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Originally Posted by pokerplyr80
Yea I loved the single table SNGs on party poker. Sometimes I would have 5 or 6 going at a time, anywhere from $10 to $200 buy in depending on how I was feeling at the time. Swings can be pretty big there too.
I was never a limit fan, but have played quite a bit because the only casino that had good tournaments had a 1/2 texas 1/2 omaha h/l limit cash game that was usually the only one going. I rarely bought into a cash game for more than $1,000. Never a big time player, but it was fun. I prefer tournaments and would travel the circuit if I could win a big one or get a backer.
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If you have not already read "The Moneymaker Effect," the book is a decent read for just a few dollars. Obviously, that story has been well-documented. But the book came out in 2013 and does have some information with which I was not previously familiar.
http://www.amazon.com/Moneymaker-Eff...eymaker+effect
Sam Farha said he had not slept for five days prior to the Main Event final table. Farha survived on mass quantities of Red Bull and coffee and literally fell asleep at the table when it got down to three-handed. Farha spent the entire night before the Main Event final table playing in a marathon cash game. Even going on no sleep, Farha said he thought the only way he could possibly lose heads up to Moneymaker would be if he died at the table.
I also never realized what a degenerate sports gambler Moneymaker was in that he once lost $60,000 in a single weekend betting on sports prior to his Main Event win.
I also liked Mike Matusow's "Check Raising the Devil" a lot.
My biggest individual score was a little over $1,900 as part of a table share from a bad beat jackpot. I chopped a few sub $100 tournaments in Atlantic City, but never for more than $1,200. When I have gone deep in tournaments in A.C., there has always been a chop.