Quick Challenge Update

Just a quick update on the bankroll. 

We've hit a pretty big downswing from basically the beginning of this year, finishing the session last night on £223. Been a tough run but that's what tournaments can do to you, just have to stick at it, adjust my buy ins and go again.

I've been losing a lot of important flips deep in tournaments to get those big scores but I'm sure in time I will convert one and take it down.

Moving forward to tonight, the challenge returns to Twitch where I will be casting the TT events and several others LIVE. See you there!

https://www.twitch.tv/adamyelland123

The Challenge Returns in 2018

New year, New me? We all hear this same drab repeat itself every year, yet nothing really changes.

What the new year does present is an opportunity to look back at the last 365 days of your life, at some of the mistakes you made, and ways to improve moving forward into 2018.

For me personally, the thought of mistakes were focused on this project. 

For those of you that were following along with the challenge. I'm sure you all realised that the content being uploaded was becoming a little repetitive. Which can be expected when you are playing and writing about similar schedule's/results every day. But it's not the direction I want to be going down with this blog.

I initially started this to upload quality over quantity, and for a while those roles flipped.

I am going to be making some changes going forward to tackle those issues and create the best quality posts consistently that I can.

From the feedback I have received, I know that a lot of you like the Twitch streams, and being able to follow the action live. This when I started wasn't a focus for me, but I will be implementing more streams on Twitch in future, including mondays for the DTD (now Triple Takedown) events representing Team Ads.

I will be adding in some extra rewards for team members that do well in future. So if you aren't already now is the time to get involved for Team Ads. More to be announced on that soon.

The league format is always something I have enjoyed in poker, and I don't think it has been utilised enough by online sites to date. Sky makes it fun and gives you some extra rewards for getting involved.

I'm excited to return and implement some of my ideas to the blog. Thanks for the support so far, and I hope you stick around as the challenge continues into 2018.

See you guys very soon.

Friday 1st Results - Volume, Volume, Volume

What's up guys,

As you can see in the title, the theme of friday nights session was volume. I set out to play as many tournaments as I could fit in on the schedule and give myself the best opportunity of getting a win. 
Friday night is a good night to do so with the extra £3.30 and £5.50 Mega Stack on the schedule. 

All in all we managed to get 12 tournaments in on the night, which a lot of you guys will think is nothing, but I was only regging between 6 and 9. I was 9 tabling at one point which with the software and short time bank is definitely a challenge.

Still, really enjoyed all the action throughout the night and the challenge of playing that many tables, and it looks to have translated in results this time with 4 deep runs!

Lets take a look at the results - 

Mini Avenger £2000 GTD Bounty Hunter

Had a great start in what was my main event of the night. Got this crazy spot early on - 

Great situation to hold, picking up two ante's and a big stack. 

I made it to the end of the add on period with a healthy stack of around 11k from the 2k starting. I then took the add on for £5 that boosted me up to around 15k.

From here we chipped up as we went through the mid stages, but unfortunately the blinds caught up to us after a period of being card dead, and we were put in a spot where we had to jam A7s UTG in this spot below -

As you can see we ran into AJ and were busted in 34th place.

Was a fun sweat to get a deep run in the main event and to have 3 deep runs going on the side. Getting 2nd/4th and 5th in tournaments on the night.

Great night at the tables and putting more volume in to counteract the variance of tournaments is something I will be looking to do more in future for my off stream sessions.

Hope to see some of you all at the tables tonight on the sunday grind, and until next time, good luck at the tables!

Thursday 30th Results - Back on Twitch

Whats up guys,

Last night we were back on Twitch with another session in the Sky Poker £500 challenge. 

As you guys can see I made a couple of small changes to the graphics with us getting in to the festive season, and the hope that a change might turn our luck around.....

It looked like that was the case with us qualifying for the £8000 Guaranteed Hitman for just £7.20 early on.

However, when it came to the event itself, we couldn't find any hands and ended up getting it in with 77<KJs as a flip and busted out of the event before making the money.

We played 11 tournaments in total last night, quite a few considering I was streaming, usually the volume decreases but that was not the case last night.

Lets get into the results - 

As far as volume goes though when streaming it's more of a case of, less is more, because you know if i'm playing a lot I have to be busting a lot to bring new games up. Therefore, losing money.

But overall happy again with how I played, just gotta keep plugging away until we get that next big score, which I'm sure is just around the corner.

I'm just about to start up my friday session, so I will be back tomorrow with more results, until then, best of luck at the tables!

