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  1. I think we need some kind of feel good discussion with the boards being so miserable atm. Add any other topics you wish...


    Favorite Online Poker Memory: 3rd in the party poker friday special for ~$15,000 as a broke college student and doing laps around my apartment

    Least Favorite Online Poker memory: Terrible beat with 12 or 13 left in the sunday million. allin with 88 on a 986 for all the chips vs 9T , turn 6 river 9

    All time favorite MTT: Any of the 2 day ftops, early sunday 100r on stars

    Best things you did with your poker money: Bought a car and gave money to family

    Worst things you did with your poker money: Sent some to untrustworthy people

    Favorite everyday feeling you might get from poker: When you're bluffing and a guy times down so long that your heart starts fluttering, then finally folds

    Least favorite everyday feeling you might get from poker: When a guy is making a move on you, you know he's light and are ready to pounce but someone else shoves before you. Getting disconnected.

    Never wanna see at your tables again: ryanbluf
    Edited By: gboro780 Apr 23rd, 2011 at 12:17 AM
  2. Favorite Online Poker Memory: winning the $55 100k on a sunday for my first 5 figure score and still highest score to date, $20460.

    Least Favorite Online Poker memory: running Q9 into AA in a limped bvb pot with 24 left in the 750k on a 99xxA board

    All time favorite MTT: 20c, ive made hella deep runs in it including a first and second. ive also ft bubbled it about a dozen times

    Best things you did with your poker money: invested it, will one day help with a down payment on a house i imagine

    Worst things you did with your poker money: played 30/60 and 50/100 razz back in the day before i had any self control, blew like 5k in 24 hours and felt like a degen addict

    Favorite everyday feeling you might get from poker: completely running over a table and chipping up without abandon as others berate you

    Least favorite everyday feeling you might get from poker: multiple final table bubbles in one day. you know youre doing something right and that you just cant do anything about losing high equity pots...realizing how good one really has to run to win a tournament. *edit* worst feeling by far is knowing that the game was taken away from me after devoting 20+ hours a week to it over the last few years. even when i wasnt playing i was reading forums, studying, talking to friends, sweating etc. ahving that stripped from me is the worst. ive formed dozens of relationships on account of poker and a lot of them are inevitably going to fade away as these people live halfway across the country/world and the common bond we had between us has now been removed. in a way its like losing touch with friends you had in high school or college, but at least there you had some sort of control or at least saw it coming...

    Never wanna see at your tables again: czar because he outleveled me once when we were 12bb deep
    Edited By: Goldenad Apr 22nd, 2011 at 11:20 PM
     
  3. My favorite feeling was when the check arrived or first thing in the morning I'd check my online banking to see if the wire came through. Really no better feeling for me than knowing I could make money playing a game that intrigued me.

    Good idea gboro.
     
  4. Favorite Online Poker Memory: Bodog in and a little after it's prime.

    Least Favorite Online Poker memory: sitting at 5/10 PLO before knowing how to play and losing 80% of my roll in 30 mins and making it all back and some more 1 hr later and learning a valuable life lesson.

    All time favorite MTT: Bodog 12r back in the day.

    Best things you did with your poker money: Eating and drinking like a king.

    Worst things you did with your poker money: Not being nitty enough out side of my poker roll. Funny how these things work.

    Favorite everyday feeling you might get from poker: Freedom.

    Least favorite everyday feeling you might get from poker: Feeling helpless at times.

    Never wanna see at your tables again: pdi88 (mostly because I feel bad when I try to intentionally suck out)
  5. Favorite Online Poker Memory: Winning my very first $5 Sng on party poker for like $25 (I dunno why but I was so excited)
    Least Favorite Online Poker memory: going from $300 to $1300 back to zero in a day on Doyles Room back in the day
    All time favorite MTT: $11 Ko and $11 super stacks on FTP
    Best things you did with your poker money: 2008 WSOP / remodel bathroom
    Worst things you did with your poker money: Playing $100 super turbo HU sngs after drinking all day
    Favorite everyday feeling you might get from poker: adding to my bankroll. making a deep run in a mtt
    Least favorite everyday feeling you might get from poker: Varience hands down !
    Never wanna see at your tables again: Goldeneagels on bodog (guys is a fucking tool)
  6. Favorite Online Poker Memory: Chopping the FTP 750K as a broke man who was seriously considering getting a "real" job. Have a student chopping the Sunday Million. Also, twice I 5bet/shoved light into Moorman and he mucked :)

    Least Favorite Online Poker memory: Losing AA to AK AIPF for over 30% of chips in play, 12 left, in FTOPS Rush.

