Updated on 21 Feb 26 by
Barry carter
Poker Expert

Key stats from the Bankroll Challenge so far

For the stats nerds we have all the important info from the Bankroll Challenge plus our latest $100 winner!





This week in the Bankroll Challenge we take a break from the usual blog round-ups to  take at a larger view of our challengers as a whole. 

Below are some of our key stats at the current time in the Bankroll Challenge:

Category Details
Average BR standing 23% of goal (between almost 0 and 93%)
Total participants 73
Longest participant barrycarter - since 14/8/2021 because he keeps stopping playing
Newest members jeanarrache, ziomal39, ben2m2, masterofthegame, samni
Represented communities 29 x English community, 22 x Polish community, 15 x German community, 2 x IT community, 2 x Dutch community, 1 Spanish community, 1x FR community, 1 x  PT community
Average BR at start $692 
Average Goal $6,300
Average current $1,479

Our average starting Bankroll is $692 and the average current bankroll is $1,479. However, this is very much influenced by our few higher-stakes challengers. Most of our challengers are small-stakes grinders. 

We have 73 participants, most of whom are 1/5th of the way to completing their goal. Our longest-standing challenger is barrycarter who is also possibly our oldest, slowest, and least intelligent challenger too. 

Whatever level you are at at whatever stage of your journey, you can boost your bankroll by being a Bankroll Challenger and participating in the Blogger Raffle - see below for more details. 

Finally, just because we love it, we are ending with some graph porn courtesy of ossenberg.

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Graph goes up!

This month's $100 winner!

One last thing before we get onto the results, the all-important $100 raffle winner. You too can be eligible for this for simply starting and maintaining a blog.

Congratulations to.... rosscoe!

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You did it!

Challenge results so far

These are the current standings in the Bankroll Challenge:

Position Member BR Profit Goal BR
Rang 11
93%
renitz English community 930 1.000
Rang 9
73%
robertbyku2 Polish community 729 253 1.000
Rang 9
73%
ossenberg German community 725 183 1.000
Rang 8 mantelo English community 30219 50.000
Rang 7 prinzvalium German community 701 74 1.250
Rang 6 pokerspass German community 500 1.000
Rang 6 noxx German community 934 2.000
Rang 6 mizzzzz English community 463 1.000
Rang 6 h0witzer English community 223 -2 500
Rang 6 t3l3tubb1es English community 8871 325 20.000
Rang 6 maniac German community 6516 0 15.000
Rang 6 pokerplayernumber1 English community 1074 2.500
Rang 6 muehlijr German community 613 86 1.500
Rang 6 alonohara English community 204 2 500
Rang 5 8texman9 German community 3989 -18 10.000
Rang 5 riverek Polish community 1182 760 3.050
Rang 5 lookawaynow English community 914 83 2.500
Rang 5 rosscoe English community 266 2 875
Rang 5 winsomelosesome English community 151 -10 500
Rang 4 barrycarter English community 2509 -184 8.500
Rang 4 dr789on English community 290 1.000
Rang 4 superior1712 German community 199 750
Rang 4 zygna German community 2904 11.000
Rang 4 3nduranc3 English community 2631 -108 10.000
Rang 4 gomez224 Polish community 382 80 1.500
Rang 4 kaes09 Polish community 248 1.000
Rang 4 kod3er Polish community 2852 12.071
Rang 4 sogar English community 122 -4 525
Rang 4 jiffybag English community 108 2 500
Rang 4 kacic Polish community 528 2.500
Rang 4 justmillion German community 266 1.300
Rang 4 gibnichtauf German community 779 3.830
Rang 3 hanaybee English community 200 1.000
Rang 3 bigdog63 English community 1194 12 6.000
Rang 3 supremin1 Polish community 1860 0 10.000
Rang 3 adidadi Polish community 267 -13 1.500
Rang 3 nazgos English community 1719 10.000
Rang 3 survivelife German community 500 3.000
Rang 3 briankill English community 165 65 1.000
Rang 3 ghaleon English community 4948 9 30.000
Rang 3 nmilan84 English community 1620 94 10.000
Rang 3 mariussica88 English community 1574 -60 10.000
Rang 3 chaparrito77 English community 155 88 1.000
Rang 3 enriquebunbury Spanish community 455 3.000
Rang 3 baadnewz01 Polish community 150 -8 1.000
Rang 3 jimthafo English community 742 -257 5.000
Rang 3 mardibg English community 65 9 500
Rang 3 djalbert182 Polish community 12988 277 100.000
Rang 3 irieill English community 893 7.000
Rang 3 berliner1982 German community 111 1.000
Rang 3 benyslav Polish community 1070 110 10.000
Rang 3 mateqc Polish community 157 1.500
Rang 3 ben2m2 Dutch community 52 27 500
Rang 3 hydroscopist Polish community 104 -13 1.000
Rang 3 fredjen English community 1012 455 10.000
Rang 2 samni English community 1000 10.000
Rang 2 xeperek Polish community 45 -8 500
Rang 2 jacojacek Polish community 290 3.500
Rang 2 verno Polish community 81 1.000
Rang 2 frib German community 77 -1 1.000
Rang 2 grajekteo Polish community 205 2.999
Rang 2 senderson German community 327 5.000
Rang 2 redwinee Polish community 30 500
Rang 2 friskyart English community 106 2.000
Rang 2 masterofthegame Dutch community 25 500
Rang 2 wydepilowanaola Polish community 50 1.000
Rang 2 ziomal39 Polish community 500 10.000
Rang 2 dzikihenry Polish community 49 1.000
Rang 2 heimdall1988 English community 17 -28 500
Rang 2 bigbetpoker English community 70 4.000
Rang 2 marsellusw English community 45 3.000
Rang 1 jedti1 Polish community 30 10.000
Rang 1 jeanarrache FR community 2 1 10.000

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.