June Contest...

[Talking Poker]

The old posts for this topic can be found here:


Contest Description
Everyone who participates will start with exactly $25. You are free to do with it what you choose, but the contest will go on until someone has turned that $25 into $500. The winner will be determined by how many hands it takes (not the amount of time) to accomplish this task. You are free to play any limit of any poker game. The only thing you must do is keep track of the number of hands you play. If you decide to play in tourneys, each tournament hand counts as a hand played.

You can sit down with any amount up to your exact total ($25 to start). Obviously, everyone will need to keep their own records. This will be done on the honor system. You must post in this thread whenever you start and stop each session you are counting towards this contest. Your posts should show your starting and ending bankrolls and your total hands played. If and when you bust out (I think most of us will bust out before hitting $500), post your total hands played. Here is an example of a couple of posts (please try to use this format):

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Starting Session 1
Current Bankroll: $25
Total Hands Played: 0
Party Poker $25 NL Table 12345
Sitting down with $25
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and then later on in a new post...
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Ending Session 1
Current Bankroll: $43.50
Total Hands Played: 122
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and then some other time:
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Starting Session 2
Current Bankroll: $43.50
Total Hands Played: 122
Poker Stars $1/$2 limit Table 6789
Sitting down with $25

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and then:
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Ending Session 2
Current Bankroll: $21.50
Total Hands Played: 314
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and so on.

Get it?

If you reload at all during your session (say your bankroll was $43.50 and you only sat with $25, as in the example above, you would still have up to $18.50 to reload with), just post when you do. That way, no one will suspect anyone of any funny business.

Lastly, if you bust out, that doesn't mean you are out of the contest! You may still play in freerolls to try to rebuild your bankroll (in theory, someone could never touch their initial $25 and could play entirely in freerolls!). Be sure to post in this thread before starting any freerolls you play in and keep track of your hand count.


Rules

1. The contest begins on June 1, 2005 at 12:00 AM and runs until June 30th 11:59 PM. You may start any time in the month of June, but we'll declare our winner at the end of the month. Remember, just because someone gets to $500 doesn't mean the contest is over... someone else could still get there in fewer hands.

2. Participation is voluntary, of course, and open to all. There is no entry fee. You simply need to post in this thread while you play.

3. We'll be using the honor system and scoring ourselves. Be honest. Don't cheat. That's stupid.

4. Your starting bankroll is $25. You may never sit down with more than your current bankroll, but you may sit with less if you want to.

5. If everyone busts out, the winner will be the person who lasted the most hands before getting broke the first time (in case someone plays freerolls afterwards and makes a comeback). Maybe a microlimiter will take this down after all.

6. I reserve the right to change the rules at any time, as I see fit. This whole thing may spin out of control.... On the other hand, if no one is interested, I'll pull the plug and kill the contest early.

Bonus: If we have at least 10 participants, if things go smoothly and without controversy, and if the winner has at least 250 total posts by the end of the contest, I will award him with the of his choice, costing up to as much as the starting bankroll amount ($25).

Have fun!

[Talking Poker]

I'm not going to play long, but just for fun, let's get things started:

Starting Session 1.
Current Bankroll: $25.
Total Hands Played: 0.
Party Poker $25 NL (6 max) Table 37065.
Sitting down with my entire $25 roll, baby.

Stats are turned on. Let the hand counting begin!

[BlibbityBlabbity]

Session 1
Paradise .25/.50 limit Table "Lofanga"
Bankroll:$25
Brought in $15

[Talking Poker]

One thing I'm noticing already...

I SO do not have the patience for a single table of $25 NL. And this is way above where I should be palying with my $25 roll.

Maybe we should give everyone two cracks at this. If they bust out once, they can rebuy for another $25........ Just a thought. Probably not a good idea though, so forget I mentioned it.

I'll try to be patient.

Mid-session update:
11 Hands Played
$22.60 Bankroll

Wooohooo - I'm in last place!

[BlibbityBlabbity]

Session 1 update...$15 down, last $10 to table.

[Talking Poker]

My Session 1 Update:

This $25 NL game is harder to beat than I thought it would be. The players here make a lot of "strange" plays, to say the least.

In any case, I dropped all the way down to just under $10 before tripling up with AA. I thought that hand was going to be it for me, but I have new life. I'm sitting at $27.40 now - above $25 for the first time in 77 hands.

[Reel Deal]

Starting Session 1
Current Bankroll: $25
Total Hands Played: 0
Party Poker $25 PL Table 36574
Sitting down with $12 (not going to risk it all to start... LOL!)

[BrianSwa]

I built $25 into $2,000 in about a month....of course I got very lucky and nothing had to do with good play but It is doable. I will start mine later tonight right now in to many tornies at jetset.

Not sure where im gonna play though will keep you all informed.

[Reel Deal]

Ending Session 1
Current Bankroll: $32.45
Total Hands Played: 37

Only had about 45 minutes to play on my lunch hour.

Oh what could have been during this session... only played 37 hands and got dealt A-A twice, K-K once and Q-Q once. First time with the As I got busted by a set after a pot size raise pre-flop, thankfully the guy was just about out of $$ so I only lost $4.25 on that hand. Next time with the As (and same with the Qs) I make a pot size pre-flop raise and get no callers. With the Ks I get one caller who promptly folds after the flop (net = $1.10). So, with those four starting hands I lost $2.45. My best hand came when I held KJo and hit a set of Js on the flop... netted $7.55.

By the way, there's no chance I'll be able to play enough hands to come close in this contest, but thought it would be fun to come along for the ride!

[junYUN]

Starting Session 1
Current Bankroll: $25
Total Hands Played: 0
Noble Poker .50/$1 limit table
Sitting down with $25

[lightfungus]

Starting Session 1
Current Bankroll: $25
Total Hands Played: 0
Party Poker $25NL table 36651
Sitting down with $25

[Talking Poker]

Don't forget to post the Table #s guys...

[Spidey44]

Full tilt
Session 1
25NL Ann
sit with $25

[Spidey44]

end session 1 $41.70

39 hands

+16.70

[robthedlphin]

Starting Session 1
Current Bankroll: $25
Total Hands Played: 0
Pokerroom table Krefeld
Sitting down with $25

[robthedlphin]

Ending Session 1
Current Bankroll: $21.25
Total Hands Played: 39

[Reel Deal]

TP, you gonna post a daily leaderboard or something to that effect?

[Talking Poker]

Hmmmmm..... probablt not

Maybe I'll make a weekly summary post.

[robthedlphin]

ending Session 2
Current Bankroll: 16.50
Total Hands Played: 96

[junYUN]

Starting Session 4
Current Bankroll: $56.25
Noble Poker .50/$1 random tables
Sitting down with $56.25

[Spidey44]

Start session 4
Ann Full Tilt NL $25
Sit w/ $25

[Spidey44]

End session 4
56 hands played
Ended with $25.05. woohoo! Actually was down and worked my way back up after finally getting some decent cards.

Current bank roll $28.

[junYUN]

does it ever seem like theres always a 2 to the flush on the flop when you have a good hand in limit?

[Penguinfan]

Starting Session 1
Current Bankroll: $25
Total Hands Played: 0
Party Poker PL O8 Table 36795
Sitting down with $25

[Penguinfan]

Have to disqualify myself, without thinking I was down to $18 and rebought back up to $25 jut because I like to have as much at the table as possible and now have no way to calculate how much I would have made without doing that.