Updated on 21 Feb 26 by
Barry Carter
Poker Expert

How to finish a Bankroll Challenge in style!

Our Bankroll Challengers have been closing out MTTs, going deep live, winning satellites and getting very disciplined with their study this week.





There is completing the Bankroll Challenge, and then there is completing the Bankroll Challenge in style. Congrats to whiteeagle who finished their challenge by winning an MTT outright!

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Nice work!

Another deep live run for mantelo. He came 36th out of 1,526 players in the Eureka Main Event, which he blogged about here

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Mantelo

Will pockettwo393 have a deeper run? He has a good chance as he just won live tickets to both the Irish Open and the Estrellas Poker Tour. Good luck!

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From the online to the live felt

How hard are you working on your game? Is it as hard as fredjen who just posted this very structured study schedule?

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Does your schedule look like this?

PLO fan? If you don't already, follow the blog of ghaleon who always posts interesting spots like this:

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More PLO skills 

Bankroll Challenge Standings

Position Member BR Profit Goal BR
Rang12
104%
whiteeagle Polish community 2083,00 241 2
Rang11
94%
t3l3tubb1es Italian community 18778,77 20
Rang10
86%
kyyberi English community 863,00 194 1
Rang10 alonohara English community 418,00 7 500
Rang8 ghaleon English community 18041,00 622 30
Rang7 winsomelosesome English community 165,93 300
Rang7 dupin2000 Spanish community 308 40 600
Rang7 lahtipelican English community 252,00 45 500
Rang6 blackmagicnew Italian community 1.25 2.5
Rang6 deadman Italian community 365 67 750
Rang6 rosscoe English community 405,00 22 875
Rang6 maniac German community 6890,50 15
Rang6 oodoleoo German community 4100,00 10
Rang5 tara771 English community 7930,00 3717 20
Rang5 ingo1989 German community 396,24 1
Rang5 fagin English community 554,00 233 1.5
Rang5 peal3 Polish community 364,00 82 1
Rang5 kostja007 German community 179,00 35 500
Rang5 realbess German community 3830,00 60 10.777
Rang5 mariussica88 English community 3489,00 140 10
Rang5 arahell Italian community 1686,00 5000
Rang5 elhive German community 331 130 1
Rang5 milianto Italian community 812 67 2.5
Rang5 mantelo English community 18416,00 2107 60
Rang4 diplomatta English community 299 1
Rang4 ossenberg German community 267,00 35 1
Rang4 padelbro English community 13.956 3322 55
Rang4 rra1der Dutch community 610,00 -324 2.5
Rang4 t1ron German community 121,00 500
Rang4 bkbart English community 4.561 20
Rang4 djalbert182 Polish community 22615,00 -289 100
Rang4 fredjen English community 2172,00 -206 10
Rang4 atrbh English community 107,38 500
Rang4 barrycarter English community 6338,00 210 30
Rang4 grindmore German community 2101,00 10
Rang3 lastchanse Polish community 150,00 75 750
Rang3 otherpeoplesmoney German community 118 58 600
Rang3 padelbro English community 10634,00 55000
Rang3 lendartecho English community 1157,00 6
Rang3 leoninja Italian community 565,00 3
Rang3 rhodriguez English community 1112,00 -25 6
Rang3 abayer1860 German community 111 -14 625
Rang3 deadlifter1 German community 88,00 500
Rang3 irieill English community 1.229 -65 7
Rang3 bigdog63 English community 1050,00 63 6
Rang3 2outterkiller English community 172 1
Rang3 dekals Dutch community 333,00 9 2
Rang3 meangreen Dutch community 163 -9 1
Rang3 cochalo Spanish community 85 8 559
Rang3 zakyoun270 English community 600 4
Rang3 my5tyle German community 725,00 145 5
Rang3 finchmeister German community 800,00 6
Rang3 microstackes Italian community 387,00 3
Rang3 retrograde87 Polish community 601 336 5
Rang2 jacojacek Polish community 60 600
Rang2 dekrypto German community 67 0 750
Rang2 novak53 English community 44.32 4320 500
Rang2 pockettwo393 English community 135,00 2
Rang2 lagavulin16y German community 2.9 141 50
Rang2 ddklk German community 139,00 8 2.5
Rang2 zakis19 English community 67 17 1.25
Rang2 luczyk10 Polish community 254 22 5
Rang2 xxxgtrxxx Spanish community 25,00 500
Rang2 sharkstar777 German community 23,00 -2 500
Rang2 justice2007 German community 42 36 1
Rang2 donwolfo English community 85 14 2.4
Rang2 robertbyku2 Polish community 275,84 10
Rang2 psychofin English community 13 1
Rang2 ichithekiller2517 Spanish community 153 -191 15
Rang2 winnerke123 English community 10 -10 1
Rang1 checkdex English community 0 -100 500

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

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Blogger Raffle

at PokerStrategy.com

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.