Updated on 21 Feb 26 by
Barry carter
Poker Expert

Post your Doggo week in the Bankroll Challenge

We are posting pets and punishing PLO this week in our community forum blogging promotion. Plus we have our $100 winner!





PLO is easy right? It certainly seems that way for our Bankroll Challengers. nadanje has just got to $500 in his PLO challenge and has already set out a big goal to get to $5,000 for his next one

Also big congrats to ghaleon who got his PLO bankroll from €2,000 to €10,571 at Unibet. It took almost 300,000 hands at PLO25 then PLO50 to get there and his PLO25 winrate was 9.71 BB/100. 

The Bankroll Challenge is not just about poker goals, it is about ALL your goals, so big congrats to mjez1 who just completed a half marathon in Prague with his 67-year-old mother no less. 

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The only reason to do anything - the all important medal

A great week at the low stakes MTT tables for both enzoen and mariussica88 - keep it going guys!

Finally it appears to be 'post your Doggos' week in the challenge. Check out some of these pooches that belong to our members and their blogs this week:

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Ghaleon's dog
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naDanje's mutt
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Barry Carter's good boys

The $100 winner is.....

It's that time again, we reward one of our Bankroll Challengers at random with $100 just for keeping up their blog. Today that winner is....

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....alcopopdk - very well done!

The Bankroll Challenge results so far

Position Member BR Profit Goal BR
Rang 12
124%
nadanje English community 619 87 500
Rang 12
103%
ghaleon English community 10321 1409 10.000
Rang 10
90%
tim64 English community 4500 914 5.000
Rang 9 pokerplayernumber1 English community 367 197 500
Rang 9 westhenyi English community 848 156 1.200
Rang 8 dziob Polish community 2000 3.000
Rang 7 hausierer German community 1918 276 3.400
Rang 6 nicoar Spanish community 500 1.000
Rang 6 maniac German community 6895 1267 15.000
Rang 6 barrycarter English community 3805 421 8.500
Rang 5 justmillion German community 927 219 2.500
Rang 5 georgslon Russian community 1535 8 5.000
Rang 4 mkbiscuit English community 11200 40.000
Rang 4 prophili German community 1677 494 6.000
Rang 4 tahnos English community 266 1.000
Rang 4 mantelo English community 12468 1302 50.000
Rang 4 vorpalf2f English community 831 21 3.500
Rang 4 montecarlol English community 236 -29 1.001
Rang 4 enzoen English community 114 47 500
Rang 3 primrose6789 English community 394 1 2.000
Rang 3 microfever English community 250 1.300
Rang 3 omar2nd English community 3385 -122 20.000
Rang 3 alcopopdk English community 76 11 500
Rang 3 djalbert182 Polish community 12571 0 100.000
Rang 3 mjez1 English community 117 4 1.000
Rang 3 theemendez English community 111 1.000
Rang 3 mariussica88 English community 109 13 1.000
Rang 2 eduardleppur English community 128 1.500
Rang 2 talisker74 English community 57 22 750
Rang 2 theenot Russian community 7270 105.000
Rang 2 taavi1337 English community 68 1.000
Rang 2 riffman117 English community 204 5.000
Rang 2 fredjen English community 357 -15 10.000
Rang 2 bigdog63 English community 21 -14 840
Rang 2 pyschi German community 250 2.500
Rang 3 octo777 German community 177 -23 1.000

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.


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.