I gamed this so hard setting up accounts for a few friends. I wound up screwing up the bet and making a bet against another person instead of with the site per the stipulations of the promo and had a huge chunk of my roll at risk instead of being able to arb the whole deal and scoop like $467 in free money per account. It was absolutely the most exciting 15 minutes of TV in my life. Like 4 turnovers in the last 2 minutes of the game. Amazing! I wound up making like 4k on that game (1k due to a betting mistake) when my roll was only 15k or so.

This was devastating to me. But, it enabled new accounts and new bonus whoring!

I remember reading about the quadruple-click loophole that allowed you to open multiple instances of Party. ZJs blog?

Within my first week playing poker I figured out you could deposit through Netteller without it hitting your account for like 5 business days, I gave myself multiple "loans", oh to be 17 again....

i remember playing SNGs every day with a certain person called durrrrr , i feel quite touched that i had such a big influence on his poker career lol .

-When poker rooms were started by initially inserting a CD into the computer. They also came in the form of junk mail like the old AOL CD's.

-Hand histories and basic poker chat done on AOL AIM.

-Thinking expert advice was Phil Gordon on Celebrity Poker on Bravo or some similar channel.

-Not liking 2p2 because the message board format was such it only showed a post at a time (the old board format and me being too dumb to figure out to change the display mode)


On a side note, since he may see this. A guy with an AOL name of Ansheepdog84, or something like that, introduced me to this site and actually took me under his wing from a Myspace poker group back in 04 or 05. I actually still have the note pad paper where I wrote down the instructions to set up Net Teller, how to set up bonus/rakeback whoring, and some old school books to get started. PM me if you are still around.

Acey-Ducey turns into a sick game because some splits that look good really aren't.
If it's the first hand of a new shuffle, A(high)-6 is just about break even, because of the fact that an A or 6 will make you pay double.

I remember blom early career.

LOL and the 500 player freeroll that paid 135 for first. had to insta click as soon as registration opened.

Won it twice in the same week

lol yes remember folding KK on a 223 flop to a 4 bet on poker.com and feeling confident I had done the right thing.

I also remember absolute randomley sending 10 deposits to my womans account, and accidently regging a 5 rebuy to the Aruba poker classic, and winning with one bullet. Messiging support and saying sorry I was playing on my womans account could you transfer this to my name, and they were like sure, no questions. (I had no idea this was wrong lol)

I also have a mark seif bobblehead

Angelina was Abdul. Abdul also used the screen name SklanskySuks.

Neteller was awesome!
Stars debit card was pretty sweet for a little while as well...

I remember playing on Jetsetpoker with Thayer. Taking my whole roll to 1/2 nl (biggest game on the site) and owning the table for a couple buyins. Then immediately withdrawing everything but $100 to Neteller because I didn't trust the online pokers.

dynamitepoker, americascardroom, etc..etc

I learned to play 7 stud in the 80's and hearing stories about Doyle and others from my uncle who works in the oil fields in Texas...

RAZZO WORLD WAS THE NUTS

You could play on that site in flash, without having to download the client @_@. Also I think 1 of 2 sites (Tiger Gaming being the other) to offer Chinese Poker.

I knew I had this somewhere:


Also Chris Fargis (SavemySkin)'s twentyoneoutstwice blog.

My first game in Vegas was 1-4 5-card stud with a dime ante at the Mint.

I saw the GrassRoots in 1968. The warm-up act was Woody Allen!

Benny Binion sent me to see Bill Boyd at the Golden Nugget when I was 21. I got a job as a shill, playing poker on house money. Most of what I played was $1 limit five stud with the worst rake of all time. These were called "snatch games." I also played in the six dollar limit razz which had a lone 25 cent rake. Win or lose, I made $1 an hour and was paid in silver dollars. We'd hang in this really crazy bar where beers were a dime.

Plus his surname was Koresh.

now that up there ^^^ is old school.

I remember.

* getting kicked out of the 5-10 limit game at the Taj because of ID issues.
* playing the pink chip game at the trop after that. so much fun.
* 75% of the tables were stud at both places.
* people tipping with the 50 cent coins at the LLHE games in downtown LV
* mayfair and diamond club being open , and again, mostly stud.
* paradise, poker.com and planet poker being the go to place
* when pokerstars went from all play money tables to real money action.
* having poker on cable tv maybe twice a year, looking at tv guide once a month and being disappointed.


there is also something to be said when you were able to smoke, came in handy with big decisions.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6ef2C6Yd6E

Ha ha Myrna! The pink chip game at the Trop? Wow does that ever bring back some donktastically good memories. Now Limit Holdem is dead and the Trop is a ****hole.

