$10K Challenge

Screenshot of 10K roll

2009-03-17T11:39:00.000-07:00

Day 14: I AM FINISHED!

2009-03-16T15:01:00.000-07:00

My sharkscope profit reached 10011$ at one point so I was over 9900$ profit and I won the bet. Scotty declared me the winner.
Ran a little bad in my last few sngs though and my end bankroll at the session was only 9939.85 but luckily rule 7 says it is over as soon as I reached the 9.9K profit.
I have 36 hours left though and I will do a little victory lap tomorrow and grind some 3$ Sngs till I have the 10000$ bankroll as I want to post a screenshot with a 10K roll to prove that I won

Day 13: 9314$

2009-03-15T09:21:00.001-07:00

Kept crushing it and my bankroll is now at 9314$. I have 67 hours left so it looks very very good. I will start a long session at 18:00 CET and hope I will finish this bet today. 686$ in about 12 hours should be possible and if I do not end this today I will just try again tomorrow. I think there is a 90% chance though that I will be done today

2009-03-14T10:09:00.000-07:00

My second session last night was running ok, was up about 500$ or so but lost it all back in the end so I just broke even. Todays morning session was awesome and I won about 900$ so my bankroll is uo to 8243$. Should get there either tomorrow so on day 13 or on day 14 if I keep this pace up, I just hope I keep running well.

Day 11: The enlightment

2009-03-13T10:20:00.000-07:00

I had an enlightment last night... I dreamed about playing poker last night ( well, what are you exspecting when you play poker all day) and I asked myself why I am performing so bad when an inner voice suddenly told me: You play too many tables you moron.
Thats the big difference between pre bet and post bet, I used to play 35-40 and would have a 2-3$ winrate per game, but obviously my winrate is not that high when I 50 table.
50 tabling is fine with a fresh and relaxed mind which is why I started very good but because of that big downswing that caused me to breakeven 1500 sngs or so I tried too hard to maximize my volume and did not realize I am too worn out to play 50 tables profitably... So I reduced my tables to my normal thirty-ish as you can see in Scottys updates and I think I will do fine from now on and should have my normal 2$+ winrate per game.
Also the reason why it was always going down at the end of my sessions...What was I exspecting after 50 tabling 10 hours straight, I obviusly start playing bad after that...

Luckily I realized that 5 days before the bet ends so plenty of time to get the last 2.6K ish as my bankroll just exploded to nearly 7400$

Day 6-8: Running better

2009-03-11T04:26:00.001-07:00

So I ended my 1500 Sngs breakeven stretch...With a 1000$ downswing >.<
You can't imagine how pissed of I was at that point, I was so mad that I decided to not stop till I am at 3K bankroll, even if I have to play 50 hours straight. Luckily finally the upswing hit me and I reached the 3K after only about 13 hours of play on day 6.
Day 7 and day 8 have been ok, still only barely running at a two digits ROI but I made about 1K each of that day so my bankroll is a little less than 5000$.
Sorry for not updating but it is so exhausting and mind crushing to play 500+ Sngs every day, I can't even think clear anymore

Day 4&5: Running bad

2009-03-08T05:08:00.000-07:00

So no early finish for me :(
I used to run at 15-20% at the 16$ and at around 30% at the 12$...The last 2 days I ran at 3% at the 16$ and -5% at the 12$ so not very well... At least I ran at nearly 30% at the 6,50$
Priority at this point is just winning the bet and not finishing early, I will try to play 600 Sngs every day so if I manage to not run at 10% or better at these stakes for 6000 Sngs I would actually lose the bet.
Bankroll is at 2353$

Day 3: +1111$

2009-03-05T16:50:00.000-08:00

So I started with the 12$ and 16$ Sngs today an ran super hot at the beginning and made about 1K in my first session. Took a 3 hour break after that to play my second session and Pokerstars activated the doomswitch :(
Lost about 600$ in the first hour but slowly climbed up again and ended the second session with a small plus of a little less than 100$.

So my total bankroll is at 2265$. If I keep this pace up I will be finished at around day 8 or 9.
This is really exhausting and I just want to get done with this as fast as I can so I will try to play even more the next couple of days to maybe even finish this in only 7 days. Played 1567 Sngs so far so about 522 Sngs per day, I will try to increase that to about 600 starting tomorrow.

Day 2: Crushing the 6$

2009-03-04T16:26:00.000-08:00

I started late because of the server restart and only played for 3 hours before I had connection issues and I cancelled the session because of that. Played a long evening session after that for a total of 484 Sngs where I ran at 28% and won 731$.
So my total bankroll is at 1153.95 after day 2 and I am ready to play 12$ and 16$ :)

Day 1 : Swingy day

2009-03-04T02:55:00.000-08:00

I played 557 Sngs on day 1 mostly playing around 45 tables most of the times but ended up playing 53 at one point.
Ran at 25% ROI and made 322,80 profit the first day so I already quadrupled my bankroll. Good start imo

It begins

2009-03-03T03:02:00.000-08:00

I just cashed out my entire roll except for 100$ and will start in 50 minutes
This should be fun :)

Rules

2009-02-26T09:25:00.000-08:00

Rules for 100$ into 10000$ in 15 days
1. I have 15 days from starting point meaning 360 hour. Starting point will be 3rd March 1:00 p.m. Central european time. So it will end 18th March 12:59 p.m.
2. I can only play Sngs with a maximum buy in of 16$
3. 180man or 90man do not count
4. If I go broke at any point I lost the bet
5. Profit only, Rakeback and Bonus, player transfers or BoP cashes do not count
6. I will have to run a webcam when I play. You can see it at www.justin.tv/Boku87
7. I won the bet as soon as I reached a 10000$ bankroll meaning I made 9900$ in Profit. Progress can be tracked with sharkscope
8. Money must be sent before the bet starts to the Pokerstars escrow account P5contest (Isle of men)
9. I get 3-1 odds so for every 100$ from me I will get 300$ from you.
10. I will bet up to 30K to your 90K
11. People who bet against me are not allowed to play at my tables unless it is their regular limits to create a realistic atmosphere for micro stakes playing.

(12) There is one thing left . Though it did not happen in 15 month I once disconnected completly for an hour or so and blinded of at every single Sng I played which cost me about 2200$. So I want an extra rule for this bet ONLY for the first 2 days that if I disconnect for longer than 20 minutes for reasons that are not my fault I will get a refund of all tournaments that I blinded off where I had > 1200 chips . I won't make any profit of this, its just to make sure that I don't start my first session and disconnect and lose 70% of my roll the first day.

13. If I do not get enough action on this ( minimum 30K$) I will postpone the start till I have enough action.
I will post daily updates in this blog