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This can be anything that's happened to you in poker, a hand or whatever else. I have two that come to mind. First one is a hand I played a couple months ago in Vegas vs. jay, 1800gambler at 5/5 NL, we are deepstacked, he has like 1.5k I have it covered. I open to $20 with AJo, he raises to $65 and I call, HU.

The flop is J52, I check/call his bet of $80. Turn comes a 8, I check call his bet of $200 and I'm not really sure what's going on now cause the game is playing a little crazy and we're drinking. River is a 3, I check he bets $450, and I check/raise all in for his last $700 or $800, he folds aces. He asked me like 25 times what I had, I said AJ but he said I'd never do that with AJ and insisted it was pocket fives. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] See Jay, it really was the AJ I said I had.

Another one of my finest poker moments might have been playing Chau Giang NL $200/$400 HU in the big room at Bellagio. Okay guys, your turn.

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Bluffing off case money to Persian Steve. A few limpers at 5-5 NL at the Playstation underground club in NYC. I raise big with AKo on the CO (I had a nitty image back then as I used to always nut-peddle with my bankroll on the table). Persian Steve called and a few others called.

I had 1K left and there was about 300 in the pot. Flop came down J39. Everybody checked.

Turn came a 6. I bet 250. Persian Steve looks at me and says "I think you're speeding kid" and calls.

River came a 10 and I pushed my last 750 in. He called me with 34o.

He said he put me on AK, and I was distraught: could I have been broke due to being outplayed by some New York shark? A year later he also put me on AK as he called off 9K against me on a J-high flop with QQ in a 10-25 game, so I guess that made me feel better.

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did you have JJ/KK/AA?

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Another one of my finest poker moments might have been playing Chau Giang NL $200/$400 HU in the big room at Bellagio. Okay guys, your turn.

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did you have JJ/KK/AA?

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I assume you mean when I stacked Steve? KK. I reraised pre and he c/called me on all three streets.

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i did, nh. i love crushing players who i was formerly afraid of/intimidated by

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stacking yellowsub 400bb deep in a serious PLO hand yum yum 800 dollar pots in homegames.

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i've misread the board twice in my life, i suppose they can be considered my LEAST-finest poker moments. one of them was against persian steve.

5-5 game at broadway, i think i have about 1500, steve covers. he raises in ep, maybe a caller or two, and i call otb with 22. i flop a set with two spades on board, it's checked to me and i make a pot-sized bet, steve calls. turn is the Js, he checks, i bet, he c/r'es all-in. i call, he shows JJ, river is a non-board-pairing 4th spade. i muck, then later realize i had the deuce of spades.

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1.) losing $20,000 of my $40,000 bankroll in a single session 3 tabling 10/20 nl on empirepoker

2.) a week later, taking my $20,000 bankroll and taking a shot for busto HU vs XratholerX at 10/20 nl. I ended +10 buy ins after the 3 hr session

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1.) losing $20,000 of my $40,000 bankroll in a single session 3 tabling 10/20 nl on empirepoker

2.) a week later, taking my $20,000 bankroll and taking a shot for busto HU vs XratholerX at 10/20 nl. I ended +10 buy ins after the 3 hr session

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i cant wait for the numerous fyp's that will come from this

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i've misread the board twice in my life, i suppose they can be considered my LEAST-finest poker moments. one of them was against persian steve.

5-5 game at broadway, i think i have about 1500, steve covers. he raises in ep, maybe a caller or two, and i call otb with 22. i flop a set with two spades on board, it's checked to me and i make a pot-sized bet, steve calls. turn is the Js, he checks, i bet, he c/r'es all-in. i call, he shows JJ, river is a non-board-pairing 4th spade. i muck, then later realize i had the deuce of spades.

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Ugh, that hurts me just to read. I bet that haunts you to this day...

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Hi Bruiser,

Too numerous to list. Just yesterday I took down the Party 1/2 NL game for 80BBs. Not impressed? I was also doing a little something known as "multi-tabling" at the time. That's where I play more than one game AT THE SAME TIME.

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several years ago on my 2nd night of learning PLO I played short handed PLO against The Prince of Docness(I'm told he's an Omaha specialist, course I didn't know that) and what someone told me was Gus Hansen's online handle. Needless to say that didn't go very well.

I did last for quite sometime which I think for my 2nd day of PLO I caught on extremely quick

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ummmm, hands from the 2/4 game w/ CG, please?

my favorite poker moment was the reno 5k wpt event, even though it crippled me.

