Updated on 21 Feb 26 by
Barry carter
Poker Expert

Let's make 2016 your best year yet

Our Bankroll Challenge is all about setting and sticking to big goals, and that goes double as we approach a new year.

fish shark dream big

Merry Christmas to all our Bankroll Challengers. We appreciate that now is a time that you want to take a break and spend time with your families, so during the holiday season we wont be issuing any yellow or red cards. 

It seems like now is a good time for a lot of our challengers to take a break too, after several spectacular weeks in a row, we had quite a few players lose this week. 

Now is also a great time to start planning your goals for 2016 as several of our members have been doing. 

Let's start with kidzoltan, who has been lots of fun to follow in 2015, and next year he wants to be a high stakes player, at NL1,000 and beyond. 

Set your big goals for 2016 now

Our Bankroll Challenge is all about poker and life goals, and metalmonkey80 has a great example of the latter. He wants to complete a film script in 2016. 

PokerStars Pro coreysteel already has achieved plenty in his career and he will be starting 2016 with a bang, by going to the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure next month

nickycakes has been a great student of the game in 2015 and will be starting the new year with some superb advice from LemOn36 about thinking in ranges

Finally congratulations to pianist8716  who is the lucky winner of a status upgrade. 

You can win an upgrade too. Join our challenge today!

Top  of the week!
Rank Nickname
Profit Rang 2 stompy91 $280
Hands Rang 3 pianist8716 21,418
Bankroll increase Rang 2 stompy91 337%


Overall results to date
Rank Nickname Hands/
MTTs
BR BR+
  $
BR+
  %
goal
Rang 6
88%
bonecore 14308 1765 137 8% $2,0000
Rang 6
62%
coreysteel 1839 621 52 9% $1,00
Rang 6
60%
tonypmm 99 1489 -234 -14% $2,500
Rang 7 kidzoltan 4027 11635 -320 -3% $20,000
Rang 7 elpsycho 10381 2820 -143 -5% $5,000
Rang 7 sirpaulius 307 525 20 4% $1,000
Rang 6 volrath89 1842 0% $4,000
Rang 6 mjperry 2130 0% $5,000
Rang 6 damlqv 0 4107 0 0% $10,000
Rang 5 srna10 2413 561 -1 0% $1,500
Rang 5 vonki 665 536 32 6% $1,500
Rang 5 demonrax 14261 307 -60 -16% $1,000
Rang 4 gasheks 9739 830 50 6% $3,000
Rang 4 frozenelf 266 0% $1,000
Rang 4 m1rcea 34615 10607 -530 -5% $40,000
Rang 4 metalmonkey80 730 842 86 11% $3,250
Rang 4 pianist8716 21418 237 55 30% $1,000
Rang 4 nickycakes 2355 235 39 20% $1,000
Rang 4 d4k5h 38 209 14 7% $1,000
Rang 3 alleen86 6842 1068 -99 -8% $5,305
Rang 3 iptkv 9000 502 59 16% $2,500
Rang 3 alvisr 5269 734 -33 -4% $4,000
Rang 3 mcs1408 4263 892 70 9% $5,000
Rang 3 la55i 2698 178 16 10% $1,000
Rang 3 jakkosh 0 263 0 0% $1,500
Rang 3 crazyguy 383 0% $2,500
Rang 3 bigdog63 5717 212 36 20% $1,500
Rang 3 caltabiano 9374 139 54 64% $1,000
Rang 3 thazar 97 1341 -658 -33% $10,000
Rang 3 macqas 123 0% $1,000
Rang 3 garynicol85 122 0% $1,000
Rang 3 tieppofer 112 0% $1,000
Rang 3 luckyaceguy 164 963 3 0% $9,000
Rang 3 silveira123 10159 107 7 7% $1,000
Rang 2 833fy 102 0% $1,000
Rang 2 nlgr1nd3r 100 0% $1,000
Rang 2 stompy91 8246 363 280 337% $4,000
Rang 2 zoty79 1179 84 1 1% $1,000
Rang 2 grimpop 8284 78 19 32% $1,000
Rang 2 rhodriguez 4603 91 6 7% $1,250
Rang 2 mauritzio 71 0% $1,000
Rang 2 kiromanaakk 56 0% $1,000
Rang 2 confidant91 550 0% $10,000
Rang 2 forexas11 43 0% $1,000
Rang 2 jinnai73 41 -1 -2% $1,000
Rang 2 tukioppilas62 221 0% $10,000
Rang 2 spidersense 100 7 -7 -50% $1,000
Rang 1 demondavies 1 0% $1,000

Join the Challenge Today

Our challenge continues and you have the opportunity to join at any given time. Being late in is not a problem at all and each week one member wins a status upgrade. 

Joining the challenge is easy:

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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.