"Your Biggest Poker Accomplishment" Thread...

[Desdia72]

whether cash/ring game, SNG streaks, MTT final tables and wins, etc.

my biggest poker accomplishment so far was making the final table of a 500 FPP Satellite to the weekly $215 NL Tourney.
seeing as how i'm a fairly new player (under a year of experience) with bankroll concerns, i chose the $215 Tourney Dollars and used them toward SNGs rather than play the tournament.

[whiskeytown]

probably my last month 2nd place finish in a 1200 player tourney.

I've won a couple, but never with so little risk (10 bucks) with such a big field for such good money (1700) - so that's my best so far.

RB

[Cleveland Guy]

I won a 200 Person $30 +3 Tourney for over 1,500.

3 days later I won a 50 person omaha 20 +2 for another 300.

It was a nice streak!

[TrickyTree]

Mine are.....

Stars $500+30 8th out of 600 for $7200
Stars $200+15 5th out of 900 for $9500

Both games were within 3 weeks. That was nice.

[ctide]

My only big win is in the prima 75k guaranteed a few weeks back for $17.6k.

[Sarge85]

Taking a free $10 from Prima and putting some zeros behind it over the course of this last year.

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[beerbandit]

buyin for 25bb in 10-20 live game and cah out for 112.5bb in seven hours of play

tourney live---back to back days
3rd nl 72 players 75buyin
3rd stud 50 players 40buyin

you guys have some big wins in online games---im always on that damn bubble ---- no big wins

cheers
beer

[Jdanz]

becoming way less results oriented

and getting a couple of my college friends who had never played before to play in a home game. Without any book reading the majority of them are winning Party players within a year from learning the rules of the game.

-JDanz

[TimM]

The month of August. Came within a couple hundred bucks of my full time job's pre-tax salary for the month. 3 tables, about 20hrs/week, one third Party 3/6, two thirds Party 5/10 full.

[brick]

3/1100 in a $20 MTT on party last saturday!

[fyodor]

Biggest win was 1st in a $33 1231 player Party tournament.

Biggest accomplishment was learning to throw away JT at the 5/10 SH tables.

[Ian J]

6th place in a Super Tuesday tournament on Party for $5k.

[Officer Farva]

3rd in Ultimate bet 500 person $50 buyin. 2 Gs! Which I proceeded to flush out in SNGs and MTTs. Back to square one.

[MEbenhoe]

Winning back to back NL tourneys in one day. First one was a 120 something player tourney and the second one had just over 200 players in it. That's not much compared to what you guys have done, but it sure felt cool to win back to back MTTs. Hopefully I'll do well in the $250k tourney on stars this weekend and have a new biggest accomplishment.

[bernie]

Building rolls out of nearly nothing.

My latest is going from $.15 to $140k. Actually, actual 'won' money is about $9+k in operating BR.

Tourney? Long ago i played in a little 2 table tourney at my old cardroom. 22 players total. I started with 700 chips, everyone else had 2000. That was a nice win.

b

[wporter]

Still kinda new to the MTT, but finished 5th in a Pacific MTT with 800 people.
wporter

[nykenny]

I once quit poker for 7 months straight /images/graemlins/smile.gif

Kenny

[sthief09]

I have 2:

- my first time losing $1000 in a day at 5/10, and not completely losing it.
- first and only time I played 15/30 (it was 10/20 with a 1/2 kill at $120), I lost a ~$600 pot to a guy calling 3 cold preflop with his lucky hand, J8, and catching runner runner trip 8s, and I wasn't angry or spiteful, and I didn't tilt in the slightest


I strongly believe that the hardest part about limit hold'em is dealing with the inevitable swings, and learning to cope with them is the most important part in becoming a solid player.

[Cleveland Guy]

Love the new pic you got up!

Bet you couldn't guess, but I'm a tribe fan.

