Made me think ... what is other people's story

Chugs

Would be a great challege to do on pokerforum. Each person funds themselves with $60 and you run a challenge, who has the most at the end of 24 hours. Running blogs etc...


With a little loan from his buddy, Freddy had 60 bucks, not a dime more. It was 1 p.m. He sat down in a $3-$6 game and won $400 in an hour and a half. He quit, hoping to perhaps play $10-$20 or $15-$30. As he listed himself for these games, a threehanded $20-$40 game opened up right next to the board. He watched the game for a while. “They were playing so bad, I had to take a shot,” he declared. “The minimum buy-in was $200. I played for about two hours and won about $4,400.” His $60 was now up to about $5,000. He cashed out and then saw a $100-$200 hold’em game. “They were playing horribly,” he said. “The buy-in was $2,000. I didn’t even play for an hour and I was up $24,000. That was big money, money that I never had before.”

He cashed out again and then found himself surveying the big games. “That is my style,” he stated. “When I am winning, I don’t give up.” He found a $200-$400 mixed game, in which they were spreading stud, lowball and hold’em, and he took a seat. “I had never played lowball before in my life,” he laughed. “The buy-in was $5,000. I played for six hours and eventually they kicked it up to $300-$600. By 5 o’clock in the morning, my bankroll was up to $96,000. I ran $60 up to almost $100,000, and since then, I have never looked back.”

pkrfce9

Where's the rest of the story? How soon did he bust out?

moose

I would like to find the game where you don't play for an hour and win $24,000.

ReefAquarium

I used to think this kind of behaviour was -EV.

Then one day in September I decided to take a shot at 600NL. Till then I was playing 25NL with taking shots at 50NL and 100Nl.

I felt like Matt Daemon taking a shot at KGB's place. "I'm known here as a small timer, that's about to change."

I bought in for $60 and ran it up to $1650 the first night. Next night I won another $850. Next day another $400.

I made more in 3 days than in the previous year.

Next day I lost over $800 in one freaking hand. (I bet my nut flush draw with middle pair and was called by top pair and got no help)

I'm not saying that people should do this kind of thing (play 600NL on a $2000 bankroll!)

I knew my risk of ruin was probably around .... 50%

But there was one reason why I was there.

Bad players. You don't often find people who stay in 87% of the flops in 600NL.

Once the major fish left I stayed away from that 600NL.

ReefAquarium

pkrfce9

moose wrote:

I would like to find the game where you don't play for an hour and win $24,000.

I'm sure you could find lots of games like that!

harthgosh

i know a kid that happened to. his name is striker on stars. luckiest player ever.

ScottyZ

Variance rules the short term in poker.

ScottyZ

morty

pkrfce9 wrote:

Where's the rest of the story? How soon did he bust out?

Rest of the story: http://www.cardplayer.com/poker_magazine/archives/showarticle.php?a_id=15105&m_id=65577

It's a profile of Freddy Deeb.

BBC Z

They do this on 2+2, it's the OIC challenge.. Usually a poker site will refund anyone who busts out thier initial buyin if they play by the rules.

ReefAquarium

Chugs wrote:

Would be a great challege to do on pokerforum. Each person funds themselves with $60 and you run a challenge, who has the most at the end of 24 hours. Running blogs etc...


With a little loan from his buddy, Freddy had 60 bucks, not a dime more. It was 1 p.m. He sat down in a $3-$6 game and won $400 in an hour and a half. He quit, hoping to perhaps play $10-$20 or $15-$30. As he listed himself for these games, a threehanded $20-$40 game opened up right next to the board. He watched the game for a while. “They were playing so bad, I had to take a shot,” he declared. “The minimum buy-in was $200. I played for about two hours and won about $4,400.” His $60 was now up to about $5,000. He cashed out and then saw a $100-$200 hold’em game. “They were playing horribly,” he said. “The buy-in was $2,000. I didn’t even play for an hour and I was up $24,000. That was big money, money that I never had before.”

He cashed out again and then found himself surveying the big games. “That is my style,” he stated. “When I am winning, I don’t give up.” He found a $200-$400 mixed game, in which they were spreading stud, lowball and hold’em, and he took a seat. “I had never played lowball before in my life,” he laughed. “The buy-in was $5,000. I played for six hours and eventually they kicked it up to $300-$600. By 5 o’clock in the morning, my bankroll was up to $96,000. I ran $60 up to almost $100,000, and since then, I have never looked back.”

OK,

I took your $60 Challange last night.

bought in real short at the 600NL.

Played tight for 2 rounds.

Blinded away for a couple of orbits.
3 limpers I'm JJ in the button.

Push all in $42.

