Tourney What's the Deepest Run You've Ever Made? (2 Viewers)

[slisk250]

If I had my choice of making a final table at some WSOP event or crushing everyone at a future SOP Main Event, I'd take the latter. Screw the big money!!! I want one of those pistols.

 

[stocky]

Hot Nuts would love to hear from Nooker about Nooker's famous WSOP run.

Stocky was wondering how long it would be until there was a Nooker reference.

 

[RainmanTrail]

I put together a string of 17 or 18 tournaments without a cash several years ago. Does that count?

I also used to carpool to WSOP events with Nooker! He taught me everything I know about patting myself on the back!

 

[ohikthxbye]

Rio 3pm Deepstack, $235 buyin, 1200 entrants. Final tabled and ended up busting 8th for 4K.

Amazingly, one day later, final tabled the same tournament (roughly same amount of entrants/prizepool) and chopped it 6 ways (i was 3rd in chips) for 23K.

It was a great trip!!

 

[RainmanTrail]

Rio 3pm Deepstack, $235 buyin, 1200 entrants. Final tabled and ended up busting 8th for 4K.

Amazingly, one day later, final tabled the same tournament (roughly same amount of entrants/prizepool) and chopped it 6 ways (i was 3rd in chips) for 23K.

It was a great trip!!

That's a great run! Nice work!

 

[Stylin]

The one that always seems to come to mind for me was at Rivers in Pittsburgh. $225 buy in deepstack 110 entrys. 13 hours later I took first place for $5700. It was my birthday.

 

[bergs]

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.

That's when I had nearly 50 people in my condo to play in the tourney and I had tables on 3 floors. Never doing that again, that whole day was a nightmare.

 

[bergs]

I binked 3 tourneys on the Chiptalk/PCF circuit, a 50 person tourney at the Mirage, and came in 5th in a 150 person tourney for the Eastern Poker Tour that included Darwin Moon and Chris Moneymaker. Other than those, usually out third orbit.

 

[AK Chip]

I finished first in a Sahara $65 buy in. 200 plus. I don't remember the cash but I do have my tee shirt !!

 

[RainmanTrail]

I'd say my best run was back when Full Tilt Poker used to have those $200 buy-in Sunday Night HORSE tournaments. The first time I played it, I ended up taking it down for around 5 or 6k. They were usually only 100 player fields, so not that impressive, but the following week, I ended up taking it down again. And while I was playing it the second week, I decided to also play in a NLHE 14k Guaranteed at the same time (since playing one table at a time is just too boring online). I ended up winning both of them. So I won the Sunday Night HORSE back-to-back weeks and a 237 player NL event on the same night. That was pretty fun. I also won another 126 player $55 NL MTT two nights before that for about 2k. All-in-all, it was only about 15-20k, but it was definitely a great run, and a lot of fun.

I kept the screen shots from those tourney lobbies...

 

[Pokerdweebz]

Not that any of these are particularly impressive but when I was like 15-16 I won and finished 9th in the 9k player capped play money tournament. I also finished second in the daily dollar on full tilt for $1k with over 8k runners. I'm not going to say how old I was when this happened though.

I don't get to play live enough but I finished 10th and 14th respectively in my first two WSOP circuit events with ~180 and ~150 runners each. First hand of the final table in the first I get it in against "lucky birthday boy" w/ TT vs A7 and there's an ace in the window.

 

[Anthony Martino]

Party Poker 40K guaranteed $20+2 nightly buyin which had around 2,000 runners everytime. I came in 50th, 35th, 28th and 12th, just could never get over that hump and final table the damned thing. I think I won at most $300-400 while first place was usually 10-12 grand.

I still remember the beats deep into the event, even though this is probably going back about a decade.

We had just come back from a break, blinds 4k/8k and I'm on 90K in MP. Large stack in EP raises, I shove, another large stack in the blinds types "what is going on?" and reraises. I get heads-up with him and dead money in the pot, I've got Aces, he's got Kings. Instead of tripling up I see a King fall on the river and I'm out 28th.

Then when I finished 12th I was the short stack with 220K. Blinds were 15/30K and it folds to the SB who raises to 125K. I'm in the BB with AQ and make my stand, he's got AK, gg me.

 

[SpaceMonkey]

Several years ago (feels like a lifetime), back when I used to actually play cards, I was serious about tournaments for about 6 months. My best 3 finishes were:

WPT 10k - 20/353
Foxwoods $560 - 2/415
WSOP $1500 - 46/2521

Still tilted to this day (at various degrees) about how I finished each one of them.