What's the most you've been stuck for... $1 million dollars?

[Ray Of Light]

What is the most you have found yourself stuck for in just one night of poker... $100, $500, maybe $1000?

Well, how would you handle being stuck $1 million dollars in just one night :shock:...

To make it clear, I have no doubts about Negreanu's poker playing abilities, so I am not critising him at all. I am simply in awe at the amounts that big time pros play for...

Here is the recent excerpt from Daniel Negreanu's Daily Poker Blog...

I knew that the 4000-8000 mixed game was schedule to start at around 2:00pm today...

... When I sat down it was pretty much the same old crew, Doyle Brunson, Eli Elezra, Chau Giang, Gus Hansen, Chip Reese, and Phil Ivey. Before I sat down I'd already decided that I was going to play a long session and hopefully make a big score.

Well, so much for the "big score" plan. About 10 hours into play I was down about half a million dollars. Most of the high limit players were flying out in the morning to head back to Vegas, so at 5:00am it was just the losers left...

... Gus, Phil, and myself all decided to stay in San Diego all day and keep playing. Each of us was stuck (still losing) but I was clearly in the worst shape. At my low point, I topped the 1.3 million dollar mark...

... Nevertheless, I would have been happy to lose less than a million since I won $600,000 the night before. -$300,000 over two days wouldn't be all that bad I thought...

...So I kept plugging away and by hour number 25 I was within about $900,000 of being even. After winning two hundred thousand in a three way capped pot in pot limit Omaha I was back in business...

...After that pot I went on a rush of a lifetime. Not only did I get back within half a million, after 31 hours of play I ended the session down "just" $114,000. I went on a rush that saw me win $1.2 million in just a few hours.


I figured that to play the $4000/$8000 you would need a bankroll of $2million or more... and even that would be cutting it a bit fine...

To answer my own original question, the most I have been stuck for in one night is $165, since the highest level I have ever played so far has merely been $2/$4...