is it possible to build a bankroll from zero?

[tazer11]

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!

[dk12]

definitely possible... ive done it tons of tiems... too bad it always goes back to ZERO! =(

[ShipItSA1]

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

[DuckU408]

im building my play money on lock. i have over 89 million play money.

[buonafide]

Not only is it possible to build up from zero people do it for large prop bet sums

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.

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.

[grindertiger211]

it can be done but sites are so wishy washy sometimes just got to step light all the way and hope for the best

[zingbust]

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.

[pharaoh57]

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.

[tex]

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 o not open another account until You've done your research ,basically you can be in four or five free rolls a week.

[BearPlay]

Sure it is but you will have to play freerolls enough until you are ITM. Recommend Carbon or Bovada. Good luck