Whats considered the best achievement?

Four of a kind

What in your opinion is considered the best poker achievement to date? Reason why I ask is because I overheard two ass donks last night talking about Chan's back to back main event wins in 87 and 88, followed by a 2nd place finish in 89.

Thought it would be an interesting topic.

RichieLawlor

Four of a kind wrote: »

What in your opinion is considered the best poker achievement to date? Reason why I ask is because I overheard two ass donks last night talking about Chan's back to back main event wins in 87 and 88, followed by a 2nd place finish in 89.

Thought it would be an interesting topic.

Raymer 04/05 for WSOP ME

maloney333

Stu ungar winning main event 1980 1981 and then to come back and win it in 1997, i wasn't around the early 80s but have read and watched alot on him and i think this was some achievement even if the fields wer'nt as big back then, also claims 1980 was the first time he played texas hold em:eek:

bops

phill helmuth's bracelets obv

and the one time I got someone to lay down tpgk

NickyOD

RichieLawlor wrote: »

Raymer 04/05 for WSOP ME

Yeah I thought of this before I even read your your reply Richie.

Phenominal back to back performance imo, and if his kings hadn't been raped by a tard catching a back door flush it could have been better.

dannydiamond

Fossilman by a country mile imo.

Jesus Wept

Constant Rijkenberg winning the EPT San Remo imo.

DEEP THROAT

Liam Flood


European Poker Personality Of The Year 2002

karpov33

Raymer the year he won and the following year's preformance wsop

Wreck

That guy on 2+2 who first came up with TJ Cookier.

Grafter

Marco Traniello's WSOP 7 cashes in his first year and 20 total.

DAMO72

It has to be the outstanding achievements of David Poole

Whyno

Harrington final tabling 2 years in a row is a pretty mean feat imo...
Raymer has to be the winner though cos he took it down and then got raped by the tardo that hasnt bee heard of since.

dougee19

dougee19 managing to turn around everyone on the forum hating him

Whyno

dougee19 wrote: »

dougee19 managing to turn around everyone on the forum hating him

I liked ya better when ya wee a sh1tstirrer

dougee19

lol, me too

kebabfest

Hawkeye cashing in WSOP last year

Duff Man Jr.

Me getting out of todays hole.

Mr.Plough

Anyone who can start and the micros and grind their way up to the point where they earn a more than comfortable living at midstakes+, especially today, takes alot more work and is a bigger achievementn than winning some tournament imo

Jesus Wept

Wreck wrote: »

That guy on 2+2 who first came up with TJ Cookier.

Explain plz? :pac:

Whyno wrote: »

Harrington final tabling 2 years in a row is a pretty mean feat imo...
Raymer has to be the winner though cos he took it down and then got raped by the tardo that hasnt bee heard of since.

NickyOD wrote: »

Yeah I thought of this before I even read your your reply Richie.

Phenominal back to back performance imo, and if his kings hadn't been raped by a tard catching a back door flush it could have been better.

Raymer's run was fantastic but to say if only he hadn't gotten dogged on the last hand etc seems a bit short sighted.
In Theory, he could have dogged people left, right and center to make as deep as he did that year, or the year before, only a small sample was televised.

looserock

It would have to be Doyle Brunson, he's been winning at the highest level forever and he is now in his seventies and holding his own. He also has a few of them bracelets.

RichieLawlor

looserock wrote: »

It would have to be Doyle Brunson, he's been winning at the highest level forever and he is now in his seventies and holding his own. He also has a few of them bracelets.

Fair play to the oldies still playin good poker, like Doyle brunson and Nicky Power

gondorff

Yeah Nicky Power plays good poker.. and omaha.

Paul Spillane

Marty Smyth after signing with that poker firm within 9 months winning
The World Poker Open
The WSOP PLO Championship event
Then winning the Poker Million from having 1 & 1/2 big blinds (the 3rd consecutive poker million final he had made)

northwestguy27

Paul Spillane wrote: »

Marty Smyth after signing with that poker firm within 9 months winning
The World Poker Open
The WSOP PLO Championship event
Then winning the Poker Million from having 1 & 1/2 big blinds (the 3rd consecutive poker million final he had made)

Yes, agreed there. Some great achievements from Marty.

Wreck

The-Rigger wrote: »

Explain plz? :pac:

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Also the first comment in this thread is epic

"I bet it tastes like craps."

Jesus Wept

^ winner

smurph

kebabfest wrote: »

Hawkeye cashing in WSOP last year

Hawkeye surviving vegas last year:rolleyes:

Forget it

Theresalwaysone

Deleted User wrote: »

How did these two posts come one after the other and nobody made a joke?

