My Biggest Score (warning: brag post)

Tonight I made the biggest score of my young poker career. It's not much in comparison to what some players on here have made, but it more than doubled my existing bankroll.

I received slightly over $500 tonight in a 5-way deal that I made in a $5.50 MTT on PokerStars. There were 1430 entrants, and it took over 6 hours to play.

I made the deal while 4th in chips, and received more than 3rd place money.

When the deal was completed, and everyone was playing for fun and TLB points, I ended up winning the whole thing, which is a hug boost of confidence.

Several times during this tournament I was down to below 3 BB's, and at one point I had 610 chips.

I got lucky two major times along the way, but both times I got the money in with the best hand and re-sucked out .

Recently I have been feeling very confident in my tournament game, and I believe that I have made many improvements in just the last few months. I had been getting slightly frustrated when I would get knocked out instead of winning a coinflip and having a big stack. Well, today, I finally won those coinflips and ended up victorious.

I know I still am a LONG LONG LONG way away from being even a decent poker player, but I plan to continue to study and read up on strategy, and above all keep playing.

Thanks for listening to this blatant brag post. Good luck to you all!

Nice job! A good win always helps restore your faith in yourself.

Nice work Chicubs - i'm going to be a git and ask how much you would have won if you hadn't cut deal?!

Nice one Chicubs.

Its always nice when a fea adjustments to your game can show some real improvements, as I have found recently too

Awesome job Chicubs. O.K. I have a rookie question, How do you split the winnings and make a deal? I don't get it

Chicubs awesome job! I'd be wanting to tell my news to every body to. Thanks for sharing that with us and keep up your good work with poker.

Nice win The last time (only time) i was on a final table in one of these tourneys I refused a chip deal at the heads up stage, I was dominating him at the time, so he went to all-in mode. Got AKs after he had robbed my blinds six or seven times, back to 50/50 chips and they lost......to 89o or something silly.

This is impossible to figure out, because tight players were suddenly pushing K2s and it took 10 min after the deal to finish the tourney...

If there had been no deal made, 1st place would have received ~$1,300. Like I said previously, I was in 4th chip position with 6.5 BB's in my stack, and I got more than 3rd place money in the deal, so I think I made a good decision.


At PokerStars, you can e-mail support at the final table, and someone from PokerStars will come to the table after a little while. The tournament can be paused, and then players can discuss a deal. In this case, we agreed to a chip chop deal (players receive $$$ depending on the # of chips they have).

Very nice job Chicubs, those PokerStars MTT's are tough.

WTG Chicubs!!! Congratulations

Congrats. Keep building.

Congratz, it must feel great!

I've only recently started doing MTT's... after doing exclusivly 10 man SNG's for a while... Im finding I get itm a lot in MTT's but cant make it to the final table.. oh well, I havn't played that many...

I'm rereading Harrington's book as well vol 1... because im too cheap to go out and buy vol. 2 and 3....