The Chris Ferguson Bankroll Experiment

Well, I just found out about how Chris Ferguson turned $1 into $20,000. I hear that he is/was, I'm not sure, trying to turn $0 into $10,000. Have any of you guys seen him playing the lower limits? Is he still trying to do this? Thanks for the answers.

No, he did this awhile ago. He did it mostly multi tabling. Once he got started he was playing anywhere from 3 to 6 tables at a time.

Heard he's doing it using freeroll earnings... not sure how he's going to do it.

From what I read, he turned $1 into 20K using Ed miller's short stack theory in GSIH. Never risking 5% of his BR(except the beginning stages), buy-in for the minimum, shove with AA,KK,AK or something. Double up and leave, since he can never risk more than 5% of his BR at any given time.

Thats cool I didnt know that. Im sorry I didnt net him

I Like this "system" im a gonna try it!!


if it works im on my way to millions

I did play 5 dollar sit and go[razz]with him a couple of days ago. I also saw him yesterday play a 5 dollar sit and go[omaha h/l]

He is currently doing zero to $10k. There is an interview with him in the current edition of Poker Player (UK).

At the time the magazine went to press, he was up to $340.

Is he playing at full tilt??

wow $1 into $20,000? I can see someone slowly grinding $100 into $20,000 but $1? That has to be harder than turning water into wine

don't you mean its harder than turning marklar into marklar?

I turned $0 into $49 over 3 months one time. Then I went on colossal tilt and blew it all in one night. It's tough, but it is doable.

maybe i should try that... got a tiny stack of $5 at the moment... maybe i should just push when i have one of the premiums, doubleup and leave... good strategy. i like it.

Yeah, the GSIH method has been done to dead by a lot of people though. Nowadays, I'm wary of short stacks who open push. You might not get a lot of calls. Frankly, it's a boring way to play poker, if you're playing at all.

I tried it a few times, works when there's some clueless fish calling your open push with K9s against your AA.

I guess if you're on pokerstars, with $5, try it on the 0.01/0.02 NL and build it up to a substantial level and start playing real poker. It's really a 'system' for beginners with zero post-flop skills, to cut their teeth on.

P.S. I tried it when I was at empire poker, clearing my $50 bonus. I was 4-tabling with 20-25BB stack each, and basically folded everything 'cept for AA-QQ, AK. Raise Preflop, get a few callers and pushed on the flop. Sometimes I open push if there's a raise in front too. Once I drop below 15BB, I reload to the minimum.

Most ive ever got to is $0 to $80 before blackjack took it all.
Ive now got $47 on a site that ive never made a deposit to.

I cashed in the same free roll that Chris did when he started his BR

I've done 0 into 1$ into 74$ in two days.

I turned 0 into -$10 once.

Now THATS impressive!

Quite a feat turning nothing into negative value. *Starts a gradually slow golf clapping moment.

What sites let you have a negative balance? I think Vanquish is joshing us!

SHUP UP THATS WHAT SITES !!!

I like you

WELL! See if I send you any bacon for Hanukkah!

I never have turned $0 into $100 - but I turned $100 into 0 in one hand. I've heard the cliche "What goes up must come down"...but I think there is a good reason we never hear the reverse..."What comes down must go up." Besides, if I turned 0 into 100 and didn't blow it off right away I would probably lose my charter membership in the Donkey Club.

im pretty sure he did this last year, and he completed it and donated his winnings to a childs foundation, he had to start over a couple times when his bankroll wasnt very good, but couple months he stabilized $7ish and went up from ther. and donated his winnings to a child foundation

ya aliengenius put the link, just click that "done."

I'm actually doing it the other way, my life savings, marriage + kids, house and home and all my belongings also my job, all the way down to zero and extreme poverty by playing full time poker & Jack Daniel's.

I have done 0-$15 on fult tilt b4 when i started play poker in a razz tournament, i was very excited, but lost everyone in the following day.

so did he do it and where can i see his experiment results

Hi to all I want to read ferguson experiment,I do't know how to get it.

You dug up a thread that is 8 months old since the last reply, but here, start with this >>

http://www.fulltiltpoker.com/chris-ferguson-challenge

Welcome to Cardschat ...

I wish he would have kept a record. I think it'd be interesting just to see exactly the path he took to do it. On Poker After Dark Huck Seed was trying to get Hellmuth to bet him that he couldn't do it. There's also a tourney called The Ferguson on FTP I wonder if it's kinda inspired by the challenge, because it only costs 1$ to enter.

i feel like a million people on here have attempted this or something..

I was seriously going to try this, then I decided it would be foolish to quit at $10,000.
;-)