Blast from the past

[old time lurker]

Druff
I want to start out by saying that I am not here to harass or troll you and this is not a dupe account (which I am sure an ip check will help confirm).

A brief history
I started playing online in 2002 - 2003 (pre moneymaker) mostly on stars. In those days it was quite possible to consistently earn in nl ring games by always raising in postion preflop and c-betting. As a relative novice, I was able to amass a bankroll approaching 6 figures playing 3-6 and 5-10 nl. I was nowhere near as good as I thought I was but the competition was so. Horrible that it was hard to lose.

At the time, 5-10 was the biggest nl game offered on stars. I hapened to open the 100/200 lhe room and was entranced by some of the huge pots. I figured I was crushing "the biggest" nl games so how hard could it be to beat limit. After getting aproval from stars to sit in that game I prepared to make my fortune.

I sat - and proceeded to get crushed by, among others, Neverwin and The Grinder. I dropped around 18k that session and learned that limit was a very diff game.



Afterwards, I did some research into the guys who had crushed me - this is when I first found NWP.
End of part one - Next, my discovery of NWP and Druff, micon and Dustin

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Sticky this, IMO.

[Rollo Tomasi]

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[old time lurker]

Actually, there was to be a point to my story - that I was around when Todd made his first posts on NWP - and those posts were basically trolling Dustin. Was going to point out irony of, MEH, never mind - remainder of post cancelled due to lack of interest.

[Deal]

OP is Mark "PokerH0" Kroon?

[BCR]

OP is Mark "PokerH0" Kroon?

I was going through a shortlist in my head of those who won a ton of those. That was certainly one of the guys I recall,(pokerho, krazykanuck, jcksup, pokerpro1234, legggggy, I am probably misspelling some of these names) but I don't recall him as a limit player It's entirely possible as everyone played at least some limit at that time and I simply forget. I killed those Aruba sats also, probably the most single profitable thing I ever encountered besides the heads up sit-n-goes. I was thinking 2004 was the year where you had to keep one, and then any following wins you could cash in, but it sounds like my memory might be off. I remember winning a number of Aruba trips and I was going to have to eat one. IIRC, I had to get something from a doctor showing I was ill and they allowed me to opt out or something along those lines. Those years are fuzzy. I think in '01, and '02 it was a smaller tournament with a 5k buy in before it was raised.

The poster said lurker, if he said infrequent poster, I was going to say topset72? or something along those lines. I don't remember him from the tournaments, but I know he played limit quite a bit back in that era and was on NWP. I don't know if he made an account here.


edit-reread op, and see he was more of a nl player who just occasionally played limit, that described a lot of those good tourney players. I particularly recall stuckinpgh killing me a few times when I made that move after a good score. I always remembered the name because I lived in Pittsburgh, and then eventually became familiar with Reggi on the sites

[Dan Druff]

OP is Mark "PokerH0" Kroon?

I was going through a shortlist in my head of those who won a ton of those. That was certainly one of the guys I recall,(pokerho, krazykanuck, jcksup, pokerpro1234, legggggy, I am probably misspelling some of these names) but I don't recall him as a limit player It's entirely possible as everyone played at least some limit at that time and I simply forget. I killed those Aruba sats also, probably the most single profitable thing I ever encountered besides the heads up sit-n-goes. I was thinking 2004 was the year where you had to keep one, and then any following wins you could cash in, but it sounds like my memory might be off. I remember winning a number of Aruba trips and I was going to have to eat one. IIRC, I had to get something from a doctor showing I was ill and they allowed me to opt out or something along those lines. Those years are fuzzy. I think in '01, and '02 it was a smaller tournament with a 5k buy in before it was raised.

The poster said lurker, if he said infrequent poster, I was going to say topset72? or something along those lines. I don't remember him from the tournaments, but I know he played limit quite a bit back in that era and was on NWP. I don't know if he made an account here.


edit-reread op, and see he was more of a nl player who just occasionally played limit, that described a lot of those good tourney players. I particularly recall stuckinpgh killing me a few times when I made that move after a good score. I always remembered the name because I lived in Pittsburgh, and then eventually became familiar with Reggi on the sites

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