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 First winning hand..., MozMan, 16. Jun 2003 15:49 | ||
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| Just out of curiousity... anybody remember what their first winning hand was? The first winning hand I ever had was at my B&M in a 3-6 game (I don't count anything before that because is was all either play-money online or the only two times I ever played penny-anti home games and didn't really know what I was doing). Anyway, my first winning hand was a wheel. I remember the table and seat (table 6, seat 7), but I don't remember anything else about the hand... except that I thought I was pretty cool because I knew enough to call it a 'wheel' when I turned my cards! :) LOL! -Moz "Great. I've got a trig midterm tomorrow, and I'm being chased by Guido, The Killer Pimp." | ||
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| Re: First winning hand..., Scrubbie, 16. Jun 2003 15:58 | ||
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| I don't know how you remember that!!?! I have played more hands in poker, than I have with myself. (OK ... Well, maybe not that many) I can't even remember either first! Scrubbie "Are you my Caucasian" | ||
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| Re: First winning hand..., 4 POKER, 16. Jun 2003 16:37 | ||
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| Hell No! That was waaaay too long ago for me! But...I do remember a hand that I won in my real early days of poker, and that was in a $10-20 stud game. I had rolled up sevens, hit quads on the turn, and was in the hand with another player who had quad sixes! What a pot that was! That is a hand that I'll never forget and I can still remember the exact table # and seat # that I was in. It was table#17, and I was in seat #6. Just thinking about that hand makes me smile again! 4 POKER | ||
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| Re: First winning hand..., balik, 16. Jun 2003 18:02 | ||
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| Don't know if it was my first hand, but it was sure my first BIG hand. I call a preflop raise in the button with KTs. (4 players to the flop) The flop comes A Q J rainbow 3 people call to the turn. (I only call here, waiting to raise on the turn.) The turn is a trash card, and I raise only to get reraised by the preflop raiser, This chases the other one out and I cap the betting. The river brings more trash. The board isn't paired and there is no flush draw possible. (I have the nuts.) preflop raiser checks to me, I bet he calls and I crack his trip This was a $6 - $12 game and it was my first huge pot. He told me later he put me on Aces & Queens during the turn betting, but when I capped the bet he feared the Straight. | ||
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| Re: First winning hand..., balik, 16. Jun 2003 18:05 | ||
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| Just read my last post, somehow the fact that he had trip Aces got missed. Sorry. He was also betting UTG. The blinds folded before the flop. | ||
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| Re: First winning hand..., TKarrde, 17. Jun 2003 06:32 | ||
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| I'd tell you mine but it is anti-climatic. I sat down at a $5-$10 with a friend about 2am after losing $150 at Black Jack. We were just goofing off. I really knew nothing about the game at the time (except how the hands were ranked). I had Qxo and stayed in for the flop. I stayed in for a lot of flops. Don't remeber what was in the flop but there was a Q. I bet. Everyone folded. That was it. I think the table was sad to see me go after dropping $150 in about an hour. TKarrde "That's for making me come to Mars. You know how much I hate this F***ING PLANET!!" | ||
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| Re: First winning hand..., vanagon40, 17. Jun 2003 08:28 | ||
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| I don't remember my first winning hand, but I remember my first game of Hold 'em. It was in the 80's and I flew to Vegas to eventually join my wife who was on a business trip in Phoenix. I got a room downtown at the Sundance (now Fitzgeralds). I sat down to a 2-4 game, having never played the game before in my life. BUT, I had a subscription to Gambling Times, and Mike Caro had a two-part lesson on how to win at hold 'em that I studied, and memorized the starting hands. At about 9:00 pm, I bought in for $100 rack. At about 6am, I was down to about $10 and the game was breaking up. (Someone suggested switching to Omaha and they got my last $10 real fast). But here's the real interesting part--when the session was over, I told the guy I was sitting next to that I'd never played the game before. He said I played pretty well on the button, but didn't have a very good game after that. I explained that Part One of Mike Caro's article dealt with pre-flop, and Part Two was post-flop. My subscription expired between Part One and Part Two, so I never got to read the second article!! It was also the only time I ever got a comp, as Sundance gave me a room for the night when I came back from Phoenix to fly home. | ||
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| Re: First winning hand..., Risky Business, 17. Jun 2003 10:22 | ||
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| The Sundance? Geez, did you catch Frank and Deano that night too? on 17. Jun 2003 08:28 vanagon40 wrote: > I don't remember my first winning hand, but I remember my first game of Hold 'em. It was > in the 80's and I flew to Vegas to eventually join my wife who was on a business trip in > Phoenix. I got a room downtown at the Sundance (now Fitzgeralds). I sat down to a 2-4 > game, having never played the game before in my life. > > BUT, I had a subscription to Gambling Times, and Mike Caro had a two-part lesson on how > to win at hold 'em that I studied, and memorized the starting hands. > > At about 9:00 pm, I bought in for $100 rack. At about 6am, I was down to about $10 and > the game was breaking up. (Someone suggested switching to Omaha and they got my last $10 > real fast). > > But here's the real interesting part--when the session was over, I told the guy I was > sitting next to that I'd never played the game before. He said I played pretty well on > the button, but didn't have a very good game after that. I explained that Part One of > Mike Caro's article dealt with pre-flop, and Part Two was post-flop. My subscription > expired between Part One and Part Two, so I never got to read the second article!! > > It was also the only time I ever got a comp, as Sundance gave me a room for the night > when I came back from Phoenix to fly home. | ||
