World Series of Poker Braclet Prediction Thread

[Anonymous]

PFA needs another bracelet winner and I want to be the person to get it. So I'm making this thread here, anonymously for a few reasons. The biggest being if I don't make it a reality, I don't have to see a thread of my failure live on infamously in the servers and search functions of PFA.


Since the WSOP is so far away, I've decided also to make this thread a story about myself and my travels. Due to job obligations the last few years I haven't been able to travel as much as I used to, but now I can again.


To also keep it fun, I won't reveal too much about myself so people can guess who I am and at the end and see if they were right.

I will however in the next few posts give you a bit of my poker background and then until I finally make it to Vegas I'll update this thread with cash game session reports or tournament reports.

[The Shrink]

This has potential. Carry on.

[Anonymous]

Ok so now we have this thread here. So now it's time for a bit of background about me.

keep in mind, i'm keeping it as vague as possible, so I won't be mentioning where i'm from or how old i am. you'll have to guess

First lets get to how I even found poker.

I first found the game just like most people in the early 2000's did. I am a product of the Moneymaker poker boom. That's right, the first hand of hold 'em i played was in a $5 9 person tournament in my friends basement around 2004, using chips we bought at walmart. Needless to say, I lost, and continued to lose until I bought Play Poker Like The Pros. Yes the book is terrible, but back then, I thought it was informative and it definitely taught me a little bit of skill. Also around that time, I bought Super System 2 and read that as well. For some reason, I knew that what i wanted to do for a living was play poker.

Where i was living at the time wasn't far from where I grew up, and there weren't any casinos. The closest thing we had were charity rooms. So one time I went with a bunch of my friends to play, and I got hooked big. It was in those games that I learned how to play NLHE, as the biggest game spread back then was the new (to the casino that is) $2-$5 limit game. I lost so much money in that game. But i kept at it. I also became friends with the poker dealers and after doing that, was being invited to their private games. I have lots of stories from those days, as these games were insane. There were other contributing factors to why I lost in that game (I maintain that i probably was being cheated, as in this charity casino there were no shufflers and the dealer would give the unused deck to one of the players to shuffle. But back then I wasn't wise to deck stacking or over raking)

For about 2 years, I played poker almost every day. Mainly with the group of kids that got me into playing, with the usual .50c-$1 game running in my house every night. But I also played in a circuit of private games, some of which I will tell stories about later in this thread. Some were epic, some weren't, but all have stories attached to them.

These days, I rarely play in any game that isn't in a casino. Since this is my job, and my bottom line, I need to do whatever i can to protect it….and that means sometimes passing up lucrative spots in private games due to safety concerns.

The first leg of this bracelet journey will be in Minnesota in a few weeks. I like to play limit, and they have some good games there (I have family there as well so it makes it all the more better!)

In between now and then, I'll be posting a story or 2 from the home game days. Mostly about the Judy Game, which was a game that ran for 30 years, before Judy, who inherited the game from her mother (as well as the house it ran in) took over and completely sunk it into the ground. Poor Judy, I think you guys will get a kick out of how degenerate she was.

[Anonymous]

More about me? Sure.

gambling is in my blood. At least I think it is. You see, my parents gamble, (my mom played slots and my dad played BJ and craps). When I was little, most of my friends parents on Saturday Night's would go out to movies. Not my parents, they went to the casino. My dad plays poker, but mostly did with his friends in a monthly game. And my grandpa even ran a weekly poker game with his friends. I'd like to say I grew up rich, but we were upper middle class.

In my last post I said that I would be starting this bracelet journey in Minnesota in a few weeks. So until then I think I should explain a bit about where I usually play poker and the games I play, etc. For the sake of keeping it vague but still being able to give details about poker sessions, I'll start off by saying that my poker bank roll (which I will express as how many buy-in's to my regular game I have in it.) is also my life roll. I need to pay rent out of it, which equals about 3 buy in's. In total, as of writing this, I have 43 buy-in's (from now on will be expressed as BI) for my regular game.

My regular game is at a casino not too far from my house, but still a bit of a drive. There's casino's that are closer, but the one I go to has the best game for the stakes I play at. What are those stakes? It wouldn't make sense telling you because you don't know what I use as a buy in, but I will say I play small to mid stakes poker.

The room I play in is filled with some characters. It has a nice mix of blue collar people, and wealthy white collar people as well. Most of them are pretty decent at poker, but for the most part, there isn't much poker thought being done by some of these people. Not to say they're all not extremely nice, because everyone is. It's not like the commerce where there's fights and stuff all the time. Usually it's just drunk people being escorted out.

When I'm home and playing, I typically play 4-5 nights a week, or if i'm running bad or just need a break, I'll play less. But rarely does a week go by where I haven't played at least twice. I try to play 8 hour sessions and don't usually play extended periods. it's one long game to me, and unlike the guy sitting there for 24 hours, I don't have a job that takes up my time, so I can just come back whenever. I don't have to cram it all in on saturday and sunday like he does.

When there's a limit game going (it's dead haven't you heard?) it's usually 10-20 or 20-40. I'll always sit in it if it's going. Sometimes, just to get a break from no limit, you'll find some old timers who start a stud game, and i'll sit in that too!

When I played in the private games before casinos, I played in a 15-30 limit game that ran once a week. That was my introduction to limit poker.


So, the plan here, is to travel a bit, as well as continue to play in my regular game until the WSOP, which i will try and fulfill the goal of obtaining a bracelet, in any event.

The first trip will be to Canterbury to play limit, as i'm spending thanksgiving with my family who lives up there. So i'll be arriving a few days early to grind it out. If anyone has ever been there, they know it's a great casino, and since no limit big bet poker is illegal in Minnesota, they're forced to offer limit games. The usual game there for me is an $8-$16 limit game with a half kill.

Until then, If i feel like updating with a story I will. I will say that last night, I did chunk off 3 buy-ins when my turned straight got rivered by quads. can't re-buy after a hit like that.

[Dan Druff]

Nice idea.

I have the ability to look up who you are, but I won't, so I can play along.

I will also post a link to this from Flying Stupidity.

Right now I don't know who you are yet.

[Lord of the Fraud]

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