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gr0wapear 2020 Zero deposit challenge
gr0wapear
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As the title would suggest, I will attempt to build a roll for some games on Sky without depositing. My real-life finances took a bit of a hit due to negligence on my part, so I withdrew the £130 I had on sky, leaving myself a juicy £0.0 to start the year. December was good in that I won £100 from the Daily draw promo,but that had to be withdrawn as well.
Some goals for the challenge would include building a roll till May and maybe going for Priority around that time, provided that all has gone according to plan so till then. Maybe a SPT stop as well? I had a big sweat last year, making it to the Vegas £430 final, off the back of a £1 tournament ticket so that kind of scratched an itch for getting into a tournament of the live variety, doubling up as a potential holiday.
Progress so far:
01/01/2020 - did the free spin bonus on Sky Vegas , won a £0.10 for a scratch card, used that and won £1
02/01/2020 - came 5th in the 06:45 freeroll this morning, for £1.44 after making a comeback from 1.5bb - ran JTs into QQ when 4bb stacked
Upcoming games:
Freeroll 7:30 tonight
Current roll: £2.44
Some goals for the challenge would include building a roll till May and maybe going for Priority around that time, provided that all has gone according to plan so till then. Maybe a SPT stop as well? I had a big sweat last year, making it to the Vegas £430 final, off the back of a £1 tournament ticket so that kind of scratched an itch for getting into a tournament of the live variety, doubling up as a potential holiday.
Progress so far:
01/01/2020 - did the free spin bonus on Sky Vegas , won a £0.10 for a scratch card, used that and won £1
02/01/2020 - came 5th in the 06:45 freeroll this morning, for £1.44 after making a comeback from 1.5bb - ran JTs into QQ when 4bb stacked
Upcoming games:
Freeroll 7:30 tonight
Current roll: £2.44
Comments
@Tikay10 noticed there are a few of these challenges popping up in The Poker Clinic; reckon they would do better in Poker Chat with the others?
The free tokens and bonuses are the £2.3 tournament token from the weekly rewards and the other £11 is from the Tournament Tuesday social promotion - did not even know I had won one of these tokens until checking my account now.
Will have to decide what to do with the tokens - potentially a normal speed DYM is in order, for max chance of cashing, or perhaps an MTT punt for quickest possible progress - what are some good £11 mtts on here?
I can't really advise where best to use it, but VBOL with it.
Personally, I think I'd play a DYM for a chance to double it. Or, even lower variance, play a few lower buy-in DYM's, to spread the risk.
You may know this already, but as any monetary loss at this early stage can be very damaging I'll remind you anyway.
The tokens don't give change, so make sure you use the £11 token for a game of no less than £11.
Unless things have changed recently, the tokens are in a set order. If your £2.30 token is next in line and you enter a £5.50 tournament, it will use both tokens with no change given. So best to check which one is first in line before you use them.
I too think an £11 regular speed DYM would be the best way to try to turn it into cash.
Good luck with your challenge,
Ed.
Had a decent win on the spin promotion from Sky Vegas - £0.10 scratch card stake that resulted in:
Bankroll: £4.54
Things were running smoothly for the most part, one player got knocked out from misplayed KK on 4Q4Qx board, another one got knocked out and the loose player to my left lost a fair bit of his stack so I got quietly confident I'd make it into the top three.
I picked up KJo in the sb and limped at bb200 vs the shortest stack, flop came K high, he lead out and I called, on the turn I jammed w/ top pair and a J high flush draw but villain had already got a queen high flush draw so I was drawing dead.
Very next hand, I picked up 99 and shoved for my last 900 odd over the 200 utg limp, from the passive chipleader, he called me with 88 and I held up.
The last hand I got very lucky to dodge bullets literally, @johnmonty had to go all in with a very wide range first in, under the gun and I had 77 as second shortest stack, right behind him. I made a tight, possibly incorrect, fold and the player next to me woke up with AA in the small blind and they held up.
Current roll: £25.07 - will play some more low stake dons, to get to 50 points for this week and be able to have access to the freerolls for next week etc
did not managewas too lazy to get the 50 points needed last week, for the freerolls for last week, so i put in very little volume and made little progress on the challenge over last week.I managed to get 100 points, for the freeroll entries and £2.3 token, will have to see how I use it this week.
I'm glad that there is a new promo for us SNG players, with the DYM streak weeks running this week and next. Last year, when I did a £7 > £100 challenge for a month, a good chunk of that came from this promotion.I ran really hot and managed a streak of 11 cashes in a row, from around 20 games.
I will be playing the £1.1s this week, as part of this promotion, predominantly the standard speed ones for better chance of cashing and less risk of ruin.
Current bankroll:
(+ £2.3 token)
See you all on the tables