too bad they never finished that

has cracking the Planet poker RNG been added yet?

Also, Phil Laak playing 10/20 at the Bellagio -- or I think it was Bellagio.

One of, if not the first 2p2 posts I copied and saved was Ed's [majorkong] post, which, holy crap I found the link to googling his old handle.


Why you guys aren't crushing these microlimit games


Includes replies from many who are now mods, even Dids.

yup I posted about it, planet was my cash cow ever since I started, it was my party poker

anyone else miss the old 2+2 software? if not for anything else just cuz it told you the last page you were reading of a thread

Nick Rainey starts running around NVG talking about how he could beat someone playing tennis while throwing the ball and using a baseball glove to catch the ball (had to be on once bounce or less obv). baren who apprently plays tennis at stanford and his friend ken (who also plays hsnl) jump in and inform Nick that they would crush him.

They set up vague terms, then a day or two later they decide that they could not in fact beat Nick Rainey and back out of the bet.

Hmm interesting prop bet. You'd have to be a very competent player to win, as long as you had a strong serve and a good volley I'm pretty sure you could totally negate his 'edge'. But you'd have to be quick, athletic, and knew what you were doing. Baren was a little asian dude from memory :P

i go to stanford and it's hilarious how many "facts" you guys have wrong.

Post some better "facts" instead then

your post is worthless without corrections, and it's not evident why your school membership has anything to do with this subject.

+1, y do you even post then? Oh I go to stanford so I know all about the internets pokah, hurrr hurrr hurrrr......

man, I would give an arm and a leg to go back to like 1999-2001
I'd prolly be a millionaire right now

my own poker room
a ton of affiliate sign ups to other major rooms
decent understanding of the game allowing me to pown high stakes back in the day
oh ya, and then when it starts drying up I start my instructional video site

LOL I was just thinking of this yesterday, I wouldnt want my own poker room but the whole affiliate deal woulda been awesome to have and totally owning all the high stakes games till the Uigea then Id just move on in life.

yeah, I guess we just gotta keep a look out for the next 1

i know the people involved personally, and some fo that information is just blatantly wrong. still hilarious.

Haha. Good times. I was crushing the 215s on Party at this point.

One player to mention during the Paradise Poker era, when the biggest game on the net was 20/40 limit holdem, is ANGELINA. This was supposed to be Izmet Fekali's hot sister. Izmet was active on strategy forums at the time. There was a strong suspicion that ANGELINA was actually Izmet. You can see video of the supposed girl behind the ANGELINA name here.

Also, I can confirm that back then, 20/40 limit seemed like a huuuuuge game. I remember we used to wait for server resets and then pile onto the 20/40 game. The button wasn't randomised so you could sit on the button and you'd get 8 free hands before the blind hit you. So we'd just nit it up for 8 hands, hoping for aces, and then untick. I remember I got AQs one time and lost, I think that was the only hand I played...

Could you please point out WHICH people you are referring too?

For quite a while there was a glitch on pacific that allowed you to register for a tournament, unregister, then play the tourney anyway, effectively granting you a freeroll.

Games on Pacific remained pretty soft right up until the time they left the US market.

Fun read.

One event that comes to mind is Barry accepting a 10k prop bet to say "lol donkaments" on HSP, intending to donate the 10k to Children's Inc. Of course original 2+2'r welshed on the bet, but BBV rose up and ultimately donated over 25k to the charity.

Shneids 30k/30days thread ...probably had a lot to do with inspiring a lot of players to start grinding more hands.

Homers "Building a Bankroll" is a huge reason many of us didn't go bust before learning to beat the game. ditto for Algeo Magus "How to beat the Party $10 SnG's" post.

oh wow...that building a bankroll thing, bonus and casino whoring...so many memories. i got rolled for 5/10nl w/o knowing **** about how to play poker. good times.

this is a great thread. I love to hear about this stuff, i never even knew the games used to be 50bb lol. Who would people say was the first real online superstar that 2+2ers would drool over?I always hear stories about prahlad n bldswttrs crushing the highest limits. Who were the best before them?

Same, you could be a braindead monkey, just follow the chart and make free money

Some of those casinos were shady as hell though.

exactly. I started with 500 dollars never redeposited and makde 6 figures i n 3 of the last 4 years. I dont think that would even be possible now espeically for an American.

Pattern Mapper FTW

Sigh.

Online casinos.