Chris Ferguson's Personal Poker Challenge And Everybody Else

Here is a story that has been circulating around the web for a while now, and every poker room you step into play poker live or online, you hear the legendary story of how Fulltiltpoker.net poker pro Chris "Jesus" Ferguson turned $1, yes you read that correct $1 into $10,000 by building his bank roll up slowly starting at the micro limits.

Now you would probably wonder why anyone would even attempt such a crazy goal like this especially if you are already an established poker pro on the regular poker circuit taking down WSOP events that have 6 figure money prizes to be won. Was it a publicity stunt for Fulltiltpoker.net? Did Chris just want to prove he can do it? Was it a divine poker awakening?

Chris Ferguson has stated that he did it to show people that you don't need much of a bank roll to start with at all to be able to progress forward to make money out of the online game, he also said that all it requires is discipline on your part in staying within the rules you set your self, i.e. not playing beyond your bank roll and risking it all on one hand, but grinding it out to the final goal. Read More About Chris Ferguson's Money Management.

Well after Chris achieved his Goal of turning $1 into $10,000, he quickly made another goal for himself of starting from nothing and turning it into another huge bankroll. A lot of people on the net playing online poker have tried to duplicate this and started there various own blogs putting time limits on themselves and blogging about it to the rest of the world.

The question is how many will succeed and what will hold most people back, I want to look further into this because what Chris Ferguson did has also sparked my imagination and aspiration of achieving something similar online as well. But the first step I want to do is investigate further to see what people are doing out there online and what holds people back whilst pro's like Chris strive forward and build those bank rolls.

I will spend some time reflecting on these questions then post my own personal challenge to myself to starting posting on this blog right here!

Matt
Somethingaboutpoker.com