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  1. keylow63 keylow63 is offline

    Farmingdale, NY
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    Dec 7th, 2008 (12/7/2008 7:48am)

    to book a win in a 1000+ field tourney? I prob played 1300 of them and dont even think i have a top 3 finish lol. curious to see how long it took u guys
  2. MYBLUEDOG MYBLUEDOG is offline

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    Dec 7th, 2008 (12/7/2008 7:59am) in reply to keylow63

    I booked my first 1423 field R&A on December 10, 2006, win. I won without taking any R&A's. I was playing 2 or 3 per week starting in August. I had several other ITM fiinishes (No R&A's taken).

    I haven't booked another large field win since. All though, I don't play them regularly anymore. High variance and I can make more money in SnG's & rings.
  3. Shrubbery Shrubbery is offline

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    Dec 7th, 2008 (12/7/2008 12:36pm) in reply to MYBLUEDOG

    it took me a little while, but its a nice feeling for sure
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  4. Unworncoma Unworncoma is offline

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    Dec 7th, 2008 (12/7/2008 12:44pm) in reply to Shrubbery

    bout 6 months but i seriously luckboxed it and in the end was very bad thing to have happened lol :)
  5. bonkey bonkey is offline

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    Dec 7th, 2008 (12/7/2008 12:49pm) in reply to keylow63

    I took down a 12000 player freeroll pretty much my first day. Haven't run good since lol.
  6. damnstraight damnstraight is offline

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    Dec 7th, 2008 (12/7/2008 12:56pm) in reply to Unworncoma

    I started playing on poker stars in mid April and got my first win in early in September. Ok there was only 999 people so it wasn't 1000+ but close enough. A couple of weeks later I nailed second place finish and this tourney was just under 1000 as well. Since then my highest finish in a tourney with over 1000 is 25th/2997. Currently I am showing 292 tournaments on OPR but less than half of these had a field size greater than 1000. I would estimate that back in September when I won my first tournament that I had played less than 100 tournaments with a field size of 1000 or more and probably closer to 50.

    Prior to this I played on party poker for a few months but aside from the 300k they seldom have any tournaments with over 1000 people, well maybe the 1 and 2 dollar games but I never even look at those. My best finish on Party was second in a field size of around 600. That was back in July.
  7. xxjondxx xxjondxx is offline

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    Dec 7th, 2008 (12/7/2008 1:40pm) in reply to keylow63

    Im pretty sure I havent won a tournament with over 1k people in it.
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  8. whitemonkey1 whitemonkey1 is offline

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    Dec 7th, 2008 (12/7/2008 3:41pm) in reply to xxjondxx

    i got 2nd in hubbles free role a few years ago 15k field
  9. NeverScaredB NeverScaredB is offline

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    Dec 7th, 2008 (12/7/2008 3:58pm) in reply to xxjondxx

     
    Originally Posted by xxjondxx View Post

    Im pretty sure I havent won a tournament with over 1k people in it.

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  10. SICKTIGHT311 SICKTIGHT311 is offline

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    Dec 7th, 2008 (12/7/2008 4:17pm) in reply to keylow63

    I won my 24th ever online MTT and it had 1,644 runners. My 2nd win in a 1000+ player field came about 2,000 MTTs later. Quite a span.
  11. leftygrove leftygrove is offline

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    Dec 7th, 2008 (12/7/2008 4:29pm) in reply to keylow63

    i remember taking down a freeroll with like 5k entrants in my first like 6 months of playing. god knows how bad i played that tourney
  12. SickHand89 SickHand89 is offline

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    Dec 7th, 2008 (12/7/2008 4:39pm) in reply to leftygrove

    Yesterday I played a $1 2900 man MTT, had about 30-40 times the bb from 1000-100 players left, but just lost it at the end, got short stacked and ended up running into AK when trying to steal and went out 30th. It was pretty brutal. I think that's about my best finish in a 1000+ tourny. =[
  13. geniewiz geniewiz is offline

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    Dec 7th, 2008 (12/7/2008 5:22pm) in reply to keylow63

    got 4th in a field of 5K. Never knew someone could win that many flips, and hit crucial runner runners.
  14. daughton daughton is offline

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    Dec 7th, 2008 (12/7/2008 6:15pm) in reply to keylow63

    Still never done it. Closest I've been is 5th....once, but thats because i'm pants
  15. IBGrindin IBGrindin is offline

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    Dec 7th, 2008 (12/7/2008 6:41pm) in reply to daughton

    won the 3r 2.28.07

    it had about 3.3k peeps in it
     
  16. MarkFSU1 MarkFSU1 is offline

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    Dec 7th, 2008 (12/7/2008 6:43pm) in reply to daughton

    took me about a year, won the 10r on stars in January and then won it again in June. Ive FT prolly about 10 others with 1000+ ppl
     
  17. keylow63 keylow63 is offline

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    Dec 8th, 2008 (12/8/2008 4:59am) in reply to geniewiz

     
    Originally Posted by geniewiz View Post

    got 4th in a field of 5K. Never knew someone could win that many flips, and hit crucial runner runners.

