First of all,
Some of you might remember me from before. I once did a challenge here, where I went with a €40 bankroll all the way up to €3000 on Unibet cash games.
However, I am from the Netherlands (regulations have changed a lot since 2021), and my hourly win rate was only about €5. So I have been on a break for a few years. After the latest WSOP, I have been very interested in playing again. And very fortunately, Unibet (my favorite site) re-entered the dutch scene at the start of July.
First of all, I have already put in a few sessions, so I am not starting from scratch anymore. I will update you on my first sessions here, I forgot how to upload pictures here, so my graph will be added in a feature post.
Basically, my stats for now are:
MTTs: 115
Profit/Loss: €610.44
ROI: 285%
ITM: 22.6%
I guess I might be running hot a bit. But I know that the player pool is very weak. During the first few sessions, I noticed that I was very uncomfortable playing short-stacked. To fix this, I started a trial membership at Jonathan Little's site (not sure if I am allowed to promote any other sites here) and focussed on short-stacked play. Soon after, I won a €5 MTT on Unibet (from a ticket won at the dutch welcome missions, since back then I was still playing €1 MTTs).
From that moment, something in my mindset changed. I realized how weak the players were, especially at the final table (i.e. folding way too often pre-flop), and started exploiting that in other MTTs as well. Since then I made a few other notable scores:
- Won a €2 MTT with 70 players.
- 2nd in the tournament from above.
- 4th in the Daily Big $2 on GGpoker (more than 1000 participants)
- 9th in the Daily Big $1 twice on GGPoker
- 6th in the €50 PKO Welcome Dutch Tournament (Note: this is way above my bankroll, but there were daily free qualifiers with about 50 active players and 6 tickets per day, was able to get 3 of those tickets, and on my second run I made the deep-run. Still have one €50 ticket left, which is now converted to a general €50 ticket).
- Min cash on a €25 ticket from the welcome missions.
Note that all these results were within the space of 50 MTTs, you can definitely say that I was running hot!
Because I also earned some money with promotions on GGPoker and Unibet, my bankroll is now:
Starting bankroll: €20
Bankroll now: €910.99
Cashout: €248.29
New Bankroll: €660.70
My BRM is 150x at the moment, which means that I will be playing MTTs from €2/$2 up until €5/$5.50, quite close to my goal already!
For now, I want to say welcome to anyone who wants to join me on this journey! I have some ideas about the next posts I am gonna make:
- Tournament Schedule
- Different Sites I play (Unibet, GGPoker, and IPoker)
- Learning resources (for now the free ones, but which premium ones should I get)
- Management during a session (how many tables, how many different sites, using tools, length of a session, etc.)
- My bankroll management.
I am planning on playing two weekly sessions, so I do expect quite some weekly variance, and I think it will be nice to update this blog about once every week/two weeks.
Good luck at the tables and I hope you join me on this challenge!
