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  1. #301
    Quote Originally Posted by mrhappy333
    Quote Originally Posted by dick_pump
    so here's my first big win....
    "dude"
    me
    i call big blind $50
    dude raises$350
    everyone else folds
    i call
    flop-
    i bet $300
    dude calls
    turn-
    dude bets $400
    i call
    river-
    dude bets $400
    i go all in
    dude calls
    he shows-
    i show-
    dude's like who the hell calls $300 preflop,with a Q3??!!
    i'm like "but they were suited!



    donk!
    Ban^^^^^^^

    were you drunk when you wrote this? It makes no sense




    ummm.. oops...i fixt it......
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    1/20 two table home game w/ points awarded = $190+I knocked out a Bounty player for $25 total = $215!!
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  3. #303
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    I broke the 3k br mark.
  4. #304

    Default Re: Won your first SnG

    I was out stacked three to one, when we started and the hand before that I had busted him for the chip. I knew that Q was seven better than a random hand and I was patterned in tilt. This was the next hand, after I had the chip and lead in Shark Scope he was one of the most important player to lose and had said that it was his first final table .. I patterned he was shoving ATC will tilt. It was a guess, but I have luck and was right.
  5. #305
    76th in sunday hundred grand!!

    $221.79

    that's doubled my roll!
  6. #306
    Quote Originally Posted by SuperDave9x19
    i have recently accepted the fact that I am not as good as I think I am and set up a series of reasonable goals for myself to pull myself out of my crapola stakes.

    SnG Observations to keep in mind:

    1. For first 3-5 segments of SnG (till 100 or 200 blinds), play the mighty 19, and oddball lower suited connectors (in good position for a limp). Be very cautious, folding easily if not committed to >4 blinds.

    2. DO NOT GO ALL IN Pre Flop without the big 4 (AA KK QQ) early on. And even then only do it vs. proven dingbats for AKs cause dangit it just aint a made hand.

    3. Become much more aggressive with large stack after blinds >100. This was never obvious to me before and i often held on to my chips to the point of having a pansie table image that no one would call.

    4. If there is an A on flop, with >3 players, assume someone has an A.

    5. The Small Blind position sucks and i only play it vs 1 opponent, the BB, then i raise. It's lost money most other times. Or in general, I have in past month been much more intelligently aware of position.

    7. 22 thru JJ ain't much without a flopped set.

    8. Just freaking fold more pre flop. JUST DO IT.

    9. For the right price, mix it up a bit and if something ends up stupid (for the right price) let your opponent see it so they also know you are stupid.

    10. Fold More.

    11. Have a complete count of my outs and if playing >3 people after flop, put opponent on a range of hands. EVERY TIME.

    11. Fold More.


    I have found my "zone"

    Ring: N/L 6 max $5 or $10 buy in

    SnG: 1-2 table turbos, preferring the $6 version. I also LOVE the 6 max turbos but these are $12 and are only an option after a few great wins on $6's above. The $3 10 man 1 tablers are where i fall back to when i crap on my bankroll.

    I need to stick to the plan.

    I play only at PStars.
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  7. #307

    Default just made my first final table!!!!!

    UB 4k guarenteed finished 8th and won $127 YES!!!!!!!!!
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    Default my accomplishment so far

    Well I haven't won anything or been placed yet but am slowly getting there... I entered a tournament yesterday with 1000 entrants and was placed in the high 90s...

    I entered another three today and in the last one I finished 94....

    I seem to be bailing out in the 90s

    Problem I had this time around was every had more chips than me such a horrible thing, because you never know if they are just forcing your all in because they can, or because they have a nuts hand.

    I had about 8k chips everyone else had about 30k, I had AKo UTG and raised to 4x big blind plus 3x big blinds (1200 chips) the guy I was playing called.

    Flop came out with A 7 Q

    So I've got high pair as there's two aces I'm thinking chances of him having an ace are low, so am thinking he might have a Q plus a highesh kicker.

    Anyway he ends up raising by my chips count, I check.

    Turn brings out a 8 and river something else, he has Q and 8.

