So on Wednesday the 19th May I finally finished the challenge. After a little over 10 months and nearly 45,000 tournaments, my bankroll finally reached $100,384! About 50% of my profits came from the tables, while the other 50% came from FPPs and Milestone Bonuses and other benefits and promotions like the Battle of the Planets Leaderboards (http://www.pokerstars.com/poker/promotions/battle/) and the Turbo Takedown (http://www.pokerstars.com/poker/promotions/turbo/) consecutive Cash promotion. I also won about $1,000 in cash games but that didn't have much of an impact. It was a much tougher challenge than I...more

Hi All Just a quick update on the latest progress on my challenge to let you know I have now cracked the 300,000 VPP mark and have unlocked my next Milestone bonus and collected $ 3,600. With that added to the rest of my winnings, my bankroll now stands at just under $79k. I am currently playing almost every day and anticipate that at my current pace I will reach my goal of $100,000 in May. I'll keep you all posted and speak to you again soon...more

Some time has passed since the my last blog update and I thought it was about time I brought you all up to date with what I've been up to! I've now reached 200,000 VPP and received my first milestone bonus worth $3,400. Everything is also going quite well at the tables and I now already have $62,200. All this means I still have more than four months in which to earn the remaining $37,800 I need and, regardless to say, I am very confident that I will make it....more

Hi everyone, The first week of the year is over and I am very happy with my start to 2010. Despite numerous down swings, my bankroll now stands at over $35,000. More importantly, I've already managed to earn over 45,000 VPP. As I've already mentioned in a previous post, this year my goal is to become a Supernova Elite, and for that I need to earn 1 million VPP! SNE has many advantages, with the FPPs earned on the way to achieving this VIP status worth around $50,000 alone. Plus,...more

Finally the New Year has begun and the VPP counter has been reset to zero! This means: get on your marks, the chase for SuperNova Elite is starting. I finished last year with a bankroll of $33,200, I just need another $66,800. My aim is to make 150,000 VPPs every month, which is roughly 12,000 SNGs -so there's a lot of playing to be done. If I manage to make an average profit of $2 and if I can maintain this pace, I'd be across the finish line in 2...more

Hi everyone, I just thought I'd give you all a quick update on what I've been up to! Recently I have been working on my book and some other things, but now I will start to concentrate more on poker again. In November, I will play the EPT event in Vilamoura. I will go there a week early to enjoy the late summer there (apparently in Portugal it's still 20°C at that time of the year). That means that in November I will miss another almost 2 weeks. If you...more

Hi all, Time for another update, and unfortunately, it's not a great start - September was a total flop! At the beginning of the month, I played a few sessions and just couldn't win anything; I only just about managed to break even. Then I treated myself to a break for a few days to help me regain my focus and get back to playing my best. And so a few days later I was back ... and the session was a catastrophe from start to finish. In the first...more

Hi all, As I'm sure you are all aware, I had lots of problems in August - I think that in the end I didn't even manage to play as often as every other day. And what's more, the last sessions didnt go very well and I only managed to break even over the past few days. But at least I have now got to almost $25,000. Some people commented that my challenge was not fair that I started at the Supernova level. That's why I will not use, or...more

Hi Everyone, After a tough start to August, things have started to pick up over the last few days. I haven't quite found my former rhythm again yet as the sessions are still shorter, and not as regular as they used to be, but I am starting to get back into my stride. I played 1,200 SNGs this past week - I know that sounds like a lot, but the plan is to play at least 2,000 per week, so at the moment I'm falling well short of my target....more

Hi All, Looking to continue the good progress I have made so far with my challenge, I had big goals for August. I was aiming to play in some 10,000 player tournaments and hopefully take my profit to over the $30,000 mark. The first 4 days of the month went according to plan; I played my normal sessions and in 4 days I played just under 1,200 tournaments and turned over a profit of more than $4,000, taking my bankroll to $14,000. On days 5 and 6, a friend came...more

Hi All, I sat down at the tables the other day to start playing the $6.50 SNGs with my $690 bankroll. I also managed to fit in a few $7.70 and $3.30 games which had 180 runners, but no more than 5 tables. At least that was my plan! After only a few minutes at the tables, I became too impatient to just play the $6 games and included a few 45-man $12 tables to my play. I actually managed to win nothing, playing just under 200 $6 SNGs, but...more

Hi All, So... yesterday I played two sessions on PokerStars to start building my bankroll. I started out grinding the $1 SNGs quite comfortably in the first session, and after a good run, I had roughly doubled my bankroll to $230. In my second session I used quite an aggressive approach to bankroll management and played the $3 SNGs (with a few $2 ones mixed in). Unfortunately for me I was punished almost straight away, suffering a minor downswing and had my entire bankroll on the tables. Before my first...more

Hi Everyone, My name is 'Boku87', a former Supernova Elite player on PokerStars, and I would like to introduce you all to my latest poker challenge. Within a year, I am going to try to turn $5 into $100,000! Recently, I completed a challenge to turn $100 into $10,000 in less than 2 weeks, but this new one will be a lot harder. Starting out in this challenge won't be easy, as proper bankroll management does not really allow you to play much with only $5. For SNG's you should...more