Should you fold the nuts in PLO?
Our Bankroll Challengers dissect an interesting PLO hand, win more tourneys (obviously) and complete a 300k hand challenge!
Big congrats this week to alonohara who completed his Bankroll Challenge!
It took two years and 300,000 hands to get from $50 to $500 playing NL2. He is about to start a new challenge, but until then, enjoy this sick graph:
When should you fold the nuts? We only have that conversation in satellites and PLO. Check out this interesting discussion between khiiniau and our PLO grinders about folding the nut straight in PLO, complete with Equilab Omaha analysis.
A good week with two final tables for oodoleoo - our resident promo grinder!
Finally, another great result for vorlvepc4bwn6ratjxq4.png (320×261) (d3ltpfxjzvda6e.cloudfront.net) overcoming a field of 1,328 for the trophy! He has also been grinding the Speed Racers and sharing his thoughts on bankroll management with such a fast format.
Bankroll Challenge Standings
| Position | Member | BR | Profit | Goal BR | ||
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| alonohara |  |
517,00 | 39 | 500 | ||
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| ghaleon | |
22199,00 | 516 | 30.000 | ||
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| stackoffski | |
546 | 67 | 750 | ||
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milianto |  |
1.777 | 287 | 2.500 | |
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dupin2000 |  |
425 | -12 | 600 | |
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tondy88 | |
323 | 253 | 500 | |
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tara771 | |
11914,00 | 20.000 | ||
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horschd77 |  |
444 | 405 | 750 | |
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fagin | |
836,00 | -24 | 1.500 | |
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ossenberg | |
553,00 | 78 | 1.000 | |
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californication09 | |
513 | 142 | 1.000 | |
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retrograde87 |  |
2.510 | -15 | 5.000 | |
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rosscoe | |
417,00 | -1 | 875 | |
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gmxhexe | |
9.374 | 20.000 | ||
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lod999 | |
9800 | 25.000 | ||
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fredjen | |
3831,00 | 254 | 10.000 | |
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oodoleoo | |
3578,00 | 206 | 10.000 | |
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cochalo | |
199 | -18 | 559 | |
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realbess | |
3820,00 | 10 | 10.777 | |
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dekals |  |
635,00 | 0 | 2.000 | |
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almightytt | |
310 | -49 | 1.000 | |
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mariussica88 | |
3068,00 | -50 | 10.000 | |
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meangreen | |
290 | -20 | 1.000 | |
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kostja007 | |
138,00 | -152 | 500 | |
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djalbert182 | |
27109,00 | 0 | 100.000 | |
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deadlifter1 | |
130,00 | 500 | ||
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rhodriguez | |
1544,00 | -27 | 6.000 | |
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mooharius | |
238 | -45 | 1.000 | |
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yahto | |
111 | 500 | ||
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rra1der | |
547,00 | -24 | 2.500 | |
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mantelo | |
12987,00 | -2168 | 60.000 | |
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tonyozhelev | |
125 | 19 | 600 | |
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morrischord | |
203 | 1.000 | ||
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6079,00 | 30.000 | |||
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thedreamisstillalive | |
19.530 | 100.000 | ||
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deadman | |
131 | 750 | ||
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irieill | |
1.168 | -48 | 7.000 | |
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gmateus | |
163 | 35 | 1000 | |
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shortsweather | |
800 | 5.000 | ||
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padelbro | |
8.236 | 0 | 55.000 | |
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tupeeh | |
536 | 4.000 | ||
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padelbro | |
7308,00 | 55000 | ||
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novak53 | |
60.552 | 500.000 | ||
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abomb1 | |
563 | 5.000 | ||
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gui7oliveira | |
1.611 | 18.000 | ||
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jacojacek | |
49 | 560 | ||
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humhom | |
430 | 5.000 | ||
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affltr | |
150,00 | -50 | 2.000 | |
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bigdog63 | |
438,00 | -48 | 6.000 | |
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326,00 | -105 | 5000 | ||
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42 | 1.000 | |||
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visionboard | |
21 | -57 | 500 | |
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indiciuz | |
18 | 2 | 500 | |
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ichithekiller2517 | |
96 | 15.000 | ||
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georgezsiga | |
0 | -261 | 702 | |
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
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
| 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.
| Weekly Blogger Tasks | Tickets |
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| 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 |
