I played regularly 30-60 and 50-100 limit Holdem on stars, occasionally playing the 100-200 when I thought the game was good. Back then it was common for 3 if not more 6 max 100-200's going with maybe even a full ring one going as well.

2005 (my last real job) I ran Rehab at the Hard Rock. Well, the casino part of it with swim up blackjack games, a craps table, roulette etc.

Neverwin came to Rehab with his fiancé after I had invited them and put them on a guest list. Back then unless you were juiced, a celebrity or a ridiculously hot girl, the wait to get to the pool could be as long as 5 hours.

Dustin and I kept in touch after that and we started hanging out when he would come to Vegas or I would come to LA. In one of our first meetings (2005) he told me to check out a website he owned. He didn't talk about shooting off or any other part of the site except the HOF forum. He told me I would insanely get some laughs out if it.

That was the first part of the forum I ever lurked. I had never been a member of any other forum before. I ended up regging in early 2006.

Dustin was at my house one day and told me about this girl named Brandi. I knew nothing at all about forum drama and gossip. My poker career considered of playing online, playing live at the Bellagio and trips to commence every 2 months or so.

I was at the Bellagio one evening right after Dustin had told me about this Brandi girl. I was playing 80-160 and had taken a break. I walked out to the bar by the poker room and she literally bumped into me as she was texting someone and not paying attention. The first words I said to her were something along the lines of "crazy meeting you, we have a mutual friend Dustin"

Dustin taught me a lot about limit Holdem (especially short handed) and in my opinion for a certain time he was probably the best online short handed limit poker player in the world.

He invited me to stay with him in February of 2006. Actually, he invited both Brandi and I. He had an older, but gorgeous house in Santa Monica that now would have been worth a million and change easily if he still owned it.

I had been playing mostly at commerce the 100-200 and 200-400 mostly since the LAPC was underway and the games were good.

I came back to his house one night rather late. Dustin was in a frenzy because he had busted both poker stars and his full tilt account, although I don't remember how much. He was tilted because he couldn't get a hold of anyone to loan/transfer him money.

He found eventually $11 he had on UB. He started playing I kid you not Roshambo on there until he grinded up $50 or so. Then played no limit Holdem on UB until he had $300. He then jumped in some 8-16 game or 10-20 lhe on UB as well and ran that up to 1k and change.

Finally he found some one awake that transferred him money on full tilt for his UB. He played HU 30-60, then 50-100 until he beat the guy out of all his money. I only remember this because Dustin knew the guy and the guy asked Dustin to transfer/loan him money back to try to beat Dustin for the money he just lost lol (Dustin said no)

Dustin eventually got money on poker stars for his full tilt cash. He had 5k or so on stars now and began playing Kobeyard heads up. I remember when he crossed the 10k threshold I thought it was the sickest thing I had ever seen and told him to quit and go to bed.

He didn't.

I passed out on a couch behind his desk and when I woke up he was playing 500-1k with around 120k in front of him. I'll be honest, after seeing him do that, I was shocked, impressed, in awe and maybe even a little jealous.

It was the type of story that if I hadn't witnessed most of it, I wouldn't of believed it.

He ended up quitting and going to bed up over 120k. He cashed out a bit, paid off a little debt and lost it all back the next day by playing 1-2k on stars.

Funny side note, I think this was maybe 2008 or 2009 but I am at neverwins Vegas house. I by that time had started playing mix games more than lhe. I'm playing 20-40 8 game and he is playing 100-200 or 200-400 on stars and ended up crushing someone.

Afterwards he see's Durr on AIM. Dustin messages Durr that he is going to send him 25k towards the 100k he owes Durr. Durr tells Dustin he has no idea what he is talking about. Dustin ends the messaging right there.

I'm like WTF Dustin? Dustin shows me a transfer history on stars that shown Durr had sent him sure as shit a 100k 6 months or so prior.

Amazing.

Oh, I met Micon from Dustin and then Druff from Micon.

I first met Micon at the Mirage playing a cash game. The next time I saw him was when he just had moved to Vegas and was staying with VeeRob amongst other men such as GamleAB. All the rooms were full so Micon had put up a sheet with clothes pins that seperated half the living room, making half of it his semi private bedroom.

I swear to this day I can remember him telling me inside the curtain how much he was looking forward to the upcoming weekend. He had some comped nights at the Venetian and a pretty red head from Georgia was flying to see him.

Thank you all for health concerns. Still very precarious. If this ends up killing me, I want nothing more than my family, friends and cohorts to find my name in a thread here with the obligatory "later fag"

Godspeed


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