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[Joshchisox08]

Pretty identical stories here Jesse.

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[Jobu]

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Originally Posted by Joshchisox08

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[edjs]

Originally Posted by Joshchisox08

Pretty identical stories here Jesse.

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But it is barely a year old, According to you description.

[pokerplyr80]

Originally Posted by edjs

But it is barely a year old, According to you description.

It certainly looks older than a year. Actually I hadn't noticed on that site, just changed it now.

And Pete yea I was just checking out the site and realized I never did one of these intros. I wouldn't doubt post 400 is a record for one. Better late than never I guess.

[pokerplyr80]

And yea I do like to play poker but don't get to much anymore. I used to play pretty regularly but never won any big tournaments or anything. I won my buy-in for the WSOP a couple of times and played in the main event, but didn't cash.

[Bored5000]

Originally Posted by pokerplyr80

And yea I do like to play poker but don't get to much anymore. I used to play pretty regularly but never won any big tournaments or anything. I won my buy-in for the WSOP a couple of times and played in the main event, but didn't cash.

When online poker was still open to Americans, I played almost exclusively tournaments and SNGs. Cash games seemed so boring to me online compared to the tournament poker ESPN would show all the time.

When I first started playing live in Atlantic City, I began with $40 tournaments at the Atlantic City Hilton (the cheapest tournament in all of A.C.) . I was so completely clueless when I first began playing live that I thought a person needed thousands of dollars to sit at a live cash game in a casino. Now, when I play live, I play almost exclusively cash games. I am usually pretty tight and nitty, which is often not the best strategy for tournament poker.

I know Limit Hold 'Em has been killed by NLHE, but I still like playing LHE when it comes to cash games. I play NLHE cash a few times a year, but I don't really have the stomach for the swings of NLHE cash games.

[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.

[Bored5000]

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.

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.