    All time favorite MTT: FTP 750K AINEC

    Best things you did with your poker money: Take care of my family, help my sister.

    Worst things you did with your poker money: Can't recall, I'm a nit with the money.

    Favorite everyday feeling you might get from poker: Loved going deep in a MTT, no matter what the payouts might be.

    Least favorite everyday feeling you might get from poker: The awful beats on FT's or FT bubbles.

    Never wanna see at your tables again: The OP, AJKHoosier, Moorman, Pokerpro... but I will miss them a lot too :(

    Things you wanted to accomplish and never did: Make the P5's top 100, FT the Sunday Million, win a big pot out of AJKHoosier.

    Have you enjoyed it: Absolutely; would repeat the experience over and over again. With all the up and downs, swings of Fortune, stress, beats given and taken, and specially because I met my wife playing online poker. Like Doyle says : It was a hell of a ride!

    Good luck to all of you guys, may the force be with you.
    Edited By: andressoprano Apr 23rd, 2011 at 12:03 AM
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  7. lol andres, i was just reading your post in the jcamby well and thinking it had to be moorman
    Thread Starter
  8. Favorite Online Poker Memory: getting my first 5 figure and 6 figure score back to back sessions. Was so shocked after the 6 figgy that all i could think to do was shower at 6am when my mom woke up so worried i had to tell her how much i won.

    Least Favorite Online Poker memory: prolly calling off like 200k worth of equity in the ftops 322 multi entry with 14 left and being horribly wrong.

    All time favorite MTT: UBOC main

    Best things you did with your poker money: my stonebridge acoustic guitar

    Worst things you did with your poker money: bought a used lexus from a shady dealer with actual cash lololol

    Favorite everyday feeling you might get from poker: sucking out on some1 preferably one i dislike

    Least favorite everyday feeling you might get from poker: when some1 i dislike beats me in a pot in any form

    Never wanna see at your tables again: zackattack or delaney kid, cant ever beat them in pots
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  9.  
    Originally Posted by gboro780 View Post

    lol andres, i was just reading your post in the jcamby well and thinking it had to be moorman

    Lol, nice read
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  10. Favorite Memory: Winning the $3 rebuy on FT

    Least favorite memory: 10 left in 32k, 4th in chips, laptop crashes, blinded out to 10th.

    Best things I've done with poker money: Helped down payment on house, bought furniture, spoil wife for letting me degen.

    Worst thing: Not allocating enough of winnings live or online for real BR management

    Best poker feeling: Most of my great moments came in live play, like shipping a pot of gold event in reno for $4,000 and running all the old nits over at the final table.

    Worst poker feeling: All the 2-3 outers deep and left wondering-what might have been.

    So long online, the dream is over.
  11. This thread has a really sad feeling to it.
  12. Since we are being positive I feel that poker has been distracting me for so long, I love it but have other things I want to accomplish and now I am forced to fill those hours with something else.
  13. Favorite Online Poker Memory: 1st in 50-50 on ftp for my first and only 5 figgy score. I satty'd in it for 6bucks, busted red pro Michael Gracz 3-handed for the bounty and shirt, then battled HU out-chipped 3-1 and came back to win it.

    Least Favorite Online Poker memory: Black Friday

    All time favorite MTT: DNG on stars, I regret not waking up early enuff to play it on a reg. basis.

    Best things you did with your poker money: helping family and paying off all the debt i amassed from my 20s (credit cards, school loans, IRS)

    Worst things you did with your poker money: having 1/2 my roll on UB atm

    Favorite everyday feeling you might get from poker: winning a huge flip deep, and having fun playing a game that I'm passionate about as opposed to most ppl I know who hate their jobs.

    The most unexpected thing about online poker: the relationships i formed with ppl that I otherwise would've never met. I've had the pleasure of meeting several of them IRL as well.
  14. Good thread idea.

