Ok... So I am now starting my 2nd blog surrounding my poker progression. Last time around, I wasn't doing so bad, but I was playing on Full Tilt... And guess what happened? Good news is we're getting our money back pretty soon now.
Since then, I've been playing mainly on Pokerstars and live games around town. The nice part about live games, is that it seems the poker community around Montreal is constantly growing. The games at the Casino are fairly easy in my opinion, but I haven't been able to afford a trip there in the past couple months because of a huge downswing I had back in May. Other very nice places to go play poker are the Playground Poker Club and the Stardust Poker Mansion. It is unfortunate that the Stardust still can't manage to attract a good number of players because the place is really nice. Playground Poker Club has been the hottest poker room for quite a while now and they still plan on going bigger. With the WPT coming to town in November, they had no choice but to make the club bigger than it is now. The expansion is still under construction, but that just tells you how well things are going for them.
On the other hand, Stardust hosted the Canadian poker classic, sponsored by PokerStars.net last weekend and it appears that it was a huge success. Unfortunately, I didn't get the chance to qualify for the event through satellites and I couldn't afford the 1,100$ buy-in. I was watching the live stream during the whole weekend and enjoyed watching such a big event unfold in my city. The last tourney I played was part of this series, it was a 165$ re-entry event. I busted late in day 1A and gave it a second try on day 1B. I did qualify with a healthy stack. Day two was a roller-coaster for me as my stack bounced up and down all day. I managed to finished 14th and cashed 450$. I was a bit disappointed with the finish, but I enjoyed my run and I was glad to have made it that far. I must admit though that my bankroll management for the past few weeks has probably been as worst as it could've been. All the satellites running for that main event had me excited and I burned a couple of hundreds to try and get there without success.
Now that the series is over, I have to regain control of this bankroll and focus on grinding it all the way up again. Two days ago, I decided to go back on Pokerstars and take a look around the lobby to acknowledge my possibilities. I only had 0.18$ left in my account. There isn't much I can do with that. Sure. But I also had about 3.5k FPP left along with that. I then decided to grind 235FPP Sunday Storm Satellites, which award top 2 players out of 6 with 11$ tickets to the event. 3rd place gets 10FPP back. I was able to afford 13 of those satellites and I managed to cash 5 tickets and 2 third places. That's 55$ for 3,035 FPP (Way better than buying 10$ for 1k FPP directly from the store)
The Challenge: Turn 0.18$ into 10,000$
Why? : For the heck of it!
So here are the rules I am setting for myself during this challenge:
1 - Never invest more than 2% of the bankroll in a tournament or SnG
2 - Never invest more than 5% of my bankroll to sit in a ring game
3 - Never, EVER break rules one and two.
That means I will be starting off with 1.10$ Tournament and SnG and not more than 2.50$ at the table to begin a Ring Game.
I like 6-handed Hyper SnG satellites, but the cheapest one I've found is 3$. That means I need a Bankroll of 150$. No Good.
I will start playing those 1.10 with guaranteed prize pools, 1.50 Half/Half Turbo SnG and NL5 Zoom starting with the minimum buy-in. (I know 1.50 is more than 2%, but there aren't single table SnG cheaper than that.)
So far, so good, I'm already approaching the 60$ mark.
Today, I will be putting my online bankroll aside and will go to Stardust Poker Mansion for a satellite to their Monthly Pokerstars.net championship and the freebuy that follows.
Stay tuned for updates of what is going to be a crazy journey!
GG.