    I think I played the right move so have concoled myself with the fact that If I keep playing the right moves I'm going to start my bankroll off eventually with one of these 4$ prizes!
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    well done mufa and dj!
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    Update:

    Just reached my first milestone in my challenge to turn zero into 20,000 $ (hehe... could take some time)

    Well, not really a milestone more a milimetre stone!

    I was placed in a tournament that resulted in a cash prize...



    There were 500 runners and I finished in the 40's which is consistent with the general pattern at the moment (i'm finishing in the last 9/10's) but falling at that stage. I'm not sure if it's because of my ability level or if i'm just mentally phasing out at that stage. I'll have to work hard to particularly refocus in the later stages.

    The reason being. I finished in the 90s in a 1000 runner comp today, and the same yesterday - so I'm not quite sure if that's my ability at the moment or just mental weakness!

    Anyway. This is the first tiny weeny step in the right direction!
  11. #311
    $20,000? What happened to $100,000? Bigred isn't going to be happy knowing you are stopping at $20K since he wants you to give him some of your moneys when you get to $100K.
    Poker is easy, it's winning at poker that's hard.
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    haha! well... if 20,000 hasn't devalued by more than 1000% by the time I reach it I will continue onwards and upwards, but this is the first part of the project and I'm sure it will keep me occupied for a couple of years!

    I just hope it's as easy as playing with play money, I have 670,000 play money chips on pkr ! (wishful thinking stops here, I know it won't be ;p )
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    REDBRG - wow congratulations man, must have been a great feeling seeing that last card appear - that's amazing I read you would have to play for 8 hours a day for a certain number of years to statistically get a royal flush... CONGRATULATIONS!
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    Well after about 4 months of play I finally broke the 1k milestone today... yay me!


  15. #315
    congratulations! the first $1k is always the most difficult to earn.
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    Why poker fucks with our heads: it's the master that beats you for bringing in the paper, then gives you a milkbone for peeing on the carpet.

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  16. #316
    I just placed 6th in AP's Juicy July Freeroll last Wednesday, my first final table in a tournament after placing 15 the day before & cashed $25.00.

    -LincolnSE
  17. #317
    Having not been able to play online for what sees like an age due to trying to start my own business i decided to visit my local casino when I was bored 1 night. Entered a £30 (1 add on 1 rebuy) NL tourney with 50 players and won the tourney. won £600.00 wahey

    was surprised at the amont of donks there. may visit there again soon!!

    hopefully get back to playing SnG's again pretty soon. see ya at the tables
  18. #318


    $1k BR milestone. This month has gone awesome so far. Started at 10NL w BR of $380, now I've moved up to 25NL and the BR has increased loads, wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. tyty.
  19. #319
    My first MTT final table, and I made it to HU too with a huge lead. I have 250k he has 3k with blinds at 1k/2k.

    bankroll is going to more than double up with this 300$ win!!

    EDIT : YES, I did it!!!!!
  20. #320
    Deposited $50 on 19th May and just hit the $200 mark from grinding 5NL so 10NL here I come! For the record 27k hands at 5.9ptbb/100, I hope I keep running this well
  21. #321
    Made it to $1K playing 25nl then donked off $250 running bad/tilt taking shots at 50nl.

    Decided to take a small break from cash to let tilt pass and play some donkaments.

    Monday I finished 14th in Double A for $125.

    Tuesday in same tourney I finished 6th for $433. So close.

    Bankroll now up to $1250.
  22. #322
    Long time lurker, first time poster. Just made the account. I deposited $50 the other day and I've been playing $1.20 SnGs and some MTTs here and there.

    PokerStars Tournament #102591632, No Limit Hold'em
    Buy-In: $1.00/$0.10
    45 players
    Total Prize Pool: $45.00
    Tournament started - 2008/08/16 - 22:49:29 (ET)

    Dear gigabyt,

    You finished the tournament in 1st place.
    A $14.00 award has been credited to your Real Money account.

    You earned 73.58 tournament leader points in this tournament.
    For information about our tournament leader board, see our web site at
    ---


    Congratulations!
    Thank you for participating.



