Ok, so I was all set to deposit on Stars and Tilt today. A couple of buddies of mine came over to watch some football and at some point the conversation shifted to poker, specifically Chris Ferguson’s $0-10k challenge. They wanted to know if I had heard of this and whether I thought it was real and possible. After some discussion, these guys (none of whom is what I would consider a serious player) decided that it was impossible to freeroll your way to $10,000 or even $1000. I made the comment that not only was it possible, I thought I could do it on Stars.

To make a long story short, we came up with a challenge for me that should prove interesting. The good news is I don’t have to work it all the way up to $10k, the bad news is I have a specific time frame in which to go from $0 to $750. The rules are pretty simple: I cannot deposit to my Stars acct, nor can I have anyone transfer any money to me. I have until midnight on Feb 5 to build up $750 on Stars. I can do this through freerolls and by selling play chips (I had to lobby hard for this provision). For those of you who didn’t know, there are a number of sites where you can sell play chips. The going price seems to be $10/million chips. If I am successful, my friends will match the $750 and I will then have a $1500 bankroll. If I fail, I have to take them and their wives/girlfriends out to dinner and a night on the town at places of their choosing. This could easily cost me more than I stand to make, but I have no intention of failing this.

I think the play chip route makes this a little easier for me, as it should be fairly easy to accumulate play chips. I haven’t played for play money in a long time, but I feel like I should be able to hit 1 mil fairly quickly. Earlier today I had to donk off the couple of bucks I had in my acct and make sure I had no play chips either. At midnight the chase was on!

One good thing with this is I don’t have to follow the BR requirements that Jesus did in his challenge. I conveniently left that part out as we were talking about it, so I can do whatever I feel is necesssary in order to get to $750 in one month. All in all, I think this should be fairly doable and it should be a lot of fun. I’ll post the updates here so my buddies can follow the action and we will see what happens.