$0 to $800 in 4 days (Mix of blackjack and poker)

So I started out at $0 in my 888 account on Monday. I had gotten some grades back and was feeling a bit down over one of them (first year university) so I decided to hit up some FastFold Freerolls that 888 is doing through april and may to promote their "Snap Poker". I won a couple of dollars, and grinded them to the "Iron"Reward status that allowed me access to 4 $100 GTD freerolls per day.

I made it in 1st for 23$ in the $100 GTD, and worked that up to 125$ with a mix of blackjack and poker. Needless to say, I lost all 125$ by the end of monday. Fuck if I was going to end it there. No, I was at $0, but it wasn't over. I still had 2 tickets left to the $5000 freerolls for Fastfold poker.

I proceeded to win 2$. I got lucky at blackjack and worked that to 50. From there, I played 2 tournaments and placed 10th and 9th for another 50$ in prize money. I played some 0.05/0.10c NLH, and some 0.12/0.25c NLH, and worked the 100$ up to 150$ or so. I then mixed playing, with blackjack and got that up to about 360$ over the course of tuesday and wednesday. Last night I worked that up to 430 with blackjack, and this morning I played some cash games and blackjack and got that to $785. I've had an extreme lucky streak at blackjack, winning maybe 400$ of the 785 (probably closer to 500) but my play method and betting plan has been fairly solid. betting 5-25$ at a time at most, going out if I'm down 50, stopping if I'm up by about 35-60.

But now I'm at $800. I'm thinking about stopping blackjack and switching solely to poker. Not sure. In any case, I'm withdrawing ~$600 of it and leaving 200 to play with :)

And that's my story of hitting 800 bucks from 0.

Does anyone have any tips or advice for where I should be going from here? SHOULD I quit blackjack if it's been such a nice supplement on the side, or just be EXTREMELY cautious with my blackjack playing? What Stakes/tournaments/SNG's should I be playing from here on out? I've never had more than 20-50$ to play with in the past, so I'm a little overwhelmed right now.

Nice win congrats! Keep on winning!

Congratulations, I hope your run good continues.

What a great run! I turned about 2 bucks into about 80 yesterday playing 1 dollar s and gs. Eventually lost all the money and then deposited another 50 that I tilted away. Its funny how sometimes I will play great poker for hours and hours and hours but then lose all the bank roll building in minutes.

The next step is your whole roll on a 10 team parlay.

I'm making a ledger in an attempt to stop that from happening. As well, I'm going to try to adhere fairly strictly to some good BR management.

This is my Bankroll from now on, so I REALLY would rather not lose it :P I HATE depositing on sites, I prefer freerolls, and what are the odds of me working up to $800 from freerolls again? I'm livin' the DREAM.

I got a hot tip on the 7 horse in the 4th race :)

Rivdee I HATE you I'm not doing SPORTS BETS! :P

put it all on the stl cardz ;) jk jk goodluck bro

Nice win, keep it up! i would withdraw some of it

Wow! That has never happened to me brotha. Best of luck & maybe I can do the same..

but how much did u really lose?

I lost all my money in blackjack!

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Originally Posted by vtriclone

but how much did u really lose?

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50$ about 6-7 months ago. Only time I ever deposited, and it was with Icheques. Right now, my bankroll is at $1100 so I think I'm set for my BR :3 Withdrawing $900 of it, leaving myself 200 to play with :)

Cool run. Congratulations. My advice, now that u've got a good role is stick to brm. Try some big mtts.

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Cool run. Congratulations. My advice, now that u've got a good role is stick to brm. Try some big mtts.

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I'm likely going to be opening up a TFSA to store my savings in, and draw 200$ a month to play if I go broke in a month (which means I need to wait a month to play), with the added rule that any time I lose 3 months worth ($600) I need to save up 400$ over 2 months from my actual job to pay to try again. That way I can build up a savings account, put extra cash towards spending for fun, and have a failsafe so I can't lose all my money.

I'm not 100% sure what I'm doing yet, but this is one idea. I definitely want to look into supporting my income with poker if I can get good enough at it :P

betting it on a kid from Iraq if he would throw a rock to hit a tree. i think it will be on the weekend. you can watch the kid if you have satelite cable.

quit the blackjack. it will turn on you soon enough. I hate online blackjack and don't trust it so if you can hit for some money on it take it and run. Good luck

If you're winning at blackjack, why stop. Just scale back based on your new bankroll. Good luck!

Online blackjack is tough but you seem to have cracked the code! good luck.

wow up and down, sounds lot like me. But if iwas u I would avoid BJ at all cost. It's only matter of time before u loose it or most of your roll playing that game. Least that's my opinion. Stick to poker. gl to u

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Online blackjack is tough but you seem to have cracked the code! good luck.

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Lol if only. I'm trying to stop playing blackjack, but it seems so tempting! I'm up to $3000.00 right now, and trying not to touch the blackjack table ^^;

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wow up and down, sounds lot like me. But if iwas u I would avoid BJ at all cost. It's only matter of time before u loose it or most of your roll playing that game. Least that's my opinion. Stick to poker. gl to u

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Ya, like I said I'm trying to stop. I built up a bankroll of $3000 in 5 days starting at nothing. You can't ask for a better opportunity than this. I just made enough to live for a few months while in school :) I'm going to try my best to switch to solely poker with 200$ or so.

Well your riding high very nice! Only problem is the fact that you will lose it all playing blackjack. Talk to me in a week. Or a day. It will be gone to BJ 100%.

yea online blackjack is crazy to me!! Goodluck though!

quit blackjack now while you're still up!!! it won't last

pass me the dutchie with your left hand

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betting it on a kid from Iraq if he would throw a rock to hit a tree. i think it will be on the weekend. you can watch the kid if you have satelite cable.

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i think the odd for the kid to hit a tree is -185. i am betting on this Irag Kid.

Just got Blackjack blocked from my account, and I'm at 2.3K. I'm waiting on a Wire Transfer to go through ($100) to double check that the money is received by my new Debit account, and then I'm withdrawing all but $100-$200 of it :)

Looks like I might not lose it all to blackjack afterall. From 0 to $2300 in a week. Not a penny deposited.

EDIT: On a side note, during this whole endevaour, I gathered up 29$ in rakeback, for a total of 2900 Reward/status points. I made it to the 7th tier of rewards. 1 point is .50 rake, or $10 in casino betting.