Best part is EM2 playing 16/12 and crushing those games. Ultra nit was the best strategy back then. Set mine every pair and get paid off every time you hit. Then the LAG's entered the room a few years later and everything changed.

Some of the 24-tabling SNE NL100 FR massgrinders 15 years ago played a profitable 9/7 style. I played something like 15/12 and was among the laggier regs.

Is that sarcasm? It 100% is true. Great post bro

I was 15/12 at 6 max and printed at 5/10 for a few years.

I can beat that. I remember a bot on Full tilt that played HU Razz at the $15-$30 level that didn't understand an ace could be used for low. So you'd have a 9 up, and it would have an Ace, you'd bring it in and the bot would fold. Will never forget the user name BigFaceCat.

Railing the 1k/2k games

Skype study groups

Sunday millions

8 tabling with my feet up, a TV on, and music blaring all at once

Bumhunting Grimstarr at 5/10 when I was a regular 1/2 player because he tilted so horribly bad.

i was playing abc and loosing money
so nothing changed

my old email was [email]puppiesevil@aol.com and I had a screen and to that affect on absolute poker. I was at the final table in a random $10 tournament. I was second in chips with 5 players left and raised 66 utg and get called by the chip leader who haves a million and 200 thousand chips and me having 890 thousand. The flop came AAK I checked and he bet. Due to timing tells I didn't think he had an ace. The turn was a J. I checked and he bet 290 thousand dollars and I shoved over his bet. He insta called with 10-4 no flush draw. river was blank and then he yelled at me for about 15 minutes playing 66 like that so I told him if he wanted to talk about it more he could just contact me on aim .
Our convo on aim was like this:

puppiesevil: arf arf arf

him: your the luckiest player alive **** you

puppiesevil: arf arf arf

him : so what you're just going to type arf arf arf arf over and over again?

puppiesevil: no , your stupid for going all in with 10-4

....
....

I talked to this person, mostly as a dog, on aim for several years because we played a couple low stakes final tables on absolute together. This was december 2004 and it was my biggest win (850 ish dollars) ever at that time.


In the old internet you could just have a screen name like puppiesevil and people would talk to you for years about mundane things. Now everyone is too busy (insta/tiktok/linked in/ youtube) to have conversations like that.

I remember coming back a few hours later to a tournament i registered for on ultimate bet. The buy in was $20 and instead of being in the money I had blinded out and remember I thought that meant everyone in the $10+ buy in levels on ultimate bet was really good.

Supernova elite + Nanonoko era. Remember his SNE grind till the world end (2012 meme). HSNL would run 24/7. There was a +- 3/6 HU NL cash player posting videos on YouTube against other regs I assume, calling out their hands and laughing his ass off. Super entertaining, wish I could find them again.

https://www.youtube.com/@denoftheskunk961

Its been a year or so but I've been trying to archive a lot of old poker stuff. The majority of media from the boom days of poker has been deleted or behind a paywall. All of PokerNews videos from the boom years have been wiped clean, I think it only goes back to 2013 WSOP. I asked why once and they said "copyright" reasons. A massive archive of videos gone. That's when I started uploading things to archive.org I think its a shame most of the history from that era is gone. I think it would be nice to have fringe shows, videos, articles, photos, heck even structure sheets from the past to be uploaded. People wouldn't believe they used to run tournaments with only 500-1000 chips and rake under 20%.

My archive is at https://archive.org/details/poker-media I have the majority of Poker Road radio's archives, the majority of Poker Static Phil Galfond's media site, lots of awful training VHS/DVDs that I've thrifted and more.

If we lose the history then people can just make up any bullshit they wanted about the time without fact checking it. Saving it at least gives people an idea of how things were reported and talked about at the time.

At some point I plan on uploading some of my Quadjacks stuff. I'm looking for the recording of when Black Friday happened and Quadjacks stayed on for the whole day maybe two days. I know this used to be a downloaded thing that someone archived at one point. I'd love for others to hear players at the time freaking out and the what people were really talking about back then. Missing poker shows like the 2003 Showdown at The Sands, can't find it anywhere anymore. Some of the old Game Show Network poker shows that weren't High Stakes, The E! Channel poker show with Phil Laak Hollywood Home Game.

I need to take sometime and index it a bit better for people to find stuff easier. Again if you have something lost and want it to be saved start uploading it to archive.org

Please add this to the archive. I miss waking up "early" west coast time, and playing the day MTTs with drunken euros. Also dearly miss mttsngs and its really surprising how profitable those were even up until Black Friday.

Good old days... Started playing in 2008. At that time rake on Stars was 5cent rake per 1$ in Pot + there was dealt rake.
Started playing 24 tables Fullring 9/7 style. Set mine + hit set at that time playing fullring meant often you get at least 1 full Stack.

After some time i found Tablescan turbo. Filter was set to Tables with at least 3 fish >40% Vpip. Still could easily 16-18 Table 24/7 all day long.

Cashed out a lot of money and build a new bankroll playing Heads up Sit and Go's
Traffic was so high after pressing register a new game instantly popped up.
Crushing the regular Heads up SnG's for 20% RoI was absolute standard.

Later i switched to Cake Poker and Ipoker playing with some under the table Dealt rakeback Deals >70%

Missing the good old times printing Money with nearly 0 effort

24 tabling full ring on stars was culture... learned by joining doug polks stable and getting coached. Way back in the day ol doug was quite the nit ring grinder too. I'll never forget when I finally made supernova for the first time. Sitting with my red ring at the tables feeling like a ****ing king. Man, I miss those days.

Dealt method was an abomination.

Games were still super soft when you start but nothing compared to pre UIGEA. People who missed it can't understand what a party it was.

It really was ridiculous.

Dealt Method was a gift to the regulars. I cried when they made that change. You got more rakeback than you were entitled to from the fish playing too many hands.

I remember Wizard of Ahhs came up with the idea that he would dwindle his stack down to one big blind in cap games and benefit from all the other players at the table who were raking and playing 40 bb pots.

I used to play 100nl and 200nl with some guys from bbv4l. One of my friends is like “wow bryce, you’re the worst player ever!” and i’m like i’m up 7000 dollars this month! looking back i’m confident that a. he was right. I was up 70 buy ins in a month and also one of the worst players in history, and b. I could easily make 30k-40k that month on those tables without any effort if I went back in time. Slightly unlucky to have never played cash games until 2005 and not live at a casino until late 2007. Paradise, party etc all left the market just when i had learned to play. If i had played the same way i played then now, I would be the paisting of 100nl.

Exactly. It was an abomination.

I averaged something like 35/hr on paradise per table when their 1/2 nl was the highest game and capped at 3 tables. It was also 9 (maybe 10) handed.

And if I played that same way today I would die by 1000 cuts.

24 tabling sne while railing FTP high stakes lobby and NVG HS thread while talking **** all day long on PTR, in the chat and on here was a wild era - I used to check the forums every single day religiously

grinding with the black stars on for SNE
trying to stack the 9/7 nits
the annoying short stackers who would rathole and play tight
nanonoko the sickest PTR graph of all time
doug polk nl25 400bi challenge
refreshing the HS regs thread
random BBV challenges
live poker and online poker merging
isildur a truly iconic battler

PTR was a game changer for game selection

great memories and awful memories all in one

Haha, at least you recorded the memories papi !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOoF...nel=joeingram1

that guy was stoked

October of 2011. Right around the time we got to Rosarito Beach, met a lot of real cool people and had big plans for grinding super high volume. Well, not Joey SNE prop bet volume but high volume

As Daniel Tiger reminded me of this morning: Things may change and that's okay. Today we can do things a different way.