Tourney What's the Deepest Run You've Ever Made? (1 Viewer)

[MoscowRadio]

Tonight I got close to final tableing a $10k GTD tourney on Bovada. There was 1,671 entrants overall and I got knocked out in 16th when I flopped top two with QsTs and Villain went runner-runner for a straight with JhTc. (n) :thumbsdown:

What's the deepest run you've ever made?

 

[tommythecat]

Deepest I have gone was second place at the Majestic Star in Gary, IN. IIRC it was a $65 entry and there were ~60-70 people in the tourney. I think I took home around $800. I had a 4-1 chip lead on the guy when we went heads up.

 

[Luk_nuts]

Chopped a $2.75 NL tourney HU on Pokerstars a few years ago with 2050 runners for $718

 

[stocky]

Online quite a few first and seconds in $10-$20 tourneys. Can't remember how many runners but were around 1000.

 

[stocky]

That was a few years ago. Never play online anymore really.

 

[slisk250]

Never played a multi table in a casino. I've won a few sit & gos. I play cash 95% of the time.

 

[links_slayer]

I binked a 180 player $2 tourney on stars many moons ago.

Most memorable was chopping the $125 daily at Aria w/ 5 of us left (out of 112) for just under $1500

 

[Luk_nuts]

I binked a 180 player $2 tourney on stars many moons ago.

Most memorable was chopping the $125 daily at Aria w/ 5 of us left (out of 112) for just under $1500

I chopped that one too, even though I shouldnt have

The us-americans talked me into it

 

[Anthony Martino]

I made a final table in a Foxwoods Casino tournament when I really didn't know what I was doing. I think I finished 7th, I played so bad.

Online for a larger-field event I used to play the Party Poker 40K guaranteed nightly tourney ($20+2 buyin) and they would have 2,000 or so players. First place was usually 10-12K and I came in 50th, 35th, 28th and 12th. I just couldn't get over that hurdle and final table the damned thing. I still remember some of those finishes too:

28th place - We had just come back from a break, blinds were 4/8K and I'm sitting on 90K. Large stack in EP raises, I shove from MP with Aces. Another large stack in the blinds types into the chat box "what is going on?" and reshoves and I get heads-up with him, he's got Kings. Flop is T52.....2.....K and I'm busted.

12th place - Blinds are 15/30K and I'm the short stack with 220K in the BB. Somehow, against all odds, it folds all the way around to the SB, who raises to 125K. I have AQ so I get my money in, only to be coolered when he flips AK. Le sigh.

I think I recall coming in something like 95th in a PokerStars WCOOP event, some REALLY large field, well beyond the 2,000 players in that Party Poker event, but don't recall exactly. EDIT: Just did some checking, it was the 2006 WCOOP Event #8 with 1800 runners for a $200 HORSE tourney that I came in 95th, so meh. Bottom line, I've never won any life changing money in tournaments, I've gone deep and been close to some big paydays, but haven't gotten there yet.

 

[Thisfiendis138]

$1 NLH buy in on Party Poker (2005/2006) 1356 runners finished 3rd for $156 (QQ vs. A10 off, flop A... GG)
$5 Limit Holdem (reg'd by mistake) on Stars not long after Party Poker jumped the US ship 1722 runners finished 7th $15something (short stack got it in JJ vs BB's A2 off, Aces full'o deuces....GG)
Both took bout 6hrs, I was a rookie then and just an absolute donk'n noob fish (nothings really changed... Except I'm no noob anymore) but I remember being so excited about the FT, hope to play online in a federally regulated market someday

 

[Hot Nuts]

Riverstars $1 NLH 2040 players. Finished 1st for tree fiddy ($350). Took about 6.5 hrs. Wasn't worth it to me. Leader wouldn't chop when it was down to 3-4.

Same deal with 840 players, finished 2nd for like $118.

 

[Ronoh]

Wouldn't know it from any PCF/CT showings/meat-ups but I used to be pretty good at low limit online tournament poker back in the day.

Four 1st place hits at Stars for $4000+ and a 3rd in poker.com holiday freeroll for another 4k.

Wsopme seat on stars in a $27 triple shootout

Trip to the Playboy Mansion on Absolute

Have binked 128 and 256 man HU tournaments

1st in fields of 1000+ at least 3 times, biggest field binked was around 3100 I think (on a stars $1 freeze out heheh)

1st in fields of at least 100 in most formats stars offered... NLHE, PLHE, LHE, PLO, PLO8, LO8, Stud h/l, 5draw, Badugi, Razz, HORSE, possibly something else I can't think of off the top of my head. Bugged me for awhile that Black Friday hit without having checked limit omaha high and stud high off the list

 

[BGinGA]

Back in the PartyPoker days (2004? 2005?), I won a $5 no-limit hold'em event with 1000+ entries for around $1300. Literally hundreds of single-, double-, and triple-table sit-n-go tourney wins, when I was multi-table playing online a lot -- I was working 40 hours a week, and playing online over 100 hours a week.

Probably a couple-dozen top-50 cash finishes in large online $20 tournaments on Full Tilt, with a half-dozen or so final tables. All this before black friday, of course.....

 

[Luk_nuts]

I was working 40 hours a week, and playing online over 100 hours a week.

Healthy life style :


Online poker has gotten a LOT tougher, compared to 5-7 years ago, so nowadays it takes way more than just playing solid, as most of the people play solid.

 

[BGinGA]

PartyPoker was a gold mine imo. Bummed when they pulled out of the US market, almost as bad as BF.