Actually, the Trop has always been a ****hole, so I suppose that some things never change.

I love this thread

This happened to me too, i was SO excited, i think it ended up being cancelled?

I really remember poker by email, Paradise, disconnect=all-in abuse and the unlimited rebuy tourneys on party

A site called Big Bet Poker, which only had pot limit tourneys and you won points, whoever had the most points at the end of the week, the top 3 or so would get sent a check - first money i ever made online lol
Winning money in freerolls on Dynamite Poker and running it up to 2k in cash games
Playing on Stars during beta-testing
Playing limit haha
Playing $3/6 nl on Stars with Elky
Annette getting tempbanned from Stars back when the $100r was a crazy all-in fest and ppl would agree to go all-in against each other if no one else called
Playing $2k nl on FTP with sbrugby
Pokerspot (f u Dutch Boyd)
Going to Vegas for the first time and staying at the Mirage because Rounders
Winning my way into UB's Aruba tourney (best party ever) and getting a free entry into their bj tourney and not having a clue what to do
Playing in the 2nd or 3rd PCA and being sat next to Mark Seif (and Miami John) and thinking what a nice guy he was....
Following the WSOP on Pokerpages, especially when Mortensen won
Presto
Joeybitch's posts on 2+2
Everyone smoking on Late Night Poker
Being glued to the WPT
The rebuy glitch in Stars cash games
My Stars winnings being Fed-exed to me, and the cheque was in dollars (I'm in the UK), and being so happy when they started sending them direct to your bank account and in pounds
Playing at EPT Dublin with 45 minute blinds, squashed into the Merrion Club

RGP

The super tourneys on Party and hating that the super wednesday tourney was limit.

When's party poker's biggest NL game was 2-4NL with 200 max buy in.

i remember playing the 109 FOs on UB and checking Mindwise's leaderboard on his website to see where I was.

Being american and getting to play on WilliamHill. Playing elky 3/6 and 5/10nl on stars.

Prior to Moneymaker, or popular on-line poker, I was playing 3/6 limit at a bingo hall in WNY. They had 3 tables right in the middle of a slot parlor. These games were some of the craziest I've ever seen. Eight and nine way capped flops were not uncommon. Three and four player showdowns were the norm. A big pot was at least $300. If I only I knew then what I know now...

joining 2+2 in like '99. a few months later they switched to new signups where you got a number, and since i hadn't been to the forums in a couple months i got 175 or something and was irritated about it. half of the posters were Bay Area locals, many BARGErs, and it was great to meet them at the local casinos.

playing stud and limit hold'em, especially $1-$5 stud in Reno in the 90s. a bow to Abdul, who was the shiz, and Tommy Angelo and soon after ClarkNasty and a bunch of others in the limit forums. also natedogg in the nl forums and ray zee in everything.

Russ G. being right about a ton of his ravings on cheating.

hearing again and again from Mason and several others that no-limit was bad for casinos because all the fish would go broke too quickly.

cutting my no limit teeth in the 10-10-20, 40 to go game at Lucky Chances in 2000, getting my butt kicked, being super impressed by Bobby Hoff, watching Bobby's play closely to imitate, and everyone thinking it was nosebleed stakes.

drinks on Paradise Poker.

Ulysses before he became El Diablo.

PartyPoker opening up 5-10 nl in '04. it was like a storm where $20 bills fell like raindrops, making $400/hr for months playing a ridiculous numbers of hands/hour because we played FOUR tables, pissed at toothpicky for being the only person with > 2000 hands with me who beat me. during this paying $1600 cash for two 21-inch monitors and debating with the sales guy for several minutes whether i needed three, deciding against because i had no clue whether my motherboard had two graphics card slots, then the look on his face when i said startled and said oh yeah what's your best tv and bought a 2K plasma in two more minutes. fuggit it was poker money.

taking notes like "will 3-bet QQ" on PartyPoker.

beating the breath out of good2cu in late 2004 in 6-max 10-20nl on Empire and him complaining (politely) how lucky i was.

those glorious miniview tables of 25-50nl on UltimateBet.

good times.

How about

"Internet delay"
HDPM, SPM
Bridgejumping High stakes $100 Limit HE SNG's
Coming in second in the Sunday $200 on stars and getting $3200 (72 players, and it was limit HE)
sarahconnor, emptyhouse
the miniblinds 4-8 at the Monte Carlo
erik123, bobcards, fixer, playb0y, krose, piesang, URMeowed etc...
playing money800 heads up paradise 3-6
logging into poker.com and being the only player seated at a table
Paypal for poker

I still wont play AJ with a raise...

Also FU UB FU