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Old 01-23-10, 01:48 AM   #1
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Whether it be hitting 14 games in a row, Hitting 60% on point spreads for a full year, or turning $100 into $15,000, Discuss your best accomplishments here.
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Old 01-23-10, 01:51 AM   #2
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Turned 400 dollars into 12k playing blackjack and poker on Paradise Poker in a week. Includes winning a 55 dollar poker tournament for a cool 2900.
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Old 01-23-10, 02:07 AM   #3
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i have alot but lost it all so who cares
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Old 01-23-10, 02:23 AM   #4
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interesting question, how many will be honest
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Old 01-23-10, 02:43 AM   #5
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Starting 14-0 ats in the NBA playoffs 2 years ago
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Old 01-23-10, 02:45 AM   #6
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14-0 is very tough to do against spreads.
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Old 01-23-10, 02:52 AM   #7
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Currently I'm on a 25-5 run on NBA/college Bball. Betting spreads and totals. Best run I've had that I can think of.
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Old 01-23-10, 02:56 AM   #8
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My junior year of college i locked myself in my room during March Madness and had a buddy bring me a 30 pack and a grinder everyday for 5 days straight, oh yeah, I made 36k in a 5 day stretch with a max wager of 1k.....hit a lot of big dogs ATS and ML, needless to say I grabbed a few of the boys and we took a trip on me up to Montreal, that's a whole another story itself.
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Old 01-23-10, 02:57 AM   #9
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1)I went 18-1 Early this year over a 19 game span, was on a gambling break for most of it so i don't really count that

2) went from $750 to 8k in a few weeks

3) $50 to $1950 in 11 days, which i consider my biggest accomplishment because i needed $1500 within 15 days or i was going to have to take a cash advance to pay off a debt i had.
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Old 01-23-10, 03:13 AM   #10
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One bowl season a few years back I made around $9,000 in 5 days. Best new years party ever
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Old 01-23-10, 04:13 AM   #11
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Took $300 to Lake Charles (LDL Casino) and turned it into just over $2,000 playing Hold'Em bonus. Then won a Super Bowl poker tourny that weekend for $500. This was in 2008.
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Old 01-23-10, 04:28 AM   #12
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Broke to 40k in 6 months
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Old 01-23-10, 04:56 AM   #13
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i saved 20k with a flip of the switch in 2002 when my wisconson/unlv over/under was about to bury me but instead got a push
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Old 01-23-10, 05:03 AM   #14
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I've won and lost so much its not even memorable any more. Last week I won $19.5k Playing BJ in Biloxi. I had a blackjack with a $1300 bet. I won 17K in a poker tourney in Seattle a few years back. I have had a lot of big wins, but tons of smaller losses that over shadow the wins. This has actually been one of the best gambling years that I can remember. I am up probably 75k this past year. BJ poker and some sports betting.
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Old 01-23-10, 05:53 AM   #15
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onetime i left the casino when i still had money in my pocket hahahaha
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Old 01-23-10, 06:01 AM   #16
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turned $250 into $2 then the $2 into $3300 at the greyhounds all in the one afternoon back a few years ago
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Old 01-23-10, 06:01 AM   #17
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Glitch just made me laugh out loud
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Old 01-23-10, 06:05 AM   #18
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My run in this thread:

http://forum.sbrforum.com/nascar-bet...ng-streak.html
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Old 01-23-10, 08:51 AM   #19
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first tyson-holyfield fight, 2k at 19-1 paid off $40k
in the 15 years since it's been mostly bonus whoring to make a buck and then losing it in the stock market...
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Old 01-23-10, 09:00 AM   #20
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I had a few great streaks last year...12-1 twice, but unfortunately the plays were small. Quite a few years back I had a local screw me on half a point that gave me a push instead of a win on a game I went to. I went on a 12-0 run in NBA and cleared over three grand... I quit the book after I collected...
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Old 01-23-10, 09:02 AM   #21
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Love threads like these thinking back about the good days.