I play lower limits than you, but I know feel much different when I see my AA get cracked by an A6 - where I had 3 bet the flop of K52 only for him to hit runner runner 6.

I used to go on tilt, I know realize this is the guy I want at my table.

Thank you 2 + 2!!!!!!

[DonT77]

Last year - Winning $1150 on a PP $10+1 NLHE MTT (1st of 463) after only playing poker for 2 months.

(Either I'm playing worse now, or I'm not as lucky /images/graemlins/confused.gif)

[Schneids]

Losing $7050 in a matter of a little over 48 hours.

[theghost]

27th out of 616 in last week's Empire freeroll (limit) - $32.50

(ok, so I need some bigger accomplishments /images/graemlins/tongue.gif)

[J.A.Sucker]

I've crushed that one. Don't ask.

[h_ven]

I got 1st place in the $35,000 R&A on Paradisepoker.

about ~550 entries and about the same rebuys and add-ons.

$9,000 for 1st.

[Benal]

1st place in a 1790 player MTT on Party a few weeks ago.

Second time at a B&M, but first time playing NL. Blinds 5/10. Sat down with $400, left with $1400 two hours later.

[Cleveland Guy]

I was on a vacation, she was gorgeous, we had a couple drinks one night, and one thing led to another then.....

Oh wait, this is POKER, not POKE HER

My bad, I'm sorry

[chezlaw]

3 years - still here

[Nick709]

First PLO/8 MTT, 100$+9$
Placed 5th for 640$

[shawn_p]

Got staked for $1.00 on Poker Stars about a month ago after a good finish in a freeroll.

Built it up over $300 w/o ever making a deposit.

[Bubbagump]

Biggest Poker Accomplishment: 3 top 20 finishes at the New England Poker Classic in 2 years (2003 and 2002).

2nd biggest: Been playing 8 years and I'm not broke yet. /images/graemlins/cool.gif

[astroglide]

Got staked for $1.00 on Poker Stars about a month ago after a good finish in a freeroll.

Built it up over $300 w/o ever making a deposit.

that's awesome

[Ponks]

$4600 in the month of august playing 3/6. I just learned how to play hold'em about 10 months ago and started playing online about 9 months ago.

Ponks

[RPatterson]

My biggest accomplishments are the two MTT's I've won I guess.

[BigBaitsim (milo)]

$50 into $7000 just grinding it out in limit play over the past year. Now up to 3/6!

[Equal]

Quitting my job, then proceeding to go onto my biggest downstreak in my short poker career - losing $6.5k... and then coming back and posting a $12k July and a $8k August. (With lots of help from 2+2ers during that bad streak heh) Thanks guys!

[nykenny]

actually mine would be losing 2700 quickly in about 2hrs and quit and went to sleep hating myself. no i didn't go broke...

[Michael Davis]

One time I threebet with 87s and the flop came AKQ and I bet and the guy folded.

-Michael

[Malone Brown]

Winning a trip to the WPT event in Aruba and paying off my $50 000 University loans within 2 months of graduating. Poker had been good to me (not lately though, I'm curently in the worst NL slump I've had, haven;t been able to win a pot in about a month.)
Malone

[AncientPC]

Miraculously breaking even when I first started playing Party. I jumped up to the $1/$2 SH tables with absolutely no idea what I was doing (my VPIP was in the 60-70%).

This was pre 2+2. I've finished WLLH (meh) and in the middle of SSH, but most of my money is won (and lost) on the NL tables.

[ThePopinjay]

Here's mine to date, happened today /images/graemlins/smile.gif (http://home.comcast.net/~alex.kim/90204.JPG)

[astroglide]

i don't get it, what happened today?

[AncientPC]

September semifinals? Turning $200 into $2100 on one table?

[Lawrence Ng]

There are a couple of recent milestones that I acheived which I consider great poker accomplishments:

1. I actually folded pocket aces before the flop in a recent 30-60 game. It was the only time I did it, but I did it. Now, I will never do it again. Heheh...

