Updated on 21 Feb 26 by
Barry carter
Poker Expert

Middled aged man completes slowest ever Bankroll Challenge

Our Bankroll Challengers are crushing BBJs, (almost) folding Quads and we have two more challenge finishers. Plus we have the $100 winner!





We say it again and again, but our Bankroll Challengers are blessed in the GGPoker Bad Beat Jackpots. This really does prove it, as adidadi got two of them in one month

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If you are going to be unlucky...
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....do it at BBJ tables

This COULD have been a Bad Beat Jackpot hand, kyyberi really wanted to fold Quads at the PLO tables, but couldn't...

No bad beats here - congrats to gomez224 who has just completed his challenge to get to $1,500 courtesy of this result:

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They key result

Speaking of completed challenges. Do you remember a time when petrol was cheap, we had never heard of COVID and nobody was addicted to smartphones? That was roughly the time when our editor barrycarter started his Bankroll Challenge. 

Thanks to nearly making the final table of the International Poker Open (which he satellited into for €10) he has finally taken his bankroll past the €10,000 mark. His strategy was complaining about bad beats on the blog which then always led to an upswing (seriously read his blog, it's what happened). Congrats to him, but we don't think poker will be a game by the time he completes his next challenge to get to €45,000. 

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No grey hairs when he started the challenge

This month's $100 winner....

Who is the member we are all jealous of for getting $100 just for blogging this month?

Congrats to.....broddis!

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Challenge results so far

These are the current standings in the Bankroll Challenge, congrats to our latest challenge completers!

Position Member BR Profit Goal BR
Rang 12
139%
barrycarter English community 10436,00 2767 7.500
Rang 12
100%
gomez224 Polish community 1501,00 161 1.500
Rang 10
84%
ossenberg German community 841,00 35 1.000
Rang 9 alonohara English community 370,00 13 500
Rang 9 t3l3tubb1es English community 14519,00 20.000
Rang 8 h0witzer English community 697,00 1.000
Rang 8 adidadi Polish community 975,00 40 1.500
Rang 7 arahell English community 571,00 124 1000
Rang 6 riverek Polish community 1403,00 3.050
Rang 6 maniac German community 6890,50 0 15.000
Rang 6 ultrasonico Spanish community 225,00 175 500
Rang 6 maxiato765 Spanish community 796,00 1.800
Rang 5 ghaleon English community 11741,00 529 30.000
Rang 5 pokerplayernumber1 English community 850,00 73 2.500
Rang 5 baadnewz01 Polish community 313,00 12 1.000
Rang 4 rosscoe English community 253,00 0 875
Rang 4 adelaar English community 487,00 125 1.750
Rang 4 t1ron German community 139,00 59 500
Rang 4 rra1der Dutch community 647,00 126 2.500
Rang 4 studentishe English community 12685,00 344 50.000
Rang 4 kyyberi English community 748,00 3.000
Rang 4 leeloo80 Polish community 234,00 10 1.000
Rang 4 enemyfu German community 2304,00 10.000
Rang 4 realbess German community 2478,00 445 10.777
Rang 4 mariussica88 English community 2248,00 -53 10.000
Rang 4 ichithekiller2517 Spanish community 1015,00 253 5.000
Rang 3 diggerisadancer German community 400,00 2.000
Rang 3 sharkstar777 German community 100,00 500
Rang 3 tumppi001 English community 250,00 1.250
Rang 3 bigdog63 English community 1085,00 298 6.000
Rang 3 djalbert182 Polish community 16966,00 -56 100.000
Rang 3 lahtipelican English community 73,00 4 500
Rang 3 affltr English community 116,00 -34 1.000
Rang 2 mandator Spanish community 50,00 500
Rang 2 oodoleoo German community 100,00 -210 1.000
Rang 2 fredjen English community 965,00 294 10.000
Rang 2 mascherano95 English community 9273,00 100.000
Rang 2 finchmeister German community 495,00 95 6.000
Rang 2 ciccomagic English community 72,00 12 1.000
Rang 2 friskyart English community 93 2.000
Rang 2 broddis English community 18,00 -42 500
Rang 2 thegrindchronicles English community 112,00 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.