It has been ages since my last post but I need to make you aware that on the 29th December I passed the $10,000 mark with my $100-$10,000 challenge. I never ever want to do anything like this again as it was the toughest thing that I have ever done. I switched to playing single tables at NL100 and poker games and this rapidly escalated the bankroll. I even made $1000 in a single week in late November.
So all that is behind me now and I need another challenge. What my next challenge is will entail me taking the current bankroll of $10,017 up to $100,000. Before you think that I have taken leave of my senses then let me say that I will be doing this by playing the sort of poker that I believe is where my future is. This is playing as many tables at full-ring NLHE as possible at the NL50 level. I have a real angle on this level and so will try my utmost to play as much poker as I possibly can this year.
The next part of the challenge will see me using PokerTracker for the first time until I start to play so many tables that I struggle with LAG. My aim is to start off this month playing 8-10 tables and I have played four hours already this month and made around $550 after hitting every flop possible and getting aces versus kings three times in the space of thirty minutes. It would be amazing to turn $100 into $100,000 but this is what I aiming to do and my goal is to do it in 2012.
What I will be looking to do this year will be to replace quality with quantity and the major metric for me in 2011 will be as much volume as possible. I am hoping that my automatic almost “algorithmic” style coupled with PokerTracker will prove highly successful this year not in terms of better quality of play but in helping me to achieve a far greater level of volume. But of course there is one thing that any tracker program cannot give me and that is the desire to play a lot of hours in the mould of a Dusty Schmidt
Carl “The Dean” Sampson plays at www.pokerstars.co.uk
