What's your best run ever?

[ZeroGee]

Upswing in dollars / bets / whatever you want. How "well" have you run, before it starting to head back downhill by natural statistical fluctuation? I'm trying to put my recent results in perspective.

Thanks,
ZG

[Taxman]

Barring a few minor losses, I once won about 400 BBs in a couple of weeks (and I have limited time to play), before being brought back to earth. I don't even consider myself to be a super-great player. I Just couldn't sit for 5 minutes without winning a hand (so it seemed). Frankly my biggest flaw is probably timidity (as in weak-tight), which goes to show that I was catching some great flops/draws over and over (and I had lots of 2nd best hands along for the ride). I must say it was a good feeling while it lasted. I've had very small swings (except a -100BB downswing all in one day) along with a pretty small profit since then. Much more boring (and revealing that I do in fact have plenty of holes in my game). Cheers.

[scotnt73]

my 4th month of playing poker online i won almost every session for a solid month and convinced myself that i could continue crushing the low limits while seeing 40% of the flops because "i was so much better than them post flop". Yes i was playing full tables and yes i moved up to 2/4 prematurely the next month and had my butt handed to me. sometimes winning is the worse thing in the world for your game believe it or not. I actually had to relearn everything from the ground up again because i picked up so many bad habits.

[Toro]

I once won 200 bucks before I started to go bad.

[jayadd]

best day i had was on pokerstars where i entered 4 multi-tourneys and came in the money in all 4. results:

$20 NL 3rd $1260
$50 Omha 7th $220
$10 NL 2nd $1100
freeroll NL 8th no money but did come in 3rd in sunday tour.

it was the only time i have ever hit the board in the TLB top 5 weekly. Nice run for a sick day from work.....

[jwvdcw]

Playing many hours each day at the 200 dollar single table tourneys, I've had huge swings in each direction. My best ever was in late December a few days after X-Mas this past year- I forget the exact results, but it was something like 10 tourneys entered, 7 wins, 2 seconds, and one loss. Won something like 6000 bucks that day.

[Sincere]

Well one time a year ago I ran good for about 98.692 million dollars on party poker. Then I put it all in cd's and retired. Now I have a bankroll of about 5,000 and play 5-10 and some 20 dollar tournaments. But, for the most part I'm set up for life. /images/graemlins/smile.gif

[baggins]

I had a good day at the Bike a few years back. I was playing LLHE. I won $100 at 1/2, $200 at 2/4, and $240 at 3/6. that's 140 BB's in about 12 hours.

too bad it wasn't in $1000/$2000 game...

[Joshua]

About a 1000BB up without a 50BB down-swing is the best I've done. But I would like to thank a dear friend of mine - Lady Luck...

[TylerD]

I had a 100BB upswing at $1/2 over 700 hands at Party whilst clearing a $100 bonus...happy days.

[Festus22]

The one I'm currently enjoying.

6200 hands / 17 session win streak / +425 BB's.

Never had anything remotely close prior to this.

[Scottnyce]

104 BB over 5 Hours at the Borgata 3-6.

Had been on a run at PL100 on Empire, but that came to a dramatic end last night.....

[bigpooch]

Easily over 10000 BBs; oh, that's in low limit draw for the
last year or so!

Haven't had a losing week since 2002 and I hope that streak
never ends!

[B Dids]

Mind you I haven't been playing very long, but I'm on one right now.

Monday night I had 37 in my account. Wednesday morning I have 164. (playing Party .5/1). I know that's not much of a run, or a very impressive run, but it's the best I've had- and it's fun.

[Ray Zee]

playing long ago in montana two years without having but maybe one losing session.
and at major poker tournaments-- went the whole slim tournament three weeks without losing a day. then went to wsop and won for the first 17 days before a loser.
and i never took steroids.

[OrangeHeat]

Last month - I had a nice 670 BB upswing. This of course followed the hell that was January which was a -200 BB swing....go figure. So net +470 BB for two months. The 15/30 on party have high variance.........

Orange

[Greg (FossilMan)]

Mini-runs, never had a long-term, week-after-week sustained rush.

At Commerce recently, playing 40-80 Omaha8 before the NLH tourney starts. Won about $4800 in about 50 minutes.

Foxwoods NLH super-satellite a few years ago, for their $5000 event. I was dealt the best hand preflop about 90% of the time for about 3 hours, and won all but one of them. I had AJ and chopped with A6. When we got to the final table, I think I had about 70% of all the chips. The prizes being paid were 1 seat, and $1000 each to positions 2-5. When we got to 5-handed, I had about 85% of the chips, and they all just agreed to give me the seat and take their $1000 right now, rather than play it out.

