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In a recent interivew at the PCA Barry Greenstein revealed that he won $5m at the Moneymaker WSOP playing cash

""I jumped in and I have drilled those guys so bad that it was just like Sailor said — a bloodbath," Greenstein said. "I was easily the biggest winner. I really just nailed them.

"During the World Series in the year when Moneymaker won, I made more than $5 million playing in the cash games. I remember laughing when people said [Moneymaker] was the biggest winner. He won $2.5 million and I said, 'Well, I won twice that.'

"I probably ran good, too," Greenstein continued. "But the truth is, that at that time I was the best player."

http://uk.pokernews.com/news/2015/01/barry-greenstein-2003-wsop-cash-games-16304.htm


so, what i want to know was...what was the time of your poker life?

That event, festival, cash session etc where you felt you had the biggest edge, that it translated into results and you knew you would win at whatever level/buy in you were playing?

and do you think you will ever see it again for yourself?

The tourneys and cash games in gala notts back in the day, even after 2 bottles of rose wine! And no those days are gone forever....

I've not won anything big in poker but a few years ago Star ran a lot of VPP sats which I seemed to do OK in.  After winning a seat in the next tier up, I'd unregister and save the points.  I saved up enough points for a few  Amazon vouchers which then paid for my tele and a few other bits. I always enjoyed those and seemed to do pretty well in them.

Online 2005-2008, or rather Ladbrokes  :D

Mansion Poker 2006 - 2009 ish.

Tournaments every day with massive ( 50% ) overlays.

£100k guaranteed on a Sunday that only made about £50k.

May 2010 playing 40,000 heads up all in pre/one hand stt coin flips in 31 days when i had 150% rakeback for the month as part of a betfair promo to boost their poker rake prior to floation.  

Ah that reminds me!

Mansion had a thing with blonde where the top rakers got entry in to a $100 tourney.  Had several entries into that and it was quite easy to min cash!  Happy days.

I've really enjoyed playing blonde comps.  Won a ticket to the GUKPT at Blackpool in 2008 from a blonde/Virgin league that ran.

 ;bigadz;
 ;bigadz;

These threads always make me jel! Poker sites tend to get scared now even when theres a few hundred quid of overlay!

Usually online/live I'm aware that I'm not the best player at the table and happy to be second or third.  2 years ago in Vegas I went off strip to Red Rock and found a 2/5 game.  Was the easiest money that I've ever made live and in 4 days I took $15k from the room.  Went there this year and all the regs remembered me and said we wondered when you'd be back!

Online: 2003/4 onwards on Lads like quite a few other blondes. 2 or 3 tabled full ring games after work every night, did nothing but play AA/KK and set mine between $1/$2 and $2.5/$5 and made loads. I wasn't any good, I was just slightly better than most.

Live: Around 2006, one session at the 2/2 456PLO game at Walsall. Sat with £200, left with £3000.

Doubt I'll ever be good enough again to repeat.

Online 2006, before my son was born. Come home from work every evening and win all my mtt buyins playing stts and then be disappointed if I didn't final table a comp every night.

Live 2007 and 2009 in Vegas. Tournies were so easy, even accounting for the ridiculous rake. Just used a basic mantra of tight against tourists and loose against locals. Paid for my holiday both times

Those Walsall PLO games around 2006 were immense. 1 evening I turned £50 in to £9200 :)

Easy for me:

The week starting 17th January 2005.

On the Monday Gary Jones rang me up and asked to be on UK squad for one of those team tournaments on TV where he was captain. He said "I think you're the best tournament player in Britain at the moment and I want you on my team"

It was probably bs because he couldn't persuade anyone else to play but it did wonders for my ego and confidence.

I drove down to Luton on the Wednesday to play the last 3 tournaments of their festival.

Here are the results:

http://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/event.php?a=r&n=9967

http://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/event.php?a=r&n=9970

http://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/event.php?a=r&n=9971

Actually chopped the last two of those tournaments and cleared over £40k for 4 days play.

Also (too much information) Jake was born almost exactly 9 months 1 week later...

Pot Limit Holdem rebuy tourneys at Gala Nottingham in 2001 to 2003, £20 and £30 rebuys, many four figure cashes for minimal returns.

Not had mine yet, is it too late?

I won the first proper live tournament I played in 2006 (I know, how come I haven't mentioned it before?). Been downhill ever since.

Short version...

In 2012 I managed to final table two Grand Prix at Dusk and won one trip to St Kitts. I played really well out there and went out in a classic AA<QQ AIPF situation. If I hold there I would have been in the top three stacks.


Longer version.... Feel free not to bother.

2012
Started in a disappointing fashion,
 I played the January Deepstack at DTD and with not long of Day1 remaining found myself on a table with a Blonde of renowned refinement. We tangled a couple of times and then I managed to get it all in pre with tens v sevens.
The four hearts on the board matched one of his sevens...

I didn't fare so well in The February Deepstack busting in Day 1 when the only player on the table who didn't believe I had a very strong hand was the only one I wanted to believe it. But I did manage a trip saving 5th in the Super £50.

