Craziest sattelite stories...

Super sick man, great story. Results on if you played the pca or not?

not the sickest story but played a 26$ satty to the 750k, super turbo obv and round about 20 ppl and first got the ticket.
second hand AA<JTs and I was down to 10 cos he was sb before and had 10 chips less than me so I had 1/2 of a bb lolz..end up shipping it anyway and since by the time I was rolled for 26$ mtt's I obv played the 750k cos 200$ wouldn't have been the largest br increase so I played it..not rly part of the satty story anymore but I busted 5 ppl from the money against scott clemens with AA<KK on a AK23K board, RIGGED! :D

Not too crazy but turned 4 $26 tokens into 3 FTOP seats. I ran pretty hot and dominated. Not a ton to show in the FTOPS though.

put up 110.00 in a live 10person sat. winner gets seat ended up winning it for the 1050.00 state championship, got 24th out of 900 and made 6k. not bad.

Ok, the first year I played online was 2005. In January 2005 I had a coworker tell me about PStars and how he had won a gazzilion dollars. I said, "ok, send me $10". He did and I quickly lost it. I proceeded to deposit $50 bucks and played for a couple of months. In March I was broke again, but had some FPPs. I spent 100 FPPs to play a WSOP satty which awarded like 32 seats to the next Sattelite. I placed in the top 32 and went on to make the final table of the next satellite.

In the next satellite I came to the FT as the big stack and somehow ran over the table with a mixture of right time bluffing and lucksacking my way to heads-up. The first place prize was a WSOP entry and 1K spending money...Second place was zero dollars and a pocket full of baby tears. I was maybe 10 times the size of the other guys stack and he says to me, "I wish second place paid something." I said ok, how about I ship you 500 and you fold the rest of your hands to me. Done deal and my bags are packed to the WSOP...

I will never forget the WSOP that year. My first year playing poker and there I am at the RIO with 2K people shuffling chips in the room. I read a few books to prepare in hopes that I could somehow money...At that point in time I was a stock room manager at a Nike factory store making 26K a year. The 12K minimum in the money win would be about half my salary...

I was so nervous on the first day, I don't think I played a hand in the first hour, then I caught 10 7 suited on the button and decided to make a raise. The BB calls and the flop comes 10 7 7. I was able to get 3/4 of my opponents stack and was now sitting on 17K. The same (flop a boat) situation happened about 30 minutes later and I was up to about 22K.

I played well throughout the tourney, bluffing a few times, playing tight but aggressive and made it to day 3 which was the bubble day. I was sitting on about 60K (not very large at all) with 3 left to go to the money. My stack was plenty large enough to coast to the money and that was my plan. I'm sitting at the table with Lee Watkinson and he raised with me in the hijack. I look down to QQ and stopped to think for a while...I could reraise here and have him push me (he had a huge stack at the time and I knew he would play the bubble aggressor) or I can fold and make 12K in a matter of minutes...I folded. Still to this day I wonder if I should have played, but I was broke looking at 5 figures off of FPPs.

I made it to day four and my final table included Mike the Mouth and Joseph Hachem (the year he won). I was physically sick by this point (I guess I should have washed my hands more) and catching complete garbage. I was short stacked and I played for maybe 5 hours at this table and had AA once and nothing else worth pushing with. Hachem raised from the Hijack once and I reraised all in with 98 suited thinking he was stealing. He called with A5/6 and I sucked out and doubled up (the only hand I won at the table with a caller). My final hand I had K9 suited and Matusow (who had been pretty aggressive) raised under the gun. I was in the SB and pushed in hopes that my small stack would entice the BB and Matusow to call. BB folded, Matusow called with AK and I was out in 326th place.

21K payday and I came home and only placed 1K back online. With no idea of the concept of bankroll management I played the Sunday Million a few times and that 1K was gone...I just started playing again in 08 and I have been grinding my 50 deposit on PS and FT hoping to increase my roll enough to get out of the micros...

Oh well, good times and a great story, the WSOP will always be with me, hopefully I will be back someday and can take the knowledge I have accumulated over the years to an even deeper run...

I hope you enjoyed!

pvas2.. sure that guy used to play the sunday million sattys tickets and cash out the tickets -until he played the turbo $11 one thats starts 45min before, the one that boots u straight in without a chance to unregister the $$$.
Only went and took 1st. -plays proper games now i think..

 

Originally Posted by DharmaMC

Ok, the first year I played online was 2005. In January 2005 I had a coworker tell me about PStars and how he had won a gazzilion dollars. I said, "ok, send me $10". He did and I quickly lost it. I proceeded to deposit $50 bucks and played for a couple of months. In March I was broke again, but had some FPPs. I spent 100 FPPs to play a WSOP satty which awarded like 32 seats to the next Sattelite. I placed in the top 32 and went on to make the final table of the next satellite.

In the next satellite I came to the FT as the big stack and somehow ran over the table with a mixture of right time bluffing and lucksacking my way to heads-up. The first place prize was a WSOP entry and 1K spending money...Second place was zero dollars and a pocket full of baby tears. I was maybe 10 times the size of the other guys stack and he says to me, "I wish second place paid something." I said ok, how about I ship you 500 and you fold the rest of your hands to me. Done deal and my bags are packed to the WSOP...

