Blast from the past

[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

topset72 is on this site

[old time lurker]

Honestly, its very unlikely that you would recognize my name (real or screen name). By the time that I started playing online I was already in my 30's and had been involved in my career for some time. Thus, I was not really a "grinder" but was someone who only played at night and on weekends. Once I started to have kids my poker "career" was pretty much over. 2006 was the last time that I played seriously. In fact, when I went to PCA that year my wife was 8 months pregnant.

I only cashed in one wpt main event - the rest of my wpt cashes were in side events and those didnt seem to make it on cardplayer or hendon player databases at the time. Thus, I was, and remain, an unknown (rightfully so as I never had a score bigger than 5 figures - and only one of those)

[Faduniak]

Honestly, its very unlikely that you would recognize my name (real or screen name). By the time that I started playing online I was already in my 30's and had been involved in my career for some time. Thus, I was not really a "grinder" but was someone who only played at night and on weekends. Once I started to have kids my poker "career" was pretty much i'm. 2006 was the last time that I played seriously. In fact, when I went to PCA that year my wife was 8 months pregnant.

I only cashed in one wpt main event - the rest of my wpt cashes were in side events and those didnt seem to make it on cardplayer or hendon player databases at the time. Thus, I was, and remain, an unknown (rightfully so as I never had a score bigger than 5 figures - and only one of those)

Did you play an ept event in France?

[old time lurker]

No, I played in the Aruba Classic twice, the PCA twice and a couple of times at the WSOP (all via sats won online). To give you an idea of the state of online poker when I started the Stars Sunday Tourney (wasn't the Sunday Million yet) would average like 300 - 600 entrants.