2. I suffered my biggest loss on ( about 80 BB ) in a single 8 hour session and didn't once go on tilt or play poorly. I played my A game to perfection.

Another honorable mention for me is that I am the home game tourney champ. We run a friendly home game every now and then and I have bragging rights to placing more times in the money than any of my fellow chumps. /images/graemlins/grin.gif

[uw_madtown]

[ QUOTE ]
There are a couple of recent milestones that I acheived which I consider great poker accomplishments:

1. I actually folded pocket aces before the flop

[/ QUOTE ]

Don't brag about this.

Don't admit it.

If you have any respect for yourself, you'll never bring it up again.

- UW /images/graemlins/smile.gif

[SinCityGuy]

I made Clarkmeister fold after he limped in from early position.

[Patriarch]

I finished 8th of 247 in a $500 freeroll tournament yesterday, which netted me a staggering $8.75.

[goofball]

well, like many people i started with a small number ($200) and have turned into a much larger number.

i'm also proud of qualifying for the Party Poker Million IV

[1800GAMBLER]

A 3some.

[theghost]

[ QUOTE ]
Here's mine to date, happened today /images/graemlins/smile.gif (http://home.comcast.net/~alex.kim/90204.JPG)

[/ QUOTE ]

new monitor for multitabling?

[Jason Strasser]

Second in a super monday for 17k.
Eleven party poker final tables in around 200 tries.
Depositing 2k into stars one week and running it to 12k in 10 days on 5/10 NL.

Being able to shout my name after winning a huge hand at the WSOP. Oh wait, that was Vinny Vinh, not me.

[AncientPC]

Reading all of this wants me to move up in the limits . . . but I'll stick to .50/1 and NL 25 for now. /images/graemlins/blush.gif

[ThePopinjay]

it was basically getting a $2000 stack on NL200, the other two tables of NL200 I was playing I also made some good money at too, so it was my best session ever. the PPM semifinal window was open just because I was sweating daryn in the PPM (congrats for winning a seat).

[DeeJ]

I don't get it either. Your User ID, on the other hand, is on the title bars of those windows despite other edits /images/graemlins/smile.gif

[DeeJ]

OK, you fixed it /images/graemlins/smile.gif the scrawl is pretty ugly though /images/graemlins/grin.gif

[ThePopinjay]

quickie job, thanks for pointin it out though

[Airpoaneman]

I won 20 cents in a game of Indian poker with a kid from India.

[3rdEye]

Mine has to be winning a 1500 person NLHE MTT this February. This was awesome for me, because I had only been treating poker as a serious hobby for a month or two prior to my victory.

I'm tempted, however, to say that even better than my no-limit victory is the fact that in the first two Stud H/L MTTs I ever played, I finished in 1st and 2nd, respectively (and finished 1st literally 5 hours after my first experience with the game--which was reading Sklansky's section in Super/System). I finished in 7th in my third Stud H/L MTT, making 3 final tables in my first 3 tournaments of that genre (and leading me to the retrospectively absurd conclusion that I was the next Stu Ungar of the Stud H/L world).

[bisonbison]

Also, edit out the hand numbers in the upper right corner of each window.

[Sponger15SB]

This week was my first $2k week, felt pretty good.

[Nate tha' Great]

My biggest poker accomplishment is when Tommy Vu raised and folded to my 3-bet before the flop in the Mirage 40/80 game.

[Tyler Durden]

Mine was winning a seat into the Big One this year and placing 126th for $15,000.

Oh yea, tonight I played a limit tourney on Party and finished 3rd out of 260. And I didn't even mean to play! I thought it was a NL tourney.

[Tyler Durden]

[ QUOTE ]
Being able to shout my name after winning a huge hand at the WSOP. Oh wait, that was Vinny Vinh, not me.

[/ QUOTE ]

He did this on the WPT, not the WSOP.