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Tell us about your biggest &/or most memorable MTT Result. (Feel free to chirp).
Tikay10
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After @Vertigo won the SPT at the weekend he was absolutely buzzing, as it was his biggest result ever by a long, long way.
It reminded me of some of my (exceptionally rare) successes, & how they made me feel.
So tell us about your most memorable result ever. Live or Online, & does not matter if a £2 Online Freezeout or a big buck buy-in "Live - it's all relative. Does not have to be a 1st place.
Over to you.
It reminded me of some of my (exceptionally rare) successes, & how they made me feel.
So tell us about your most memorable result ever. Live or Online, & does not matter if a £2 Online Freezeout or a big buck buy-in "Live - it's all relative. Does not have to be a 1st place.
Over to you.
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I can remember using nearly half of my bankroll to enter one, just to see what it was like. I can't remember the exact figures but I played so tight it was unreal as I thought everybody else was like 1,000 times better.
7 hours later, I was on the F.T and loving it. it seemed like I knew what everybody was holding and the exact plays to make. I ended up finishing 4th for $1200 after over 8 hours play and thinking that I had this poker thing solved.
Less than a week later I final tabled a Poker Stars mtt for around $700 and really thought I was about to explode Luke Shwartz style onto the poker scene.
Having said that though the most satisfying was a 4th place in a UKOPS thingy a couple of years ago for £800 plus change. It meant more because it was on my "Home" site and against people who I respect as players. Also it was via a free ticket won in a forum comp.
A few hours later i was jumping round the living room celebrating the win , i remember it run into xmas eve , think i won 4 or 5 hundred quid though that's a bit hazy cuz it were about 10 years ago
I played one Saturday night , i was completely smashed , mashing buttons didn't even know what tournies i played , didn't know what time i went bed or anything
Logged in the next day and found i come 2nd in the mini for £150 apparently @ange1970 beat me heads up , i think the mini at the time had only been running for a week or two after it was introduced due to @MAXALLY idea
I'm brilliant at poker
Think my most memorable result was winning the Hitman main last year. I don't play £33 events very often and I'm sure there'll be other posters who will have won many Sky main events over the years, but getting a 4-figure win was way beyond my wildest expectations when I started playing poker.
Initially played the £7.20 satellite that usually starts around 6pm. Ended up bubbling the sat, so I bought into the main event out of frustration. Managed to sun-run my way to the final 7 and then won Qs v Ks all-in-pre for a huge pot to make the final table. Had a good run of the cards on the final table and come 1am in the morning, I'd won the Hitman main.
Quite remarkably, the person I beat heads-up was the same person who busted me on the bubble in the earlier satellite. Had I had busted the satellite much earlier, I probably wouldn't have played the main that night and got the win.
Think a close second to the main win was when came joint first in the eliminator freerolls leaderboard in October 2020 and won a load of UKOPS tickets. Not sure it counts as a memorable win as such, but getting the chance to play £110 events for free against some of Sky's best players was a great experience. I got destroyed by them, of course, but was still very enjoyable playing those tournaments. And I did manage to cash one of them at least.
Great to see the UKOPS eliminator freerolls running again this year - such good value and a great opportunity for micro stakes players like myself.
i remember getting heads up, and losing all my concentration.....as you do when you are freaking out cause you made the final two, if i remember correctly I was getting **** cards and being bullied, so I decided enough was enough and it was time to make a stand, with a mighty 57 off, (why, I still do not know to this day) haha, shoved it all in on the turn or the flop, after opponent betted out, my memory is a little patchy, anyway it was a complete bluff, got insta called too and that was that.........i always wondered if that hand was shown on the tele........coulda been my 15 mins of fame!