Wat

robinblinds

Going online

Four of a kind

For me its a flip between Raymer's 04/05 run in the main event and Helmuth's constant stream of Hold'em bracelets.

I also like Harrington's back to back FT appearances in 03/04

Slash/ED

I forgot about TJ Cookier, some of those photoshops are genius it has to be said

corkie123

steve davis cashing twice in the two main events hes played in .

john o shea wearing that lovely thing on his head in last year final table plo

nicnic winning without any cards


lol theres so many :rolleyes::rolleyes:

Dave147

Gus Hansens WPT dominance.

Phil Ivey.

Jimmy McSweeneys tournament record in the Macau

corkie123

Dave147 wrote: »

Gus Hansens WPT dominance.

Phil Ivey. ???????

Jimmy McSweeneys tournament record in the Macau

good old lucky jimmy macau record forgot about that one :rolleyes::rolleyes:

tylerdurden94

I think Dan Harrington making back to back final tables, and Greg Raymer making a deepl run the year after winning the main event was pretty impressive.

Scotty Nguyen winning the HORSE event was pretty good given he was completely out off his face bolloxed drunk! Main Event and HORSE bracelet is pretty impressive in fairness thou.

Ivan Demidov's run in the WSOP Main Event and WSOPE Main Event are very good. Andy Black blowing his chip lead in the Main Event 06 was pretty impressive aswell

Sure there is others but just cant think of them at the moment.

BuChan

is this raymer nonsense one giant level. i think that can be attributed directly to variance and isn't impressive really at all. all the big name tourny pros who have multiple wsop and wpt, ept titles and final tables crush raymer. durrr, jman, antonius and others owning dizzying stakes at young ages and turning the old timers inside out is also considerably more impressive. and then to answer the question even more simply, phil ivey.

BuChan

in fairness it's possible that tj cookier pips all those guys.

cuterob

lol donkaments

all the cash pro's who put hundreds of hours and are now making more than tourney players will ever is a lot more of an achievement than getting lucky a couple of times in a bingo

eagle eye

Carlos Mortensen, WSOP main event winner, WPT World championship winner, back to back Sunday Millions on stars. The last achievement mentioned is pretty sick.

a147pro

Grafter wrote: »

Marco Traniello's WSOP 7 cashes in his first year and 20 total.

this sounds like pretty good going

a147pro

tylerdurden94 wrote: »

Andy Black blowing his chip lead in the Main Event 06 was pretty impressive aswell

as I recall he got it all in on the flop and the other fellow hit a three outer????

a147pro

BuChan wrote: »

is this raymer nonsense one giant level. i think that can be attributed directly to variance and isn't impressive really at all. all the big name tourny pros who have multiple wsop and wpt, ept titles and final tables crush raymer. durrr, jman, antonius and others owning dizzying stakes at young ages and turning the old timers inside out is also considerably more impressive. and then to answer the question even more simply, phil ivey.

as a tournie player and cash donk I have to confess that lads making huge amounts in cash over a long period is far more impressive than running well in eight consecutive tournaments or whatever. but you can't really single out any clear 'achievement' in cash, as its more of a gradual thing. I did think watching Durr only lose 600 odd K in the cash game against Antonius, given their respective holdings, was pretty fcking impressive. But then again bluescouse...

Four of a kind

eagle eye wrote: »

Carlos Mortensen, WSOP main event winner, WPT World championship winner, back to back Sunday Millions on stars. The last achievement mentioned is pretty sick.

Back to back victories in the Sunday millions????????????? One week after the other??

shano_88

eagle eye wrote: »

Carlos Mortensen, WSOP main event winner, WPT World championship winner, back to back Sunday Millions on stars. The last achievement mentioned is pretty sick.

never knew this.......that is amazing like. wow!!!

ianmc38

Ianmc38s Hendon Mob profile imo

tylerdurden94

a147pro wrote: »

as I recall he got it all in on the flop and the other fellow hit a three outer????

Cant really remember it too be honest, i just know he went up and then down.

baz2007

sammy farha folding 2 moneymakers bluff.If he didnt half the donks on here would not be able 2 spell hold em or yamaha

Four of a kind

baz2007 wrote: »

sammy farha folding 2 moneymakers bluff.If he didnt half the donks on here would not be able 2 spell hold em or yamaha

lol!!:D

spoofingjam

eagle eye wrote: »

Carlos Mortensen, WSOP main event winner, WPT World championship winner, back to back Sunday Millions on stars.

has to be this,thats a serious achievement