This 19 year old online player has laid a series of bets for what seems like a ridiculously impossible task: win $10, 000 at 10c/25c NL poker over a 31 day period.
The internet is playing a big role here.
First read about the bet on 2+2.
Here is the Fullcontactpoker forum thread.
And the action has started, as of 22nd May.
Here is the 2+2 ongoing thread where WCGRider occasionally posts.
Here is his blog where he has stated that he will update his progress at the end of each day.
But here is the best bit. Part of the deal is that he will always be live on webcam to prove that it is him playing at all times. Here is the link.
After Day 1 he had a very slow start and was still down after 18,000 hands. However he went on a heater and finished up $382 (15 buyins) at 3BB/100 hands. He describes it as a bad day however at that rate he will succeed!
Good luck to him! He no doubt has the game but what about:
1. boredom
2. illness
3. technical problems
It will be an interesting ride!
How many tables is he playing?, I’m struggling to get 1k hands in per day, would love to get 18k hands in at my current win rate
Be interesting to see how he gets on.
The answer to your question Luckystraights is somewhat sick. In the first 2 days, he played over 50,000 hands!!!! http://img144.imageshack.us/img144/3687/throughday2ad6.jpg
He is 24 tabling on pokerstars for 16 hours a day.
He reckons he might be able to play 700,000 hands over the month. If he can, he will win his bet easily.
Just hope that he doesn’t drop dead at the end of it. Sitting for 16 hours a day for 31 days drinking highly caffeinated drinks all day is not healthy!!
You can find him on pokerstars under the name wcg|rider.
BTW: Are you maintaining 9bb/100 hands?
I’ve gradually been increasing my win-rate and my peak came close to 10, at around 9.89 before my last session where I dropped back down into 7’s. I maintained it for maybe 1.5 or 2k hands.
I’ve been working on my game quite a lot recently, and have started 6 tabling just before hitting the 9 range for my BB/100. My focus is always to try and keep my win rate above 7 – 7.5 and I’ve been working hard to get it above 10, where I hope to maintain it.
It only takes one session with a lack of focus or concentration for your win-rate to be severally affected though, as my last session shows. I went from around 9.79 to 7.68 in around 300 hands.
Sounds like you are doing great. Keep it up! As MCQrider is showing, this is a game of grinding.
I was, my last 2 sessions have ended with a 2 outer, and my beautiful BB/100 has nose dived.
Just doing my best to play my part and get as many hands in as I can. Its hard to keep up with the long sessions during times like these though.
I agree, story’s like these are certainly helping me pull my finger out and get the hands in so I can move up.
The fact he’s not mental is a tribute to him! I’ve 12 tabled for 3 hours before and wanted to guge my eyes out by the end of it!
What nobody has mentioed is although this challenge is amazing, he is going to effectively take $10k out of circulation at the mico-stakes which is a lot of money to us fish!
Things are starting to go awry: http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/2341/throughday5mg2.jpg
Over the last 50,000 hands he is actually down! That is a decent sample size.. either it is the ugly side of variance, or the long hours are taking the toll. I suspect the latter, and it is only day 5. What I think is foolish is that in addition to 24 tabling, he is also monitoring and posting in the chat forum on justin.tv.
I announce now that there is no way in the world he is going to win $9000 over the next 25 days!
It’ll never happen. That’s a lot of money to win playing at those levels.
If he was playing .50/1 then maybe he could do it.
Well anyway, I wish him good luck, if he doesn’t go insane before he reaches his goal…lol.
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Somehow i missed the point. Probably lost in translation
Anyway … nice blog to visit.
cheers, Conclave!