    Favorite Online Poker Memory: I could go with the easy answer of chopping the 3r for 11.5k because it was my biggest score to date and it felt so gratifying to finally get a 5 figure score, but it actually was a hand I played in a random sunday 109 in fall last year. I basically played 55s and under and took shots in the mil, 750k, and the early sunday 109 so it was a pretty big buyin for me. I opened with 35 bbs with Qs8s, the button 3bet, and then pearljammer cold 4bet in the small blind. I'd been opening a ton and pearljammer had been 3betting a bit against the button who also had an aggressive image. I pretty much instantly 5bet allin and they both snapfolded. That was the first time I ever felt like "OK I can be good at this game."

    Least Favorite Online Poker memory: USACoop Main Event Day 2. I came into day 2 middle of the pack with 100 left and ended up just destroying my early table to the point where i was 5/74 and had a million bbs. First was 160k and I was feeling really good about chances because over the course of the 2 days, I'd never played better in my life. I then got moved to a table with gboro and cal42688. I ended up just getting raped for basically an hour straight. I don't think I won a single pot off either of them. I never felt so thoroughly outclassed a a table. I ended up busting 41st and was unbelievably down on myself for a long time because I felt like I had just blown an amazing opportunity.

    All time favorite MTT: stars 3r

    Least favorite MTT: stars 22c. made a billion deep runs in it but only FTed it twice and been 1/4 and 1/5 both those times only to get unbelievably fucked and end up getting 4th and 5th. Might never win it now :(

    Best things you did with your poker money: Vegas trips last summer

    Worst things you did with your poker money: probably just too much on good food and clothes but it really wasn't all that bad anyway

    Favorite everyday feeling you might get from poker: Getting into a preflop leveling war with someone and just owning them

    Least favorite everyday feeling you might get from poker: Playing a hand really badly. Million times worse than a bad beat

    Never wanna see at your tables again: gboro lol although I'd definitely want to say hi to him and thank him for the beatdown he gave me in usacoop because it forced me to reevaluate my entire game
  15. this thread feels like we are graduating high school.

    geeebs u better fucking sign my year book bro!!


    was a good ride guys. met some good friends, had some laughs, learned some shit.

    ill miss u all.

    H.A.G.S bros

    ~ Corey
  16. Favorite Online Poker Memory: A few come to mind. Won the stars 3r for 6k in 2006 when I had a $500 roll. Was obv a massive boost and also my first MTT win. Was a super broke college student at the time and 6k buys a lot of beer. Also my first triple crown was pretty huge because I had bubbled a triple crown several times (two firsts and a second). Felt sooooo satisfying to finally ship it.

    Least favorite online poker memory: Meh nothing super specific comes to mind but lots of pretty big FT bubbles. Ick.

    All time favorite MTT: 100 1r1a on ftp was my fav for a long time. Won it twice. Now I lol at that fact when I look at the field. Such a fking shark tank. Haven't played it in a couple years tho since it has gotten so fking tough. I guess my overall fav tho are the big stars rebuys. 1r, 3r, 5r, and 10r.

    Least favorite MTT: stars million and ftp 750k. Down outrageous amounts of money between the two.

    Best things you did with your poker money: Went to europe for a month. Been to china twice. Went the the bahamas, as well as a fare bit of travelling within the US. Good memories.

    Worst things you did with your poker money: Ick, lots of stuff. Nothing particularly stupid comes to mind but lots of just stupid spending that wasn't necessary.

    Favorite everyday feeling you might get from poker: Owning people

    Least favorite everyday feeling: Getting owned by people

    Never wanna see at your table again: Lots of people. Too many sickos these days!

    Also, just all the very cool, very intellegent people I've met through poker who I otherwise would have never met. Gboro included.
    Edited By: threeven Apr 23rd, 2011 at 01:23 AM
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  17. Favorite Online Poker Memory: either first mtt win (a $5mtt on ftp for like $300) or my first light 4 bet in a "big" spot. J8cc near sunday million $ bubble when i had sat'd into it. looking back it was prob a 4b for value.

    Least Favorite Online Poker memory: shoved KQ for 18bbs with 11 left in an ftops main event, got called by the bb who had like 68bbs and his 68o. he binks a 6 on the flop. i sat stunned in front of my comp for about 30mins. 432k up top.