Most dramatic change in good fortune.

About 1997, I was in a $500 ($300?) limit holdem tourney at the Orleans Open. I lost about 2/3 of my stack during the first couple of levels. I then went on a rush that lasted to the final table, many hours later. We started the final table, and I had 55% fo the chips in play. My rush dramatically ended as I failed to win but one hand at the final table, even though I had the best starting hand almost every time I entered a pot. The only hand I won? Dealt AA in the big blind, and everyone folded. Finished 5th.

Later, Greg Raymer (FossilMan)

[BamaGambler]

I had a nice run at Party one day in Feb:
$50 SNG - 1st
$100 SNG - 1st
$200 SNG - 1st
$200 SNG - 4th
$200 SNG - 1st
$200 SNG - 1st
$200 SNG - 1st
$200 SNG - 6th

Total profit for the day $3,296.

[jerome baker]

i had slightly under 1100 in $1 chips on a 3/6 table. i bought in for 1 rack. all luck.

[Matt Flynn]

106 bets in 96 minutes in $3-6 limit holdem at LC's in early 1999. racked and walked.

pot limit holdem 12 weeks recent nov-feb. on saturdays with spouse clearance and no work the next day i went 12 straight without a loss and with several big wins including the record win for the game.

[limon]

first time ever in CA. card room. (bike) started in the 1-2 limit with $40 10am worked my way up to 3-6 by noon ($100 up). played in a $20 buy in NL holdem tournament (1st tourney ever) took 4th ($200), moved to 6-12 won 3 racks. played in the nightly NL $20 tournament took 3rd ($700) played in the $1-2 nl cash game afterwards for 15 hours. 5pm next day cashed up $2100. as pitiful as it sounds that day changed my life.

oh and i've had only 2 losing sessions in the past 3 years in my weekly mini pot limit mixed home game.

[sleepyjoeyt]

I started making trips down to AC about once a month, maybe 6 years ago. I'd sit 15/30 and just GET HIT IN THE FACE BY THE DECK. I went down there once a month for about a year and by the end of the year I was playing up to 50/100 and was making a few grand during each trip. I was real professional about it, too, figuring that I was better off not driving down there any more (fatigue) so I'd fly down instead. It'd only cost me a few hundred bucks and I'd easily make that back by the increased time at the tables.

I actually never did cool off as far as AC was concerned (I won every weekend I went there) but eventually donated a great deal of $ to the nice folks at Foxwoods.

Now I mostly play online for low stakes but that one year taking money from Boris, Joe _________ (Taj 50/100 player) and the other mopes down there sure was fun.

And I should add that I knew much less about cards then than I do now. I don't claim to know all that much now, but I realize how little I knew then and how much of my success was just random luck. But it was fun playing badly and still winning, and watching the "pros" get bent out of shape.

[jumpthru]

They are idiots then, since they were already guanteed the $1000, and it was just a free role for them to try and get lucky and take you down for first...they were just giving you charity.

BTW, I bet you have a new dramtic change in good fortune, best run ever...

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Mini-runs, never had a long-term, week-after-week sustained rush.

At Commerce recently, playing 40-80 Omaha8 before the NLH tourney starts. Won about $4800 in about 50 minutes.

Foxwoods NLH super-satellite a few years ago, for their $5000 event. I was dealt the best hand preflop about 90% of the time for about 3 hours, and won all but one of them. I had AJ and chopped with A6. When we got to the final table, I think I had about 70% of all the chips. The prizes being paid were 1 seat, and $1000 each to positions 2-5. When we got to 5-handed, I had about 85% of the chips, and they all just agreed to give me the seat and take their $1000 right now, rather than play it out.

Most dramatic change in good fortune.

About 1997, I was in a $500 ($300?) limit holdem tourney at the Orleans Open. I lost about 2/3 of my stack during the first couple of levels. I then went on a rush that lasted to the final table, many hours later. We started the final table, and I had 55% fo the chips in play. My rush dramatically ended as I failed to win but one hand at the final table, even though I had the best starting hand almost every time I entered a pot. The only hand I won? Dealt AA in the big blind, and everyone folded. Finished 5th.

Later, Greg Raymer (FossilMan)

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Oh, and sleepyjoeyt, how could you ever be winning a couple grand a month, be flying down to AC to play 50/100 and then now be content with playing low limit...I would get so bored..

[ApolloQuiet]

750 BB over 5 weeks in end of Feb and all of Mar., double tabling 3-6.

[ApolloQuiet]

Don't forget that nice little run out in Vegas at the end of May. /images/graemlins/wink.gif Congrats Greg.