    Not positive but i think 5th is my best finish as well, and i can prob count on 1 hand how many final tables i have.

    Anyway, reason for my post. Do you guys think they are worth it or to much varience?
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  18. Barka Barka is offline

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    Dec 8th, 2008 (12/8/2008 5:10am) in reply to keylow63

    First attempt on stars :) not come close since though, beginners luck springs too mind!
  19. Frenchy616 Frenchy616 is offline

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    Dec 8th, 2008 (12/8/2008 6:39am) in reply to Barka

    I Think they are def worth it, its all about playing at a level you are comfortable at! I am slowly Learning that.

    And for me winning tournys, umm my best is a 1024 field entry but that was when i played 2 dollar games, it was the quintuple shootout. Sense then ive final tabled the 11 dollar tourny on stars which is normally right around 1K people 4 times now, 2 of which were 2nd place and 4th place. Um other than that a 31st place finish in the sunday million. then the super tuesday satty top 12 got in idk if that counts, i took the money so that was 1K. and then i FT a 109 tourny.

    Not very good at finishing as you can tell, seems like their is that 1 crucial hand that gets me every time in the 11 dollar tourny. I get to like 50 left and i always get in good but get sucked out on, QQ will lose to A10 or something. Just really bad luck i guess.
  20. driftdc5 driftdc5 is offline

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    Dec 8th, 2008 (12/8/2008 7:39am) in reply to xxjondxx

     
    Originally Posted by xxjondxx View Post

    Im pretty sure I havent won a tournament with over 1k people in it.

     
  21. fabuluis fabuluis is offline

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    Dec 8th, 2008 (12/8/2008 9:25am) in reply to IBGrindin

    it took me close to150 times to win two of those huge .50 and 1.00 tourneys with over 2500-3300 players in each on stars
  22. bk3686 bk3686 is offline

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    Dec 8th, 2008 (12/8/2008 10:43am) in reply to keylow63

    At the end of October I won my first MTT with about 1k players. I've been playing since 06' but haven't but near enough volume in mtt's with fields of this size. Usually play sng's.
  23. VBILLER VBILLER is offline

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    Dec 8th, 2008 (12/8/2008 1:50pm) in reply to keylow63

    lol about 6 months of playing the 10:00 on tilt 4 years ago
    but once you win one they just keep comeing
    but first you need to lay AQ to a utg shove at the FT

    RICE
     
  24. funnygut funnygut is offline gone hollywood

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    Dec 8th, 2008 (12/8/2008 1:59pm) in reply to driftdc5

     
    Originally Posted by driftdc5 View Post

     
    Originally Posted by xxjondxx View Post

    Im pretty sure I havent won a tournament with over 1k people in it.

    sigh cosign
    2/1511, 5/1200~, 5/2k~, 4/3k~ in the last six weeks, but biggest ouright win 1/360 $9 like eight months ago
     
  25. Popperhead Popperhead is offline

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    Dec 8th, 2008 (12/8/2008 2:34pm) in reply to funnygut

     
    Originally Posted by funnygut View Post

     
    Originally Posted by driftdc5 View Post

     
    Originally Posted by xxjondxx View Post

    Im pretty sure I havent won a tournament with over 1k people in it.

    sigh cosign
    2/1511, 5/1200~, 5/2k~, 4/3k~ in the last six weeks, but biggest ouright win 1/360 $9 like eight months ago

    me 2 a 360 9 dollar

    6/2998
    3/1754

    are two i can rmemeber
  26. OfxAxRevolution OfxAxRevolution is offline

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    Dec 8th, 2008 (12/8/2008 3:25pm) in reply to keylow63

    took me 2 1/2 years of playing......and i still havent won a fuking tourney

    my best finishover 1000 players is

    2/1127 in the Daily Double -A in october 2008

    and a some 10 -20place finishes......gets so frustrating!!!!!!!
  27. Ent0urageKid Ent0urageKid is offline

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    Dec 8th, 2008 (12/8/2008 4:21pm) in reply to keylow63

    still tryin myself
  28. redone611 redone611 is offline

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    Dec 8th, 2008 (12/8/2008 5:12pm) in reply to Ent0urageKid

    Got my first and only 1000+ field win in June about four months after starting to play online. My first Sunday hundred thousand on PS. Since then I have come close a couple of times in the Daily's and Midnight Madness on FT but what I have noticed is that for me to get to those points I have to run ridiculously well. That said I have been playing live poker with the occasional tourney for more than a decade so count the time as you will.
  29. big4390 big4390 is offline

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    Dec 8th, 2008 (12/8/2008 6:54pm) in reply to keylow63

    Lets see........ I took down the 5r on ps about 16 mos after i started playing poker regularly.
     
  30. witcher1984 witcher1984 is offline

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    Dec 8th, 2008 (12/8/2008 7:04pm) in reply to keylow63

    what's a win? i shoot for ft bubbles
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