    All time favorite MTT: FTP 5050. won the first one ever, bought in on a $320 bankroll. won it another time and had some other final tables in it. also double finaled it and merged stacks in the recent multi entry dub gtd week.

    Best things you did with your poker money: ehh nothing to great, some good meals in vegas. plane ticket to PCA...

    Worst things you did with your poker money: ehh, wasted too much in vegas :-)

    Favorite everyday feeling you might get from poker: finding good spots to cold 4b

    Least favorite everyday feeling you might get from poker: lately the grind had been getting bit rough.

    Never wanna see at your tables again: mully07
     
  18. Favorite Online Poker Memory: Shipping my first big score. The 20k gtd on UB. It was also the night before my Grandpas funeral.

    Least Favorite Online Poker memory: Black Friday

    All time favorite MTT: 90 man KOs on tilt

    Best things you did with your poker money: Paid bills with my hobby! Also flew to Vegas and met Gboro and Apestyles. Thanks again both of you. Both of you are first class.

    Worst things you did with your poker money: Paid bills with my hobby(supposed to be for toys)

    Favorite everyday feeling you might get from poker: teaching my younger cousin to play poker and seeing him do well. Looking forward to teaching my 3 sons to play poker one day

    Least favorite everyday feeling you might get from poker: Playing a hand badly deep in a tournament
    Edited By: duclover Apr 23rd, 2011 at 02:00 AM
  19. Favorite Online Poker Memory: Playing on the Cake Network where everyone could change their name and thinking that the guy that called himself Alex Kamerbis was a real clown for using someone else’s until his name appeared in purple in the chat box (he had just been signed a few days earlier). I pushed hard for lessons and he told me to hit em up on facebook. I was one of the first guys he trained. My favorite memory was sending him Pokerstar “before and after” results. He continues to impress me. I only wish I had my shit together when I was that young.

    Least Favorite Online Poker memory: Deciding to go big and play the 1K on UB. I lost the majority of my stack with 44 and a flop of A44 to quad sixes (yeah, that’s right, quad sixes) AND then someone accused me of chip dumping based on the way I played the hand. The guy apologized on P5 shortly after, but talk about insult to injury.

    All time favorite MTT: 50r on UB at 19:00. I loved that tournament almost as much as my wife.

    Best things you did with your poker money: Winnings from Poker made me place less value on money, in general. I used most of my profit as a slush fund for family vacations

    Worst things you did with your poker money: get frisky and decide to play some online blackjack??? It wasn’t much, but GOD to I hate when I do that!!!

    Favorite everyday feeling you might get from poker: Some play golf, I play poker. It fills a competitive void I haven’t felt since high school sports.

    Least favorite everyday feeling you might get from poker: Periodic doubt about the legitimacy and integrity of players and sites.

    Never wanna see at your tables again: Iridium, ComeonPhish, BTIDMarsh, DOUBLEDAVE22 these guys all possess some sort of voodoo magic over me. I actually feel physical pain when I play a pot with them. DD22 is the head witch.

    Things you wanted to accomplish and never did: Hit a $50K score in 2011 and a $100K score in 2012
    Have you enjoyed it: If the ban continues, it will be the only void in my life, so yes, I will miss it.

     
    Originally Posted by boondock11 View Post

    Favorite Online Poker Memory: Bodog in and a little after it's prime.

    Least Favorite Online Poker memory: sitting at 5/10 PLO before knowing how to play and losing 80% of my roll in 30 mins and making it all back and some more 1 hr later and learning a valuable life lesson.

    All time favorite MTT: Bodog 12r back in the day.

    Best things you did with your poker money: Eating and drinking like a king.

    Worst things you did with your poker money: Not being nitty enough out side of my poker roll. Funny how these things work.

    Favorite everyday feeling you might get from poker: Freedom.

    Least favorite everyday feeling you might get from poker: Feeling helpless at times.

