lol. the good old days. 19k a month playing 3/6 LHE

Getting interest on Party poker balance (I think it was like 10%/year, up to max balance of $10,000? maybe someone remembers), and getting some ridiculously large amount of whatever they called FPPs just for depositing $500 and not cashing it out for at least a week.

Davidross series was awesome, highly recommend anyone who asks "what was it like back in the day" to read.

Jesse May book is still read at least once a month by me - best line something like "It doesn't matter how good you are, it's real lonely out there and it's whether you fall apart when things get tough."

The "censored vs uncensored" debate between RGPers and 2p2ers, leading to Steve Badger requesting his entire posting history being deleted from 2p2.

With smoking at the table - the little fans they handed out to nonsmokers to blow the smoke away.

Sgt Rock's RGP trip reports.

sounds like the golden generation

i Love railing that isildur1 guy but who is durrrr and the other two fellows.

Move of Honor

hay i use that move, still works i guess

Watching Tuff_Fish videos as instructional videos

Playing on Planet Poker.

Know most of the OP stuff.. its fun to think back to those days.. so clueless xD

Learning the "leave a rounded number in your stack" move to induce from Bax in his demo PXF video.

And sheets <3

SCOBI
Doug Grant (tm)
Posting on 2+2 before they started registering people
Chinese poker as a WSOP event



Anyone play IRC poker back when? The 20 player single table tournaments and multi-deck Chinese poker with >4 players were a trip.

Those 20 player STTs did teach you the value of position though...

I wandered into one of those by mistake. I was about half-convinced UB was rigged when I lost consecutive hands with queens full, aces full, and quad tens. Then I figured it out. I'm not very quick.


Those were awesome. 200 seats with most of the interwebs trying to get in. I made it about 80% of the time. Never final tabled as I had less than no clue about tournament NLHE back then.

slimmouse. The guy who won the online WSOP ME satellite - there was only one. Then next year there were 4 or 5, and he won another seat. And I thought what a sicko, no one will ever match that.

Chinese poker on IRC was great. Back then I was one of the "young kids" in poker. I got 86ed from IRC for chat abuse. For play money.

I remember when lolmericans were allowed to play poker on the Internet. Lol those days are long gone

Schneids' 60k in 60 days challenge. Now that's like 1 session for him.

The introduction of NL on paradise.
IRC games.
The old msg board pre 2002.

I saw Run DMC at the Omni in Atlanta with an 18 yr old LL Cool J as an opening act, so Im way old school.

Not THAT old but Stars didn't have re-buy tournies or $T yet, so when you won a seat for the first PCA satellite ($650) with $3, there was no other option than play it. 1st PCA had a whopping 221 players and was on a cruise ship. Best $3 vacation ever.

Propping the LHE games on UB for 100% rb in 2002-05'....having bizarre SH sessions where I'd lose 250+bb's and getting the eerie feeling people could see my hole cards.

Trolling Annie Puke on rgp during that debacle.

Getting the cheating tapes and the recant of the cheating tapes in the mail on vhs.

Russ Georgievs piss in a bottle and folding TT thread on STTs.

Everybody loves Raymer asking for stakes, being laughed at, then making everyone money.

Josh Arieh (razorbax and big cy) getting caught cheating with his friend by typing holecards in the chat accidentally.

Scobi and his paradise is rigged rants. Typing scobi on paradise got you an insta chat ban even on the new platform.

I remember not being sure if I was playing at Planet Poker or Delta Poker or Paradise Poker. I remember emailing support at Planet and getting an email from Roy Cooke within an hour.

I saw Kurtis Blow open for the Clash.

nice list!
100%
Playing while Razzo is dealing, is pretty fun.
and rpg was pretty educational in its best days

I remember 1 tabling 5c/10c on pacific poker because you couldn't multi-table. I had software installed called 'hand grabber' that allowed you to collect hand-histories.

I guess, I'm not that old-school but it's pretty close.

BJ pulling a sick bluff against a marine by going all in with his wedding ring as Hawkeye looked on in horror.

And of course my avatar.