Got My first Live Tournament Win Today!

Well I just got back from my first Live Tournament win! Played in a $50 dollar tournament and got 1st out of a field of 32 for $430 dollars. I know it's not much compared to what most of you guys have done,but it felt great to get my first tournament win and my biggest cash yet.

I honestly can't even describe how pumped I still am lol :p

With that being said what was your first memorable poker experience?

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  • Mine was going to Florida to visit my parents. I ended up playing a poker tournament at the Hard Rock in Hollywood Florida. It was a $100 buy in. I ended up coming 5th in a field of 53. I ended up getting just a bit over $400 (I had to pay Uncle Sam).

    I still remember some of the big hands I was in.

    I had 2h2c with 3 guys in the hand. Flop came 2s4hTc. I was last to act. First guy called all-in (low stack) and the next guy insta called so fast that I knew I was beat as he was smiling so big. I folded.

    It was a great fold as the guy who insta called had trip 4's. I told them I had trip 2's. Everyone was shocked. The guy who had trip 4's was like "Why didn't you call?" I told him he got super happy when he shoved.

    My last hand I went all-in with JJ vs AK and the damn woman hit her Ace on the river.
  • Nice one! Won a small liveament few months ago came back from the small stack.:)
  • Congrats. Hopefully your next wins will be the WPT $275 and $2,500 tournaments!
    Colin408 wrote: »
    Well I just got back from my first Live Tournament win!
  • 4 years ago I was in the $1000 FPC and went really deep.

    (Warning: Bad beat story coming...the only one of my life that really bothers me).

    Hand that crippled me: 300 entrants, 12 left. I'm SB and it is folded around to me. I complete with J3s and BB checks. Flop is J93 rainbow. I check, he bets, I raise. Turn 2. I shove and he tanks and talks out loud. "Well, I guess you have to get lucky sometime in a tournament, I call." He flips over Q9 and rivers another 9. If my hand held up he would have been eliminated and I would have been chip leader with 11 left with 1st paying $80k. I ended up getting it all in the next hand with AJ against A5 and he hit a 5 so I finished 12th for $4400.

    So, sadly, this was my most memorable poker moment.
  • Icedog wrote: »
    I ended up getting just a bit over $400 (I had to pay Uncle Sam).
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    Not to derail.....but, you had to pay taxes on a $400 cash in Florida?

    I had thought of a roadie one day to the Florida poker rooms....but not if they tax all winnings, and not just 5k+
  • My most memorable live experience was at a Westside Poker event. There were 80+ avid poker players in the field and I got in for half price ($50) as I volunteered to deal. I ended up chopping it three ways for $900+. It wasn't the money that was memorable but getting through that field to win. It was my first large field win and did wonders for my confidence.

    A close second is my three way chop at a $230 deep stack at BCC for $3500.
  • Most memorable for me was taking second at Binion's the $125.00 deep stack, came back from a few hundred chips, field was around 75 players, got $1200 + small change - no taxes on anything under $1500.00 - most fun was anything at AJs - best beat story was my husband and I each busting out our buddy Drew in Vegas last summer from the same Planet Hollywood tourney (hubby busted him first, then he reentered and I busted him second) ...ahhh, good times :-)
  • One that I always remember fondly is a tournament at Binions a few years ago that Wes and I chopped during one of the PFC trips, think there were several of us that played, total runners maybe only 50.. Much tilting of locals occurred, Wes was more than a little aggressive in that one. The final table was on the raised platform tv table in Binions with Wes at one end and I at the other... He kept firing, the rest of the table kept watching him and I would have the hand... By the time he got out of the hand I would have the others chips and then we would swap... Kinda like a buzz saw going down the middle...

    The rest of the gang, Mario, DrTyore, Moose, Shannon, etc were hanging over the rail cheering on every move, just a blast... When we finally eliminated a husband and wife team that I think finished 3rd and 4th, we just looked at each , nodded and chopped... Much hilarity ensued... I was actually staying at Binions, the others on the strip, but Mario never made it out of Binions, dragged him up to my room and he passed out, perhaps before we got to the room.:)

    Wasn't my biggest win but certainly the most fun...
  • My favourite early poker experience was also at Binion's. I had set upon a goal of winning a Casino Employees Event, so I went to the trouble of getting a dealer's license and worked in a casino. At the Binion's Annual Poker Classic, I checked that its Casino Employees Event would be paid out in chips with no 30% withholding rape, so I was good to go.

    There were some high level casino employees playing, including Binion's own head of poker. When we got down to the final table, we were treated to a private buffet dinner upstairs. She and I were the two biggest stacks, but she was drunk by the time the final table started. Before I could act on my turn, she drunkenly announced a big raise. Both the pretty female dealer and tournament director properly ruled that their BIG BOSS' out-of-turn action was binding, and I ended up with her chips.

    The remaining players in the final table seemed to be dealers and were petrified of my chip lead. They shockingly started discussing about handing me the first place championship and money, and they would chop the rest! :o I didn't have to be an ICM expert back then to know that I should try to make the deal happen, so I offered around $100 off my first place money and they unanimously agreed! :D

    Even back then, I left a tip so my good karma has continued since. Some of the other ITM dealers also left a tip as they personally know that dealers like our own JohnnieH rely on tips.

    I have won bigger prizes before and after this championship, but this poker trophy is still my favourite.
    Colin408 wrote: »
    With that being said what was your first memorable poker experience?
  • My first live experience with this game, aside from the bullshit poker that us old farts learned when dinosaurs roamed these parts, was coming out to a West Side Poker event at a place called the Wooden Rack. Prophet22 and I had been e-mailing in the weeks leading up to the event as I was not known to him (or anyone). I missed the start of the tourney due to another commitment, but was told a cash game would start in about an hour. Went home to shower and change, came back and cashed out almost $200.00 to the good. Best of all was Brent telling me he thought I might be a narc looking to bust his game, and Happy asking if I wanted to play him HU after the cash game broke up.
  • My first live game was 2 4 limit at funsters? When I lived south of Seattle 12 years ago. My favourite live game was a 3 6 limit 2 to 5 card dealers choice hi lo game in the back of a Chinese restaurant...hi lo holdem and tahoe is good times. Havent seen those games anywhere since then.

    I have zero recollection how I found that game.

    I remember playing 4 8 limit at the muckleshoot in auburn Washington and thinking how big the 10 20 limit game was back then:)
  • congrats Colin......1st memorable poker moment..winning the 2007 winter classic at Brantford, $500, buy in...it helped that i doubled up on the very first hand..lol..
  • I had played online for quite a while, then started trolling this forum (under a different handle) and spotted this league in brampton. I started PMing AJ for more information on ChingHill and eventually an invitation to join. He did not hesitate to bring me in. This was my first live action.
    http://www.pokerforum.ca/f21/game-3-must-stop-darryl-18395/#post176867
    Its sort of a long thread for a single league night of poker but...post #16 is the good one!! Wow, I miss that NEWF.
  • BlondeFish wrote: »
    Congrats. Hopefully your next wins will be the WPT $275 and $2,500 tournaments!

    Ahah we will see.
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