All the limpers call!

Flop hits Jxx

Quadruple up.

Run it up to $684.

Tired, go to bed.

Come back into the game.

Play tight for a couple of orbits.
Lose some hands.

Stack is down to $300

AA in the hijack.

2 limpers.
I raise to $30.

Both call.

Flop is

rags

bet is $60, called.

I think they are both out of line.

I push. 2 calls

Player with QQ hits a Q on the river.

Net loss -$60

GTA Poker

ReefAquarium wrote:

Chugs wrote:

Would be a great challege to do on pokerforum. Each person funds themselves with $60 and you run a challenge, who has the most at the end of 24 hours. Running blogs etc...


With a little loan from his buddy, Freddy had 60 bucks, not a dime more. It was 1 p.m. He sat down in a $3-$6 game and won $400 in an hour and a half. He quit, hoping to perhaps play $10-$20 or $15-$30. As he listed himself for these games, a threehanded $20-$40 game opened up right next to the board. He watched the game for a while. “They were playing so bad, I had to take a shot,” he declared. “The minimum buy-in was $200. I played for about two hours and won about $4,400.” His $60 was now up to about $5,000. He cashed out and then saw a $100-$200 hold’em game. “They were playing horribly,” he said. “The buy-in was $2,000. I didn’t even play for an hour and I was up $24,000. That was big money, money that I never had before.”

He cashed out again and then found himself surveying the big games. “That is my style,” he stated. “When I am winning, I don’t give up.” He found a $200-$400 mixed game, in which they were spreading stud, lowball and hold’em, and he took a seat. “I had never played lowball before in my life,” he laughed. “The buy-in was $5,000. I played for six hours and eventually they kicked it up to $300-$600. By 5 o’clock in the morning, my bankroll was up to $96,000. I ran $60 up to almost $100,000, and since then, I have never looked back.”

OK,

I took your $60 Challange last night.

bought in real short at the 600NL.

Played tight for 2 rounds.

Blinded away for a couple of orbits.
3 limpers I'm JJ in the button.

Push all in $42.

All the limpers call!

Flop hits Jxx

Quadruple up.

Run it up to $684.

Tired, go to bed.

Come back into the game.

Play tight for a couple of orbits.
Lose some hands.

Stack is down to $300

AA in the hijack.

2 limpers.
I raise to $30.

Both call.

Flop is

rags

bet is $60, called.

I think they are both out of line.

I push. 2 calls

Player with QQ hits a Q on the river.

Net loss -$60

Yeah, that's the point:)

Soup

Hows this for a run? Hockey buddy of mine wins a freeroll on bowmans, gets $300 put in his account. Within TWO days he has it up to 17,000 USD. He is a bad, bad player, and had lost thousands over the summer playing and then this! He was playing 10/20 NL on bowmans, he ended up cashing out 13k and eventually lost the remaining 4. But imagine that, a freeroll into 17k in 48 hours.

wader

Biggest Run: SNG on Stars
Started with a $50, then $100,$200,$500. Went on a decent run at the $500's and had about $5500 rolled. Tryed the $1000 busted and then dropped majority back into the $500's.

Shook

Down to $8.00 from 300 in a 2/5 game.

Walked out 6hrs later with 1300

Thats the only good one so far.

Chugs

Okay so this is my new story.

I actually had this article in mind when i did it.

Restarted the same way trying to buy-in short on a tables BUT for 1/2 the stated bankroll ... basic logic i tried to use.

I had $3 in my pokerstars account. 2 days ago i started at 0.10/0.20 limit and proceeded to destroy that table for a while, running my $2 buyin to just under 20.

Then took a portion of my buy-in for a stars 6+0.50, 48 person turbo tourney, which i won.
While playing some limit also, where i treaded water.

Played and won another sng, single table $15+1

Sat at 3/6 shorthanded with most of the bankroll, and took a drubbing and closed for the night.

Restarted the same way trying to buy-in short on a tables BUT for 1/2 the stated bankroll

Then went on a run, jumping from 1/2, to 3/6 shorthanded, to low buy-in NL tables and a few hours later got that bankroll from $3 to $600 finishing at 5/10 limit and 1/2 NL tables. Based on the system i laid out it means i would likely now need to jump to 10/20 or 2/4NL based on the funding model i used.

I may just go back to my normal games 3/6 limit and say the exercise was a fun few hours, running $3.00 to $600.00, no freedy deeb but heh i'm just trying to have fun

pkrfce9

Cool. From what I've read, he has been broke numerous times and was arrested for some kind of drug conspiracy - not convicted. I'm not sure how credible the source is but this isn't necessarily something I want to emulate.