Nah it was Stinger88. I changed it bc it was making the page load slower for me.

Hey man, just wanted to that I really enjoy reading your stories! Seems like quite a few poker players are wannabe-writers but your stuff is actually really good imo

GL at the tables and keep the stories coming!

These are unreal stories.

Bumming hard that I am all caught up now.

Great run too- crushing poker man good for you.

Subbed! Keep up the awesome stories!

Thanks I will
I'll see what I can do about that
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Mitchell

Mitchell was the person who introduced NL Holdem to me. I went to his apartment one day and he was having a game on his coffee table in the living room. He had a chipset and a table top that had little plastic grooves where you could put your stack. There would usually be 5-6 players in the game and we would pass the deck around with the dealer button and self deal the game. The person sitting next to you would cut the deck after you shuffled and there wasn't any rake. Most of the players were people from his work who got paid in cash everyday and would quit if they lost $100 or so. Mitchell had a 2nd bedroom that he rented out to someone who worked with him and he always played in the game too. Almost every pot was single raised and multiway. Mitchell taught me how he played and his strategy worked very well for this type of game.

One day we were playing in the game and Mitchell's roommate won a big pot off of him. I quit when it got 3 handed and they continued playing heads up. The next day he told me about what had happened after I left. He said that he topped up to cover his roommate and then said he had to go to the bathroom. They used standard bicycle decks you could buy from anywhere and he opened a new deck with the identical color backs and set it so he would have quads vs his roommates aces full. When he got back he put the rigged deck on the ground below the table. Every time his roommate shuffled he would decline to cut the deck and just tap it. Once his roommate stopped cutting the deck after the shuffle he introduced the new deck and dealt the cooler. He quit him after that.

Mitchell had a rule at the game that you had to give 30 minutes notice before picking up. He wanted to rig the deck on the big winners before they left the same way. He wanted me to sit next to him so that when he introduced the rigged deck into the game I could decline to cut it. He offered to give me 1/2 and I had no problem with it. He did all the dirty work and all I had to do was watch, seemed like an easy decision at the time. Most of the time me and him would be winning and even if someone got up they'd give it back playing short handed with us alot. He'd use this as a last resort when a big winner tried to hit and run basically.

There was a casino that would give me a poker rate a couple nights per week and we'd religiously go and play there. Our routine would be make a trip to see his cousin. Give that to a few people, then head out of town for at least a few days. I would stick to 2/5 most of the time. The only casino that had consistent 5/10 action had extremely long wait lists so we usually wouldn't bother going there. The casinos we did play at would get 5/10 sporadically and I would always sit when I could. Mitchell was kind of all over the place. He'd play NL and LHE cash, stud and stud 08, SNGs, MTTs and pit games. He always owed me money after we met his cousin but I'd frequently give him loans on our casino trips as well. He'd get free drinks while playing and he was degening pretty hard.

One of the trips Mitchell had a score in one of the daily tournaments for a few k. They might've chopped I can't remember. He had always been trying to get me to play them but I never really considered it until I saw him win a sizable amount of money. I caved and we went to play a tournament together. I think the buyin was $100 with a $100 add on at the first break. He gave me pointers and explained how his tournament strategy differed from his cash game strategy. He gave me some guidelines about what hand ranges to shove at what stack depths and then we bought in. I won every allin in this thing and made the final table. Mitchell had busted but he was sweating and would give me advice during the breaks. I got 3 handed with an older guy and a woman. She opened the button and I shoved with 99. She called with AQ and I lost. I won between 3-4K or so and was devastated. I remember questioning if the advice Mitchell gave me was correct or if I shouldn't be going allin there with that hand. He assured me that it was the correct play. We drove back and I bitched about how I didn't win the whole ride.

Obviously after running so good in the first tournament I ever played I was hooked. I had a very distorted view of how lucky I had gotten. I bought the Phil Hellmuth poker book that classified players as different animals. We planned another trip and Mitchell told me all the casinos and which had the best tournaments. I listened to him and we went and played a rebuy tournament at the casino that we usually played cash games at. Both of us bricked and we played some cash afterwards. We got our usual room rate and planned to play another tournament somewhere else the next day.

This tournament was $100 I think but it drew a larger field than the others we had played. Me and him were both running good and we'd talk during breaks and tell each other our stack sizes and discuss hands. The tournament went on and on and we were both in the money. We both make the final table and amazingly get heads up. The very first hand Mitchell limps the button. I shove with AJ and he calls with KK and holds. He had a big debt with me and I remember him having to hand me most of the 1st place prize at the cage. I think we got 6 and 4K. Now having played 3 tournaments lifetime and getting a 2nd and 3rd place my head was enormous. I thought tournament poker was the easiest thing ever and was about to get a dose of reality.

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Just curious but which degen drug story matched up time wise with the beginning of this last poker story?

Enjoying the thread!

None, it's mostly chronological.

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Damn.. was the -17k one higher stakes?

No, game was playing pretty big tho

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In for the asian girls

Fyp

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Loving the thread. 5 stars. Great stories, great graphs, great savers.

Great thread and looks like you're having a pretty good year so far! Keep the updates coming.

Thanks guys