Updated on 21 Feb 26 by
Barry Carter
Poker Expert

From $100 to $10,000 in three months

Mic drop! The dream is still alive! Two of our Bankroll Challengers got over the line this month, both in very impressive fashion!





Congratulations to fredjen who is the latest player to complete their Bankroll Challenge. He got his bankroll above $10k playing Short Deck and is now on to the next challenge of becoming a semi-professional!

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Our first Short Deck graph!

Speaking of great graphs, it was a great month for milianto who is now just 1% (Say it again, 1%!) away from being the next Bankroll Challenge finisher!

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More upwards graphs!

Did you think we had finished the Bankroll Challenge completions? No. In what may be one of our best yet, n3bojsa turned $100 into $10,000 in just under three months!

He went from NL5 Rush on GGPoker to NL100 Zoom on PokerStars. In his own words "Dream is still alive guys, you just have to want it bad enough!"

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His NL100 graph!

Finally, if this has you pumped, mantelo checked in to see how his goals are going in 2024. He is on pace to complete a lot, but still has a lot of work to do in the others. He is a crusher so you can learn a lot from how he stays focussed on his aims. 

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Mantelo

Bankroll Challenge Standings

Position Member BR Profit Goal BR
Rang 12
105%
fredjen English community 10524,00 3521 10.000
Rang 11
99%
milianto Italian community 2.475 55 2.500
Rang 11
96%
ossenberg German community 962,00 -13 1.000
Rang 9 ghaleon English community 23707,00 30.000
Rang 9 dupin2000 Spanish community 467 0 600
Rang 8 n3bojsa English community 6.893 2841 10000
Rang 8 birjaan English community 1.232 -338 1840
Rang 8 tondy88 English community 317 500
Rang 8 fagin English community 933,00 155 1.500
Rang 7 rosscoe English community 500,00 -6 875
Rang 7 retrograde87 Polish community 2.616 -2 5.000
Rang 6 kostja007 German community 225,00 500
Rang 6 cochalo Spanish community 245 23 559
Rang 6 5agittariusa English community 1.083 145 2500
Rang 6 realbess German community 4580,00 0 10.777
Rang 6 meangreen Dutch community 401 1.000
Rang 5 almightytt English community 390 136 1.000
Rang 5 affltr English community 700,00 550 2.000
Rang 5 oodoleoo German community 3440,00 170 10.000
Rang 5 dekals Dutch community 685,00 2.000
Rang 5 mooharius German community 326 1.000
Rang 5 t3l3tubb1es Italian community 3062,00 760 10.000
Rang 4 mantelo English community 17339,00 1672 60.000
Rang 4 mariussica88 English community 2866,00 -84 10.000
Rang 4 djalbert182 Polish community 28292,00 283 100.000
Rang 4 rhodriguez English community 1519,00 14 6.000
Rang 4 visionboard English community 125 121 500
Rang 4 georgezsiga English community 169 702
Rang 4 tomicxd English community 135 35 600
Rang 4 barrycarter English community 6079,00 30.000
Rang 3 rra1der Dutch community 487,00 2.500
Rang 3 irieill English community 1.221 -23 7.000
Rang 3 gmateus English community 170 1000
Rang 3 garynicol85 English community 163 23 1000
Rang 3 tonyozhelev English community 95 600
Rang 3 stackoffski English community 414 9 3.000
Rang 3 indiciuz Spanish community 68 500
Rang 3 padelbro English community 7308,00 55000
Rang 3 grindmore English community 1.237 17 10.000
Rang 3 novak53 English community 60.552 500.000
Rang 3 padelbro English community 6.448 55.000
Rang 3 smice12 English community 110 1000
Rang 3 daddycool English community 107 1000
Rang 2 bigdog63 English community 389,00 6.000
Rang 2 robertbyku2 Polish community 610,00 182 10.000
Rang 2 alonohara English community 76 51 2025
Rang 2 arahell Italian community 185,00 -15 5000
Rang 2 jacojacek Polish community 19 560

What is the 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

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Blogger Raffle

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Start your own blog

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

PokerStrategy.com Blogger Raffle - Weeky Prizes
Rank Prize
1 $150
2 $75
3 $50
4 $50
5 $50

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.

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Weekly Blogger Tasks Tickets
Post an update in your own blog in our forum 25
Post in the blog of other community members 10 (up to 5x)
Get a reaction of other members in your own blog 25
Other Weekly Tasks
Earn 1 SP in a given week 1
Earn 100 SP from Monday to Friday 5
Buy a status in our Points Shop 25
Refer one new player 10
One-time Tasks
Reach Silver status for the first time 10
Reach Gold status for the first time 10


Poker Expert

Barry Carter is the editor of PokerStrategy.com and the co-author of The Mental Game of Poker 1 & 2, Poker Satellite Strategy, PKO Poker Strategy, Endgame Poker Strategy, GTO Poker Simplified, Mystery Bounty Poker Strategy and Beyond GTO. In 2025, he won the Global Poker Awards for Best Book and Twitter Personality of the Year.