The reduced "ferguson Challenge" or how not to make a living...

Although I am a recent member of this site, I've been playing online and live poker for years. Although never making it rich, I have always made a steady profit playing low stakes tourneys and SNGs. So after having to cashout all my winnings from both Full Tilt and Absolute last year, I decided to see if a donkey amateur could somewhat re-create the "Ferguson Challenge'. If you don't know what that is check it out on FullTilt.
My goals are a lot less ambitious but I hope to make a clear $10K this year.I have always played by very similar staking rules as Chris Ferguson suggests, so I hope I will end up being 1/10th the player (financially) that he is.
I missed the first couple of weeks of 2011 so let's see how I do.

So whats your Bank roll at right now?

very goog goal to go after i hope u get it,, and ME TOO LOLOL glglgl

my bankroll at tilt is now 13 dollars,, hope i can build on that too this year,, and not build up some and then lose it, like ive done before grrr lolol

When I joined PokerOwned, my FullTilt account had $0.8 and my Absolute account had zero. I'll check to see what date that was later. Y placed 2nd in Zabs afternoon freeroll for $6 and change. Lost a $1.10 tourn yesterday and won a 90 player $1.10 tourn today for $22 and change so now my FullTilt account is at $26.63.

So it's 3:45 and I've entered 2 90 player $1 tourneys on FullTilt. Let's s see what these do for me.

$26 not bad, I look forward to watching your progress

good luck with that
if like you say
make steady profit and stick to the br man rules
then this time next year
early retirement

7:00pm and I cashed in 1 of 3 $1 tourns...down $! from earlier..going into the bankrollmob freeroll and then probably gonna go out for a Friday night drink....gl to all and will update as totals change.

nice glgl too, i alose have 13 dollas on tilt,, had zero bout 10 days a go hehe,, I VOW to t ry and bankroll manage money at all sites BETTER this year then i did this plast year UGH dont even ask, LOLOL but i,m off to a good start, so far,, got like 14 on UB now,, 5 on AP<, 18 on pstars,, and, hopin to not go to much backwarsds, at least LOLOL,, but we cant win everythin, or cash everythin we play,, so jus gotta foloow stricy bacnkroll rules ths year for me tOO!!!!!!! lets help each other do that too, LOOL

IMEANT ALSO FOR TILT<< NOT I LOSE LOLOLOL my typin stinks hahaha

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Originally Posted by MrDignified

7:00pm and I cashed in 1 of 3 $1 tourns...down $! from earlier..going into the bankrollmob freeroll and then probably gonna go out for a Friday night drink....gl to all and will update as totals change.

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So we were at $26.63, whats the total now?

he said he was downa little money now,, and then going out for friday nite drink zab, hehehe,, i,m sure he,ll bounce back tho!!!! I<M gonna swer to hang on to mine too,,, lol

well, that's all for me today.Played a couple of dollar SNGs....won one lost one. So days end total is $27 and change. Will be back and rolling tomorrow, probably in 4 hours after feeding the horses breakfast. Goodnight cruel world.

hope you do well. I have tried to build a bank roll off of the free rolls for the last year with out much luck but i think i have learned to play a little better than when i started. the pso on stars has helped me build a few cents so i may be able to start paying to get in to turnys if i can just build a little more.

OK...Morning all. half awake and drinking coffee but already rolling in a $1.20 27 player on FullTult...a;so registered for a 90 player. Good luck meee!!!

I have tried to build a bank roll off of the free rolls for the last year with out much luck but i think i have learned to play a little better than when i started.

bank roll building can be done off the freerolls for sure,its just maintaining the bankroll once i get it.i make the mistake of jumoing in the cash games to soonin hopes of atleast doubling up,and poof its back to the basics.not this year,up to around 5 bucks a penny at a time.

Mostly trying to see if I've loaded the screenshot correctly. Won't be playing for at least an hour....gotta drive the wife to work.

His challenge is really hard... That's why I'm really studying poker hard, in order to get 1/10th of what he has, as you said...

