-Raised AA/KK/QQ AIPF every time. It was a revelation that I could break up the AI over 3 streets. And an even better one that you could fold that @@@@ sometimes too.
-Ran $35 to 1200 on PS in one weekend, putting 50% of my roll down short at 50, 100, 200, 400, and eventually 2000nl. At 1000nl, I Called an even shorter dying shorty's open shove of $69 w/ KQo and three more flat behind me. KQx flop, I shove, so does everyone else, I hold and take down a $622 pot (side pot was over 1k).
-Cash 1000, buy styling dinner for wife for VDay. Planning to quit my job and run 35 to 1k+ every weekend.
-Tilt off my roll two days later.

And I always 'mixed in' T2 (the Dolly!) and T7 (Negreanu's fav hand!) to be 'tricky'. That got me a lot of chatflame.

Beat: wasn't all that long ago...

Thought AA was 99% to win every hand and itd take a miracle to bust it

-100th POST!!!!!

lol BBVaments

I played most of my roll in a cash game on pokerstars - got all in after making a straight on the flop, opponent had a set and the board paired - it still hurts! LOL - reloadaments.

Within a month or 2 of when I started playing online I thought I was better than almost everyone I played against, mainly because there were the truly horrible players that stood out and I was clearly 100x better than them. Now I know I was better than 10% of the players, but those were the ones I noticed the most.

Played free poker at the pubs where first prize was a $50 bar tab + a T-shirt, now unless I can win cash or a decent prize than I can't be bothered going.

Moved up to higher stakes sit'n'go donkaments because I would make more when I won and besides the variance was horrendous on the really cheap sit'n'gos. Now I realise that if I can't beat the morons on the micro stakes then I should not be playing for money.

Played any Ace-suited or King-suited because I might make a flush and win heaps.

I once called a huge 10xBB bet which was 2/3rds of my opponents stack in the final stages of a live tourney. I had QJo and he had AK, flop was K - rag - rag, he pushed the rest in and I called. When I saw his cards I didn't regret calling postflop because we were both committed preflop, but why the hell did I call preflop? It worked out OK though - turn was a J, river was a J. When you suck at poker then you can always suck out in poker.

I used to think I played hands OK because I won and questioned whether I did the right thing when I lost. I can now analyse my play better and see mistakes, even when I get lucky and win despite them.

What about that one time as chip leader in 1K game, raise 475 on K-7 offsuit, then call an all-in with it

or when you were in a 5K heads-up match, call an all-in to win the game with two aces on the board, NOT holding an ace!

lost $1000 in about 5 hours in my first online session ever playing $3/6 FL on Paradise. If you hit a full house or a flush the cards lit on fire.

lol nice1

Haha I remember that - <3 Paradise.

Straights made the cards be covered in electricity or something:



This was a preflop all-in btw. My desktop background is a screenshot of my first royal flush. All of the various icons on my desktop are other screenshots. Holy **** I was a complete joke.

Meh, might as well show the royal flush now that I've mentioned it. It was quite a cool hand even for BBV standards:

Thank you very much. Other things I also remember doing were looking out for tells all the time, because that was obviously the most important aspect of poker. Mike Caro's 'eyes darting at the chips when you hit your cards' actually worked surprisingly well against everyone. I remember sitting in a freeroll tournament on Full Tilt for six hours and came one place short of the final table when my 72o bluff lost, and I promptly lost the $2 in cash games that I had worked so hard to get and felt like a degenerate.

I can remember looking at one of my friends, getting a feeling and telling the guy next to me, "He's going to raise," and when he did, I felt so elite. I can remember losing my first $30 in one night and feeling that the world and everything good about it had ended. I can remember one of my friends, after going all-in in a $20 live SNG, held his cards up proudly to look at them again and in the reflection of his sunglasses I saw that I could beat his bluff and called him down.

Even today not much has changed, except I play for higher stakes more often. I will regularly play $100-200 buy-in games during the evening after playing 10c-20c gamble gamble games with Uni friends during the day. All is well.

I used to sometimes fold AA pf in a multiway pot against "good players" at .1/.2c NL because I had them cracked "too many times" for it to be funny. I also wasnt afraid to fold them because all the books said that in order to be a successful player, you had to be capable of folding big hands.

[x] Self owned

okay, i just started reading thread but I did this too a long time ago at paradise poker and they actually sent me $5.00 but my opponents were actually colluding. Also I didnt even lose 5.00 at the table.

J-christ. Please expand on how this happened.

single tabling NL10 buying in for $7

Asked the dealer why I was getting two cards instead of seven, and If I could bank

was considered a reg at the 8$/16$ two table sngs when i one tabled lol, also i remember when pacific first got nlcash games and i started playing nl100 fr with a 400$ roll and booked a 500$ win that first night, havent been away from this game much at all since. It was sophomore yr of college back in 03, i prob made 5k that year without being good at poker and spent it all on beer/weed, man i miss college.

First time playing $3/6 limit at a casino i bought in for $60 and made sure to table 10-6 offsuit on the river of my first hand when the board read 2-5-9-K-K because that's what Mike Caro suggested... finished that hour and a half long session up $8. BOOOOOO-YAAAAAAAH.

-Had no idea what a c-bet was (always c/f any flop i missed)
-Refused to play any cards that had no straight or flush potential (I remember this one time distinctly folding A9o 4-handed in a tourney with about 8 bbs)
-Thought I was a huge baller when I won a $1 SNG
-Played ANY suited cards
-Always put someone on trips on the flop when the board was paired and they bet
-Never folded an OESD and especially not a FD EVER

Used a joystick to play online poker

For the most part I think I have a lot of you beat...

Back in 05' when i was a freshman in college at the U of IA i first learned how to play from a friend and we started off playing on paradise. I had just gotten my student loan money and for some reason I decided I wanted to try out Bodog for some reason instead of Paradise. Since you only had to enter your bank acct number once and you could keep depositing after I think I must have deposited a total of 800 in RM in about 2 days and ran it up to 1700 at one point just to tilt it all away playing underolled. I then figured out a way to tell US bank that it wasnt me and they put holds on all the checks and Bodog never got their money so I'm banned from there hahaha.

During christmas break while I was home, I deposited to play some more and managed to get down 1100 in a bout a week and then figured i had it to lose so I decided to put in another 300. I ran that 300 into 5200 in about 30 hours and still playing wayyyyyy out of my roll after a couple bad beats i tilted it all off back down to 0. I then also put stops on those checks so now my pokerstars account is negative 1000 and I can play there until I pay them back but that was years ago and now I have a new acct on ps and been playing for about 6 months and grinding WITHIN my br and I'm up 1500 from 50 right now and have cashed out 500+ twice. Still havent paid them back yet either (****ty of me, I know).

I have other bad times too lol, I dont think my idiotic past can be topped by too many ppl on here...Maybe I'm wrong?

baahahahhaahhahah! yes!!

Easily the best yet.
I played Pokerroom when i first started playing online. Ran my initial deposit of 50 bux into 200 bux which I went BR allin with on 200 sng. FAIL. Wouldnt be the last time

you beat everyone with your amazing theft skills.

Played $77's on Party with a $250 roll, and won. And kept playing on that $250 after withdrawals. Oh, to live in 2005 again.

96 & 25 hole cards are the good hands for straights
lol

Going all-in with Ace,Ace preflop.

Barreled like a mother****er