How do you deal with break even stretches in poker?
Our Bankroll Challengers share how they get over slumps this week, including how to double your bankroll overnight!
How do you deal with break even periods in poker? That's what our member alonohara just went through and he shared a bunch of tips for dealing with it.
It includes improving sleep, removing distractions, developing a routine and more...
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One way to get out of a breakeven stretch is to final table an event with 3,736 players - well done on your SCOOP final table fredjen.
While we are posting PokerStars PKO screenshots, congrats to tara771 for winning a €20 PKO last week.
And an almost win for irieill in a Bounty Hunter MTT on GGPoker.
A week of screenshots of wins would not be complete without mantelo who had deep runs live and online this last week.
Finally, huge congrats to lagavulin16y who doubled his bankroll overnight after winning $1,227 in a GGPoker Bounty Jackpot as well as winning $2,701 for taking down an MTT on GGPoker. What an upswing!
Bankroll Challenge Standings
| Position | Member | BR | Profit | Goal BR | ||
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| alonohara |  |
426,00 | -7 | 500 | ||
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| ghaleon | |
20558,00 | 1287 | 30.000 | ||
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| dupin2000 |  |
396 | 25 | 600 | ||
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kostja007 |  |
304,00 | 2 | 500 | |
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superior1712 | |
422,00 | 750 | ||
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winsomelosesome | |
165,93 | 300 | ||
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milianto |  |
1.362 | 232 | 2.500 | |
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fagin | |
805,00 | -43 | 1.500 | |
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lahtipelican | |
252,00 | 500 | ||
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rosscoe | |
414,00 | 0 | 875 | |
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tara771 | |
9262,00 | -303 | 20.000 | |
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peal3 |  |
445,00 | 1.000 | ||
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retrograde87 | |
2.178 | 707 | 5.000 | |
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ossenberg | |
423,00 | 44 | 1.000 | |
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fredjen | |
4172,00 | 806 | 10.000 | |
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realbess | |
3850,00 | -90 | 10.777 | |
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arahell | |
1686,00 | 5000 | ||
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mariussica88 | |
3239,00 | -79 | 10.000 | |
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oodoleoo | |
3112,00 | -236 | 10.000 | |
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mantelo | |
18603,00 | 5888 | 60.000 | |
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elhive | |
306 | 1.000 | ||
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cochalo | |
160 | 10 | 559 | |
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dekals |  |
566,00 | 26 | 2.000 | |
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meangreen | |
270 | 103 | 1.000 | |
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lovevegas8 | |
828 | 3.100 | ||
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rra1der | |
660,00 | 28 | 2.500 | |
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zakyoun270 | |
1.023 | 4.000 | ||
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djalbert182 | |
22900,00 | -663 | 100.000 | |
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bkbart | |
4.561 | 20.000 | ||
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barrycarter | |
6608,00 | 1090 | 30.000 | |
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andrys1988 | |
104 | 500 | ||
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mooharius | |
201 | 54 | 1.000 | |
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lastchanse | |
150,00 | 750 | ||
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rhodriguez | |
1168,00 | -6 | 6.000 | |
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padelbro | |
10421,00 | 544 | 55000 | |
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leoninja | |
565,00 | 3.000 | ||
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irieill | |
1.275 | -16 | 7.000 | |
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deadman | |
131 | -72 | 750 | |
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otherpeoplesmoney | |
104 | 600 | ||
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padelbro | |
9.346 | 55.000 | ||
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shortsweather | |
800 | 5.000 | ||
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whiteeagle | |
777 | 5.000 | ||
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abayer1860 | |
96 | 625 | ||
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mindean | |
307 | 2.000 | ||
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gui7oliveira | |
2.456 | -740 | 18.000 | |
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thedreamisstillalive | |
12.822 | 100.000 | ||
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bigdog63 | |
637,00 | -32 | 6.000 | |
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novak53 | |
52.700 | 500.000 | ||
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humhom | |
525 | 46 | 5.000 | |
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dekrypto | |
67 | 750 | ||
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jacojacek | |
49 | 560 | ||
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yahto | |
43 | 2 | 500 | |
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lagavulin16y | |
3.965 | 1588 | 50.000 | |
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justice2007 | |
70 | 20 | 1.000 | |
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pockettwo393 | |
135,00 | 2.000 | ||
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sharkstar777 | |
31,00 | 500 | ||
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ddklk | |
154,00 | 2.500 | ||
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wsx2000 | |
56 | -10 | 1.000 | |
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luczyk10 | |
263 | 5.000 | ||
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zakis19 | |
47 | 1.250 | ||
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donwolfo | |
84 | 2.400 | ||
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ichithekiller2517 | |
153 | 15.000 | ||
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winnerke123 | |
10 | 1.000 | ||
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checkdex | |
0 | 500 | ||
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deadlifter1 | |
-130,00 | 500 | ||
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
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
| 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.
| Weekly Blogger Tasks | Tickets |
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| 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 |