    Never wanna see at your tables again: pdi88 (mostly because I feel bad when I try to intentionally suck out)

    And you have felt bad ALOT sir!
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  20. Good stuff guys! this is so sad, I know this is supposed to be a feel good thread, but like c_c said it does feel like high school is over and the graduation song is playing and everyone is saying their goodbyes :( I miss playing with my American friends, it saddens me and I don't enjoy online poker half as much as I used too...I hope that the big 3 gets regulation, the US Government gets their piece of the pie and everyone is back up and crushing. Hope it happens and so0o0on!!!!!

    x
     
  21. Favorite Online Poker Memory SO FAR (brag): winning the 40k outright, break through score at the time

    Least Favorite Online Poker memory: bubbling the 750k

    All time favorite MTT: the ftp 40k and the big doubles... probably scores 90% of my profit from those alone

    Best things you did with your poker money: used to to travel, and spent it on my family. also bought some cool things along the way.

    Worst things you did with your poker money: just wasted lots while out drinking on stupid stuff

    Favorite everyday feeling you might get from poker: getting people to spazz

    Least favorite everyday feeling you might get from poker: having to get up at 4am to play. zzz.

    Never wanna see at your tables again: doubledave22 because he goes out of his way to fuck with me by taking hof weird lines so we can discuss them later
  22. Favorite online memory: Winning the fifty fifty the first time I played it with $200 buck in acct back in college. Will never forget that feeling, check cashier every 5 minutes making sure I wasnt dreaming bc my account had never been over 700 bucks grinding 10 dolla 9 mans.

    Least favorite online moment: The countless 2 outers with less than 3 tables left, but the one Ill never forget was back in 07' playing the big $322 FTOPS and guy open shoving 45bb utg and I call off my 40bbs w KK and his AJ wins with about 300 left for a top 50 stack.

    All time fav MTT: fifty fifty

    Best thing you did with poker $: new laptop and funded a 2 week vegas trip to play a WSOP and 5 VDSE

    Worst thing I did with poker $: Besides spending 200 at the bar on a nightly basis buying shots in college cant think of too much. Not sure if thats a bad thing though.

    Favorite everyday feeling from poker: On the rare occasion I did get my stack in behind, hitting a rvr 2 or 3 outer always brought a smile to my face.

    Least fav thing from poker: Playing 5-6 hrs of some of the best poker I can play and then taking a nasty beat deep in mtt for CL and having that empty feeling.
  23. Great thread.

    Favorite Online Poker Memory: Winning my first seat to my first $10k tournament (PCA) from a freeroll.

    Least Favorite Online Poker memory: Tough to think of...I've spent so much time trying to forget about them, but probably coming up short in so many majors. Biggest one being 17th in the 2009 SCOOP Main Event $1k.

    All time favorite MTT: The $11r on stars (10pm est)

    Best things you did with your poker money:
    Allowed me to live a comfortable lifestyle as well as save for the future. The best thing I've done is probably donate some of it.

    Worst things you did with your poker money: Got scammed for $720 by the guy who hacked Hevad Khan's AIM.

    Favorite everyday feeling you might get from poker:
    That I don't have to play if I don't want to.

    Least favorite everyday feeling you might get from poker: The countless "deep runs, but come up short's" when you're running bad.

    Never wanna see at your tables again:
    I don't fear anyone online, I would like to have lilholdem954 at my table again sometime.
    Edited By: P0KERDUUDE Apr 23rd, 2011 at 03:45 AM
    Reason: bolding
     
  24. Great thread. makes me kinda depressed. this sucks..=/
     
  25. Favorite Online Memory: Winning a 6000+ person freeroll at some small site in 2005 for 134 dollars, haven't come close to shipping anything since.

    Lease Favorite Online Poker Memory: This hand really started my whole this site was rigged thinking. I have QQ in MP at the same site I won the freeroll, I do a 4x raise which was the table std at this site. I get 2 callers. flop come Q 8 4 r with one diamond, caller from the blind insta shoves on me and I call obv, guy has 72 dd and turn and river comes d d to give the guy a flush. Pretty shady.

    All time favorite MTT: None, I don't play much MTTs

    Best things you did with your poker money: Whenever I get my br off Full Tilt, I'm gonna start a live br until online poker comes back. I'll probably go to Vegas or something.

    Favorite everyday feeling you might get from poker: Just owning single table turbo sngs on a daily basis.

    Least favorite everyday feeling you might get from poker: Losing every key flip and bubbling single table sngs as the CL.

