Monday, February 21, 2011

The Challenge

It has come to my attention that someone is in trouble. Recently my girlfriend has found herself in a weird situation with her work. To keep an extremely large story short, here are the cliffs.

- She has to pay $6,600 in order to leave her job.
- The only way I can afford this is by putting off engagement/marriage which I don't want to do at all.

It deals with contractual obligations that the company didn't hold their ground on, and now she is majorly screwed if she wants to leave her job. Now, here is where things get dicey. Here are the cliffs on why we should move.

- In addition to the contractual stuff, employees at her work are also getting state mandated pay cuts. She misses out on travel money and has to work longer hours with LESS pay. With no exaggeration, her job just became -EV. She now has to work 10-11ish hour days and gets paid less than what she was making when she worked 8 hours a day.
- My gf can get a new job in the same field of work that pays way better
- If we move (which would be in 2 months), we would move somewhere around the area of Sacramento, CA.
- Abarone68 is soon moving to Sacramento, CA in 2 months.
- If I move, me and Aaron plan on starting a poker house at Aaron's new home where players can fly in and stay for around a week (details are still being sorted out). But in short, there will be a training house in Sacramento, CA with 2 of the best players teaching you live.
- If she doesn't pay $6,600, none of this happens. Period.

So I am proposing this challenge. $500 to $5100.
(side note, as I do this challenge I will still be doing all of my normal work which already consumes my days. You can expect me to lose major sleep during this. You may think, why not play higher? The reason is that I want to minimize $variance during this challenge.)

Rules:
1. 2 parts, 1 week each with a break in between.
2. I am giving $2,000 of my own money towards the $6,600 including the starting $500 bankroll.
3. I need to earn $4,600 in actual profit.
4. Start with $500, finish week 1 with $2,550. Finish week 2 with $5,100.
5. Bankroll management is key. I will start low. A mixture of all sng types.
6. Start date/time: Monday, February 21. 1:15pm pacific standard time.

If anyone wants to help out a bit with this, it would really make my day. Even if it's something small like $5-10 it would make me feel so happy. If anyone decides to do that, please leave a comment below. Any money added will be removed from the $5,100 end amount. For the person who donates the most, a free coaching session on the house.

Please rail if you want, and any time I'm HU in a tourney I'll have chat on. It would help the motivation a lot. I will also post results each day.

17 comments:

  1. The only thing I can do is to play a lot and win some money for you:) GLGL!

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  2. hey matt...shipped u some $ on ft.. gl man

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  3. I've learned a ton about SNGs from you (both you taking my $$ when you played $16s and watching your vids.) Shipped a bit on stars.

    Gl with it all!

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  4. tx elevil. it really means a lot to me. im grinding my buns off over here lol

    ty ben!

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  5. bro i will send you u too remind me ur ftp username

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  6. Heya, I decided to send you half my pokerstars profits of the day. Luckily for you I ran a little over EV today :)

    My screenname is Weandago.
    I know you from snggrinders and learned a lot from your videos there. Your cheerfull comments always put me in a good mood or restore my will to play when I have a downswing.

    Since you bring me cheer often, I like the chance to return the favor here for once.

    Good luck to you and your girlfriend

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  7. I sended to ur ftp account gl

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  8. I owe you a lot of thanks than you can even imagine. Shipped smth.

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  9. Hey glitlr - im from New Zealand and hapetimes is my name on stars. you're my favourite on snggrinders even though you have your own website now. im just about to ship you some on stars b/c you have helped my game so much and i feel like i owe you:)
    Thanks heaps

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  10. Have her parents pay for the wedding. EZ game.

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  11. what happens if gf says FUUU and u just leave?

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