    $14, baby steps!
  23. #323
    My first RAZZ mtt win!!

    $5.50 razz mtt on full tilt:

    1/67 for $117.25
  24. #324
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    Default Royal Flush

    I didn't get much from it, but I got my first one. Plus, I got the guy to shove. (LOL)

    PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, $0.02 BB (8 handed) - Poker-Stars Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com

    SB ($2.96)
    BB ($0.64)
    UTG ($5.58)
    UTG+1 ($1.08)
    MP1 ($1.93)
    MP2 ($4.99)
    CO ($4.72)
    Hero (Button) ($5.84)

    Preflop: Hero is Button with K, K
    1 fold, UTG+1 calls $0.02, 3 folds, Hero raises to $0.08, 1 fold, BB calls $0.06, 1 fold

    Flop: ($0.19) J, 10, Q (2 players)
    BB checks, Hero bets $0.18, BB raises to $0.36, Hero calls $0.18

    Turn: ($0.91) A (2 players)
    BB checks, Hero checks

    River: ($0.91) J (2 players)
    BB bets $0.20 (All-In), Hero calls $0.20

    Total pot: $1.31 | Rake: $0.05
  25. #325
    Zoomed through 50NL 6max at 10ptBB+ and now rolled for 100NL. Gonna take my first 100NL shot this weekend.
  26. #326
    Full Tilt $5.50 HORSE

    1/119 for $187

    My first HORSE mtt win!
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    withdrew some more $$, still haven't deposited since the $200 about a year ago...
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    *Am dominating 5NL. Crushing w/o a doubt thanks to FTR/IRC-ftr
  29. #329
    Today I won 1k in one hour, 350 hands, my best ever (in 200 NL). Was just going to play a couple of hands before going out to meet friends (which I'll do shortly) with the aim of getting 200 dollars in one hour (my current goal per session), then completely donked out on the 1st hand when I called a 7$ raise with 67 s. The board came up 45 of hearts (my suit, of course) and a king. Of course I bet, he raised, I reraised he even more so and I pushed. And no hearts or the two cards I needed came up (I mean, 8 or 3 of hearts, how hard can it be???)and he had AK. And I was 200 dollars down with donk written all over my face and the notes of everyone watching.

    After that things righted itself quickly. I hit my flushes, I had (probably drunk) oppos calling down my over bets on river with str8s when I had the flush, I correctly put a 3-better on QQ or JJ when I had kings and took him down, I got lucky while reraising my set of sixes on a board with two spades, getting reraised and then pushing in the last of his 40 bucks. 5 of spades came up, then 5 of hearts and his flush didnt mean much. And took down a couple of hundred here and there with bluffs where I was (reasonably) sure villain wasn't on a proper hand.

    It was one of those glorious nights of poker when you know you ARE the best and make the correct calls (yeah right). Warm fuzzy feeling inside, I'm now happy and content whereas a week ago I was down and out with 1K lost in one night when my aces got cracked twice by sets and nothing worked. So I'm also writing this post to be able to go back at it and remember this one the next time I hit a downslide.
  30. #330
    Finally got my my roll up to $100 playing 2nl on PS. Started off with a deposit of $10.

    Depositing another $50 now and moving up to 5nl. When I take roll up to $250 will deposit another $100 and move to 10nl
  31. #331
    Played in the Pokerstars Summer Games Promo - Pot Limit Omaha this week. These are freerolls where in the first game you have to place in the top 50 to get a ticket to the next one. You get $5 for hitting the top 250. First round earlier this week I made it - game froze once you hit the top 50 (I was around 30th).
    So today played the round 2, 1400 players, top 140 get $20, top 5 get a seat at the finals. I played the first 2 hours and was in the top 10 for about 30 mins with 500 players left to go. Took an hour to eat supper (sat out) and played with the kids, played a few hands and finally kicked it in at 130th. Woulda been fun to shoot for top 5, but woulda had to spend at least another 2 hrs intent on playing (just wasn't a convenient time).
    Best part: I HATE PLO. :P
    Never played it before. Maybe I should give it more thought?.... Nah
  32. #332