I will never forget the WSOP that year. My first year playing poker and there I am at the RIO with 2K people shuffling chips in the room. I read a few books to prepare in hopes that I could somehow money...At that point in time I was a stock room manager at a Nike factory store making 26K a year. The 12K minimum in the money win would be about half my salary...

I was so nervous on the first day, I don't think I played a hand in the first hour, then I caught 10 7 suited on the button and decided to make a raise. The BB calls and the flop comes 10 7 7. I was able to get 3/4 of my opponents stack and was now sitting on 17K. The same (flop a boat) situation happened about 30 minutes later and I was up to about 22K.

I played well throughout the tourney, bluffing a few times, playing tight but aggressive and made it to day 3 which was the bubble day. I was sitting on about 60K (not very large at all) with 3 left to go to the money. My stack was plenty large enough to coast to the money and that was my plan. I'm sitting at the table with Lee Watkinson and he raised with me in the hijack. I look down to QQ and stopped to think for a while...I could reraise here and have him push me (he had a huge stack at the time and I knew he would play the bubble aggressor) or I can fold and make 12K in a matter of minutes...I folded. Still to this day I wonder if I should have played, but I was broke looking at 5 figures off of FPPs.

I made it to day four and my final table included Mike the Mouth and Joseph Hachem (the year he won). I was physically sick by this point (I guess I should have washed my hands more) and catching complete garbage. I was short stacked and I played for maybe 5 hours at this table and had AA once and nothing else worth pushing with. Hachem raised from the Hijack once and I reraised all in with 98 suited thinking he was stealing. He called with A5/6 and I sucked out and doubled up (the only hand I won at the table with a caller). My final hand I had K9 suited and Matusow (who had been pretty aggressive) raised under the gun. I was in the SB and pushed in hopes that my small stack would entice the BB and Matusow to call. BB folded, Matusow called with AK and I was out in 326th place.

21K payday and I came home and only placed 1K back online. With no idea of the concept of bankroll management I played the Sunday Million a few times and that 1K was gone...I just started playing again in 08 and I have been grinding my 50 deposit on PS and FT hoping to increase my roll enough to get out of the micros...

Oh well, good times and a great story, the WSOP will always be with me, hopefully I will be back someday and can take the knowledge I have accumulated over the years to an even deeper run...

I hope you enjoyed!

Great post. Enjoyed reading it :)

 

Originally Posted by sheridan204

We know each other?

hidden brag?

 

Originally Posted by account99

I played it. Had 1 of the best times of my life, and cashed in 97th place for like $12k.

wow... great

Chris Moneymaker has a good satty story but I forget how it goes.

A while back I sattied into the Sunday Mil. 1st and 2nd got seats. I was 4/4 at the ft with <2BB. Folded my rags and watched the CL knock out both players with QQ vs. AA & KK

Know you're talking about parlaying satty into $ so ill give u that one first and then funny one.. Went to deal 1st World Poker Challenge and got there 1 day early and played a $30 satty to event #1 and binked satty after being down to $ $30 chips (back then u got 300 chips and blinds started 5-10) and won satty and had to play event #1 and not deal and shipped it for $47k & never dealt again on circuit.

Funniest story was a few years later in Reno and this playing satty to the main event ($5k). I was guaranteed a seat and had maybe 70-80k chips and there was this kid on my right who was really nice but he was tellin everyone how he had to win a seat and how big this was for him. There was a crazy asian that had maybe 95k and he was shoving almost every hand ... Well, asian guy finally folds and this kid had been folding forever and finally had to stick in his last 12k (blinds were 2k-4k) and we are hand for hand for 20 seats and I call with AK and another guy calls.. Board comes T85 and the kid almost jumps out of his chair all excited and turn and river comes 67 and the other guy tosses his hand into the muck after seeing the TT & look at kid and tell him sorry but I rivered him and it looked like he was about to cry & then I gave huge smile and threw my hand away and he was so dang happy.

Oh well, good times and a great story, the WSOP will always be with me, hopefully I will be back someday and can take the knowledge I have accumulated over the years to an even deeper run...

I hope you enjoyed![/QUOTE]

a few points and a dream. pretty cool story dude(DharmaMC)

In the spring of 2010 I played in a $350 live satty in my home town for the wsop main event . 44 runners , blinds started at 10, 20 with a 50,000 starting stack. Deep, deep structure. It took 14 hours to play out. I was chip leader going into FT. When 4 handed I was second in chips. 1st place was probably the best player left in the tourney ( ya better than me ) he was UTG and made a std raise . He was cl. I look down at ace 6 hearts in the BB. I knew he was easily capable of laying a decent hand down. I shove about 26 BBs in his face. He tanks then calls with ace k os. I look at him and say I run good, man. I get a 6 on the flop, 6 on the river.
I was obv cl then. I make a move a few hands later with 77 on the button when a tight passive dude 3rd in chips opens. I put him allin and bb decides to make a stand with ace 8 clubs. Flop comes with 2 7s. I flop quads. I eventually get heads up with the player I beat when he held ace k. I win, he gets second for $3500.
I then get 85th in the main event for $80K