ROF Challenge – Week 1 Recap
Total Stats Through Week 1
• Total Profit: $200
• Live: + $550
• Online: – $349
ROF Challenge – Week 1 Recap
Week 1 of the ROF challenge is in the books and the results were positive overall.
Total for the week: +$200
Live Poker: +$550
Live poker carried the week.
I booked a $550 win in a four-hour session, and the tone was set immediately. The first hand of the night was AA, which always feels like the poker gods sending a message that it might be your day.
The biggest pot of the session came from the Hand of the Week, which you can read here:
https://fishandchipspoker.com/flopping-the-world-in-a-4-bet-pot/
That hand alone accounted for $280 of the session. The rest of the profit was mostly straightforward live poker. Playing solid ranges, value betting, and letting live players make mistakes.
Sometimes live poker really is that simple.
Online Poker: -$349
Online was a different story.
I played 850 hands and ran straight into the deck. The week included six 100BB coolers, which is a brutal cluster in such a small sample.
To put that in perspective, you might expect to see one real cooler every 500–1,500 hands. Getting six in under 1,000 hands is the kind of variance that reminds you poker can still be a cruel game.
Here’s the lineup from the pain parade:
KK vs A5 – Ace on the river
Set vs Set
AK vs 99 – flop A K 9
AKs into AA
JJ vs AQ – I flopped a set, villain went runner-runner straight
AQ vs AJ – all-in pre, villain flops trips
When the deck decides it’s your turn, there isn’t much you can do except keep playing correctly and move on.
The Plan for Week 2
Even with the rough online run, the week still finished profitable, which is always the goal.
For the next phase of the challenge, I’m making a small adjustment.
I’m dropping down to 40NL temporarily to tighten up a few parts of my game and rebuild momentum. The plan is to play 5,000 hands at this level while tracking results and dialing in the ROF strategy.
Live poker will continue as well.
The schedule going forward:
2–3 live sessions per week
Online grind at 40NL
5,000 hand sample to evaluate progress
Variance showed up early in this challenge, but that’s part of the game. The key is staying disciplined, continuing to study, and putting in the volume.
Week 2 starts now.
