Updated on 21 Feb 26 by
Barry carter
Poker Expert

Tell us your late reg strategy

Our Bankroll Challengers are beating quads, posting graphs and punishing limpers. Plus we have this month's $100 winner!





Welcome to our new Bankroll Challenger irieill who has already hit us with a doozy of a question. He is participating in a tournament leaderboard promotion where the points skews heavy towards the top 25% of players. He wants to know - when should he register for maximum effectiveness? He did a neat graph which we always like:

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More graphs please people!

Speaking of graphs we got some nice, slightly rollercoaster-y, ones from tim64 this week.

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Seriously, more graphs.

A good week at the tables for......you guessed it, our winningest player mantelo who just binked another biggy.

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Lobby shots are fine too...

Those of us not lucky enough to win a bad beat jackpot have only one way to beat quads and that is when our opponent also has the same quads. Well done to fredjen for beating that nine kicker. 

Finally, remember that old advice about punishing limpers? It still works, just ask pokerplayernumber1 who recently finished his challenge too - well done!

This month's $100 winner....

It may not be a cool graph, an MTT win or busting somebody with quads, but free money is free money.

The latest winner of our $100 raffle is....superior1712!

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Congrats!

The Bankroll Challenge results so far

Position Member BR Profit Goal BR
Rang 11
92%
westhenyi English community 1104 27 1.200
Rang 10
84%
tahnos English community 837 92 1.000
Rang 10
82%
montecarlol English community 821 -63 1.001
Rang 9 tim64 English community 3559 438 5.000
Rang 8 hausierer German community 2093 0 3.400
Rang 8 jonnyyman12 English community 301 500
Rang 6 maniac German community 6769 244 15.000
Rang 6 barrycarter English community 3805 8.500
Rang 6 alcopopdk English community 204 11 500
Rang 5 justmillion German community 927 2.500
Rang 5 pokerplayernumber1 English community 860 260 2.500
Rang 5 octo777 German community 348 26 1.050
Rang 5 georgslon Russian community 1522 78 5.000
Rang 4 superior1712 German community 219 -24 750
Rang 4 prophili German community 1677 6.000
Rang 4 clease German community 275 140 1.000
Rang 4 vorpalf2f English community 863 -10 3.500
Rang 4 enzoen English community 114 500
Rang 3 bigdog63 English community 165 -51 840
Rang 3 microfever English community 250 1.300
Rang 3 omar2nd English community 3434 -7 20.000
Rang 3 mariussica88 English community 171 -10 1.000
Rang 3 mjez1 English community 140 17 1.000
Rang 3 mantelo English community 6880 50.000
Rang 3 ossenberg German community 129 29 1.000
Rang 3 djalbert182 Polish community 12571 0 100.000
Rang 3 irieill English community 875 7.000
Rang 3 ghaleon English community 3026 -182 30.000
Rang 2 nadanje English community 500 5.000
Rang 2 theenot Russian community 8367 105.000
Rang 2 talisker74 English community 59 750
Rang 2 fredjen English community 572 -11 10.000
Rang 2 toska75 Russian community 52 -3 1.060
Rang 2 cptrui German community 20 500
Rang 2 disp3l Russian community 431 20.000

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.