£500 Challenge - Progress and Stats So Far

Hi guys,

Welcome back, today I have been crunching some data from the challenge and created some graphics so we can take a look back at out progress so far.

£500 Challenge So Far 

Winning/Losing Days

Results By Day

Final Table Positions

Lifetime Sky Poker Graph (Adsthepro7)

Tuesday 28th Results - The Run Bad Is Real

Hi Guys,

Welcome back to the £500 Challenge, and the results from last night's tournament session.

Again, it was the same old story from the last few sessions, I felt like I focused quite well throughout the session, but just kept getting it in and losing with for the majority, was the best hand.

Has a super bad start to the session busting early in the £7.70, £5.50, and bullet 1 in the £5.50 Rebuy.  
Pulled a little back in the £2.20s cashing in both the Deep Stack and Bounty Hunter for the first time in a few sessions. 

Still feel like I'm easily beating these games and once again one or two scores away from being in profit on the challenge.

I  will be back tomorrow with the challenge and a live stream on Twitch!

Monday 27th Results - DTD Team ADS Debut!

Whats up guys,

Welcome back to another results post for the £500 challenge. This post for once, will be less about my results but the results of my team.

To quickly explain, I was advised after playing and streaming the DTD events last monday to start my own team, so I went on to the forum and asked about forming Team ADS. 

A few days later and the team is set up with a strong 11 players and a great chance at getting points on the board in week 1.

For all of you that aren't aware of the DTD events I will quickly post the rules from the Sky Poker forum below.

MONDAY FORUM DTD INCLUDES THE NOVEMBER MONTHLY LEAGUE

Your best 2 scores from 3 will count(YOU MUST PLAY ALL 3 TOURNEYS) see below:

7-15pm DTD 1 5k Deepstack buy-in £2-00

7-45pm DTD 2 4k Doublestack buy-in £1-00

8-15pm DTD 3 3k BountyHunter buy-in £2-00

Weekly Prizes 1st place £25 in MTT TOKENS 2nd and 3rd get £5 MTT TOKEN

Monthly prizes 1st Place £30 in MTT TOKENS 2nd Place £20 in MTT TOKENS 3rd Place £10 in MTT TOKENS 

The rest of the top 10% £5 MTT TOKEN

So if 84 players enter in the month 8 players will win prizes

The structure is 3 Tourneys lowest score wins (see below) to take part simply post on this thread BEFORE Monday 7-59pm.

Here's how it is going to work.Your best 2 scores from 3 are added together & the lowest wins the Prize . Your score in each 

tournament will be based on your finishing position. So, if you finish 1st, 25th and 92nd your score will be 1 + 25 = 26

Please note that in the event of a tie players with the best finish will be deemed the winner.

eg if 2 players both finish on 30 pts and 1 finishes a tourny in 1st & the other 2nd the player 

finishing in the 1st place will be deemed the winner 

We had 10 players last night competing for team ADS in all 3 DTD Events, those 10 players were - 

                       

• Adsthepro7                               
• VktrVaughn
• BaldEag1e
• The_Eggs
• Waller02
• Morris707
• Allan 23
• Davidson09
• Duesenber
• MynaFrett

Event 1 - £2 DeepStack

Unfortunately, nobody from the team on the final table in this one, with the deepest run coming from Morris707, who finished in 9th place.

Event 2 £1 DoubleStack

Great showing from us in this event, with Baldeagle and Allan23 making the final table, finishing 3rd and 6th respectively. 

Event 3 - £2 Bounty Hunter

This event was another great one for us with The_Eggs finishing in 4th and amazingly Allan23 with another final table, finishing 6th.

Overall Weekly Top 10

As you can see we have 3 people in the top 10! And an overall winner for the team in the very first week. 

Congratulations to Allan23 for the win and the £25 in tournament tokens. 

Just want to say thanks to everyone in my team for getting involved and playing the events. Was great fun to have some of you in the stream watching live, and we will once again be back next week with Team ADS to go for the win once again!

If you play on Sky Poker and want to get involved you can do so by visiting this link. All you have to do is post your screen name and chosen team in the forum and you're in.

Now let's get into the £500 Challenge Results on the night - 

We gave it our best shot in the DTD events but unfortunately just coming up short. Overall another losing night for the challenge but nothing massive. 

Was great that the team was successful tonight and hopefully that can continue in future.

Thanks again to everyone that tuned in on Twitch and participated in the events, I will see you all next time.