Full Tilt Experiment Update #1
My first blog post was about Chris Ferguson and how he is in the middle of an experiment of trying to turn ZERO dollars into $10,000. It seems like a lot of people have been inspired by this. I regularly hear people in the 5/10 cent no limit tables say how they are trying the same experiment.
As I watch them play, I wonder how far they will actually make it. For that matter, I wonder if I will ever make it. I am a good enough player to accomplish the feat, I have no doubt about that. My problem (which I think will be the downfall of 99% of the people who are trying the same experiment), will be a little thing called patience.
While playing, I could not help but to wonder how long Chris took to build this bankroll. In his tip, he said he was “almost a year into an experiment”. I was curious about this comment. Exactly how long, what did his bankroll look like, and how long did it take for him to move up the ranks? Full Tilt must have had a lot of requests for this information. I logged on to play today and I saw a headline in the game lobby about the Chris Ferguson Challenge. I visited the page, and low and behold, there was some of the information I was looking for.
Most interesting is the graph titled, “The Journey Begins”. For the first seven months, he only breaks $10 once. The page then goes on to say that Chris cashed in a $1 Multi Table Tournament for $104. Even after that, it took nine months to reach the current $9000+ that he has in his account (currently at $9553.34). That is pushing 16 months! I guess I need to have some more patience.
Current Full Tilt Bankroll: $27.78 (down from $31.03 in the last update).