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Whats considered the best achievement?

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  • 20-05-2009 6:40pm
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    Four of a kind
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    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.


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    RichieLawlor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,873 ✭✭✭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


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    maloney333
    Closed Accounts Posts: 164 ✭✭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:


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    bops
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,793 ✭✭✭bops


    phill helmuth's bracelets obv

    and the one time I got someone to lay down tpgk


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    NickyOD
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    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.


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    dannydiamond
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    Fossilman by a country mile imo.


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    Jesus Wept
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    Constant Rijkenberg winning the EPT San Remo imo.


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    DEEP THROAT
    Closed Accounts Posts: 353 ✭✭DEEP THROAT


    Liam Flood


    European Poker Personality Of The Year 2002


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    karpov33
    Closed Accounts Posts: 75 ✭✭karpov33


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


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    Wreck
    Registered Users Posts: 2,139 ✭✭✭Wreck


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


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    Grafter
    Closed Accounts Posts: 938 ✭✭✭Grafter


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


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    DAMO72
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    It has to be the outstanding achievements of David Poole


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    Whyno
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    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.


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    dougee19
    Registered Users Posts: 1,361 ✭✭✭dougee19


    dougee19 managing to turn around everyone on the forum hating him


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    Whyno
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,142 ✭✭✭Whyno


    dougee19 wrote: »
    dougee19 managing to turn around everyone on the forum hating him

    I liked ya better when ya wee a sh1tstirrer :D


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    dougee19
    Registered Users Posts: 1,361 ✭✭✭dougee19


    lol, me too


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    #17
    kebabfest
    Closed Accounts Posts: 375 ✭✭kebabfest


    Hawkeye cashing in WSOP last year


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    Duff Man Jr.
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    Me getting out of todays hole.


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    Mr.Plough
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    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


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    Jesus Wept
    Registered Users Posts: 25,243 ✭✭✭✭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.


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    looserock
    Closed Accounts Posts: 302 ✭✭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.


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    RichieLawlor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,873 ✭✭✭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


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    gondorff
    Closed Accounts Posts: 388 ✭✭gondorff


    Yeah Nicky Power plays good poker.. and omaha.


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    Paul Spillane
    Closed Accounts Posts: 241 ✭✭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)


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    northwestguy27
    Registered Users Posts: 132 ✭✭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.


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    Wreck
    Registered Users Posts: 2,139 ✭✭✭Wreck


    The-Rigger wrote: »
    Explain plz? :):pac:

    2569174.jpg



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    Also the first comment in this thread is epic

    "I bet it tastes like craps."


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    #27
    Jesus Wept
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    ^ winner


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    #28
    smurph
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    kebabfest wrote: »
    Hawkeye cashing in WSOP last year

    Hawkeye surviving vegas last year:rolleyes:


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    #29
    [Deleted User]
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    Forget it


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    #30
    Theresalwaysone
    Registered Users Posts: 4,039 ✭✭✭Theresalwaysone


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

    Wat


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    #31
    robinblinds
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    Going online


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