"Chip and a chair" success stories
Thought I'd start a new topic with a positive twist (i.e. not bad beats!).
Do you have a story from online or live poker where you were waaaay down in chips and came back?
OK, here's mine:
6-person $20+2 SnG on FullTilt, 1500 starting stack. There are 6 players still at the table and I get down to 10 chips (my KQs lost to A8o).
First hand with 10 chips: i have J2o, push all-in (figuring I'm done) and hit a Jack to triple up to 30 - opponents had A8 and Q6
Next hand: I'm in the small blind and I get QQ, tripling up again to 90 - opponents had A9 and K2
Then: I get QJo in the BB and hit a Q to triple up again to 270 - opponents had T7 and K5
I fold a few hands and then get A7 and double-up to 540 against QJ. From there I kept it rolling and went on to win the SnG ($78) - a total of 9000 chips at the end (900 X my small stack of 10!)
"Ranger" Mike
Do you have a story from online or live poker where you were waaaay down in chips and came back?
OK, here's mine:
6-person $20+2 SnG on FullTilt, 1500 starting stack. There are 6 players still at the table and I get down to 10 chips (my KQs lost to A8o).
First hand with 10 chips: i have J2o, push all-in (figuring I'm done) and hit a Jack to triple up to 30 - opponents had A8 and Q6
Next hand: I'm in the small blind and I get QQ, tripling up again to 90 - opponents had A9 and K2
Then: I get QJo in the BB and hit a Q to triple up again to 270 - opponents had T7 and K5
I fold a few hands and then get A7 and double-up to 540 against QJ. From there I kept it rolling and went on to win the SnG ($78) - a total of 9000 chips at the end (900 X my small stack of 10!)
"Ranger" Mike
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Hero originally had $160 before losing a big pot. Hero had open-ended, straight flush draw on the turn. On the turn, hero is asked 'how much do you have left'? Hero replies 'about 100'. Villain bets $100, instead of saying 'all-in'. Hero says 'call', instead of 'all-in', & actually has $7 left. Hero misses at river & folds face-up (J10 s, J high).
What is interesting is that had villain bet all-in on the turn ($107) instead of $100, hero would've called & busted out. Also, hero didn't count his chips & when he said 'call', he assumed it was his all-in until he counted out his chips. If those 2 things didn't happen, hero would've never had the chance to comeback (except rebuy).
Hero has $7 left. Bets all-in on button (SB & BB call) & triples up w/ 87 s (straight).
$20 left. Folded to SB who bets all-in, hero calls from BB & doubles up w/ AK s (flush).
$40 now. Facing MP $20 raise, hero reraises all-in from SB w/ QQ & doubles up vs. AK o.
From the $80, hero went on to win many small pots. Hero went on to cash out for $400.
$100 Max buyin.
Sat with ONE blakc chip.
Left with $880.
Best showing with one chip I have ever had.
It was heads up & I had 1/30th of the chips (villain had 29 to 1 chip advantage). Through sheer luck, I doubled up in 4 of the next 5 hands (making us about even). Villain tilted & donked off remainder.
I did not win because I'm a better player (which I am) but due to luck & villain going on tilt.
Heads up play, I was seriously low stacked, but dealt J3o in the big blind. Opponent simply called the blind, and I checked. Flop comes up 335, I check, dealer checks. Turn card was trash, checked around again. I think he may have caught the river, so he went all in, I called, and I quickly doubled up on him, and we were about even in chips again.
From there, I just kept playing well and finally managed to take him out.
Earned the nickname TwoChipLouie after that one.
That was one of the stupidest plays of my life.....other being try to represent the flush when you actually had the flush. ACDC should post his 75 chips left come back.
Yessiree, Chris, I can always count on you to keep in the game
ACDC was at the other table when he got so shortstacked that game, so I wasn't witness to his comeback very much, but I understand he pulled off some miracle hands when he needed them.
On the other end, in a heads up match, had the guy down to 40 chips and proceeded to lose 5-6 hands in a row when he was all in. Eventually lost the match.
400/800 Tourney Texas Hold'em Game Table (NL) (Tournament 26106692) - Sun Jul 16 19:59:33 EDT 2006
Table You Better Run (Real Money) -- Seat 10 is the button
Total number of players : 5
Seat 1: GoingGray (1943)
Seat 4: kueikuei (4353)
Seat 5: charober (1671)
Seat 6: RAIL_16 (9284)
Seat 10: ruskymx (2749)
GoingGray posts small blind (200)
kueikuei posts big blind (400)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to GoingGray [ Qc, Qh ]
charober raises (1671) to 1671
charober is all-In.
RAIL_16 folds.
ruskymx raises (2749) to 2749
ruskymx is all-In.
GoingGray calls (1743)
GoingGray is all-In.
kueikuei folds.
Creating Main Pot with $5413 with charober
Creating Side Pot 1 with $544 with GoingGray
Creating Side Pot 2 with $806 with ruskymx
** Dealing Flop ** : [ 3c, 6h, Th ]
** Dealing Turn ** : [ 3h ]
** Dealing River ** : [ Kd ]
** Summary **
Main Pot: 5413 | Side Pot 1: 544 | Side Pot 2: 806
Board: [ 3c 6h Th 3h Kd ]
GoingGray balance 544, bet 1943, collected 544, lost -1399 [ Qc Qh ] [ two pairs, queens and threes -- Kd,Qc,Qh,3c,3h ]
kueikuei balance 3953, lost 400 (folded)
charober balance 5413, bet 1671, collected 5413, net +3742 [ 7h Ah ] [ a flush, ace high -- Ah,Th,7h,6h,3h ]
RAIL_16 balance 9284, didn't bet (folded)
ruskymx balance 806, bet 2749, collected 806, lost -1943 [ 8d 8s ] [ two pairs, eights and threes -- Kd,8d,8s,3c,3h ]
Thought I was done for, but a couple of very lucky hands shortly after put me back into the game, and from there I just played solid poker. Final results??
You finished in position 1
1st place - GoingGray - $50
2nd place - RAIL_16 - $30
3rd place - charober - $20
PokerStars Game #5626660872: Tournament #28458898, $5.00+$0.50 Hold'em No Limit - Level VIII (200/400) - 2006/07/20 - 22:57:07 (ET) Table '28458898 1' 9-max Seat #9 is the button Seat 1: Mike28AA (2910 in chips) Seat 8: Big_E_67 (9965 in chips) Seat 9: Thundr13 (625 in chips)
Mike28AA: posts the ante 25
Big_E_67: posts the ante 25
Thundr13: posts the ante 25
Mike28AA: posts small blind 200
Big_E_67: posts big blind 400
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Big_E_67 [Ts Jd]
Thundr13: raises 200 to 600 and is all-in
Mike28AA: calls 400
Big_E_67: calls 200
*** FLOP *** [4d Ah Qd]
Mike28AA: bets 400
Big_E_67: calls 400
*** TURN *** [4d Ah Qd] [Ks]
Mike28AA: bets 1885 and is all-in
Big_E_67: calls 1885
*** RIVER *** [4d Ah Qd Ks] [6h]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Mike28AA: shows [8c Ac] (a pair of Aces)
Big_E_67: shows [Ts Jd] (a straight, Ten to Ace)
Big_E_67 collected 4570 from side pot
Thundr13: shows [5c 6c] (a pair of Sixes)
Big_E_67 said, "gg"
Big_E_67 collected 1875 from main pot
Took down both SNG's, saweeeet!