Poker Challenge update....I'm past the $2500 mark!!!

That's right, with a little bit of weekend dedication and giving up my big games to focus on this challenge, I've passed the $2500 mark in the challenge.  To be more accurate, I'm up to $2763.  I've made most of my latest progress by grinding out sit-n-gos and tournaments.  With over $2500 in my bankroll this means I can take some big shots at making some significant scores to finish this thing up in the next couple of months.  Regardless, I've hit the donation mark.  Now I just need to double this so I can have an OK bankroll to start my next challenge.  Through all I've done playing poker this is still very exciting to turn $20 into something significant that I can use to help someone else.  In fact, I know I've said it before, but this challenge means more to me than playing in my big games with my own money.  I'm hoping to wrap this up in a big way in the coming months to get me ready to start something huge in the new year.  I'll update when I get past that $3000 or $4000 mark depending on how fast I'm moving in the next couple of weeks. Until then, Challenge yourself to challenge the need.

Big games up and down

No huge update this week but I've taken some big shots and missed by little bits here and there.  I made the final table of one of Bodog Poker Open series.  I finished 8th which means no big payday ($78) but I got a ticket to the Bodog Poker Open final event.  All I need to do is take this one down tomorrow and this challenge is over.  It'll be a huge weight off of my chest since I haven't had a lot of time at all to play at any point in this challenge.  I'm going to figure out the total hours played soon to give you an idea of how disappointed I am with the amount of time I've been able to put into this. Until then...Challenge yourself to challenge the need.

Poker Challenge Update- Big things coming up

OK, I've mad a bit of a liar out of myself as I've said that I'm going to make time to play this challenge out.  I haven't had any such chance because of my real job getting really really busy.  I have had some good fortune on some of the tourneys I've played and pulled my bankroll up to $2149.  At this rate I'm on a good track to make it to the donation mark.  If I can make a good run at this and find the time to do so I think I can take the entire challenge down.  The new chip chart is below.  A big series starts tomorrow that I'm going to get into if I can find the time.  This could be my shot considering I can buy into tournaments as big as $40 buy-ins...finally feel like I'm making some real progress.

Quick Challenge update

My bankroll for the challenge is up to $1401.  I'm going to put in some extra time this week where I can to get this challenge jump started again.  Although I think I'll be hard pressed to make the 5K goal I'm pretty sure I can get to the 2500 donation mark.  I need more hours in the day.

1/4 of the way throgh the poker challenge

With my bankroll at $1262, I'm officially 1/4 of the way through the poker challenge. I'm starting to shake this run of bad cards and almost did so in a big way this week.  I had my top tournament cash of the challenge this week, a third place finish for $353.  If I won the hand that I got into (where I was favorite) I had a good chance to win this one for nearly $1K but that race didn't quite go my way.  Next time it will, I'm sure.  I'm updating my main graph on the challenge page and will update the chip-graph next week.  Until then...Challenge yourself to challenge the need.

Something old and something new

I've taken a bit of a break from the blog because I've been sick and on travel a bit.  Here's the new news with the challenge.  Progress= NONE....I'm just staying at the same level and can't quite get ahead the past couple of weeks.  That's getting old.

Now for something new, I've developed a new way to chart my progress on a week to week basis.  Below is my new chip graph.  I'll post this with my posts from time to time.  Every chip there is worth $200 (25 total chips).  The greens show my progress and the whites show how much further till I hit my goal.  Man this looks daunting given the timeline and the way I've been running lately but it can be done.

More updates to come. Until then Challenge yourself to challenge the need.

Passing another mini-milestone in the charity challenge

This week I've passed another small milestone in my poker charity challenge.  I've turned my starting amount of $27.59 into $1006 dollars.  Yes, I've passed the $1000 mark, so I'm 20% complete.  Although this is great, I really need to pick up the pace in order to hit my end of year deadline for $5K.  As it stands, I've got to make a bit under $1K each month to meet this goal.  Up to this point I expected that once I got to $1000 that it would be pretty easy sailings.  That has proven to not be the case.  I've run into a streak of bad luck.  I'm sure once it passes I'll get the earnings back up to a mark that I want to be at.

More updates to come. Until then Challenge yourself to challenge the need.