 

[Puggy]

P* some years ago. NLHE $10+R multitable tourney. Came second for about $3 000. STT - > 90 player Sit'n'Go's, likewise Dave, crushed many of those during the years.
Not that many hours though. When I played a lot, twas about 40 hours a week.

Once I've annette_15'd, but it was only a STT. Covered my holecards with black plastic tape and played it through. And nailed it.

 

[BGinGA]

Duplicate

 

[Anthony Martino]

PartyPoker was a gold mine imo. Bummed when they pulled out of the US market, almost as bad as BF.

^^^^ This. The O8 cash games were SO good, everyday was like Christmas!

 

[Ronoh]

Online poker has gotten a LOT tougher, compared to 5-7 years ago, so nowadays it takes way more than just playing solid, as most of the people play solid.

Being as this thread is based on tournament poker I am going to say I highly doubt the field is any more difficult in small stakes high turnout MTTs

 

[Trihonda]

Scooped the WCB this year, when I had the odds stacked against me for most of the tourney. I think we had around 60 entries/buy-ins? I was hovering around 10bb for over half the time, and survived literally 30+ all-ins.

Otherwise, I've won a local $50 bar tourney a few times, with around 40-50 entries. To call this a bar game is a little deceiving, as several pro players sit this game, it has dealers, and a FT tourney director. It's a tough field.

 

[detroitdad]

July 3rd, two years ago a friend texted me at work and started twisting my arm to play in a THUR. night charity game. $30.00 buy in, NLHE and PLO r x r. I said probably not, worked all day and was tired.

I mentioned it to the wife. She said that she had to open on the 4th and was going to bed early. I might as well go play. I told her that it being a charity game I'd probably be home early.

119 players, 30.00 buy in with a rebuy or add on, start with 30k in chips.

On the first break I had 29k. Card dead, only played a couple of hands. It was your standard crazy charity tourney. At the break I do the add on for another 30k for 30 bucks.

First hand after the break I pick up A/K. I call a raise with a few other callers. I hit top two. I'm on the button btw. Initial better shoves, folds to me. I call. He roles over top and bottom. My hand holds up. Stack now at 100k. Two hands later I flop a set and take my stack to 200k. I ran hot for about an hour before going card dead again. At this point I was around 350k and sitting pretty so I was able to weather being card dead without having to do something stupid.

I don't remember the actual payouts. It was 130 in the morning. I was exhausted. I do the math. Suggest a four way chop which would have netted us around 650-700 a piece. Dude says no. He plans on winning it. The next hand he is eliminated.

I suggest a three way chop. Another dude says yes, the third guy says no. A few hands later I knock him out.

I end up chopping first and second place for just over 1k.

 

[Luk_nuts]

Being as this thread is based on tournament poker I am going to say I highly doubt the field is any more difficult in small stakes high turnout MTTs

You couldnt be further from the truth

 

[BGinGA]

survived literally 30+ all-ins

You should make a killing at PLOsay in the PCF Poker Room.

 

[JFCJ]

Bubble @ the 2015 WCB

 

[Mr Tree]

I've binked a $4000+ payout on a Bovada tournament. Don't remember total runners but it was a four digit number. Also several final table appearances with the same numbers. Highest in a big live tournament was my 50-something finish out of a couple thousand in the WSOP circuit event last year.

 

[Socraticd]

I was working 40 hours a week, and playing online over 100 hours a week.

wow... that's... that's several hours.

PartyPoker was a gold mine imo. Bummed when they pulled out of the US market, almost as bad as BF.

I STILL have regrets for not getting more serious about playing/studying poker back then. I was just playing for fun and was HORRIBLE, without any real attempts to learn the game or take any risks as far as depositing a decent chunk to start grinding up a bankroll. Looking back on it, I legitimately gave up tens of thousands, at least...

Didn't get serious about playing and learning until a couple years before BF, even though I'd played on and off since pre-Moneymaker.



As for tourney runs, I've always been a cash player, so really nothing to write home about.

 

[BGinGA]

Yep, slept around 4 hours/day, worked around 8/day M-F, pretty much all the rest was nonstop online play. Some days I didn't bother to sleep.

 

[Forty4]

I took down the first tournament I played in at a casino. Don't remember the details (probably 30-40 people) but it was a rebuy and I won about $600. The one I'm most proud of (still haunts me) though was a 40 person satellite that the top ten (maybe it was five) came back to play in another 40 person field for the chance to go to the WSOP. I made it 5 spots from going to the WSOP, two coin flips didn't go my way and I was out. I think if one or both go my way I would have won. Probably the closest I'll ever come to playing in the ME. The first win was the major downfall as then became obsessed with the game and chips. If only I knew then that I should have spent the $1/per for Paulson chips.

 

[courage]

Won 2 small buy-in tourneys ($25?) on the old jetset poker back in the day, a few hundred players, paid out $1200 and $1400. Did pretty well on Full Tilt but never 1st in a big event.

Some nice runs in local Horseshoe in smaller events. Side bar: fav was coming back to win single table SNG after being down to 1 black chip and winning buffet prop bet from the floor.

Best live prolly 3rd in 250 player WSOP circuit event, paid $4k. Coolered by aggro winner. Harold what's-his-name was in the field, ran deep in ME that year (shown across from me in ugly shirt. I needled and 3bet him without mercy lol).

 

[krafticus]

I once chopped a 2 person $10 buy in tournament. It was a grind, but my then 8 year old was tough.

Seriously, I cashed at one of the NH games at Bergs place (before it moved to chickens place). I was 3rd in chips and we had a crazy 8 or 9 way chop. Would have busted early, but a card was exposed during the deal. Would have had KK but ended up with K7. Flop was K high. Turn A...and Harley had AA.