Moving The Bankroll Challenge To Full Tilt

Hey Guys, as the title says, I'm moving the bankroll challenge over to Full Tilt Poker and I wanted to give you the reasons why I've decided to do this.

So firstly Minted Poker is great in terms of all the fish on the site as well as an amazing poker rakeback deal where you'll get paid weekly, straight into your poker account. However the downside of the site is the low traffic which to be fair was never a problem back in England as I could get games easily between 11am - 10pm. However now that I'm in Thailand, I can nearly never get any games during the morning/early afternoon which is really slowing the challenge down.

So I have decided to move over to Full Tilt simply because there are games going 24 hours a day and if you love to play Texas Hold'em then you'll never be lost for a game here. The downside of course is the fact that the rakeback drops to 27% but I think that'll be made up for with the volume of games going.

So I've really been enjoying playing heads up poker but this presents another problem. Full Tilt heads up games start at NL50 which I wasn't rolled for. I shipped my $626 accross and thought about just grinding it out on 8 tables of NL25 on auto pilot and then realised that most of my profit and enjoyment in this challenge simply came from playing really bad players on the heads up tables. This is when I decided to play the HU games but I had to set myself some pretty strict rules in order to churn out a profit and not risk going broke.

Firstly I only play against players that sit in with $20 - $30 and who simply appear to have no clue how to play. I am practicing extreme table selecting and bum hunting. As soon as a player seems to have a clue what they are doing or playing a short stack too aggressivley, I simply quit them and find another bum.

I've played around 1500 hands in this way, so far and with pretty good results. The sample is too small to put much stock into but I'll keep you posted with a new graph, every week.

The bankroll is up to just over $800 now and the four figure milestone seems just around the corner. I'll be making a bum hunting video shortly, as soon as I have logged a decent amount of hands. I'll be demonstrating good table selection and adjusting to the different types of fish that you'll find and how to best exploit them.

The pictures here are of my heads up poker results since just making the move to Full Tilt.

I'll keep you guys posted.



Good luck

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