Originally Posted by daughton

Wierdly the first tourny I ever won was the first one I ever played.

Back in 2006 on Pacific Poker, some $5 MTT. I think I got $300 for first. Everything was so fast and I didn't know what I was doing, somehow i just ended up last with no one to play and I won.

I thought, 'christ, this is easy. I'm gonna play more of this.'

Been downhill ever since. :-(

Lol! Yep me too! I wish i never did win my first!!! I'd of saved myself years of heartbreak! After the win, you 3bet and call a huge flip near the next final table with qq 'HMMM, wtf? Why is their an ace in the window?' Next thing your on the rail giving a Victim Impact statement.

$2 mtt with 6,500 runners for about 2k i think back in 09 :)

I came home drunk after being out for wings and beer and decided to play and won a $5 tourney on stars for about $520 or so. Don't really rewmember many details lol.

My 2nd tourney win was the one i remember the best though. I won the $3r on stars for $6200 or something, which was huge for me way back then (and still would be lol). I remember trying to chop that many times at the final table, but one guy kept refusing, and I ended up coming back from the short stack with 6 left to win. The tourney lasted about 10 or 12 hours i think and finished at about 3 am and i had to work at 8, and I couldn't sleep cause i was so pumped up. I remember waking up my gf because i was typing so hard telling my friend about the win.

first ship was back in the day on bodog. was the 33re and shipped it for around 3k. went out and bought a yellow labrador and named him Bodog. Now i gotta call the fcker B0vada...

my first win was actually on my first deposit on ub i played the sunday dime 10+1 10 k guarenteed and it had like 1250 runners and ran like god on the final table for like almost $2700 it was a great feeling would love another big win gl all

 

Originally Posted by mapunk

$5.50 buyin, $500 guarantee on Bugsys Club. It got exactly 100 runners and I won $100. My A6 beat AQ all in pre for the win at exactly midnight on my birthday. woooooooooot!

Ahhh Bugsy's club. Good memories from that little POS site.


First non-satty non-180man MTT win was the stars 3r in Oct 2006. Had like $500 BR and won the ~2700ish player field for over 6k. Was so unreal

'07 PStars $11 fo for $887.....'09 FTP 14.5k $3ra for $3500...made money with 108 ppl left dead last with maybe 5 bbs left and grinded my way to the win.....had about 5 friends on the rail getting all chat crazy making prop bets...soooo much fun. Ended up shipping the railbirds 10%, wired my bank 2k and bought my wife a diamond......then played the FTOPS main event the following day hoping the run would continue...nope, stared at 25o 27o 29o etc (repeat) for a LONG time just loving my $540 buy in descision and BR management skills.....sure do miss some of my old "friends" on FTP.

my first mtt i won was on pokerstars the 2.20 6max grinding thru over 4,000 players ..shipped 1st for $1,306.99.. was my break from grinding the 4.40 180 mans .. i went into a sick heater the following month making almost 30k in wins .
PokerStars Tournament #303010554, No Limit Hold'em
Buy-In: $2.00/$0.20 USD
4209 players
Total Prize Pool: $8418.00 USD
Tournament started 2010/03/25 14:45:00 ETDear #1chrissii,

You finished the tournament in 1st place. A USD 1,306.99 award has been credited to your Real Money account.

Took me a little while, actually got my first 5 Figure score in a WCOOP in 09 before my first outright win, but i won some $27.50 tourney on stars, for like 1700(? figure could be wrong), then 2 nights later got my second win in a $22 on stars for like 1300 (?). Actually it wierdly felt WAY better to get the first win than my 5 fig WCOOP score...lol

 

Originally Posted by FouTight

Got home around 4am with my buddy and we wanted to go out clubbing whatever but obv everything is closed so I just took pics of myself with all my 20$ bills.

Pics or it didnt happen! haha nah sick story bro.. always love these reads!

 

Originally Posted by neuby

first ship was back in the day on bodog. was the 33re and shipped it for around 3k. went out and bought a yellow labrador and named him Bodog. Now i gotta call the fcker B0vada...

lol this is the best story ever. after binking for 3k buying a dog prob wouldn't be the first thing on my list but that's awesome.

My first outright win was in a rakeback promotional freeroll on UB for like $1500. Was prob the best feeling I've had in online poker. eight days later i binked an $11 freezeout for ~750$. I felt like i could crush anything and withdrew about half my roll ($1400) I bought a macbook pro and a droid galaxy. awesome times.

Black friday hit about 2 weeks later.

hi murkmanz my first ever win i think was the 7k freezeout on WilliamHill $11 it was brilliant and i have never looked back since :)but will never forget winning the 9k $5 rebuy on hills 2 nights in a row then the following week that was amazing !!

$11 tournament on ongame, $727 for the win, july 2009

 

Originally Posted by neuby

first ship was back in the day on bodog. was the 33re and shipped it for around 3k. went out and bought a yellow labrador and named him Bodog. Now i gotta call the fcker B0vada...

awesome

I think my first outright win was in a $10 KO on full tilt for $800. First win in a gauranteed tourney was $10 ko multientry on ftp in march 2011 for ~$4,600