More Success

Finished 22nd in a $.010 MTT with 360 players. Paid out $0.30 leaving a balance of $3.66.

Entered a 90 player MTT for $0.25 cents. Finished outside the money by three places.

In the Money

PokerStars Tournament #181065025, No Limit Hold'em
Buy-In: $0.25
90 players
Total Prize Pool: $22.50 
Tournament started 2009/07/21 13:38:20 ET


Dear eirekid1,

You finished the tournament in 4th place. A USD 2.14 award has been credited to your Real Money account.

You earned 33.16 tournament leader points in this tournament. For information about our tournament leader board, see our web site at http://www.pokerstars.com/poker/tournaments/leader-board/


Congratulations!

Thank you for participating.

In the Money Finish

Just finished in 4th position in a $0.25 90 player SNG. It paid out $2.14 leaving me with a balance of $3.47. Only $496.53 left to go.

25c Sit and Go

Finished the SNG in 21st Position. Unfortunately I made a few dodgy calls towards the end. I need to tighten up that element of my game.

Poker Stars Generosity

PokerStars have generously given me 2 dollars to spend playing poker on their site. The marketeer in me knows this is a ploy to get me to deposit more money when I lose the 2 dollars but i don't care.

Initially started off playing $0.01 cent turbo tournaments with 990 players, seems to be a bit of a lottery though because the volume of starting chips (stack) is so low and the blinds rise so quickly.

Now I've started playing $0.25 cent Sit and Go's with 90 players.

Still haven't won any money and currently I have a balance of $1.58 and a ticket to a weekend Freeroll that I still haven't used.

First sign of Success

After over 4 hours I finished in 62th position in the Hold 'Em free role satellite.

http://www.pokerstars.com/poker/games/texas-holdem/

The top 72 of 9000 qualified for the freeroll. Can use the ticket at any stage, think there's a Hold 'Em game next Saturday that I'll enter.

Playing Multiple Touraments

Finding it very difficult to play more than one table at a time. Hard to concentrate on all that I need to on both tables. Haven't done myself any favours by playing different games as well as different tables.

It's a pity the NL Hold 'Em is so late, have to have a look over the weekend.

Ah well

Finished in 1326th position of 6000 took about 90 mins, not too bad since I am still a little unsure of all the rules for the eigth. Probably not the best result to have been knocked out on the NL Hold 'Em.

http://www.pokerstars.com/poker/games/8-game/

At the same time I managed to finish 2487th in a 5 card draw tourament, it also offered a place in the final table to the top 42 places.

http://www.pokerstars.com/poker/games/draw/

8 Game Free Roll

Just signed up for Poker Stars 8 Game Free Roll, looks like the game will change every round. Don't fully understand the rules to about 5 or the 8 games, this should be interesting. Looks like there are 6000 entrants. Need to finish in the top 42 to get a place in next weeks final.

Playing for fun

As much by accident as anything, while playing in the last 2-7 draw tournament i was also playing in a play for free hold 'em tournament on Full Tilt. Managed to come second out of 90, not a bad return, now if only i can manage the same success in the all important free roll tournaments.

Found it very difficult to play in two tournaments at the same time, especially when i had good hands on both tables. Also hindered because the two tables had different games, one which rewards the highest hand and one which rewards the lowest. Might play them one at a time for the next while till i improve enough to pull it off.

Improvement

Just finished in 742th place out of 6698 in a Single Draw 2 - 7.

http://www.pokerstars.com/poker/games/draw/2-7/single/

Needed to be in the top 56 to qualify for the free roll proper but it's still an improvement over the last one.

Can't decide if i like the 2-7 draw, seems to be counter intuitive because you are looking for the worst hand, may have to try it again. Definitely don't like it as much as hold 'em.

Oops

Well thats' game no 1 out of the way. Pokerstars entry level free roll 5 card draw tournament.

http://www.pokerstars.com/poker/games/draw/

Knocked out on the first hand finished in 5678th place (from 6000) went all in with triple 3's and lost out to triple Aces.

A slow start needed to finish in the top 48 to be entered into the free roll tournament proper.

The Three Rules

Probably should have put these in the first post.

He never bought into a cash game or a Sit & Go for more than 5 percent of his total bankroll; the only exception was at the lowest limits: he was allowed to buy into any game with a buy-in of $2.50 or less

He didn’t buy into any multi-table tournaments for more than 2 percent of his total bankroll; the only exception was $1 MTTs

If at any time during a No-Limit or Pot-Limit cash-game session the money on the table represented more than 10 percent of his total bankroll, he had to leave the game when the blinds reached him

The Beginning

It began as an idea, a slightly less ambitious version of the Chris Feguson challenge.

http://www.fulltiltpoker.com/chris-ferguson-challenge

He went from $0 dollars to €10K in about a year. We'd like to try and reach about €500.

In theory it's a simple strategy, play and win enough free roll tournaments until you have a big enough bank roll to enter into proper tournaments and slowly increase your bank roll until you have $500. Obviously in practice it'll be much harder than that.

Chris has three core rules to protect his bank roll which helped him succeed.

We will try and follow them and see how it goes, first step is to decide where we want to play.