Online Poker Forum - Alternating between challenges without losing progress?

Get A New Hobby · High Card Joined: 24 May 2009 Posts: 4

Hello. I'm currently doing the BRM challenge, I assume it will take me a couple weeks to gain 5% of my BR. Can I switch to another challenge, and when necessary switch back to the BRM challenge, or will I lose all previous progress on the BRM challenge when I made the switch?

Thanks.

vectorspace · Posted: Sun May 24, 2009 3:39 am Post subject:

Yes. Only one challenge active at a time.

Sand Wedge_100 · Message Board Junkie Joined: 27 Sep 2007 Posts: 1945

NoTilt · Royal Flush Joined: 16 Apr 2009 Posts: 840

I think you have to have the bankroll challenge active the WHOLE TIME you increase your bankroll by 25%. If you work on another task, it doesn't count.

One easy way to complete this task is to drain a part of your bankroll by playing satellites, and "convert" it into T$. Then use those T$ to buy into any tourney you want, and it will feed you real money back if you win. So, if you start with $50, play satellites until you have $20 and perhaps T35. Then use some of those T35 to win $4, and you're done.

ANother thing you can do is play a MTT while in another task. If you're going to score BIG, switch midstream to this task before you get knocked out. If you have a bankroll of $100, but you made it really deep in a cheap tourney and you're going to win $25 or more, switch over.

It seems to be that tasks, like FTP, are awarded based on when a SnG or MTT is FINISHED, not when it's started. Same deal with the Iron Man...if you start a tourney at 1/1 at 11:55 PM and get knocked out in one minute, you earn FTP when you get knocked out, so it's counted towards your count on 1/1. If you get knocked out at 12:40 AM, it counts towards 1/2.

water-nymph · Posted: Tue May 26, 2009 4:45 pm Post subject:

Even though I have done exactly what it has stated in my challenges, none of it has been recognized. Or tabulated on the task's accomplished. Anyone else have this problem? Help????? Sad

Zarken_Ventreth · Posted: Sat May 30, 2009 4:01 am Post subject:

I have finished all but 1 of the challenges and only have 1 thing left to accomplish (the pro play portion) in the current one. In regards to results not being tabulated I had some issues (or so I thought) with the same thing. It was only after checking my hand history that I realized that I was not the first player to act or some other requirement that was part of the task (that I had thought I accomplished) when I realized the results were accurately reported in every instance. I plan on re-doing each of the challenges in the same order as my play definately improved as I progressed through them. Everyone goes on losing streaks and being in my 7th week of playing online I just hit my longest. It has been a frustrating experience but one that has also been a good lesson in playing poker. As Jennifer Harmon (sp) says in one of the sit and learns... when you find that you can no longer bluff with A-K it is time to take a few days off. One more day this month to earn 1 daily point and I will qualify for my first 1 a day Ironman Freeroll. I have no idea what to expect but have found the challenges and the academy to be very helpful and a valuable tool to a beginning player like me.

Sorry for the ramble... best of luck to all and may the cards fall your way and the donks fall by the wayside!

Zark

Bones65 · Posted: Tue Jun 16, 2009 10:30 pm Post subject:

you keep your progress. i had been changing back/forth also, & never had to start over

Zarken_Ventreth · Posted: Wed Jun 17, 2009 11:38 am Post subject:

Both new challenges completed within 1 day of them being posted, Woo Hoo! 100 points! These are not really challenges but merely tasks to accomplish. No "challenge" involved in either one.

Zark.

mary kelly · Two Pair Joined: 14 Apr 2008 Posts: 71

Kudos to FTPA support for quick response. Switch to a different challenge from Chis Ferguson BR challenge and back again as noted in FTPA response, did not affect results.

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