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As some of you know I am paying off my £12k wedding through poker winnings (which is going well btw, I consistently hit the £200 a month payment to repay what I borrowed).
I now have a new challenge, to try and return to the Jamaican hotel that we got married in. When we were out there we made a few new friends and they are all going out next summer on same weeks as friends. I intend for my hubby and myself to join them, with our little girl.
I intend to try and make $6000 from party alone, to pay for the holiday. Over 17 months, that is $350 a month. It is approx. $12 a day. I won't make that at start but as my bankroll grows, so should my profit.
I am starting from a bankroll of $1.86. I also have a $44 fight ticket.
I will be playing the 1c sats that pay 50 seats. Thursday UKfreeroll. Ladies Thursday freeroll. Once I get a bit of a BR I will play low level cash and mtt games. I am also starting with 2000 brm points, and when I get to 5000 I will withdraw to party as a bankroll boost.
This challenge is seperate from the wedding one, which will still make £200 from but on other sites. Party will be my sole site for this challenge.
I intend to keep this blog live and will update at least 2 times a night (start and finish) but often more if I am running well.
------------ Oh and of course I will be playing the Sunday BRM FR!
Hi IceQueenAce, you are starting a very ambitious challenge. Making six thousands from $1.86 seems pretty hard! We will constantly monitor your perfomance. Wish you the best of luck
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The best of luck with that IQA (not that you need it ). I will look in and see how you are doing and rail you if i see you on party as i'm back on there myself for a change. Oh and whats with the Ladies thursday freeroll ? isn't that a bit sexist ?
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Good luck turning your initial capital into a substantial amount of money! Hopefully you get a good boost to your bankroll at the early stages of your journey. You might also want to try $2.20 and $5.50 Double or Nothing (10-man & 6-man) sit and go tournaments. It's not difficult to beat these games at 15%+ ROI. Good luck!
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Posted by IceQueenAce:
I am starting from a bankroll of $1.86. I also have a $44 fight ticket.
I will be playing the 1c sats that pay 50 seats. Thursday UKfreeroll. Ladies Thursday freeroll.
I intend to keep this blog live and will update at least 2 times a night (start and finish) but often more if I am running well.
------------ Oh and of course I will be playing the Sunday BRM FR!
G'day Mates
IceQueenAce I have just read your new blog post and about your challenge.
I really want to see you succeed! I too have an account on Party.
My name on Party is ... "x100101001x". I would like to bump up your initial bankroll immediately for this challenge.
I can currently spare $10 US.
I know it is not much but after this Sundays game who knows I might be able to help even more. Let me know if you want the bankroll boast and if you do what your name on Party is.
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This sounds like one heck of a challenge and, i for one, will be very interested to see how it pans out. You seem like a very determined and driven person and it wouldn't surprise me one bit if you were successful. Good luck on the tables!!!
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Thank you for all the kind messages...
teddy - yes it is very sexist, gutted!
Tony - thanks I will be playing some of them as soon as the bankroll allows.
Ronin - That is a very kind offer, thank you. I would like to politely decline because it would be cheating a bit and also, I do have a bit of money on skrill/other sites that I can use (I start each month with $100 roughly and withdraw the rest). I started on $1.86 simply because that was all I had in my account. That said, my username on Party is IceQueenAce if you want to follow me!
doubletop - thank you. I am 'quietly confident'
------------ ok so yesterday was a weird, weird day.
MTT's were a wipe-out, I wasted my ticket too. I didn't play particularly great and ran into big hands.
I took a look at cash games and sat at 1c/2c with $1.00 Doubled it easily then ran my AA into q3 and lost. Didn't have the minimum to sit so played 3 sit n go heroes. Got the minimum ($1.00) and sat again. Doubled easily again then crashed AQ into AA on a Qxx board. Built up again then crashed JJ into AA on low flop. This bust me. And left me with some thinking to do.
I used to play low cash on party but stopped when it became harder to get a game that suited me. I am not a good cash player, but I did find that sit with the minimum, play tight, double up then move on. Otherwise I find as soon as my stack gets bigger, I lose it all. I know it is not the most efficient way to play, but it did the job for growing a bankroll slowly.
I have decided I am going to 'loan' myself $10 from skrill. As soon as it is doubled to $20, I will be withdrawing the $10 and be back on track for the challenge. I know this is slightly cheating, and I know I can build a decent from zero. It is more a time thing, I don't have time to wait till I win cash from a freeroll. I will be expecting to double and withdraw by Sunday night.
------------ End of day 1: -$1.86
------------ I didn't deposit in the end.
I contacted support asking if there was a deposit bonus or free tickets for depositing the $10 and explained the challenge.
