I was looking back through my rakeback sites and spotted that I had been paid $1.85 into my PKR account from one of the sites. I haven't played there in about as month so I must have played my last hand there at the beginning of July and earned my little bit of rakeback. My PKR account has been empty for a while after I withdrew my funds to play elsewhere, but now I had $1.85. So what to do with it? You can't withdraw less that $20 so I figured I may as well play it out.

So I set myself a little challenge. See how much I could make $1.85 grow. The plan was simple, just play Sit and Go's only and maybe throw in some MTT's if/when it got bigger. No cash games. The only exception to this rule would be if I didn't have enough for a buy-in, i.e. it fell below $1.10

So I entered a £1 SnG, leaving just 0.75c in the bankroll. Well fortune smiled on me and I won it. I now had $5.75. I entered 2 more $1 SnG's but didn't cash so the bankroll fell to $3.55. I entered another $1 and cashed in 3rd place. The bankroll now standing at $4.45.

I then decided to try and speed things up and enter a $3 SnG (PKR doesn't do $2 ones for some reason), with the reasoning that I would still have $1.15 left for a last $1 throw at the dice if I lost. But, with relative ease, I won it (you know sometimes that everything goes well, this was one of those times. I hit hands, made successful bluffs and just couldn't seem to lose). So now the bankroll had grown to $16.15. I decided to stick to the $3 level and entered another. I bust out on the bubble when my flush was beaten by a full-house, so the bankroll fell to $12.85.

The last game I have played so far was another $3 and it was quite a mammoth affair with a very long heads-up where I almost lost it a few times. But I managed to survive and eventually turn the chip lead around and win it. Another $12 profit

So at this point, the bankroll stands at $24.55, a whopping 1,327% increase. I intend to stay at the $3 level until I hit $50 and move up to the $5 level. I then plan to move up levels (or drop down levels!) using the 10x buy-in as a guide from then on. So if I drop down to $30 I'll drop back to the $3 level and if I hit $100 I'll move up to the $10 level, and so on.

This is purely a bit of fun. I think I read somewhere that Chris 'Jesus' Ferguson once turned $1 into $20,000 playing online. I don't for one minute expect to reach that mammoth target but it's going to be interesting.

And, in fact, I have actually enjoyed playing PKR again. Who knows, if this goes well I may be back on a more permanent basis. The move from cash games to SnG's has certainly changed my game and I am enjoying more success and profit to be honest. I haven't actually played much poker over the last couple of weeks after deciding to take a small break from it, but now the urge is coming back.

I'll keep you posted how this little project goes

Your right, Jesus is currently trying to turn nothing into $10,000. He's doing pretty well too

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Wow, that's cool. That will be the second time he's done it then and goes to show that you don't need a big bankroll to get started and make cash.

Gl man, last time I played PKR i got 0 up too 100 but lost it all due to bad BR management.

I played another 2 $3 STT's tonight (by the way, these are all 10 seater tables I am playing at). I cashed in both, finishing 3rd and 2nd.

The bankroll now stands at $32.95

I'm starting to enjoy PKR again.

Run down:

Played: 9
1st: 3
2nd: 1
3rd: 2
In the money: 66.67%

I think I'll set up an Excel spreadsheet to record these. Currently using old fashioned pen and paper. hehe

Trueform, I'm curious, have you adjusted your game?

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lol, very astute of you Nation. Yes I have adjusted my game, big style. One thing I have done is move away from cash tables. The swings were big and it really frustrated me. Since moving to STT's I am enjoying poker a lot more again.

One thing I wanted to do for ages (you may have seen in a post elsewhere) was look into playing Small Ball poker. I love Daniel Negreanu's playing style and he is my favourite player. Information on it though is very thin on the ground. Well I found it finally on YouTube (I think you posted the first video clip here too). I watched all the clips over and over, made notes, and started applying it to my game. It doesn't really work that well with cash games, but I am having a nice run in STT's. I had a good run on Full Tilt with it (though I haven't played there for a couple of weeks, I took a break) and it seems to be working on PKR at the moment.

I used to play mega tight and while this seemed to work to a degree on the cash tables, it failed miserably in STT's and tourneys. Since I changed my style, things are looking rosey.

It's by no means an easy fix though and I have certainly added my own slant on a few points. No one plays exactly the same as anyone else as far as I know. It's no good playing it blind and you still need to know when to make a move and when to fold. However, it does seem to confuse other players because I raise the same amount if I have J-10 suited or A-A. I also bet the flop exactly the same wether I have missed or if I have the nuts. I'm alot more aggressive on the flop than I used to be and this seems to pay off too.

So yes, I have adjusted my game and I am glad I did

And I didn't realise so many people played STT's on PKR. In the 9 games I have played in this little challenge, I have moved up over 1,000 places in the rankings, and that's just from $1 and $3 games. hehe

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Sorry I haven't updated much on this but I have had a busy week and haven't had much time to play.

Anyway, the project is still going well and tonight it hit the dizzy heights of $50. So now I am playing at the $5 tables until I drop back to $30 or hit $100. Unfortunately I lost track of wins / losses as I got a bit slack with the record keeping. Also, I threw in a couple of very low limit cash games if I only had 15-30 minutes spare. I think I'm about even on those though.
I also realise that this could potentially go on forever because I never set a specific target.

So I will set a target of $500 or I will quit if I feel it's not moving anywhere for a set period (or I get bored with it. lol)

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OK, I called an end to this little bit of fun with the account just under $50. Why? Well I have enjoyed it so much I decided to deposit again and give the $10, maybe some $20 STT's a go on PKR

I only wish they would fill up faster. They take forever!

Nice to see someone still using the old school P.A.D = personal analogue diary

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