I have had other memorable games on other sites, most recent amazing wins for me have included, a sunday 8-game mini octopus (324 players) and a micro saturday KO (3922 players) both on stars, i was proper buzzing after those, the boys at work were once again diving for cover when they seen me turning up to recite every hand
that 8game heads up, is the most enjoyable match i have ever had, it was just one of those perfect games, win some hands lose some hands, fold here, fold there, magic those mixed games are..........in the micro saturday game, i remember texting my mate at every break, telling him Im still in there and how many left, i defo had a bit of the run good that night, one hand i shoved with QQ and the button called with AA, but i caught a q on the flop, i did manage a few huge folds as well that night, including kings, ak, aq and possibly aces.......they give you a wee video once you win a tourney on stars, its a nice wee extra, anyway the final hand in that game the sb shoved with ATo and I snapped with ACES......gg
Back in 2010 when i was starting out in my poker ‘journey’, I had been playing on a site which was free play, was good fun getting up to over a million chips and thinking how great you are at the game, sadly the site closed down so I decided to invest a few quid on a real money site.
There was some tournaments in the lobby which were poker points entry, I managed to win one which ( without my knowledge) put me into another tournament the following week.
The prize pool for the upcoming tournament was the top 4 won a seat to the WSOP Main Event
There were 1412 entrants, and it started around 7pm, I played fairly tight throughout ( normal game 😊) and come midnight I was still in .
Making the final table was a bit nice , there was a massive chip leader and I was about 3rd, one hand in particular stands out late on, I had KK on the button and the chip leader raises, I 3 bet and the small blind shoved, the big blind re- shoved, round to the chip leader who….. shoves.
At this stage there is 6 left, and the gambler in me tells me to rip it in, the sensible head tells me if the chip leader has any pair and hits he may knock out the other 2 leaving 4 winners., the gambler tells me don’t be a wimp.
The sensible head ‘won’ the argument and I folded.
The cards turn over.
Small blind has AQ
Big blind has AQ
Chip leader has…….. AA
No miracle help for the AQ guys, it was 2:30 am and my jaw hit the floor.
I had won a $15k package to the WSOP main event, $10k for the entry, and money for flights etc, staying at the Hotel Wynn, going to the Grand Canyon, Playing Golf and various other stuff.
Being fairly new to the game and it being a very deep structure, I played the game like I would a £2 deepstack, I made it through day 1d and knocked one guy out by raising with Q5hh , flop Q with 2 hearts , small blind bets 1k , big blind raised to 5k and I flat.
The turn was Ah, big blind shoves.
I call, he flips over AQ, the river was Kh.
To be honest I felt a bit bad knocking him out, as I was on a freeroll and he may have been saving up to play, meh, thems the breaks I guess.
My exit hand on day 2 was AK v QQ aipf, AK4 flop. Turn 10, river J, Stupid live rigged. 😊
I walked out with a previous winner Greg Raymer, he’s a big bloke.
Yikes, what a way to exit the WSOP Main.
after tipping the dealers and waitresses all that was left was to get me and the money out of luton safely
I had only been playing about a year.
I played the Thursday night £50 rebuy at Gala Notts.
I got down to the last 3. There was a big chipleader and myself and the other guy who i’d become friendly with over the year had similar chips.
This was going to be our biggest cash whatever happened. I can’t recall the exact amounts but 1st was north of 3k
My mate suggested that as the chipleader was definitely going to win we should just split 2nd and 3rd.
We tentatively put it to the chipleader. He gave it due consideration and then ‘reluctantly’ agreed but on the proviso that we were the ones who tipped the dealers and waitresses (Not 100%
We snap agreed.
I’ve never again seen a player leave the table as fast as he did. I got £1870 for my troubles.
I had a weird thing where if i ever won i’d buy something instantly as a kind of something to show for my wizardry.
So on the way home i popped into the 24 hour Asda at about 4 in the morning and bought the latest Spice Girls album. (Not 100% it was the Spice Girls)
I have been reminded off the superb deal i agreed to on numerous occasions since. Some even suggested that it was the worst deal of all time.
Possibly, just possibly, they may be right
I didn’t care though. I was rather chuffed with the win.
1. I'm the first person to win a tournament on Pokerstars using a mobile phone. The win was a massive £50.
2. I won a freeroll series on Party, where the winner played three HUSNGs against Boris Becker in Rozvadov (just before he was declared bankrupt). The evening was a charity event with Trickett, Pads and a bunch of German celebs I didn't recognise. I won 2-1 for $10k, despite being drunk and playing badly in front of the Twitch cameras. It's easy to see how people make mistakes on TV.
I made it to the dinner break on day one
Stuff poker dreams are made of.