So there are days when you do it right and people just won't go away. The miracles start happening on the river when you go allin on the turn, which was the situation in thumbnail 1. Or you commit allin preflop after setting the trap for the shortstack and get a call from AQ(reasonable). Don't mind if he hits the ace but this result was sad in thumbnail 2. And the coup de grace was hilarious in thumbnail3. Look at these and enjoy my pain.Attachment 27Attachment 28Attachment 29

At first..is speechless,it happened to me too:) damn river
at second..were you all in preflop ,or on the flop ?
At third :) if you were not allin preflop,then he was waay better than you:) damn players calls with 8q

preflop in both the situations. I was a shortstack in the last screen but getting taken down by that call and quad 8s makes you think you trod on God's toe this morning, Like I said...there are just some days....lol.

Aah..then,what can i say more.It happened to me too,in the daily dollar:) had aces and went all in preflop.he called me with 4's .flop 4-Q-4 ,end of the story

Nice that you could cash out at both sites. aAl the best of building up yor bankrolll once again. It takes time and patience but sooner or later you will reach your goals :).

lucky. i bought for more than 500 and ended up losing it,but i don't give up yet, i am whatb you call beeing addicted(lol).i am still losing but still playing

Sp today's plan is to play a few larger field tourneys. If I do well obviously it's a nice cash day, and if I crash and burn i have enough left to return to the $1 SNGs as my bread and butter staking games. Let's see what happens!

good luck. keep some post letting us know how its going i hope u can do it

good luck i hope you make a it load of money weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well....finally mane a decent finish in a cash game with an ok field. I've made 5 final tables in freerolls with anywhere from 90 to 1200 players in the last 3 days...but i keep on donking out right at the good money in the cash games.. As another Scotsman once sang..."Tonight's The Night". Not a huge win money wise, but a great percentage leap. And now I can show why I'm a poker player ,not an I.T. tech...the screenshot I took doesn't even show my name.....LMAO. Anyway ,here's to first place in a $2 turbo tourn...thumbnails to follow when I track that tourney down...lol

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It was a long 5 hours playing the $1 single rebuy/single addon....Total prize pool was over $10000 so worth grinding at....just sad that I donked out right when the money really grows fast....Oh well, another $48 towards my goalAttachment 35

i played in the 20k tournament last night and took 131st out of about 18,500 players... first was 3k..i was getting excited when i saw the flop and was in about 30th place. i flopped a straight 9-k and someone was allin with k6...of course they won with a four card flush... that took a majority of my stack then the rest was taken from me with pocket rockets.. they are exciting to play!

wish i could emulate the success i see on here, im only really suited to 9 handed $5.50 SNG's, regular top 2 finish but i just dont seem to be able to crack bigger SNG tables

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one big advantage that we have over ferguson are these pokerowned & mob freerolls cuz they have a much smaller field of players & nicer pay outs than what ferguson went thru went he did it. i just started playing these smaller freerolls & have only played a few w/o much luck. i had been playing the larger freerolls on full tilt & poker stars, winning a decent percentage, building up a little bankroll, but then moving up 2 fast & playing outside of my bankroll, & then starting over. a good bankroll builder is the daily dollar at 8pm on FTP. there's even a satellite 4 it a few hours b4 for like 25 cents or sumthing. good luck 2 u.

yeah fergy didnt play private freerolls though did he? i dont think so. but with that its easier for us

I don't know wether he played any 'club' type freerolls, but his performance is impressive by any means. I only decided to join a few forums or club sites after cashing my bankroll out to try and help pay medical bills after a heart attack in December. The smaller field freerolls certainly give a jump start to a small roll, and allowed me to be instantly aggressive in my choice of tourneys after a 2nd place finish for $6. I played a $1 with 90 players and won that the next day and have placed well in a few large fields since.

I have been playing almost exclusively on full Tilt as that's where my larger bankroll is. I think todat I will donk around in some super low buyin SNGs on Absolute and try and build a little playing cash there. try to build from @ bucks to ten is a worthwhile daily goal. Good luck me!!

Goodluck at Absloute, I just learned they have blackjack there too. I haven't played for real money on there, but if you're any good at blackjack I'd look into that.