    Default My Bank Roll

    @Poker Stars: Little over a month ago i decided to forgo bank roll management temporarily. I was playing $1.00 s&g 9 handed NLH. My BR. was down to only $12.00. Started playing $3.40 9 handed NLH s&g. Now my humble BR. Is $54.00. @Carbon Poker: i entered my first bounty ($11.00 NLH ) I came in first and won little over $50.00.
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    Default Re: My Bank Roll

    Quote Originally Posted by derringer007
    @Poker Stars: Little over a month ago i decided to forgo bank roll management temporarily. I was playing $1.00 s&g 9 handed NLH. My BR. was down to only $12.00. Started playing $3.40 9 handed NLH s&g. Now my humble BR. Is $54.00. @Carbon Poker: i entered my first bounty ($11.00 NLH ) I came in first and won little over $50.00.
    Your honing bad habits by forgoing BRM. But nice score anyways.
  34. #334
    I started with $100 playing a cash game at Full Tilt and took it up to $600. Sweet...
  35. #335
    Quote Originally Posted by playa123
    I started with $100 playing a cash game at Full Tilt and took it up to $600. Sweet...
    Luck or good TAG/LAG poker?
  36. #336
    Broke the $500 BR playing SnGs today.
    Started with $6. =)
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    Quote Originally Posted by senchao
    Broke the $500 BR playing SnGs today.
    Started with $6. =)
    Nice keep it up man... I remember when I finally had a decent BR, as I started from $7 (after winning a freeroll). It's a good feeling.
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    Deposited $150 over first 3 months playing (a bit over a year ago), in the last few weeks I've passed $2k, then $3k, then made my first withdrawal to pay back poker (not only deposits but software purchases, training sites, books, everything poker related) and make my first poker funded purchase (a new lamp for my home theatre projector).

    Its been a good few weeks .
    Just dipping my toes back in.
  39. #339
    Well as this is the begginers Winners circle.......

    PokerStars Tournament #117935601, No Limit Hold'em
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    Total Prize Pool: $45.00
    Tournament started - 2008/11/02 - 06:56:53 (ET)

    Dear Hotfrog5,

    You finished the tournament in 3rd place.
    A $7.00 award has been credited to your Real Money account.

    You earned 42.48 tournament leader points in this tournament.
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  40. #340
    Not a win, but deepest I've ever gone in a large field mtt. The info on this site has been very helpful (much cheaper than buying books). I make the money often, but never deep. I had a real chance to win the whole thing for the first time ever.

    PokerStars Tournament #117555436, No Limit Hold'em
    Buy-In: $0.10
    3083 players
    $50.00 added to the prize pool by PokerStars
    Total Prize Pool: $358.30
    Tournament started - 2008/11/06 - 10:00:00 (ET)

    Dear ,

    You finished the tournament in 19th place.
    A $0.76 award has been credited to your Real Money account.

    You earned 69.30 tournament leader points in this tournament.
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    Congratulations!
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  41. #341
    playing 1 table $10 SnG exclusively (after trying everything from $1 to $20.

    in the past 2 or 3 weeks, I went from a bankroll of 3 buy ins (started at 10 with the option to put another 10), to 30x.

    I had lost a lot of money in the 1st week I started playing online, and now I'm within 15 bucks of breaking even.

