GGPoker launch Bankroll Challenge Prop Bet

You can now bet on your success at the tables with your fellow GGPoker players with the next Prop Bet feature.

In May GGPoker launched Last Longer bets within their client, with the promise of more 'Prop Bets' to come. 

The next big prop bet is the Bankroll Challenge. As the name suggests, this is where you can bet that you can make a certain profit by a certain time frame. 

So, if for example, you play Spin & Gold and you want to make it interesting, you might set a challenge to make $100 in a month playing $5 Spins. You can then bet with other GGPoker players on whether that happens. 

The Bankroll Challenge is available via the 'Prop Bet' button in the GGPoker lobby:

If you choose to create a challenge, you have to specify the games and stakes you will bet on:

These are the available games in the Bankroll Challenge:

Tournaments

• Spin & Gold
• Battle Royale
• Flip & Go
• AoF Sit & Go
• Tournaments

Cash Games

• Hold'em
• PLO / PLO-5
• AOF (Hold'em/Omaha)
• Short Deck
• Rush & Cash (Hold'em/Omaha)
• VIP Games

Or you can choose to play all games and stakes in your challenge. 

After you choose your game and stakes, you then set the length of the challenge (the maximum is 100 days) and the amount of profit you aim to make:

Profits gained from the following features are included in Bankroll Challenge:

• GGCheers & GGCare
• Honeymoon
• Bad Beat Jackpot
• AOF Jackpot
• Bounty Jackpot
• Red Envelope / Cash Drop
• All-In Fortune
• Leaderboards

Profits gained from the following features are excluded from Bankroll Challenge:

• Bet on Flop
• Next Hand Roulette
• Spin & Gold Insurance Prop Bets
• Staking

Once you have set your challenge, you can set the terms of the bet. This is how many bets you are willing to take, and the markup you apply to the bet. The default is an even money bet, but you can apply a markup as low as 0.1 or as high as 2.0:

Once you set your challenge, people can rail your progress. 

This will no doubt prove a fun feature. Profit prop bets are a staple part of the poker world, and this is a very safe way to escrow the funds, and also bet on your edge. GGPoker does not appear to take any kind of fee for providing this service. 

If this looks like fun to you, it would be a perfect thing to integrate into our own Bankroll Challenge for our members. 

What is the PokerStrategy.com Bankroll Challenge?

In the Bankroll Challenge we encourage our members to get better by blogging about their poker journey and setting some ambitious goals.

Our members found that having a blog kept them accountable to their goals and it's a great way to help them get to know their fellow PokerStrategists. As the saying goes 'what gets measured, gets managed' and simply having a blog keeps you on your A-Game.

To help you on your journey and with a little bit of luck you can win $100 that we will raffle once a month among our active bloggers, regardless of where they play, accompanied by a special badge for their forum avatar for anyone succeeding in their first Bankroll Challenge.

How to join the Bankroll Challenge

The challenge is open to all PokerStrategists and you do not need to be tracked to us to participate. All you need to do is:

• Start a blog in our forum.
• State your starting bankroll, your regular stakes/games and your poker room in the first post.
• Set a long term bankroll goal of at least $500 and/or a minimum of five times your starting bankroll.
• Sign-up to the Bankroll Challenge in our registration thread, with a link to your personal blog, your initial bankroll and your goal.
• Post at least once a week in your blog.

Once a month we will raffle $100 among all eligble PokerStrategists participating in the Bankroll Challenge regardless of where you play.

Double Dip with the Blogger Raffle

After running our community raffle in familiar fashion for years, with one or two special editions sprinkled in, we're now switching things up permanently!

There are brand-new weekly prizes to be won that you can get your hands on and a whole range of new tasks that go along with the new Blogger Raffle.

As the name suggests, there are now way more ways available for active contributors in our forum to win one of the weekly prizes, alongside weekly StrategyPoints milestones and various other tasks. Commenting news, watching videos, or most of the other old website tasks won't result in weekly raffle tickets any longer, though.

We're also mixing things up when it comes to the weekly prizes, making sure all our weekly winners will be able to cash out their prize right away through our Tell-a-Friend account system, whichever way they prefer.

Check out the latest winners right away

There's a total prize pool of $375 up for grabs every single week, with the following tasks available for you to complete every week or once as a one-time boost in order to earn tickets for the new raffle.

After the official first run of the raffle, we've slightly adjusted the amount of tickets collectable through earning StrategyPoints or posting in a member's blog, with the former now bringing less and the latter more tickets than before.

Will you do a GGPoker Bankroll Challenge? Let us know in the comments: