In my first year playing
online poker I took back-to-back 1st place finishes in the VERY SAME DAYon the new defunct Railbirds forum (on Fulltilt & Stars). ~1,000 entrants & managed to get 1st place in the morning freeroll & then later that day I took 1st again!
I think it only amounted to ~$75.00 in total, lol... but it was quite a feat for me at the time.
Final tabled a local tourney, 3 tourneys in-a-row (3rd, 5th & 8th), ~160 to 200 players entered.
Won a live invitational Sng that had the following players on the table:
Gavin Smith, Bryan Devonshire, Brad Booth, Maria Ho, Dennis Phillips, & Tiffany Michelle.
Won one of those automated 'allin' freerolls (the ones where all players go ALLIN every single hand til' there's only one player remaining). I think there was ~3,600 entrants in that one. Was pretty exciting to discover I'd placed 1st when I got home after being out with a friend all afternoon. Opened up an email to discover I'd won 5,000 Euros (a trip to Vegas to play in a
wsop event + airfare, expenses, hotel). I guess I really can't complain about running bad or losing flips or
hands not holding when allin preflop in tourneys today... I mean I must've won a few allins on Full 9-man tables to take that tourney down.
Still waiting on the significant live tourney score though
Maybe WSOP 2019.. if I'm fortunate enough to get there.