James “HullJimi” Greenwood records a healthy second week in his PartyPoker Bankroll Challenge, which started with $25.

Week 2 Starting Bankroll: $30.47

Hands Played (this week): 720

Current Bankroll: $45.47

Overall Profit: $20.20

I’ve played a bit this week but not as much as I’d have liked as I’m finally moving home after the summer floods in the UK. I live in Hull, one of the worst affected areas where 10,000 homes had to be abandoned due to water invading through the front door!

It’s been six months out of my home and I’m so glad to be going back – it’ll be nice to have a proper internet connection again having had to use my mobile phone as a modem recently. This means that multi tabling is a real no-no at the moment, hence the limited number of hands I’m getting through.

However, I did play a good few hands. And one in particular was a cracker. I sat down at a table with my massive $2 stack (I have to adhere to strict bankroll management rules) and managed to quadruple up when four people went all in (all had me covered) and I hit trip Aces, having held A-A. Nice!

The other big hand was me having a nut flush with two all-in players in the pot – a nice treble up.

Looking to hit $100: James Greenwood

I’m still struggling with some of the play at the micro levels, however. In another hand, I again had A-A and I raise to 5 times the big blind. I raise again on a safe flop, another safe card on turn sees me raise again. Both of these raises were called. Turns out he had K-Q off suit and hit an unlikely straight on the river. He only had two overcards on the flop – what was he calling the flop bet for?!?! Argh!

I’ve also seen a flopped flush beaten by a full house on the turn, but that’s not so much a bad beat, more like variance. Stuff like that happens, it’s just when you’re busting a gut to run some money up on a the PartyPoker Bankroll Challenge, beats like that really hurt.

Anyway, I’m homeward bound. And once I’m in and settled, I think I might set myself a mini challenge of turning my $50(ish) into $100 in one week…..should I sit down with a bigger starting roll or not? Any advice?

Thanks for reading!

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The PartyPoker Bankroll Challenge involves starting off with a $25 bankroll and seeing how high you can take it. But, and it’s a big but, you have to stick to sound bankroll management techniques - never sitting down with more than 5% of the roll for cash games and Sit & Go’s, and not more than 2% for multi-table tournaments.

Stick to this and you should start to see your roll increasing - if you play a solid enough game! Furthermore, you’ll improve your game as you go along, particularly when you get to move up the buy-in levels.

Give it a try - and drop us a line here at the blog to let us know how you are getting on.

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by James “HullJimi” Greenwood

Starting Roll: $25

Current Roll: $30.47

It’s been an eye opening first week!

I’ve been playing 2c/4c no limit cash, with a $2 buy-in and the standard of play is a bit unusual to say the least! Ten x big blind raises are par for the course, with four x big blind raises getting virtually a table full of callers.

Starting my first week of the PartyPoker Bankroll Challenge with just $25, I decided to opt for an ultra tight style of play. I couldn’t afford to gamble, so I’ve been pretty easy to read up to now, I suspect. However, any picture card is played hard at this level and Ace-rag is being treated like a set!

Here’s one of the early hands I played:

I get dealt J-J in the small blind, there are four limpers so I raise to 24c - and get one re-raiser from early position. Now in “normal” games, this is pretty transparent – it has to be A-A or K-K, doesn’t it? I decide to flat call his re-raise, knowing that under normal circumstances my Jacks are going in the muck, but also knowing that at this level he could have anything. Anyway, another Jack comes on the flop, I double up and he indeed shows A-A. Maybe there are some good players at this level after all – I clearly got lucky!

After around 300 hands I get my first pair of aces and they hold. Next hand I get A-K, and with a K-high flop, it holds. I then get my second pair of aces (thanks PartyPoker!), but they get crushed by a set of 3s.

So in short, it’s tough. Tougher than I imagined and I wish I was playing full stacks so my big hands get paid off properly. I also want to up the number of hands I’ve played as work has gotten in the way this week.

But I’m still here. And the next seven days are going to be good for me I’m sure….

Hands Played: 512

Current Bankroll: $30.47

Profit: $5.47c

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