    So I'm pretty happy
  42. #342
    I've kept from having to redeposit. Got down to $22 then won a small $2 MTT for $138. Wife is so happy I didn't ask for more money!
  43. #343
    Ok I am totally siked! I just finished a session and I have to say I played some kickass poker. I opened two tables .5/.10 and bought in with $4 each table. I played the smartest most concentrated poker I have in a long time. I made some great folds and perfect reads. I ran like 17/12/4 and got some great value out of the few hands I did play.
    I fought of the erge to play marginal hands and some pretty good hands OOP. This was a major step for me as I typically make the basic noobie mistake and get cocky, startingp playing things like suited connectors etc., but not today baby!
    I know this would not be a big deal for many of you but I am just really excited that I put together all the things I've been reading for the last couple weeks on FTR. This made for a good session.
    In the end I started feeling like it was slipping away so I did the right thing and stepped away. I added 3.5 BI's to my BR and some confidence that if I do the right thing then good things happen in my poker world!
    Now the next challenge will be to do it all over again with the same discipline as I did tonight!
    Well I'm going to take a shot at a $3 MTT and see if I can get ITM. Wish me luck!!!
  44. #344
    Well hot damn the streak continued pretty well for me. I entered a $3 MTT along with 386 others. I played really tight for the first round only playing 3% of the hands. Mid way through the second round I got down to 800ish chips and I believe the blinds were 200. Found the right time and got all my chips in the middle with three callers and bam back in the game.
    Continued to play very smart and patient. Picking up good pots when premium hands. Next thing I know I'm in the money and above average chip stack. I knock out a couple more good hands and suddenly it's FT time. I played it very smart as I was short but figured I still hand to be patient. Well I ended up in 5th adding $67.73 to my BR along with several knockouts which were .50 each.
    Overall today was a great day and I owe it all to what I've gleamed from the wise men and woman on FTR!

    BR started the day at $81.25 ended at $154.23

    THANKS
  45. #345
    i broke the 400 mark :P
  46. #346
    Finally!! I'm positive.

    In the first 10 days I lost about $300, playing everything from low stakes cash tables, to every sng from $1 to $20.

    After that I've been playing $10 SnGs exclusively for about a month now, and now I'm positive, with $14.05 in profits. (about 350 total games since the beginning)

    Sharkscope shows $-17, but I won a bit in a regular cash table, + the 1st deposit bonus, and I'm counting that. (I never imagined I'd be playing so much, and I only deposited 25 bucks at first)

  47. #347
    This is tiny compared to what some of you guys achieve, but....

    Was finally a winning player after 6 months of playing Single Table SNGs and 27 / 45 man MTTs. Then came the most horrible losing streak. After blowing over half of my bankroll (and going a tiny bit crazy) I took 2 weeks off, relaxed, did other things etc. It slowly started to dawn on me how much I'd been over complicating things, trying to be too clever, too tricky. I'd built my bankroll on playing ABC poker and I realised that that had somehow gone out of the window.

    So.....

    I just finished my first Micro stakes SNG in 2 weeks. I FORCED myself to play my A Game, as basic and 'simplistic' as that may be. And I won.

    Woo!
  48. #348
    Won my first SNG last night.

    Promptly followed it up by 2 2nd places and another win!

    It was at seriously micro stakes, but still, the first step on the long road
    They called it poker because the word FU<K! was taken...
  49. #349
    My accomplishments this week:
    1. Doubled my bankroll in two days (around $300 to over $600).
    2. Made my first cash out ($500) to pay the rent.
    3. Played my first serious sessions of ring games and had two very good sessions.
    4. Nearly doubled my newly-decreased bankroll in one day ($130 to $230).

    I've had a pretty big week. I deposited $50 back in early October, and in a month's time, I took it up to almost $700. After that I had a pretty bad, up-and-down run (bad cards, bad beats, bad play) that took my bankroll back below $300.

    1. This week I have been playing much better and having some luck. I played in like 6 or 7 of the $11 27-man SNGs on Stars, winning 2, finishing 2nd once, and getting in the money another time. Between that, winning a $16 9-man turbo (once my 'roll was over $500 again), and doing well at 0.50/1 LO8, I got my bankroll back up to a healthy $630.

    2. I've been playing poker pretty much full time over the last month and a half, not working any other jobs, living off some money that I had saved up. That money just ran out this month, but I was able to cash out $500 to pay the rent this month. This is a huge milestone for me... turning $50 into an amount of money that I can live off of, while still having some left to continue playing.

    3. Since my cash out took my bankroll dangerously low, too low to continue playing the $11 27-man tourneys, I turned to mostly ring games today to get it back up. I had worked up to 0.50/1 LO8 before my cashout so that was mainly what I played, but I also mixed in a couple $11 9-man SNGs (very cautiously) and a game of 0.02/0.05 NLHE. I lost my SNGs, but my cash game winnings were enough to bring today's winnings to about $100. So today was my first really good session of cash game poker... I might just be a convert.