CG was opening alot and willing to stack off with a LOT as long as he was doing the raising, i hadn't seen him even ponder calling an all in.

he was pushing james282 around a lot and was definately becoming a threat at the table.

soon after i talked i-forget-who into calling a bet it turns out id likely rather not have him call and winning CG opens on the button for like 15k, 100ante 1500/3000 blinds IIRC. i call 77 in the sb w/ like 36 folks or so left in the 591 player tourney. he has 120k or so in chips and i have like 250k.

flop is J52 rb. i check, he bets 20k or so, i push. he jumps out of his chair kinda and starts mumbling about how i have a set, and how could i have a set if i didn't reraise preflop (which, to myself, i was thinking lol). he finally said, after FOREVER, "ok, i come to gambool, i call" and tabled AA. i lost, was cripled kinda and finished 26th. james finished 22nd.

Barron

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Winning a 430 BB pot with 88 vs AK and 77 during my second session of 2000 NL. (flop came K87 and all the money went in).

Hitting a 3-outer to scoop a huge pot in a 4/8 Crazy Pineapple Hi Lo game vs. Noted Baseball Authority Nate Silver.

NT

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When I was basically playing with lunch money, and I really had no clue what I was doing, I came 2nd in a 20 dollar tournament on party, and won 3400 dollars. My previous roll was about 100 dollars-- mainly from saving up a few dollars a day from lunch money from my parents in high school.

With 11 players left I got all in with TT vs QQ preflop and the flop was monotone, giving the QQ a flush draw and me one out. The turn blanked, and the river was a ten. I nearly [censored] my chair.

From there I was a nit and hit just a few hands, but mainly rode that pot to 2nd. This was just over 2 years ago, and to this day I wonder if I would have kept playing poker if I had not won that TT vs QQ pot. I'm sure there is a reasonable chance if I had lost, I would have gone busto and never played again. I have been going off that 3400 score ever since, and I had no money to my name before then. Every now and then I think about that hand, and wonder how my life would be different if I lost. God bless dikshit. I think.

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200-400 hu... vs feitefrank i think

he makes it 1200 i call w/ QTo

A64 flop

i bet 2300ish he calls,

turn 5

i bet 6400ish he calls,

riv j

i check... he bets 12k, i shove AI for 5.7k more to him...

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Another one of my finest poker moments might have been playing Chau Giang NL $200/$400 HU in the big room at Bellagio. Okay guys, your turn.


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any good stories/notable hands? I have such a man-crush on Chau Giang

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200-400 hu... vs feitefrank i think

he makes it 1200 i call w/ QTo

A64 flop

i bet 2300ish he calls,

turn 5

i bet 6400ish he calls,

riv j

i check... he bets 12k, i shove AI for 5.7k more to him...

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sickening

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This can be anything that's happened to you in poker, a hand or whatever else. I have two that come to mind. First one is a hand I played a couple months ago in Vegas vs. jay, 1800gambler at 5/5 NL, we are deepstacked, he has like 1.5k I have it covered. I open to $20 with AJo, he raises to $65 and I call, HU.

The flop is J52, I check/call his bet of $80. Turn comes a 8, I check call his bet of $200 and I'm not really sure what's going on now cause the game is playing a little crazy and we're drinking. River is a 3, I check he bets $450, and I check/raise all in for his last $700 or $800, he folds aces. He asked me like 25 times what I had, I said AJ but he said I'd never do that with AJ and insisted it was pocket fives. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] See Jay, it really was the AJ I said I had.

Another one of my finest poker moments might have been playing Chau Giang NL $200/$400 HU in the big room at Bellagio. Okay guys, your turn.

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Everytime I've ever asked a player what they had during live play and they answered a specific hand they always has it. I woulda smoked you [img]/images/graemlins/smirk.gif[/img]

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I just like going on sick runs like turning 300 bucks into 20k in 24 hours (don't ask about the next 24 hours) or turning 1k into 50k in a few days.

Also when the 5/10 opened on party I had 10k-15k stacks a couple of times (I hardly ever see anyone with 10k stack at 5/10 anymore)

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1.) losing $20,000 of my $40,000 bankroll in a single session 3 tabling 10/20 nl on empirepoker

2.) a week later, taking my $20,000 bankroll and taking a shot for busto HU vs XratholerX at 10/20 nl. I ended +10 buy ins after the 3 hr session

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Trying to fleece people with prop bets is much more glamorous Grim cmon mang

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So he has to call 5.7k to win 49.5k?

He called, huh?

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So he has to call 5.7k to win 49.5k?

He folded, huh?

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Also when the 5/10 opened on party I had 10k-15k stacks a couple of times (I hardly ever see anyone with 10k stack at 5/10 anymore)

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Actually that is true, I can't remember seeing a 10 buy-in stack for ages.

