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My fondest memories are of playing home games with my friends when we were all still fairly new to the game. My favorite tourney memory is my wsop circuit win. Good times :club:

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Playing Ko8e34 HU, calling down T8 on a Jxx board and hitting runner runner 9 7 to bust him...I think he had AJ or JJ or something. It is a memory I will cherish for the rest of my life.

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Playing Ko8e34 HU, calling down T8 on a Jxx board and hitting runner runner 9 7 to bust him...I think he had AJ or JJ or something. It is a memory I will cherish for the rest of my life.
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He has it wrong, but we were messing around playing a mixed game live hu match and the hand happened during LHE i flopped a set, he called with 8T on j53 flop or something on had perfect for a str8 and i ended up winning the match

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When I won my first live tournament. It was a limit holdem tournament and I won $2100. It was right before I was leaving on a road trip for a week to visit a bunch of friends. It definitely made the trip a lot better.

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Definately home games with friends. We would stay up all night playing poker tournaments, 5 card draw, and blackjack while eating pizza and burgers. Then we would sleep all day and wake up afternoon and go swimming/boating/fishing in the lake. I wish I was still in high school!

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For serious though.....About 6-9 months into my start in poker....Winning 2 straight satellites to get entry into the WPT Championship....Free trip to Vegas (1st time.), Staying at the Bellagio, Dinner with Daniel and TJ at Michael Mina. Then of course playing the tourney and busting late in Day 1. Pretty good considering I thought I wasn't half bad, but looking back, I didn't know much of anything. Good times.Sat to the right of Oppenheim, and across from Gus and Robert Mizrachi. This must've been 2005 I think.Edit: And FCP Homegames.

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First time I played in high school and commenting on how cool it was that all of my cards were the same suit.other than that..I don't really have any super fond memories. Always enjoy playing with friends, but have yet to win anything truly substanial

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He has it wrong, but we were messing around playing a mixed game live hu match and the hand happened during LHE i flopped a set, he called with 8T on j53 flop or something on had perfect for a str8 and i ended up winning the match
i swear you lie.i swear i won one of those 50 matches and it was this one.
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My first Vegas trip over 20 yrs ago when I played a stud 7 tournament and won $1800,00 and also my 1st bad beat in a home game when I had straight flush and got beat by a bigger straight flush.

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Two moments, both when I was really new.Bar league game ... last game of the season. To win a chipset, I not only need to win the tournament, but I need like an extra 5 or 10 points. Fortunately, there are bounties on the top 5 players. I bust the guy right over me at the final table, win the tournament and enough points for the chipset. Got me hooked.First time live in a casino ... at Harrah's in NO (pre-Katrina) ... don't really know what the hell I'm doing playing 3/6 limit. Somehow over the course of about 3 hours I'm up like $300-$400. It was a ridiculous run, and to this day I don't know how I did it. Can't remember anything about the hands, etc. But again hooked.I guess one more for good measure ... first time playing at Venetian. I want to play in the WSOP two days later (2006). Tournament is going like 8 hours or something, we're basically on the money bubble. I manage to push 77 into the BB (chip leader's JJ). On the river I need a 5, 7, T or diamond to win. It comes a 5, and I go on to chop 2nd/3rd money later (the same chip leader guy ended up getting 1st money). The WSOP event sort of sucked, but loved that tournament and Venetian is still my favorite room.

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My first Vegas trip over 20 yrs ago when I played a stud 7 tournament and won $1800,00 and also my 1st bad beat in a home game when I had straight flush and got beat by a bigger straight flush.
Was there a bad beat jackpot?
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In 2005 when I was just about broke after buying my townhouse I had very little wiggle room for luxuries. I had $37 left in my PS acount and played one of the first deepstack tournies on stars for $33 of it. Ended up chopping it for $5500 allowing to waste another 4 years playing this game :club:

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Somehow recovering from 1700 chips back to 15,000 chips in 20 minutes to ensure that I cashed in my first ever WSOP event last week.

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My first Vegas trip over 20 yrs ago when I played a stud 7 tournament and won $1800,00 and also my 1st bad beat in a home game when I had straight flush and got beat by a bigger straight flush.
Is that $180K or $1.8 brazillion?
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2005.specifically, misclicking HU for the ongame sunday major on the flop and pricing myself in, swearing and calling, and binking a ten with K10 vs A7 on a 7 high flop for what soon turned into 15k and my only major win.oh, and once i made two royal flushes at LHE within 7 hands of each other. but i was pretty hammered at the time so i barely remember it.

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Wow.. Thinking back to how well I actually did in those early bar league tourneys having *never* played any form of poker in my natural life. Man those were good times.Also a special shout out to just about any official FCP challenge... I run like god in all of them. Hell, to this day some people are convinced I'm actually good at poker just based on FCP challenge results.

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