They came back and said good luck with the challenge, I have put $5.50 tournament dollars in your account. Very happy with this and I consider rakeback/free stuff from sites as part of the challenge and not cheating
Played 5 x $1.10 games.
3 DYM's for a $6.12 profit. 2 18 man bounty hounter games, the first I came second for $2.70 (and taking NO bounties!) and the second I bust.
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Posted by IceQueenAce: Thank you for all the kind messages...
teddy - yes it is very sexist, gutted!
Tony - thanks I will be playing some of them as soon as the bankroll allows.
Ronin - That is a very kind offer, thank you. I would like to politely decline because it would be cheating a bit and also, I do have a bit of money on skrill/other sites that I can use (I start each month with $100 roughly and withdraw the rest). I started on $1.86 simply because that was all I had in my account. That said, my username on Party is IceQueenAce if you want to follow me!
doubletop - thank you. I am 'quietly confident'
------------ ok so yesterday was a weird, weird day.
MTT's were a wipe-out, I wasted my ticket too. I didn't play particularly great and ran into big hands.
I took a look at cash games and sat at 1c/2c with $1.00 Doubled it easily then ran my AA into q3 and lost. Didn't have the minimum to sit so played 3 sit n go heroes. Got the minimum ($1.00) and sat again. Doubled easily again then crashed AQ into AA on a Qxx board. Built up again then crashed JJ into AA on low flop. This bust me. And left me with some thinking to do.
I used to play low cash on party but stopped when it became harder to get a game that suited me. I am not a good cash player, but I did find that sit with the minimum, play tight, double up then move on. Otherwise I find as soon as my stack gets bigger, I lose it all. I know it is not the most efficient way to play, but it did the job for growing a bankroll slowly.
I have decided I am going to 'loan' myself $10 from skrill. As soon as it is doubled to $20, I will be withdrawing the $10 and be back on track for the challenge. I know this is slightly cheating, and I know I can build a decent from zero. It is more a time thing, I don't have time to wait till I win cash from a freeroll. I will be expecting to double and withdraw by Sunday night.
------------ End of day 1: -$1.86
------------ I didn't deposit in the end.
I contacted support asking if there was a deposit bonus or free tickets for depositing the $10 and explained the challenge.
They came back and said good luck with the challenge, I have put $5.50 tournament dollars in your account. Very happy with this and I consider rakeback/free stuff from sites as part of the challenge and not cheating
Played 5 x $1.10 games.
3 DYM's for a $6.12 profit. 2 18 man bounty hounter games, the first I came second for $2.70 (and taking NO bounties!) and the second I bust.
Current BR: $8.82
G'day IceQueenAce
The offer is still there if you need it. I have been playing alot of poker tournament over the last few days. trying to get my poker skills back up for Sunday's big game. wishing you all the best
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Yeah, cash games can be brutal sometimes. Well done on winning 3 DoN SnGs and finishing 2nd place in the bounty tournament. That's a pretty good start. I play a couple of DoN SnGs a day, so we might get seated at the same table. Be careful. I am so unpredictable.
Edited by Tony_MON7ANA (03 March 2018 @ 00:36 GMT)
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Great I wish you luck and of course - cash You must be great player - no many people can beat challenge like this. Of course - please start blog or something, that we will track your progress.
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Fairly successful day 3. Could have been better but cant complain.
First won a small $1 sng then finished 92nd in $5.50 KO series game and 198th in $2.20 game for small profits. Thanks to Perinbar for heads up on free tickets.
Profit on day: $24.64 Total profit: $27.77 Total bankroll: $29.63.
Ah well finally an interesting challenge to follow, it's been a while since we had one in the forum. It is a huge ambitious one but a doable one so I wish you good luck.
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You ran good yesterday, IceQueenAce. Well done. I guess you can now play any low buy-in cash games and tournaments of your choice with a US$30 online poker bankroll. Looking good. Keep it up!
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I still have to be really careful, I'm not quite rolled enough for buying in for $1, comfortably.
I am looking at roughly 40x and so quite short on the $1 games I am starting on.
I can certainly pick from a wider range of games now though, which is good and I am not playing knowing 3 busts and I have lost my BR.
Yesterday really helped with that.
I think I am going to fall just short of the 25 points needed to get to the $5 bonus mark which is annoying as that would have been another nice boost, but I wont risk my BR just to get to it.
------------ Incase anyone is interested (and this is a terribly small sample), rough figures (maybe a few cents out) on game type:
I think you've done the hardest part of the work by this time now. It's very hard to grow from pennies to several dozens, and with $30 any strong player( and I have no doubt you are) is able to move up faster. It's only a question of time now. Good luck, and keep us up to date!