    4. Winning that $100 while not playing too underrolled meant that I nearly doubled my money again, for the second time in half a week. Getting back over $200 after cashing out leaves me feeling very comfortable and a lot less worried about being forced to drop down in stakes. I can pretty safely move up to 0.05/0.10 NLHE now with my sites set on 0.10/0.20, and it won't be long before I can move up in LO8 stakes as well.

    So overall I'm up $633 (from $50) in less than 2 months, along with a $50 deposit bonus. My next goal is to get up to about $1500 (hopefully within a month and a half) so that I can take out $600 to start a FT account and another $600 to pay January's bills while still leaving me with some money at Stars. We'll see how realistic that is...
  50. #350
    Started a roll with play money, converted it into 12$ real money. Now, Im at 25 nl and almost 700$, not a single reload whatsoever
  51. #351
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    I placed 3rd in the FTR freeroll tonight! Making the final table and getting a nice cash was good to help reenergize me for grinding through the micros.
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    PokerStars Tournament #103038991,
    No Limit Hold'em Freeroll
    228 players
    $500.00 added to the prize pool by PokerStars.com
    Total Prize Pool: $500.00
    Tournament started - 2008/08/23 - 10:00:00 (ET)
    Dear Keith_MM, You finished the tournament in 2nd place.A $87.50 award has been credited to your Real Money account.
  53. #353
    followed that up in the second invitational freeroll the next day with
    PokerStars Tournament #103038992, No Limit Hold'em Freeroll
    304 players
    $500.00 added to the prize pool by PokerStars.com
    Total Prize Pool: $500.00 Tournament started - 2008/08/24 - 10:00:00 (ET)
    Dear Keith_MM, You finished the tournament in 27th place.A $3.50 award has been credited to your Real Money account. Congratulations!Thank you for participating.
  54. #354
    Well after playing pretty much all day long and loosing about 1/5 of my BR I decided to play a MTT. So I bought in to a $3+$0.30 along with 401 others. I decided I wanted to be ultra tight during the first round so I read
    soupie's Win MTT Poker
    while keeping an eye on my table as not to miss any of the top 3 which I managed to catch a couple and doubled up 3 or 4 times. Reading this was perfect and I played like a rock.
    At the first break I was running 15/10/44. I opened up all most all of the tables and let HEM work for me while I continued to play like a rock.
    Made it ITM and figured hell this game plan is working well so I continued playing really tight. Next thing I knew I was sitting at the final table.
    Now my original goal was to at least make 6th which would give me enough added to my BR that I could cash out of FT, $100 minimum, and transfere to PS to start my grind properly.
    Well long story short I think I can truly say the only stupid hand I played was when I push over the top of a 3bet with my opened ended str8 draw. Well guess what that's the one that busted me out of the tourney!
    Dealer: HarleyGuy13 finishes in 5th place and wins: $81.20 :P
    Goal accomplished +1! Made my day
  55. #355
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    Quote Originally Posted by Irisheyes
    I'll start us off since I'm here.

    Yesterday I made just over $2000 in one day playing cash games. Thats the most I ever made in one day apart from a MTT win.




    dang that was excellent ,i wish it was me and i`ll have something to brag about lol !!
    wh
  56. #356
    I cashed my first and the only poker game with real money by making the final table :

    PokerStars No Limit Hold'emBuy-In: $1.00/$0.10
    2226 players

    Dear Extremophile, You finished the tournament in 9th place. A $26.72 award has been credited to your Real Money account.
  57. #357
    Small Town Live MTT tournament
    $10 Buy-in +$5 Rebuy(1)/Addon

    25 Players, I placed 2nd for $55.

    I had a great time. It was fun playing as soon as the drunks donked their stacks off after the rebuy ended.
    Met a lot of good people and impressed many by being friendly and knowledgeable about poker. Most of the people my age there were drunk and rude, so they were very pleasantly surprised.
    (Josh)
  58. #358
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    How you go from a junker to the nuts:

    PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, $0.02 BB (8 handed) - Poker-Stars Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com

    UTG+1 ($3.50)
    MP1 ($5)
    MP2 ($4.16)
    CO ($2.87)
    Button ($2.59)
    SB ($2.44)
    BB ($1)
    Hero (UTG) ($2.09)

    Preflop: Hero is UTG with A, 10
    Hero calls $0.02, 6 folds, BB raises to $0.06, Hero calls $0.04

    Flop: ($0.13) 9, 9, 5 (2 players)
    BB bets $0.09, Hero calls $0.09

    Turn: ($0.31) 9 (2 players)
    BB bets $0.18, Hero calls $0.18

    River: ($0.67) 9 (2 players)
    BB bets $0.20, Hero raises to $0.72, BB calls $0.47 (All-In)

    Total pot: $2.01 | Rake: $0.10

    Results:
    BB mucked J, K (four of a kind, nines).
    Hero had A, 10 (four of a kind, nines).
    Outcome: Hero won $1.91

    For some reason, I don't think my implied odds were right...lol
  59. #359
    Had my biggest winning session since quitting SNGs to focus on FRNL. I played really nicely and hit some great cards. Was a pretty short session, I was two tabling, played just 178 hands but finished up almost 3 BIs.

    Very pleased!
  60. #360
    Quote Originally Posted by Monsieur_chat
    Had my biggest winning session since quitting SNGs to focus on FRNL. I played really nicely and hit some great cards. Was a pretty short session, I was two tabling, played just 178 hands but finished up almost 3 BIs.

    Very pleased!
    Nice.
  61. #361
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    IVE MADE MY FIRST THOUSAND! YAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAY

  62. #362
    Biggest cash! $3.30+R

    PokerStars Tournament #127699570, No Limit Hold'em
    Buy-In: $3.00/$0.30
    5310 players
    Total Prize Pool: $65325.00
    Tournament started 2008/12/23 14:15:00 ET

    Dear ification,

    You finished the tournament in 3rd place.
    A $3,886.84 award has been credited to your Real Money account.

    You earned 636.07 tournament leader points in this tournament.
    For information about our tournament leader board, see our web site at
    http://www.pokerstars.com/poker/tour.../leader-board/


    Congratulations!
    Thank you for participating.
  63. #363

    Default My biggest cash pot so far.

    I don't know if this really belongs here, but I just had to share as rarely have I had a hand come together like this lol. It's not just flopping the absolute nuts. It's your opponents falling over themselves to get their money in

    Watching the instant HH I saw one of them was holding AdKd so thank thank God the Jd didn't appear - PStars doesn't have a BB Jackpot and my laptop would have been out the nearest window lol.

    PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, $0.02 BB (8 handed) - Poker-Stars Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com

    BB ($2.33)
    UTG ($0.96)
    UTG+1 ($0.98)
    MP1 ($3.52)
    MP2 ($2)
    CO ($2.02)
    Button ($2)
    Hero (SB) ($3.91)

    Preflop: Hero is SB with ,
    UTG raises to $0.06, 1 fold, MP1 raises to $0.18, 3 folds, Hero calls $0.17, 1 fold, UTG calls $0.12

    Flop: ($0.58) , , (3 players)
    Hero checks, UTG bets $0.78 (All-In), MP1 calls $0.78, Hero raises to $3.73 (All-In), MP1 calls $2.56 (All-In)

    Turn: ($8.04) (3 players, 3 all-in)

    River: ($8.04) (3 players, 3 all-in)

