PokerStars スーパー Stingy Challenge!
Posted 12-31-2007 at 07:16 PM by IkasuG
With about .80c on PokerStars and no cash on hand to deposit I've decided to go on the ultimate challenge: Turning nothing into something.
My goal is to turn $0.00 into $100.00 by the end of 2008 using absolutely none of any other account funding I might deposit or any tournament tickets I have on hand. How can this be done? Two ways:
1) Selling play money. With 1000 in play money chips, I can climb my way up the play money ladder and sell at a rate of about $10 per million. Basically, by increasing my play money bankroll by a factor of 1000, I can satiate the desires of those people who really want play money for some god-awful reason.
2) Freerolls. Since this is only for PokerStars, the freerolls on FullTilt, etc. don't count. Since I can't use any of the freeroll tickets I have now, every Weekly Round 2 I enter must be preceded by a ticket finish in one of the Astronomer Satellites (get it; PokerStars? they're all named after astronomers!).
If I can successfully turn 1m play chips into $10 (or even 250k into $2.50) I can play sngs and .10c turbos to make my way to the $100 mark.
Why a whole year? Because I'm not a very good player, I expect to lose my bankroll a lot (I rarely make a profit with the money I deposit) and a year is probably too little time for me to accomplish something as tedious as turning play chips into money; I'm positive I'll get bored at some point and move on to FullTilt or forget it and use my Stars deposits to cheat.
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Day 1) December 31st, 2007.
I went to a play money table and randomly gave someone the 70000 play money chips I had. PokerStars supplied me with 1000 brand-new chips! How exciting.
10:00 AM: I sit down at a 5/10NL and get ready to play some solid poker. I don't really care about waiting for the big blind so I just suck it up and put the big blind out early and get rewarded with QQ! someone raises all-in behind me so I just call (I can just get another 1000 if I lose, right) but get a little ticked when two other people call. Fortunately, they all have Ace -rag. The last ace never comes and nobody gets a set with their kicker, so I'm up to 4500 in one hand. That's $.045 in case anyone was wondering.
Being one to quit while I'm ahead, I leave the table and head over to the play money sitngos. I quickly join 2 10-man sit-n-gos with a 300+20 buyin.
11:00: After about 30 minutes of bubble play, someone is knocked out on both tables. These players are ridiculously loose, so I'm seeing the flop free and overbetting premium hands.
11:30: At the end of it all, I get a 1st place and a 2nd place finish. Bankroll? 6007. I'm .6% to the million mark and sick of poker for now.
Total progress: +$.05 and 7 thousandths.
My goal is to turn $0.00 into $100.00 by the end of 2008 using absolutely none of any other account funding I might deposit or any tournament tickets I have on hand. How can this be done? Two ways:
1) Selling play money. With 1000 in play money chips, I can climb my way up the play money ladder and sell at a rate of about $10 per million. Basically, by increasing my play money bankroll by a factor of 1000, I can satiate the desires of those people who really want play money for some god-awful reason.
2) Freerolls. Since this is only for PokerStars, the freerolls on FullTilt, etc. don't count. Since I can't use any of the freeroll tickets I have now, every Weekly Round 2 I enter must be preceded by a ticket finish in one of the Astronomer Satellites (get it; PokerStars? they're all named after astronomers!).
If I can successfully turn 1m play chips into $10 (or even 250k into $2.50) I can play sngs and .10c turbos to make my way to the $100 mark.
Why a whole year? Because I'm not a very good player, I expect to lose my bankroll a lot (I rarely make a profit with the money I deposit) and a year is probably too little time for me to accomplish something as tedious as turning play chips into money; I'm positive I'll get bored at some point and move on to FullTilt or forget it and use my Stars deposits to cheat.
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Day 1) December 31st, 2007.
I went to a play money table and randomly gave someone the 70000 play money chips I had. PokerStars supplied me with 1000 brand-new chips! How exciting.
10:00 AM: I sit down at a 5/10NL and get ready to play some solid poker. I don't really care about waiting for the big blind so I just suck it up and put the big blind out early and get rewarded with QQ! someone raises all-in behind me so I just call (I can just get another 1000 if I lose, right) but get a little ticked when two other people call. Fortunately, they all have Ace -rag. The last ace never comes and nobody gets a set with their kicker, so I'm up to 4500 in one hand. That's $.045 in case anyone was wondering.
Being one to quit while I'm ahead, I leave the table and head over to the play money sitngos. I quickly join 2 10-man sit-n-gos with a 300+20 buyin.
11:00: After about 30 minutes of bubble play, someone is knocked out on both tables. These players are ridiculously loose, so I'm seeing the flop free and overbetting premium hands.
11:30: At the end of it all, I get a 1st place and a 2nd place finish. Bankroll? 6007. I'm .6% to the million mark and sick of poker for now.
Total progress: +$.05 and 7 thousandths.
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 | If ur trying to scrap something together from nothing, and you have some fpps, there are some freerolls that require as little as 10 fpps. This could be a great way to start something from nothing. |
Posted 12-31-2007 at 11:00 PM by GaRu4eVa  |
| |  I forgot to mention that I'm not using my FPPs |
| Posted 12-31-2007 at 11:19 PM by IkasuG |
| |  Hey Ikasu I have 3.6 million in chips how bout I lend you 80k and we play a 80,000 27 player tourney? |
| Posted 01-01-2008 at 12:19 AM by Captious |
| | I don't want to borrow anything; part of the fun is turning nothing into something withdrawable! |
| Posted 01-01-2008 at 12:52 AM by IkasuG |
| | Okay but whenever you want to get in a tournement look me up and I'l get in it with you aight? |
| Posted 01-01-2008 at 01:17 AM by Captious |
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