So it looks like, after four events, it’s again between Mr. White and Mr. Blue in the allround classification. Maybe we should admit by now that they are the best tournament (important) players in our middle. However, we’re talking about the overall ranking here, the big money still has to be earned in our ‘main event’.

Mr. White planned winning the winner takes all event last time and so he did, we must give him credit for that. He defeated the surprising Ms. Blonde heads-up, won 120€ and acquired six important points for the overall ranking, where he is one point behind leader Mr. Blue (17) now, who finished fourth. But also Brown and Orange (14) and even myself (12) still can win there, only Ms. Blonde is eliminated (11).

The first two to be eliminated yesterday were our last two bracelet winners, being myself (6th) and Mr. Orange (5th). When the other four remained, White won the deciding pot of the evening towards his victory. Here we go (without suits, as they aren’t important in this hand):

Ms. Blonde (button) 2950, 86

Mr. White (sb, 30) 3800, TT

Mr. Brown (bb, 60) 1700, K3

Mr. Blue 3550, 99

Blue is under the gun and makes it 200 to go. Blonde gets out of the way and then it’s up to White with pocket tens. He makes it 750 and with Blue calling the two deep stacks go heads-up to the flop. Flop comes K 6 9 so Blue outdraws White by spiking his set. Blue leads out with a bet of 850 and White calls. The turn gives White a higher set: T. Blue shoves his resting 1950 chips into the pot and gets of course insta called. The river comes another 6 and White wins a 7130 pot with the best full house.

Mr. White was very happy he got to eliminate personally Mr. Blue as he knew it was important that Blue didn’t finish top three, regarding the overall ranking. Mr. Brown was knocked out in the next blinds level and the deep stacked Mr. White remained with Ms. Blonde. White finished her with A3, which was played curiously. He limped to trap, while Blonde had K2. flop came 7 A K and Blonde shoved, White called. Up to the main event now!

Submitted by Ms. Pink

So we know that’s possible after this challenge. For some of us at least. As I finished last, I was assigned the task of writing this (provisional) last post. Let’s reconsider the challenge for a moment and look forward to the next one .

We can distinguish five different periods during this 78 days, of which I made separate graphs.

As you see, starting with a small bankroll makes big swings impossible. So you can’t have big expectations of big profits during this starting periods and got to have a lot of discipline when you are initially losing, as Mr. Blue perfectly did.

When the bankroll grows, the swings become somewhat bigger. Of course, a big cash-out in a MTT makes your play a lot more comfortable. You can see that the ultimate winner was still making small incremental progression in this period.

This period clarifies three things. First, you can make a lot of money in a short time playing heads-up (as for myself). Second, IF you experience a bad run, take a little break and try to build up what you lost again with a lot of patience (Mr. White). Third, if you’re just an amateur, you can play tournaments for days and notice your bankroll just stabilized around a certain amount of money (Pink&Blue).

Remember one thing: don’t play beyond your bankroll .

Last conclusion: great cashgame players (myself and Ms. Pink) are not automatically good tournament players .

So we take a break right now and just play some poker for ourselves now. But as we all enjoyed this challenge, we are thinking about a new one and as soon as we have figured something out, we’ll let you know .

Hi, the challenge is off for a couple of days because Mr. White and Mr. Brown are skiing in the Austrian snow right now. Can’t always play poker . We’ll be back on februari 12th!

Submitted by Ms. Pink

Hello everybody! Today our ‘poker heist’ officially started, so the four of us began their quest for $1000 by playing all kind of online tournaments. We will try to keep you up to date by posting a sort of report every three, four days. Every single one of us will get his of her turn to write something here about what happened to him/her and the others at the tables. Till next time for a first score!