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| Re: First winning hand..., TKarrde, 17. Jun 2003 10:59 | ||
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| on 17. Jun 2003 10:22 Risky Business wrote: > The Sundance? > > Geez, did you catch Frank and Deano that night too? > Don't rub it in.... I'd have given anything to see those guys in vegas! TK | ||
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| Re: First winning hand..., vanagon40, 17. Jun 2003 12:00 | ||
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| First stayed at the Sundance in 1982. My wife and I were driving into Vegas on a Sunday evening and heard them advertise rooms on the radio for $10 or $15 per night. The room was AOK and we loved downtown. Changed to Fitzgeralds sometime in the 80s. | ||
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| Re: First winning hand..., MozMan, 17. Jun 2003 12:07 | ||
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| Funny story: when I was 19 and living in NYC, Frankie was supposed to do 7 nights in AC. I saved every penny I could and managed to get two $100 seats. He was already pretty old, and I was afraid this would be my last chance to see him. Well, the night before the first show, he reportedly gets drunk and verbally abuses a BJ dealer and was escorted from the casino; he was so pissed that they removed him that he cancelled all of the shows. I got my $$ back from the tics, but I was REALLY disappointed that I didn't get to see him. -Moz "Great. I've got a trig midterm tomorrow, and I'm being chased by Guido, The Killer Pimp." | ||
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| Re: First winning hand..., stdioh, 17. Jun 2003 09:49 | ||
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| My first winning hand in a cash game would have come about 15 years ago in 5 card draw. I can't remember much about being 10 let alone what cards I was holding :) | ||
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| Re: First winning hand..., 4 POKER, 17. Jun 2003 14:42 | ||
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| on 17. Jun 2003 09:49 stdioh wrote: > My first winning hand in a cash game would have come about 15 years ago in 5 card > draw. I can't remember much about being 10 let alone what cards I was holding :) Stdioh, I hear ya. Ask me what I did last week and I'm lost! But I don't know why, when it comes to a poker hand.....I can remember everything. t's really weird. I have the same memory when it comes to phone #'s too. (I still remember all of my friends #'s from back when I was 5 years old!. But like I said, ask me what happened last week, and my mind is a complete sieve! It's strange what your brain remembers and what it doesn't. maybe I'm just geting senile or something.....gees, I hope not, I'm tooooo young for that yet! 4P- | ||
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| Re: First winning hand..., MozMan, 17. Jun 2003 14:54 | ||
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| Well, they say that the memory is the second thing to go... I wish I could remember what the first thing is... -Moz "Great. I've got a trig midterm tomorrow, and I'm being chased by Guido, The Killer Pimp." | ||
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| Re: First winning hand..., 4 POKER, 17. Jun 2003 15:06 | ||
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| shut up you (LOL)!!!!!! it's not nice to be mean and cruel to the elderly!!! hmmm.....what was this post about again, I forgot! 4P- | ||
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| Re: First winning hand..., stdioh, 18. Jun 2003 09:32 | ||
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| Heh. If you ask me what happened immediately after a hand, I can tell you all the doorcards, all the cards every player received, who had what, etc, etc. If you ask me 5 minutes later I'll have trouble remembering what I had and who won the hand. I clear out my short term memory as soon as it becomes irrelevant to me and very little of it gets stored long term at all. | ||
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| Re: First winning hand..., SendMoney, 17. Jun 2003 12:14 | ||
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| Can't remember my first hand but I can remember my biggest win. Had QQ at a $4/$8 Hold Em table, betting was capped pre-flop with 6 players, flop was QQ5. Someone had KK, someone else AA, and the lady to my left had 55. I let them do the betting and raising until the river when I put in the last raise. I'm not sure but the pot must have been $250-$300. | ||
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| Re: First winning hand..., SoCalPat, 17. Jun 2003 16:35 | ||
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| First sizable win was something like this ... I was holding a medium suited connector, limped from MP and caught top pair on the flop (I was holding 89, and the flop came 872, or thereabouts) and an open-ended straight draw on the turn (a 6). I remember a 5 hitting the river to beat some Asian woman who had limped in with what ended up being an overpair to the board. Three saw the river and called my raises, so it was decent. First horrible beat (these memories are more clear) I'm in a 4-8 game in a B&M I've never been to, and it's early in my poker days. I'm dealt AA UTG, raise, get four callers, plus the BB. Flop comes A44 and I bet and am raised by a MP player and it gets capped. Turn is a 4, I bet, MP raises, BB calls (it's down to 3 now), I make it 3 and BB caps after MP gets outta town, knowing his A-rag hand is no good. Do I really need to go any further? BB had K4 off and hit quads on the turn. Blecch. The pot was about $150. | ||
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| Re: First winning hand..., Yeoda, 19. Jun 2003 05:00 | ||
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| I know I'm coming to the topic a little late, but... Playing 1-4-8-8 at the Sahara, it was the 3rd hand I was dealt and I get Ac-10c. Flop comes K-J-junk rainbow. I check and call a bet. Next card comes Q off-suit. Two check to me and I'm REALLY nervous so I just check... then look at the table, hey hey a nut straight! There is a bet and I raise... I check-raise without trying, there is a chorus of "ooooohhs". 3 stay in, last card is junk and 2 call my bet. | ||
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