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Not my finest moment, still fun though:

October 2005 i was playing in the EPT event in Baden. I played a few big live events before, but never got close to the final table. In Baden everything was going well though and before i knew it i survived day 3 and was on to the televised final table! Obviously i was really psyched to play the final table. Day three ended pretty late, so after a beer or two i tried to get some sleep. When i woke up there was only one thing on my mind... TELEVISED FINAL TABLE SHIP IT. I was chipleader by the way and as soon as i got there we had to do some interview stuff and stars started talking to me about some sponsoring. I didn't have time at all that day to sit down and chill down a bit because of all the stuff going on pre play. Before i knew it they were hooking us up with mics and the play started.

I expected to be really nervous, but to be honest I was quite relaxed. Or at least I thought... After about half an hour of play i realized what i had forgot to do because of all the hassle before the final table. I forgot to take my morning dump!! At first i thought i could make it until the brake, but it started to really distract me and i was folding more than usual. After some uncomfortable squirming in my chair I decided that it would be better to miss a hand or three than to not feel comfortable so i went for it. The toilet was pretty far so i sorta started running (with the crowd wondering what the [censored] was going on obviously). I ran into the toilet and after some very loud farting (you know those nasty "I SHOULD'VE GONE EARLIER" farts) I dumped a good one and felt a lot better...

...until I noticed i forgot to take of my Microphone!!


I finished up third and Patrick Antonius took first. Stars sponsored me for one event and never offered me anything after that anymore [img]/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img]

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I was playing a small buy in tourney with some family members, and at the start Mena Suvari was seated to my right. I didn't even recognize her, I just knew she was hot so I talked to her the whole time. She busted out pretty quickly unfortunately.

Later in the tournament, I'm in a heads up pot with my sister and bluff her out. After the tournament I tell her it was a bluff and she gets very mad at me, which made me just laugh in her face while she's yelling at me. I'm smiling now just thinking about it.

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Not my finest moment, still fun though:

October 2005 i was playing in the EPT event in Baden. I played a few big live events before, but never got close to the final table. In Baden everything was going well though and before i knew it i survived day 3 and was on to the televised final table! Obviously i was really psyched to play the final table. Day three ended pretty late, so after a beer or two i tried to get some sleep. When i woke up there was only one thing on my mind... TELEVISED FINAL TABLE SHIP IT. I was chipleader by the way and as soon as i got there we had to do some interview stuff and stars started talking to me about some sponsoring. I didn't have time at all that day to sit down and chill down a bit because of all the stuff going on pre play. Before i knew it they were hooking us up with mics and the play started.

I expected to be really nervous, but to be honest I was quite relaxed. Or at least I thought... After about half an hour of play i realized what i had forgot to do because of all the hassle before the final table. I forgot to take my morning dump!! At first i thought i could make it until the brake, but it started to really distract me and i was folding more than usual. After some uncomfortable squirming in my chair I decided that it would be better to miss a hand or three than to not feel comfortable so i went for it. The toilet was pretty far so i sorta started running (with the crowd wondering what the [censored] was going on obviously). I ran into the toilet and after some very loud farting (you know those nasty "I SHOULD'VE GONE EARLIER" farts) I dumped a good one and felt a lot better...

...until I noticed i forgot to take of my Microphone!!


I finished up third and Patrick Antonius took first. Stars sponsored me for one event and never offered me anything after that anymore [img]/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img]

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fun read. now I feel like MS painting something into this...

http://www.pokerstarsblog.com/images...adenftabel.jpg

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My first 100k week because I set that goal for the first time that week and when my BLdSWtTRs account went platinum are probably my two favs.

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platinum?

is that slang for making a mil?

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platinumstar maybe

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great, so wtf is platinumstar?

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Shipped a million?

http://www.music.vt.edu/musicdiction...numRecord.html

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he plays on party.

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it's definitely platinum as in, i sold 1 million records i'm platinum bitches. so for bld it's probably 1M.

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Grade 12, first time ever playing in a poker game, 4-handed in my basement, dealer's choice. About an hour and five $10 buyins later, dealer calls no limit omaha hi/low and explains the rules. I river A-5 diamonds for the best high and low, lead for most of my stack, and get raised 'allin' ... but I have an unbeatable hand so I run upstairs to grab another $20 from my kid brother, but he won't lend it to me. So I borrow/steal a twenty from my dad's wallet, run back downstairs, reraise and he calls. Ship it.

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this is awesome

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playing 10/25 nl live, first time ever playing that high

open for $100 with 10c5c getting reraised, flopping trip fiaves and stacking kings in a $14000 pot

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Home game v. Taylot Caby. Badugi. TC raises UTG, everyone folds, I call in the BB with Q [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] J[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] J[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] T [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]. I draw 4 and get T [img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] 8 [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] 2 [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] A [img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] ship it holla.