For the first time since I started playing on Red Dragon Poker, I finished a session feeling like I had learned something much more valuable than simply winning money. Ironically, I wasn’t even expecting to end the day in profit. I lost several huge pots at showdown, and every time the chips went into the middle I was already imagining how I would explain another disappointing session. Instead… I closed the tables with a smile. Not because I ran well. Because I think I finall

The move to Red Dragon Poker was supposed to give this challenge a fresh start. After the tight and relatively disciplined NL4 Flash pool on NutsPoker, I wanted normal tables, deeper stacks and opponents willing to make bigger mistakes. That part has happened. The Red Dragon games are clearly looser. Players call more often, stacks regularly become very deep and preflop pots can escalate extremely quickly. Unfortunately, the second part of the plan has not worked quite as wel

The decision has been made. After spending some time grinding the NL4 Flash pool on NutsPoker, I decided to move the challenge somewhere else. If you haven’t read the previous update yet, I recommend starting from 👉 The Professor Challenge – Day 3: A Reality Check at NL4 Flash, because that’s where I explained why I started questioning whether that environment was really the best place to build this bankroll. This is the next chapter. A new room. A new player pool. And a com

Today’s session was frustrating, but not because of the amount of money I lost. The real problem was something else. After spending more time in the NL4 Flash pool on NutsPoker, I am starting to question whether this is really the right environment for the challenge. I expected the micro stakes to be chaotic, loose and full of obvious mistakes. Instead, the pool feels much tighter than expected. There are still recreational players, of course, but the average opponent does no

Day 2 of The Professor Challenge is in the books. Today I played another session on Nuts Poker, always at NL4 Flash NLH. Nothing crazy happened. No big heater, no disaster, no dramatic swing. Just a normal micro-stakes session where I tried to stay focused, play better than Day 1, and keep building the roll one decision at a time. The session ended with the bankroll at: $115.74 The daily result shown in the career tab was: +$2.05 It is not a huge win, obviously. But after Day

The first official day of The Professor Challenge on Nuts Poker is now in the books. Before the recorded challenge started, I had already played a few test hands to get used to the software, the tables and the Flash NLH format. That means the bankroll at the official start of Day 1 was slightly different from the original deposit amount. The initial deposit was $113, which became $112.43 after fees. But when the official challenge session started, my balance was: $115.99 Afte

Can a former poker player, now almost 40 years old and living a completely different life, come back to the game and build a bankroll from the micros in 2026? That is the question behind The Professor Challenge. The Professor is one of our old players. Years ago, he was part of the poker world. He played, studied, talked strategy, and knew what the grind felt like. Then life changed. Poker stopped being his main focus. Work, responsibilities, and real life took over. But now