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[mtl mile end]

what are the biggest stakes you can sit at?
Do they have headsup cash? (err.. I mean HU playcash). If so, what's the biggest stakes?

I'm curious because seeing Mtl there with 1/2 Billion.... why not go for 1 Billion ?

Can you imagine??? ONE BILLION PLAY CHIPS!!! (I can't imagine 1/2 billion)

How many hands = 1/2 billion?

Solid bankroll management and good experience playing against complete and utter donks for about 5-6 years turned 10K into ELEVENTY BILLION!!

When Stars and FullTilt left the US market, I stopped playing for real money. I had money frozen in FT and some money in Stars, but it was all built without deposit (on Stars and for the most part on FT). My dreams of taking advantage of some of the ridiculously generous Stars "First Deposit" offerings were dashed when they stopped offering them, and Canadian banks decided to make it next to impossible to deposit. I played Play Money any time I wanted to play online and that meant daily for years and almost not at all for months/years at a time. There was lots of live poker in my life from 2008-16. I was playing PM and wanted to play for real money (pennies or FR) when I found CC.

 

[royalflush122096]

I am at 193,213 play chips at pokerstars! LOL!

 

[mtl mile end]

what are the biggest stakes you can sit at?
Do they have headsup cash? (err.. I mean HU playcash). If so, what's the biggest stakes?

I'm curious because seeing Mtl there with 1/2 Billion.... why not go for 1 Billion ?

Can you imagine??? ONE BILLION PLAY CHIPS!!! (I can't imagine 1/2 billion)

How many hands = 1/2 billion?

Missed the stakes question in my response post. I played almost exclusively Sit n Go at first. Started at 500 Buy In and progressed to one million (or more? - can't remember). 50-100K were the game for a lot of the time. I'm not a cash guy. I started playing in MTT's for a million or five, but they weren't as profitable as SnG.

My favourites were always 27 runner SnG. The offered games were constantly changing, so I would often play the "wrong" stakes because 27 seat was not offered in the "right" stakes.

 

[Serg77]

I have near to one million and after some posts here this quantity is nothing

 

[vinnie]

The highest stakes that I have ever seen anyone playing on the play money tables is 500M buy-ins (2.5M/5M blinds). But, they have a table with a 5B buy-in. The heads up games almost never run above the 200k buy-in level. It is mostly 6-max or full-ring. If your goal was to make a billion play chips, it shouldn't be too hard. It would just take a bunch of time.

 

[vinnie]

Someone has to undo him

I have tried, and failed.

I don't even want to talk about how much play it took to reach this value. Of course, I could play a little more and get over the 500M mark, but I'm just not feeling like it at this time.

I didn't mean to do that. Perhaps I should have reported my balance like The Great Leader does to the IRS - "about fifty bucks"

It gave me a nice little challenge. And, I learned a lot. Like, the level of play doesn't go up, but the rake does. Did you know that once you hit the 25k/50k games, the rake is 9% uncapped?! It's just insane. I paid like 700 million in rake while making the 450 million chips to get caught up to you.

I'm done playing, for the moment, but if I ever decide to play again, you might get unseated!

 

[vinnie]

My favorite fish was sitting 5M tonight, so I had to hop on and take his chips.

So, there it is, over 500 million chips.

 

[Propane Goat]

Nice stack, congrats!

 

[Datdude1]

I had an amazing amount of cash in my play-money account when I was learning to play and before I started playing for real money. Now I don't even look at my play account.