Yeah I was only half-joking, but I sure would have been happier had that book (and later Moshman's SNG book) not been released

Juk

It is not impossible one to push into the money seating out in a 20-30 entrants S&G or MTT.

But at the time we are speaking about, Party was one of the two biggest places - the freerolls were huge - up to 5,000 participants, crazy, always full...

You could not find even a $20 tourney with less than 300 participants.

But let us not argue - your memory may be better than mine - we are speaking about the old days, are we not?

The book is published - July 2004.
For me everything before UIGEA (Sep or Oct 2006) is the good Old Days.

I remember playing at Bugsys Club back in 2005 with their leaderboards, it had a real community feel. You would sit at a table and you knew the life story of half of them but it was real nice. I remember my best mate at Bugsys was a guy called Pokermats, we played a lot of 0,.05/0.10 nl and about 300 players qualified for a wsop main event buy in for the winner. Amazingly pokermats won the tournament but then wanted the money as he couldn't afford to go to Vegas and lose. He asked me and some others what to do as the site was offering him 5k in cash instead of the seat.

Well most people including myself said it was a once in a lifetime opportunity and he should take it, some players even bought a piece of him for the main event. Pokermats went to the WSOP and played that main event, knocking out Gus Hansen and a few others along the way he made the final table and got knocked out by Greg Raymer. Pokermats was Matthias Anderson. Strangely enough he never re-appared at the 0.05/0.10 at Bugsys and I lost touch with him. Good times and I wonder where he and the other Bugsy players are now.

it is possible on sites where your hand is not just folded if you are sitting out, and you are treated as allin. you just have to win a heap of less than 1bb blind allins. it is certainly very unlikely, but not impossible.

Such a great great story Tears in my eyes you are not in touch with him anymore.

I haven't seen much mention of Planet Poker. I used to love that site (before the RNG got cracked) - good friendly fun, lots of chat, silly sound effects. Ah the good old days!

There was a site which for a very short while (maybe 3 months) paid you interest in your balance.

Was it Party?

This is a good story, thanks.

Party Poker was the first site I played, when I was learning the game.

I wish I know now what I did back then...cause the players were so awesomely terrible. There were 25 dollar pots regularly on the .50/1.00 LIMIT tables. People would three bet on the river all the time with small pairs or bluffs (1 dollar into a 20 dollar pot in the river with a bluff).

Titan and Pacific were pretty awesome as well. I made more money as a beginner per day then I do now (and trust me I sucked worse back then).

It's still like that! Except now you can four table. The software is utter hell though.

That is all this thread is about - the good Old Days :-)

It looks like for you it is - the old Good Days :-):-):-)

Sorry, I could not find the quote needed.

Yes, there were sites/rooms (at least one, I do not remember which one) that showed us the opponents cards even if they mucked on the river :-)

3 people going all in on the first hand of a sng, and it would be like AJo vs 66 vs KQs.

When Pacific first introduced NL SNGs then more often than not at least two people would be all in with truly ridiculous hands (ie: stuff like 84o) on the first hand and then there would be more "semi-sensible" donks who had hands like AJo and 66 trying to catch out the ones all-in with 84o.

Even back in 2006 at Pacific there was nearly always one guy who would go out with a ridiculous hand within the first 1-3 hands of the SNG (I used to just thank them for paying all our rake as they basically had no chance of cashing win or lose the all-in... )

Juk

A new avatar, Juk? I do not understand it, sincerely.

Now they go all-in not with ridiculous hands, but with any two cards:-)

one of my friends got tanked one day, was staying at my house, came home logged on to pacific entered like a 50 dollar sit and go, shoved q6 on the first hand, got called by jack 7, lost picked up his lighter, and did a javeline type thow with it into the wall, and it exploded in his face

i guarantee he was more sober than half the people on pacific back then

Was he hurt after the explosion?

Was he sober or not, does not matter:-)

not hurt just hammered

best part was i cleaned up the broken lighter, and the next day let him waste 15 mins looking for it before i told him what he did

My nostalgia for the old days in 2 words:

Bugsy's Club

Did you not slap him in the face trice, before telling him not to play online poker anymore?

Sorry I didn't read the whole thread but what's the story with this? I see a lot of people using this as an avatar.

Ahhahahahahaha

i still see this on Ongame.

Remember when talking about rakeback on 2+2 was prohibited?

Sitting here super tired, This made me laugh hard!