    Total pot: $8.04

    Woo. On a side note, I'm pretty much halfway to 5nl now. Double woo.
  64. #364

    Default I got to final table 2 days in a row now

    Man I was on a bad run of not getting to the final table and thats what I base my play on I don't base it on cashing only I had a 1-10 FT ratio before I started playing alot of ring games and then my play slipped and it went down to a 1-14 ratio but finally this week I hit two final tables in a row I came in 7th in one becuase I had to post fold it do to having a Christmas Party to go to I left in second place with 22 people left so I'm surprized I final tabled that one and the next tourney I played the next day I came in 4th place after getting a horrible beat lol had AA vs 57os and guy spiked 5 on flop and 7 on river of course and finished me 4th. but so far I am having decent success at MTT's I play adjust to table if the table is loose I play tight if table is tight I play suited connectors and un suited connectors added with AQ+ os and Ax s in position otherwise ATs+ and all pairs depending on situation. If the table is loose I play AK+ AQs+ and TT + and then adjust as table does.
  65. #365
    Ever since a friend of mine took €15k in the Belgian open, tournaments have peaked my interest. But I have no experience with them apart from railing him, so I was entering some on prima with VIP points. After 2 PL HE tourney busts, today I played a $5.50 NLHE and came in 34/600 for $14, and a $3.30 6-max NLHE and 28/800 for $10 (end sucked, busted on a 70/30).

    Peanut money, but a pretty cool experience and I think I'm gonna play more of them.
  66. #366
    YAY!

    PokerStars Tournament #130891599, No Limit Hold'em
    Buy-In: $1.00/$0.20
    18 players
    Total Prize Pool: $18.00
    Tournament started 2008/12/31 22:49:33 ET

    Dear beefykf,

    You finished the tournament in 1st place.
    A $7.20 award has been credited to your Real Money account.

    PokerStars Tournament #131085516, No Limit Hold'em
    Buy-In: $0.25
    90 players
    Total Prize Pool: $22.50
    Tournament started 2009/01/01 20:52:58 ET

    Dear beefykf,

    You finished the tournament in 1st place.
    A $6.20 award has been credited to your Real Money account.
  67. #367
    loool beefykf

    so dying to meet you in person
  68. #368
    Just broke $150 last night after about 15k hands of 2NL, and am now BR'd for 5NL!
  69. #369
    Quote Originally Posted by cr4zybe4utifu1
    YAY!

    PokerStars Tournament #130891599, No Limit Hold'em
    Buy-In: $1.00/$0.20
    18 players
    Total Prize Pool: $18.00
    Tournament started 2008/12/31 22:49:33 ET

    Dear beefykf,

    You finished the tournament in 1st place.
    A $7.20 award has been credited to your Real Money account.

    PokerStars Tournament #131085516, No Limit Hold'em
    Buy-In: $0.25
    90 players
    Total Prize Pool: $22.50
    Tournament started 2009/01/01 20:52:58 ET

    Dear beefykf,

    You finished the tournament in 1st place.
    A $6.20 award has been credited to your Real Money account.
    woooooooooooooo
  70. #370
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    I think I'm back from the 45 day cooler...

    759 $25NL hands tonight for 27ptbb/100 and +$105. May just be a brief visit from the luckbox fairy, but I'll f-kin take it!
  71. #371
    Quote Originally Posted by bigspenda73
    loool beefykf

    so dying to meet you in person
    Haha.

    Invite Carl and I over for some kind of vacation.
  72. #372
    Carl who?
  73. #373
    Quote Originally Posted by bigspenda73
    Carl who?
    Oh sorry, gmml.
  74. #374
    I think I'm getting the hang of this. First ~40k hands were at 5NL 6 max. The rest are 10NL 6 max.
    Completed my first operation. I have to come up with a new operation now.
    Completed using PT for trial. Moving to HEM next.

    I meant to add this too:
    Thanks to all the folks here at FTR for making me think while playing and not just playing.



    "Just cause I'm from the South don't mean I ain't got no book learnin'"

    Quote Originally Posted by a500lbgorilla View Post
    ...we've all learned long ago how to share the truth without actually having the truth.
  75. #375
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    PokerStars Tournament #132210853, No Limit Hold'em
    Buy-In: $1.00/$0.20
    9 players
    Total Prize Pool: $9.00
    Tournament started 2009/01/06 16:54:00 ET

    Dear bluendgold10,

    You finished the tournament in 1st place.
    A $4.50 award has been credited to your Real Money account.



    Congratulations!
    Thank you for participating.

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