1) Xmas Eve/Day played Full Tilt from 12-6am turned $300 into $3,300.
2) Turned my last $200 I brought to the casino into $3,000 in 22 minutes.
3) Last college bball season turned a starting bankroll of $5k into $25k.
4) Hit 61% over the 2007 NFL season
5) Had USA for $750 the day they beat Spain like a year ago. Payed out nice.
6) Bet Giants spread and ML every game of the playoffs and Super Bowl which netted me about $7,600 the year they won the Super Bowl. Only because I am a diehard Giants fan.
7) On Full Tilt came in 400th/6,500+ in a FTOPS event. First payed over $300,000. I was chip leader with 500 people left.

Gambling Bad Times:
1) Got into trouble with a bookie for $3,600 when I was 16. I had like $250. Payed him weekly.
2) Lost $9,600 in the past two months.
3) Lost $1,000 at the casino in 31 minutes.
4) Went something like 1-9 on New Years Day for -$5,000+.
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Old 01-23-10, 09:12 AM   #22
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Hit a pick-4 at Saratoga one summer, one of those guaranteed jobs on a big card, 6-7 stakes that day (Go For Wand, etc.). Only played it for half stake spent about 18 or 36 on the ticket, paid 1400.
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Old 01-23-10, 09:14 AM   #23
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Winning 198 various contests online
Winning the World Championship of NFL Handicapping in Las Vegas(1997)
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Killing the slots in the late 90's for a huge chunk well over 250,000
Winning the Munson Bowl Pool
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Old 01-23-10, 09:16 AM   #24
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Quote:
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Winning 198 various contests online
Winning the World Championship of NFL Handicapping in Las Vegas(1997)
Hitting free 10 team parlay for $15,000
Killing the slots in the late 90's for a huge chunk well over 250,000
Winning the Munson Bowl Pool
Working as manager in Las Vegas sportsbooks
very nice...you are the guy I need to talk too! sending you a pm...
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Old 01-23-10, 09:18 AM   #25
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Winning 198 various contests online
Winning the World Championship of NFL Handicapping in Las Vegas(1997)
Hitting free 10 team parlay for $15,000
Killing the slots in the late 90's for a huge chunk well over 250,000
Winning the Munson Bowl Pool
Working as manager in Las Vegas sportsbooks
Worst experiences.......


Losing over 30,000 in a span of 27 days on a superior wiseguy video poker play in Vegas(only pro to lose over 2,000)......a few won well over 50,000.

Not getting off a 3900 wager at Matchbook(live betting) because their system crashed.......it lost.

Losing a large wager on the 1982 Rose Bowl game.
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Old 01-23-10, 09:20 AM   #26
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Came in 3rd place out of 1700 people in a $5 poker tourney on pokerstars. Financially , I had bigger winnings but that was a feat I was very proud of.
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Old 01-23-10, 09:23 AM   #27
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Came in 3rd place out of 1700 people in a $5 poker tourney on pokerstars. Financially , I had bigger winnings but that was a feat I was very proud of.
Very tough!

I doubt very few on this forum have ever finished in the TOP THREE in that event.
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Old 01-23-10, 09:32 AM   #28
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last year won 14 ATS NBA bets against the spread while testing a new sports wagering site turned $30 into $1760
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Old 01-23-10, 09:42 AM   #29
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Came in 3rd place out of 1700 people in a $5 poker tourney on pokerstars. Financially , I had bigger winnings but that was a feat I was very proud of.
That's tough to do out of 1700 entrants.
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Old 01-23-10, 10:04 AM   #30
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i hit 7 parlays in one night during baseball a couple years ago. I had put about 100.00 out in parlays from 4-7 teamers. Made a tone of money. 5 out of the 7 were 5 teamers or higher.
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Old 01-23-10, 10:15 AM   #31
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Hit the Tricast in the 1990 English Derby, can still remember the result.

