The $1 challenge

[Tk79]

I dont remember if anyone remembers(or cares), but last week I took my first real losses at 3/6. I had been playing a lot and finally, as recomended, decided to take a break. I havent played a tournament in a while so i decided to give some absolute freerolls a try just for fun. I got 10th place and took down $1. Ive worked it up to $13 at the .02/.04 6max tables. Its actually pretty funny. Anyone start at a site with this small of a roll and get it up to anything substantial.

[Art Vandelay]

I found $2.75 in my Paradise account. I slugged it out on the NL tables and eventually tired and cashed out $250. You have to have some sort of psychological disturbance to do something like this. I never thought I would get excited about winning a $6 pot in a NL game but lo and behold it happened multiple times.

[Tk79]

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You have to have some sort of psychological disturbance to do something like this.

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no doubt about that

[Smackdab]

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I never thought I would get excited about winning a $6 pot in a NL game but lo and behold it happened multiple times.

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To quote Nick "the Greek" Dandelos:
"It's action ain't it?"

[Keith Fellmy]

done this four times:

Intertops: got 6 bucks in a freeroll. Then entered their free $10 bet or spin tourneys for a dollar. Got my $60 back into my poker account...plus an extra 28 bucks in tourney winnings. Went on to ring games and qualified for raked hand freerolls. Made many cashouts from Intertops 700, 300, 250, 229. All for risking a penny of my own money.

Interpoker: got 3.90 in their Saturday freeroll. Went straight to casino. With the money I had in the account I had a whopping 4.25. I started at the blackjack table. Stopped at 200 bucks.

Bet365: when the 5K freeroll tourney was still not publized much you could play in the tourney and not show up...and still finish in the money. I did this for 10 straight weeks. Went to ring games with 45.00 dollars. When this tourney first got going it wasn't that popular and only 600-800 people would play. 50 minutes is all it took to finish in the money.

Paradise Poker: played a private forum tourney. Finished in the money, got 8 bucks. Went to blackjack tables and got it up to 33 dollars. Enough to enter the 100K tourney. I bombed out of the tourney but it was a free chance at some big money.

[Piz0wn0reD!!!!!!]

i got 5 tourney chips up to 1715 once. i still busted tho...

[Tk79]

Just took down a few pots at the .1/.2 tables. Its fun to get berrated for my aggressive play. "you raised with that crap?". I had to explain that I had just moved up from the .02/.04 and was still learning.

[Deathbear]

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i got 5 tourney chips up to 1715 once. i still busted tho...

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I turned 15 chips into first place at a 1 table SNG once with 9 other people left. My finest SNG moment ever [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

[vetman81]

I built my entire bankroll the same way. I won $1.85 in a freeroll a couple of years ago on UB when they were testing their tournament software. I ran this up to $5.50 and entered a SNG which I won. It all went up from there.

[Alex/Mugaaz]

I've turned $20 into XX,XXX.XX