    Never wanna see at your tables again: Idiot donks who run good/wakes up with hands when I shove late in an SNG.
  26. Favorite online memory: Having a nice, secure job.

    Worst online memory: Having a nice, secure job.....ripped away by people i will never see cuz they hide away and pillage.
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  27. Favorite Online Poker Memory: KQs cracking AA 3 handed for most of the chips in play in the $11r for 1st five figure score

    Least Favorite Online Poker memory: After running $400 up to $12k playing 2/4nl I cashed out $7k and left $5k, I lost that $5k in a week. I remember I had $600 left so obviously moved up to 3/6 got all in with oesfd vs set I hit turn and board paired on the river, it was like getting sucker punched.

    All time favorite MTT: $163s on FTP

    Best things you did with your poker money: Bought my wife a van

    Worst things you did with your poker money: Paid taxes to the people who put me out of work

    Favorite everyday feeling you might get from poker: When you're bluffing and a guy times down so long that your heart starts fluttering, then finally folds <-- Agreed I also really enjoyed that on any given day I had the opportunity to win tens of thousands of dollars, how many people can really say that? I also really liked when I would run into someone from high school and they would ask what I was doing for a living, getting to say professional poker player made me smile on the inside everytime I said it.

    Least favorite everyday feeling you might get from poker: When you are deep in 2-3 mtts and you get doomswitched

    I recently played live in a sweet $150 buy in $10k. Typically you might see one or two decent players but since black friday, there were two online pros, and 6 total decent internet guys at my first table alone. We started talking about online poker ect... finally I said this is the most depressing conversation I have ever had.
     
  28. I remember your sunday million bad beat that was the fucken worst :-(
  29. Favorite Online Poker Memory: Winning my first WSOP main event seat on Bodog way back in the day. I remember the little popup message that said "Congratulations you have finished in 1st place and won WSOP package" I left that table open on my computer til they closed it. I remember taking my roommate at the time to Denny's for Oreo shakes at like 3 am. This became a tradition, whenever I would have a 5 figure score/10k satty win we'd go get oreo shakes. Done this every time since even though now I'm married with a kid and live an hour away. Can't break tradition. He insists he likes getting an ''oreo shakes?" text late at night more than a booty call text.

    Least Favorite Online Poker memory: I truly can't think of anything worse than April 15th, 2011.

    All time favorite MTT: I loved the UB 200k back in the day. Probably the Sunday Million now days.

    Best things you did with your poker money: Bought a new BMW. Bought a house my family is living in. Bought diapers

    Worst things you did with your poker money: I lost a shit ton at UB BJ back in the day.

    Favorite everyday feeling you might get from poker: The beginning of the sesh. Registering for 25+ mtts and having all that hope. "Which one of these is going to be the one" Just throw a bunch of money into the community, every once in a while one of these mtt's throws money back at you.

    Least favorite everyday feeling you might get from poker: Busting the last mtt of the day w/out sniffing a Final Table.

    Never wanna see at your tables again: Mr. TimCaum ainec
     
  30. Good idea. Awww nostalgia already
     
    Originally Posted by gboro780 View Post



    Favorite Online Poker Memory: being at the final table of a 26er with like 8 guys in my tiny dorm room as a freshman. Ran really well and everyone was screaming for cards. I remember riveting a 3 with 33vsAA. Everyones voice was gone the next day

    Least Favorite Online Poker memory:getting deep in the WCOOP ME and KK<66. was really excited to get that deep in a huge event

    All time favorite MTT: Idk it always changes. At the end it was any $75 on FTP and the 20c on stars. Almost FTed the 20c on Sunday 3/4 weeks in a row but got like 25th in the last one

    Best things you did with your poker money: took my family to the Bahamas for PCA 2010. Was more of a vacation than a poker trip but was very fun. Swam with dolphins and did snorkeling in one of the aquariums

    Worst things you did with your poker money: got scammed for like $150 after a guy was messing with me for like 2 weeks. Lol gg me?

    Favorite everyday feeling you might get from poker: the feeling of accomplishment when you take down an mTT. Just feels so euphoric

    Least favorite everyday feeling you might get from poker: getting DCed, flopping a set with 7 ppl to the flop and everyone c/fs in the Sunday millions

    Never wanna see at your tables again: moorman1