Whats considered the best achievement?

Four of a kind · 21-05-2009 2:47pm

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 · 21-05-2009 3:32pm

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

corkie123 · 21-05-2009 3:45pm

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 · 21-05-2009 4:08pm

Gus Hansens WPT dominance.

Phil Ivey.

Jimmy McSweeneys tournament record in the Macau

corkie123 · 21-05-2009 5:37pm

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 · 21-05-2009 6:21pm

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 · 21-05-2009 7:26pm

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 · 21-05-2009 7:29pm

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

cuterob · 21-05-2009 9:24pm

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 · 21-05-2009 9:37pm

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 · 21-05-2009 11:32pm

Grafter wrote: »

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

this sounds like pretty good going

a147pro · 21-05-2009 11:34pm

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 · 21-05-2009 11:42pm

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 · 22-05-2009 2:17am

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 · 22-05-2009 3:28am

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 · 22-05-2009 9:20am

Ianmc38s Hendon Mob profile imo

tylerdurden94 · 22-05-2009 12:19pm

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 · 22-05-2009 6:48pm

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 · 22-05-2009 6:58pm

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 · 23-05-2009 12:44am

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

Four of a kind · 23-05-2009 1:24am

do a poll and see who's voted the winner!

newbie2 · 23-05-2009 1:31am

Chad Brown bagging Vanessa Rousso IMO.

Grafter · 23-05-2009 2:01am

newbie2 wrote: »

Chad Brown bagging Vanessa Rousso IMO.

I never thought of it like that.

Right enough, she'd be Ok with a bag over her head.

NuttKicker · 23-05-2009 6:44am

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.

would have said this was best achievment but was suprised that no-one had heard about it so i checked it out.
Not true although he did win it on 21st nov 2004 with 2182 runners and got 17th on the 5 dec 2004 with 2063 entries.
Not quite the same as winning back to back sunday millions
judging by the entries it was't even the sunday million..........

i quite like annette obrestrad's(annette_15) achievments to date for 2 reasons
http://www.pokerlistings.com/poker-player_annette-obrestad?show=bio
1 - she's built her bankrolls from freerolls and has never deposited money http://www.officialpokerrankings.com/pokerstars/Annette_15/poker/results/6D5BD1ADE6434909BEB751074A18CFF2.html?t=2
http://www.officialpokerrankings.com/fulltiltpoker/Annette_15/poker/results/D45E082222B742F0AF51111FEE5391F2.html?t=2
2 - she's still only 20 and still too young for vegas

she also won the $10 200k on stars with 20,000 entries

cardshark202 · 23-05-2009 1:04pm

There are some guys winning freerolls on stars with thousands of players in them every day.

Plastic Bari · 24-05-2009 1:37pm

Doyle Brunson

NuttKicker · 24-05-2009 3:46pm

cardshark202 wrote: »

There are some guys winning freerolls on stars with thousands of players in them every day.

i think building multiple bankrolls totalling over 1 million from freerolls, then winning over 2 million when she won the WSOP europe main event then followed up a month later with 2nd place in EPT Dublin for 430,000 at the age of 19,
i think it's a little bit more impressive

Flushdraw · 25-05-2009 9:19am

I go with Carlos Mortensen aswel. He's always impressed me the way he stacks his chips.

tylerdurden94 · 25-05-2009 11:16am

The WPT for introducing us to Shana Hiatt

itsallgrand · 25-05-2009 12:33pm

Gavin Griffin
Don't know that much about him other than the pink hair and supporting cancer but respect for the WPT, EPT and Bracelet Trilogy!!!

Current tourney player has to be ELKY up to $5.7 million now all in last few years 3.6 last year already 1.5 in 09. Seems to go deep for fun!

Stu Ungaar 3 main events wins still stand outs. back to back titles and then 16 years later again! He was near chip lead another year as well and then went missing!! (off his:cool:) Got blinded away and still cashed 21st as far as I can remember.

Whats considered the best achievement?

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