For the first time since the start of the challenge, all the four of us made profit in the period between two updates. However, the figures behind our names demonstrate how difficult it remains to build up a decent bankroll if you have to keep playing on lower stakes for a certain period.
You got to have a lot of patience and face a certain number of bad beats on these tables, where some people shove in their chips with any two cards. Of course, in the long (,loooooooooong) run, this is at your advantage, as Mr. White told me again this week. His bankroll increased towards $173, and he still leads the challenge. He even made a straight flush when he called an all-in from a short stack (click to enlarge):
My own bankroll rised towards $134. I stopped playing heads-up games for a while and played some multitable sng’s and MTT’s. It’s sometimes amazing to see how easy you can pick up a lot of chips on final tables because people play a lot tighter to get in the money. I also cashed in a $2 + rebuy MTT, finishing in eight place ($19,26, 189 participants). It’s really astonishing to watch chips flying in these tournaments, just because people can rebuy after going broke. Look at the following hand for example:
Well, there’s loose-aggressive play and there’s this 
. Ms. Pink keeps building up her bankroll incrementally: $129. No big cashes tillt his moment, but no significant downswings neither. Mr. Blue seems to be recovered once and for all from his bad start: $121 after some solid play on sng’s ($5) with 9 and 18 players. See you next time!
Submitted by Mr. Brown
Well that’s very nice for him, but the most important news first: Mr. White is back on top of the rankings with a bankroll of $144! I had a little downswing last time, but I recovered pretty well from it. I stayed very focused and only played single table sng’s ($5) for a while, in which I made some nice cash.
I was even more cheered up when I heard that our lovely Ms. Pink had a little downswing by herself, leading to a bankroll of only $105. She’s not even on second place anymore, since Mr. Brown seems to have had a sick luck-run on the $6 (turbo) hu-tables, leading to $118 at the moment. When I saw some hands, I realised how unfair poker sometimes can be, look at this one for example:
So these are the landmines you have to avoid when playing a solid game. Subsequently I saw how some people apparently just donate their chips to their opponents on those hu-tables:
According to Mr. Brown, his ‘loose aggressive image made the other player pay off this hand’. Sure, J5 is the perfect hand to punish some loose luckbox with… (btw, Mr Brown, in the last post, losing with T7 against KK is a bad beat?! Hey, not calling with this junk will save you from this cruelty man.) Meanwhile Mr. Blue is still comfortably living in last place, altough it looks like he recovers a little bit from his missed start: $72. Btw, happy New Year everybody 
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Submitted by Mr. White
Despite of his great confidence last times, Mr. White had to hand over the lead in the challenge to Ms. Pink again. Besides some cash outs in 9 handed $5 tournaments, she finally succeeded to finish in the money in an 18 handed tournament ($5), ending up winning it ($36). This led to a bankroll of $127.
With all the respect for Ms. Pink, cashing in a tournament becomes a lot easier when you’re a lucky ***** . Look at the following hand, which prevented her from being eliminated in the sng with 18 players:
That so never happens to me. Another cash out in an 18 handed tourney wasn’t really a matter of luck, but was caused by some donkyhead who just goes all in with a shitty pair:
Ms. Pink stated that she perfectly disguised the hand as a ‘ button steal’. Yeah, could be. Meanwhile Mr. White wasn’t able to expand his bankroll, but downgraded it towards $112. This is mainly due to the fact that he didn’t win anything: some small cash outs didn’t make up for his losses.
My bankroll is also a little down compared to last time: $66. This is really unbelievable because I was up to $95 for a moment, but then I had a little steam on the hu-tables after I faced a really bad beat in a 6 handed tournament, ending up third. I called a preflop raise with T 7 and flopped 2 pair after which somebody with KK catched a third king on the river when I was all-in. It also looks like some monkeys gave Mr. Blue action when he finally got his bullets, because his bankroll is above $50 again ($51). Happy New Year!
Submitted by Mr. Brown
The positions did not change since last update, however, the numbers behind the names did. I hope Mr. Blue remembers the way towards the cash dispenser because it looks like he owes us $200 soon .
Let’s mention right away that Mr. White expanded his lead, so we don’t have to deal with that anymore. Of course, he did well in some shorthanded $5 sng’s, upgrading his bankroll towards $124, but there’s still a long way to go. I also had some success the last few days, mainly in 9 handed sng’s. It looks like I don’t have the patience for bigger sng’s or tournaments. However, I was able to cross the $100 border: $101.
It looks like the other two guys are struggling for not ending up last^^. Although it has to be said that Mr. Brown had a nice run at the heads-up tables and climbed up from $53 to $72. On the other hand, the situation of Mr. Blue is becoming desperate: he only has $32 left. His brief reaction was the following: “Pokerstars has rigged his computers to let me loose because I already withdrew a lot of money there.” He sent me the next hand as a ‘proof’ of his ‘thesis’:
That’s poker baby !
Submitted by Ms. Pink
Yes, it’s a pity for the challenge, but it’s almost decided already. Yours truly became a true dominator of the $2 sng’s, with 9 as well as 18 participants. Untouchable as he was yesterday, he even succeeded to cash in five subsequent tournaments: 2nd (9h), 3rd (18h), 1st (9h), 3rd (18h) and 1st (9h). These results contributed to a bankroll of $97 at the moment.
Far behind him, Ms. Pink looks like trying to stabilise her bankroll around $80. She cashed a few times in 9 handed tournaments but failed to be successfull in tourneys with 9+ participants: $82. Mr. Brown moved up to third place, mainly thanks to a first place in a 5$ sng (9h). This is obviously a terrific example of some excellent bankrollmanagement ^^. He was able to win this as a result of a ‘wonderful bluff’ he wanted me to show you:
Obviously, he should have raised a lot more on the flop with the draw and two overcards, but I promised not to criticise his play. In last place is our own rock: Mr. Blue. His bankroll dropped towards $47 because our ‘tournament player’ succeeded to become the bubble boy four times in 5 (9 handed) tournaments. Next time we’ll see if Mr. White has already crossed the $200-line. Merry Christmas!
Submitted by Mr. White.
Hello pokerpeople. The challenge is on now for three days and some of us are on the right way towards that $1000, playing No limit poker. Ms. Pink leads at the moment with a bankroll of $79. She mainly played 9 handed sit ‘n go tournaments with a $2 buy-in. Nevertheless she stated she could have made a lot more profit when she would have won more of her heads-up situations.
Second at the moment is Mr. White with $72. He played a mixture of 9 handed and multi-table (up to 45 partcipants) sit ‘n go’s with a $2 buy-in. He made a nice cash-out in a 27 handed tournament, where he ended up as runner-up: $12.42. Of course this achievement couldn’t go by without him reporting a ‘genius play’ on the final table. The player to his right was on sit-out for some reason which made him instant fold every time it was his turn. The player to his left noticed that and tried (and succeeded) to pick up his blinds by raising preflop each time. Mr. White stopped this pattern with the following play which he ofcourse wanted me to show you:
I can be short about myself: after cashing in some shorthanded sit ‘n go’s I tried to make a big step towards the $1000 by playing some big multi-table tournaments, but I never cashed. My bankroll amounts to $58 at the moment. Mr. Brown is in last position with $41, not being succesfull in shorthanded and heads-up tournaments. Nevertheless he reassures his fans the tide will turn because now he knows that online poker is rigged, he will adjust his play to it.
Submitted by Mr. Blue