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I'm working on building mine from freerolls at the moment. It a lot of grind and just being smart about your plays. My single bit of advice is that if you feel like you are on tilt over a frustrating hand just get up and walk away for a bit. Get your head in the right place and come back and take it down!
definitely possible... ive done it tons of tiems... too bad it always goes back to ZERO! =(
shit i wish it were that easy fuckin about did my head in today good thing i didn\'t get to spastic had some control at least
im building my play money on lock. i have over 89 million play money.
I'm surprised nobody mentioned Chris Ferguson's $1M bet to build a $10,000 bankroll from 0 in less than a year. He won that bet. I was playing on FullTilt when this happened. Did not get to play with him when he was at microstakes - although I did play Mike Sexton at a .01/.02 table a few months before black friday.Quote:
Originally Posted by JohnnyDeepStacks
And just so you know what tedious grinding you're in for, I had $20 turn into $240 on Pstars and it took me 18 months. twice, I had my BR under $1 and had to grind it back up until I finally took down a big micro tourney and got up to $100 - grind it out between $50 and $150 for six months until I took down another big micro tourney up to $200, then I finally started moving up in stakes - was doing fine for a few days until Black friday - shit timing. Don't know where my BR was going to go, but that was a huge bummer and took my game down quite a bit being pretty much out of online poker for the last 3 years.
it can be done but sites are so wishy washy sometimes just got to step light all the way and hope for the best
I think it can be done if you're capable of going on extended lucky streaks like most of us have been capable of doing at some point in our careers. However, if you don't have any of those (like 5 straight days of good beats and best hands holding up most of the time), then I don't think it's even worth the effort. If you're going to do this in tournament play, you have to win 50% of your races...you're going to have to be all in or your opponent will be all in against you a couple times every tournament or maybe 3 or 4 times where it's a flip. You're going to have the 2 overcards sometimes and sometimes you're going to have the pocket pair.
If you're incapable of having occasional runs of 2 and 3 in a row (races) that go in your favor, you'll not make it. For me personally, the best I've been able to do over the past 19 months is 2 in a row out of thousands of all in flips. If you were to take a nickel out of your pocket and say to yourself "heads is the equivalent of winning a poker race and tails is the equivalent of losing one" and started flipping, you would find that you would see heads 3 or more times in a row many times for each 100 flip sample. Many many MANY times. Therefore it's almost mathematically impossible to never win more than 2 in a row out of thousands of flips, yet it can happen to you in poker. I don't know why poker is capable of defying mathematical concepts, but for me personally it does. And if it does for me, maybe there's other people who are incapable of going on lucky streaks any more as well.
The reverse could be true. You could end up being one of those blessed players where nothing bad ever happens tournament after tournament after tournament after tournament after tournament. For example, if you're a decent player, you could end up getting 1st place out of 200 or more players twice in a row because nothing bad ever happens to you ever ever ever ever ever. After winning 2 in a row, your good luck could continue and skyrocket you all the way to the top of the poker world. This type of extreme good luck can and does happen. I've seen it happen with my friends and players I've watched. When the hand is crucial for their tourney life, somehow they manage to win the hand even if the money goes all in and they're a big underdog.
One well-known pro running on a heater like I mention above on twitter thought it was "unreal" when he suddenly got outdrawn in one hand and a couple hands later went out when he lost a race. He actually runs so good so much of the time, that he thought it was "unreal" for 2 hands to go wrong for him.
So to summarize, yes, it can be done, but you have to be one of the players blessed with good luck rather than one of the cursed ones.
It is possible to build up if you do not get frustrated with playing low limit games. You can build a decent bankroll by winning a PO freeroll, and playing $1 games or micro level cash games.
Its hard to post on this forum about this because it's a poker owned forum ,but I'll give you some good hints, whatever poker site your on go to the private section there you will see a bunch of different tourneys click on tourney info there you will see the websites you need to go to ,now this is important :Do not open another account until You've done your research ,basically you can be in four or five free rolls a week.
Sure it is but you will have to play freerolls enough until you are ITM. Recommend Carbon or Bovada. Good luck ;)
As for me .. can not do their variance.
yes all you need is to hit two 7 teamers, three 2 team parlay and two double or nothing and you be at 5k at the second double up. i did it twice, once in sept. and last months.
defintely possible. I started with zero and im currently sitting at 140
just gotta grind im at $17 from 0 in a day
PATIENCE, PATIENCE, PATIENCE! It had been time and again but everyone who has done it has been extremely patient!
Good Luck!
either old thread or another one. answer I seen that reminded me well PO. there you go. but that's not nececarrily from zero if you had to buyin now is it
PO is a great place to build a bankroll from scratch!
YES, you should exchange your time and skill for money. It is always possible to do it with quite a portion of LUCK as well!
If he had a lot of luck .. Theoretically yes, but in practice, I doubt it.
i know alot of people that have done it but i have never actually tried it myself, takes alot of patience and discipline
i did it on fulltilt and pokerstars back in the day turned 0 on fulltilt to 5 grand
Well I'm all the way up to $17 from $0. I just recently signed up.
yes it is. you just have to be good enough to win
I have been extremely stubborn and never deposited since 2001 (well deposited twice on PokerStars in 2010), but probably the best way is to throw a decent of money online and play awayyyy.
Yeah, the PO freerolls do help gain u some to build your stack!
yes for sure it is. i have done it on pokerstars and fulltilt many times.
thats what this site is made for. But if you have player points on a site you can use them to get in a tourney win money on that and then go from there
Last fall I did $0 to $500 in about a month on BCP from the On Demand freerolls, then had to cash out. It's possible, but you need to either grind a lot of freerolls, or get lucky in a few. Also, once you have a small BR going, bankroll management is key.
Brings to mind when Chris Ferguson started witn -0- and ran it to $10,000. Google it.
Exactly. That is a great point. Just don't tell Zab... :DQuote:
Originally Posted by layoh21
Yes it is done it bout to again .gonna document it this time .
Coming soon building a site for that so stay tuned
0.00 to 3k @ carbon
its definitely possible...i do it everyday lol
Keep playing on Carbon best freeroll opportunity compared to any other site. I have made $300 on fulltilt from a $0 bankroll.
I think Phil I've had a bet with some one that he could grand to 10 k from free rolls and he made it.
I got up to 3k on PS back in the day..best ive done since is almost $400 on carbon but I started playing out of my means and had one of those weeks where every winning hand on the turn gets cracked when all in on the river..lol..you know the typical Carbon game..lol
It's definitely possible to build a roll from nothing. PO definitely helps getting you started instead of trying to win a Freeroll.
Yeah man thats why they are called FREEROLLS bc people will turn the free money into bigger cash ha
For sure it is possible, but you need to invest near all of your time into it ! So consider if worthy :)
for no US players have sites give money,token,tickets for u start.
I Usually try to avoid putting up my own money for POKER, I mostly rely on FreeRolls to start a bankroll.
But some of the FreerollS tend to pay really low (which is expected) but its a good way to "start"