If you really won $102k playing live poker in 5 weeks take and post a photo of the cash with a "Las Vegas Lifestyle" sign.....you will crush all non believers here and become a 2pl2 legend.......

These are all excellent questions. Even more so when you examine OP's earlier posts. In those posts his biggest reason for moving to Vegas was because the games in his hometown were infrequent and lacked action, yet when he returns home he sits in a home game with a quarter of a million dollars on the table....does not compute..

iirc, the home game was in vegas, not in his home town

he should take all that cash and go to the rhino and **** some strippers and then post a decent trip report.

I think this too.

yea your right ...which makes even less sense....why would anyone take the risks of spreading such a big game in an unsecured location like their home when the players could all meet at V or W and play there?.......

Maybe because if OP claims the game happened in a Casino it is easily proven it never occurred...hence the home game scenario...

you can do that with $3 grand...

ding! ding! ding!

I don't doubt the 1/2 score at all. I just don't get the whole...I don't carry more than a $100 cause I've been held up once and always get checks. Suddenly I'm in a strangers place/home?!? With $5k and others who are capable of losing $120k!?! No clue.....maybe I gotta do something different so I get the invite this week and scoop up the $80k.

tbh, this is what i thought and what made me start to wonder whats up. I've been out here around two years, and i dont know of any big, regular homegames. Not that im mr. plugged in. But i knew of several by the time i had lived in phoenix for a couple of years. I think if there were games like this running with any kind of regularity, they would at least be on my radar.

+ they asked him never to come back. A) this is highly atypical for home games unless you behave like a total ass. B) it makes it a good way not to have to verify the existence or ones presence there.

FTR, btw. Im not a hater, and ive never posted once in BBV4l... anyone who looks at my posting history knows that i usually try to be pretty positive about people coming to vegas and trying to make their way.

when i posted my original comment wondering if your thread was a level my initial thought was you would react with hostility if it was, and pretty much not react at all if it wasnt.

Your post answered my question.

I don't care to hassle people, and the story was plausible enough up until the home game thing. I think this pushes the whole story solidly into 'unlikely at best.'

Good story telling though.

Meh. Does it really matter? Sławomir Rawicz's The Long Walk is a great book whether you think it's an actual accounting of what really happened or a work of implausible fiction posing as fact.

I also enjoyed John Frey's "A Million Little Pieces".

But it can be fun and challenging debunking BS with logic....

Not really, that's what makes it so implausible. If he had incorporated any detail whatsoever it would have been more believable. IE locations, hours played, hand histories of huge pots, descriptions of other players, amusing anecdotes ...anything!...read some of the better Vegas trip reports, the ones that ring true have excellent detail and descriptions....

Instead, OP's posts follow this format....."played 1/2 ....crushed won $3k"....."played 2/5 crushed it ...won $10k......"....."played huge home game...crushed it won $80k!!!!!....."

sigh. all of billy's #s are well within the realm of possibility. it's easy enough to run white-hot for several thousand hands (which despite his long hours, he probably has not played more than a few thousand).

winning 80k playing uncapped is obviously possible.

senjitsu's point about vegas home games, they absolutely exist. why people play in them, i have no idea. i guess some people just don't like to gamble in public. plus you can play shorthanded with your friends and not worry about the game filling up w/ people you don't really want to play with.

also, just ftr, this is self-contradictory.

I'm sure you get my point.

Does anyone else find it curious that an uncapped No Limit game took place in Vegas with hundreds of thousands of dollars changing hands and no other 2pl2er has posted he was present at the game, or even a post from someone in Vegas who at least heard about this very bloody game?

I would tend to believe that this type of home game in Vegas would attract the type of people who read the poker forums.

occasionally, people gamble without posting about it on the internet

Mods, please close/lock this thread.


Anyone interested in my progress can PM me and I will happily share my experiences. While I really should not let the criticism effect me, it has and consequently not worth my time anymore in order to discuss with the few people who are interested.

Unfortunately, there are more people on this forum who rather spend time discrediting, flaming or otherwise making negative comments, which is really sad. Look at the most active posters in this thread and review their post history you will find proof of this. You all can go back to BBV now and rag on some other poor soul.

Peace!

LOL

FYP

Why don't you respond with intelligent or logical stuff instead of insults and flames?

Oh, wait, your incapable. Your lack of ingenuity in your insults and flames are rather boring, wish you could come up with your own stuff. Maybe it would be funny.

GG buddy and have fun with your "20 years of experience".