In March it was my first shot at a UKIPT, a generous round of satellites aimed at achieving that Million Guarantee saw me there and I made Day 2 with a need to double up. I managed that, and more, and had the satisfaction of eliminating Liv Boeree before suffering a nasty one just shy of the money. My flopped two pair counterfeited by running threes to go with the Jacks of my opponent.

And then...

April - running like God for two and a bit days took me to 2/2325 in the Grand Prix and won me a trip to St Kitts.

June - playing with immense skill and superb tactical judgement took me to 5/1872 in the following Grand Prix. That one, disappointingly, didn't generate a second St Kitts ticket. It did however, get me into the £500 Deepstack in August.

August - 52/910 with my crusade to get max value for the buy in ending when I ran KK into Aces in a spot where I should never get credit for having a hand.

All this took me to St Kitts in high spirits and that week was one of the highlights of my poker life.

I cashed in two of the three tournaments I played and only went out of the main event two off the money when I ran Aces into JP Kelly's Queens. All in pre flop. Queen on the turn. I was not happy. But I bumped into Nicola as I walked out of the card room and shared my woes and she responded perfectly. Effectively telling me to remember "You're in St Kitts". If only every bad beat story could have that response.

All other things aside I believe that the poker I played in St Kitts and in that main event in particular was the best I have ever played. I got lucky sometimes, and I managed to avoid the tricky seat positions other than a session with Devilfish to my immediate left which worked out ok for me.

I don't play a lot currently and haven't been to DTD for nearly a year, I still wonder what might have come of my tournament and my poker future had those Aces held though.

Pretty much sums it up for me. Glory glory days.

me and kev getting 1st and 2nd in dtd monte carlo 2013, we were room sharing and both under it, to share a moment like that with a close mate was out of this world, we danced around the carpark after. Then myself, kev and jamie roberts all ponied up to treat the lads
to a day at newmarket races for the 1,000 guinees in this party bus. Having been on the receiving end of many free box offs in vegas, namely, middy, jake, moor and pez.

This is why u a Legend m8 !

Heads up in poker 770 DTD event

The same tourney as trig..... 2013 Monte Carlo at Dtd

I was pretty skint at the time and I had a rough year to that point with my dad going thru major surgery and a close friend dying.

I can remember I sold and swapped 50% of my action after winning an online  satellite in for £50-60

The min cash was I think 2k and to be honest I was over the moon at that and then I laddered like crazy :-)

My mates came over from Leicester to rail when we got down to two tables which was just amazing.

To manage to get 6th and £18k was just awesome for a part time player like me.

That picture is incredible! So much going on! Is that Shallow on the mic? Looks like he is mid concert

the very same

A lot of my "time of my poker life" moments involved staking; hardly surprising for lucky fish - and my old man funnily enough who passed away in 2012. A couple  of amazing memories - I'll share one here and needless to say in a weird way Dubai is some sort if fairy god mother.

Dad had never taken much interest in poker, however after his cancer diagnosis he became a bit more interested and on a night in late 2010 I think he sat and watched me play an online session, was a lovely time - He was genuinely interested and we ended up one tabling the Big 162 - from memory thinkI came 5th.  At the start of the session we were probably at the giddy heights of 10 tables, by the end a solitude single table - at which point the old man gets a bit bored and asks me "what I do" when it's this dull ha ha.

I tell him the usual, open oddschecker, read the sports news and sometimes read forums - of which blonde is my favourite. We pull the site up and there is the thread - "WCOOP Hi Roller Staking" - so we have read and I have to explain to dad what's it's all about. I've never met Shallow, never staked anyone in my life - and although I know this geezwr is "pretty solid" by reputation really do y have a clue who he is. The old mans reading and says "go on have a go son, you've just won $5k"

Anyway, the rest is history. My $600 became $30,000, had some great memories of that night - and after this stranger obviously sent me the cash with minimal fuss we got chatting more on line and got on ok - him being through a similar thing.  The money was huge at the time,eetimg Dave led to a few good nights outs, us becoming mates - and me getting to know Kev who I'm
Really close to know. And it's started some wierd sort of karma thing where Dubai was some sort of ATM for a couple of years, with staking success around WPT, Triggs Bink, Hi Roller at DTD and a possed night out with random PLO spins.


Thought Id get the story in as a pre nip before they go deep today at Hippo ha ha. Good memories.

@Keith £1000 + £30 main event, those were the days!!!!

40% to the winner too.

Happy days.

March/April 2008

Won a £50r for £3.2k on a Tuesday at Dtd, beat Rupert Elder heads up pretty sure I was being a bit of a nob (sorry) but was so excited as it meant I was the first woman to win a comp at dusk. Love that I'll always have that :)

2 weeks later 3rd in Dtd £300 for £5k behind des jonas and pete Linton. Took Joe and lily to Florida for a month with those 2 weeks of poker run good :)

Agree with woodsy and simon too, those gala days were incred. So were the blonde bashs 2007/2008. Loads of fun memories. Don't really play anymore but glad I had those few years met some lovely people