankroll for this week is:

Played from 09.01.2023 to 15.01.2023​

Starting Bankroll: T$1000.50
Last week Bankroll: $1061.83 + T$ 524.07 = $1585.90
Current Bankroll: $1065.41 + T$ 524.07 = $1589.48

Profit from last week: + $3.58

Goal: $10 000

Take care and have a good week

Hi everyone 👋

I have a bad news for this challenge, my pc was fried today. :(😭 My CPU reached 105 degrees celsius, and It smelled like something was burning. I had it packed and tomorrow I will send it to repairs or replaced. I will se what the guys at the PC company say. So no poker for me until I fix it. I don’t know if I will play from the phone😔

Today the delivery guys will come by to take my PC to the shop and see why this happened. I really hope I don't have to buy a new one.

Originally posted by mariussica88
Today the delivery guys will come by to take my PC to the shop and see why this happened. I really hope I don't have to buy a new one.
In my case, I found that the CPU cooler fans and case fans were filled with dust. This had been no problem until I started streaming, and the increased GPU load caused excessive heat. I replaced the on-board GPU with a high-end second-hand graphics card.

I hope that the fix will be as simple for you.

I have an update on the PC problem . It appears that my CPU Cooler ( Cooler CPU ID-Cooling FrostFlow) was broken so the team that I sent it to have to replace it. In the meantime I play some freerolls from my phone. Here is one result from Saturday. Picture taken from my wife PC.

The weekly updates will be back when I get my PC back. Hopefully by the end of this week. 🤞

Hi guys,

Still no update yet regarding when I get my PC back, the guys at the PC shop like taking there time

The only tournaments that I play are the CC daily freerolls, so I started to study MTT more, at least I use this time to study the game and ranges more. I will update you guys when I know more.

Take care and have a nice week.

Still no update yet regarding when I get my PC back, the guys at the PC shop like taking there time

Next time DM me and I'll talk you through it. Its not GTO, just fixing a pewter, requires barely any thought.

Originally posted by jiffybag

Still no update yet regarding when I get my PC back, the guys at the PC shop like taking there time

Next time DM me and I'll talk you through it. Its not GTO, just fixing a pewter, requires barely any thought.

Take you. Maybe I'll take you on that. Let's hope I don't have any more problems after it arrives.

Let's hope I don't have any more problems after it arrives.

It's a pewter, all they give is problems