Bluff Challenge Good for Sit n Goers
Written by RogerCP | Friday, March 6th, 2009
The Bluff Poker Challenge is extremely simple. Those taking the challenge have to start from a $200 bankroll. They get the month of March to play in Sit-and-Go and Multi-table tournaments at Lock Poker. The player who ends with the largest total wins the challenge.
The Bluff Poker Challenge is only in its fifth day and Brian Hawkins, playing as SNO0OWMAN, has already broken away from the pack. He is sitting pretty with $3264.35, whereas the next player is at $950.1, less than one-third his tally. He has played 159 games for 26 hours with the best day at $1675.80 and average daily winnings of $612.87. David Chicotsky has played the maximum – having logged 646 games and 64 hours for a meager total of $414.20.
There are a few recognizable names in the top ten. Soren Kongsgaard is in sixth place with $477.79. He shot into fame in 2007 coming third in the EPT Grand Final Championship Event and later winning the EPT Barcelona Open, but has not done anything of note since then. He has $1 million in tournament earnings. Online he has earned half that amount, cashing about 12% of the time he has played.
Eric “Rizen” Lynch is at number seven. Just before the Bluff poker Challenge began he wrote a column for Poker News Daily in which he discussed the strategy he would most likely employ. Lynch said that if his target was $2,000 to $4,000 at the end of the month he is pretty sure he would achieve it. But he said that the winning total would be more likely in the region of $10,000. This calls for a riskier strategy that would have only 20% chance of success. At the rate Hawkins is going, Lynch may well have to double his target and find a yet riskier strategy.
Another player who gave an announcement before the Bluff Poker Challenge began was Maria Ho, the last woman standing of WSOP 2007. In a video blog shot from her cute little home she said that she was not entering with any strategy but would take things as they come. She also indicated that this format is new to her and she was looking forward to learn a lot. As far as she was concerned she had only one challenger, and that was Kongsgaard. Right now she is in the fifth place just above Kongsgaard.
The Bluff Poker Challenge winner will feature on the cover of the Bluff Magazine. Half the poker pros would give an arm and a leg to be on that cover. Gambling 911 correspondent Ace King wrote, “Okay, it may not be the Time Man of the Year, but it’s still a terrific keepsake to cherish for the rest of your adult life and to pass down to your grandchildren.” The winner will join the likes of Doyle Brunson, Daniel Negreanu, Jennifer Harman, Phil Hellmuth and Chip Reese… and poker’s hottest duo of Lacey Jones and Christina Lindley.
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