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I had it all ways 6 bets at £2 each
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Old 01-23-10, 11:26 AM   #32
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onetime i left the casino when i still had money in my pocket hahahaha


- went 13-1 last year bowl games ats and totals.
- hit 8 team parlay,
- didnt bet mlb 2006 season

- lost 8 waggers in a row
- i tho there were out there
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Old 01-23-10, 11:37 AM   #33
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Old 01-23-10, 11:40 AM   #34
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Years back I put $100 on Full TIlt Poker. turned it into roughly $5k playing various cash games. Played this guy who said he was Devon Hester's cousin (played for Miami at the time) 1 on 1 for like 7 hours straight. I'd say I won like $4k off him (was a Cap game, so sick). Pulled out, put it on Hollywood Poker. Ended up 3 handed with 2 guys one of him said he was Mike Stanley (the ex Yankee Player) and the other one supposedly was Chris Elliot the actor. Chris was a huge donkey. I left with over $14k. Bought a huge rock for my girl, Got engaged.
A lot has changed but that rock still shines on her finger every day
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Old 01-28-10, 02:57 AM   #35
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One of Pauly's many poker tournament story's:

Below is a perfect example of how hard it is to hit the big one even if you are playing your cards right you still have to dodge the Jackasses/Donkeys/badplayers/ETC. that lucked their way thus far into the tournament.
Here I will tell you what happened: I was four positions behind the big blind and everybody before me folded I had an ACE QUEEN suited the blinds were I believe $30,000 and $60,000 so i did the norm and raised to $180,000 everybody folded except the big blind he called me flop came ACE FOUR QUEEN three different suits so flush or strait draw odds were slim to none he bet $360,000 i raised to $780,000 he called turn came EIGHT he checked I went all in which was only about $280,000 more he called (mmmm.
as i am writing this i can see where i went wrong but you will see that he had no business being in the the f---inghand ANYWAY! Sorry about the language but this is bringing up nightmares about the situation. Sorry about the curve ball I will get back to the subject now) note his stack was only about 200 thou larger than mine at the beginning of the hand. HERE COMES THE RIVER it's a FOUR. I know you want to know what the jackass had right? Okay you ready? It was a blank --- blankety blanking THREE FOUR OFF F---ING SUIT! Believe me if this was a live tourny I would have gotten up calmly walked over to the other side of the table to Congradulate him and calmly CHOKE HIM OUT COLD! It would have been worth the JAIL sentence because I know that what ever bail that would have been set the good players would have bailed me out for doing such a good deed.I can't believe this the tourny was over three weeks ago and I am still pppiiissseeedddd! You might say I should be happy be cause I won $223.00 but no I have not played since. It's just to frustrating knowing that 1st place paid around $30,000! and I was less than 1% away from it by coming in 67th place so I ended up losing over 99% of the $ because of this. To me this was a $29,777.00 loss! I believe I was in the tournament for around 9 1/2 hours of sheer torture. which if you figure it out
223 - 11 tourny fee
divided by 9.5 =$22.31 per. hr. that's a crappy investment in my book for the hell you have to go threw.So what if I outlasted over 31,800 players shitty reward for doing so isn't it?


PokerStars Tournament #219010003, No Limit Hold'em
Buy-In: $10.00/$1.00 USD
31928 players
Total Prize Pool: $319280.00 USD
Tournament started 2009/11/15 15:30:00 ET


Dear PAULYPOKER19,

You finished the tournament in 67th place. A USD 223.49 award has been credited to your Real Money account.

You earned 438.94 tournament leader points in this tournament. For information about our tournament leader board, see our web site at: pokerstars.com

Congratulations!
Thank you for participating.


I hope this is useful to all the poker players in this forum
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PS I have countless other results from poker tournaments if anyone would like to see them I will gladly post them on a separate thread just respond to this post by saying yes PAULYPOKER I want to see your other Tourny results and if enough of you want to see them I'll gladly post them
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