Big tourney winnings?
 

Just wondering what your biggest tourney winnings were... there's gotta be some superstars in this forum..

also list which site, buyin, entrants, etc.

BTW, my biggest was $25 at a 5+1 at Party. LOL

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Hey,

were tied!! :D

already mentioned this on another post, but $125 on a prima freeroll.

not exactly a high roller, but ill take it.

$54 Absolute Poker (Online Poker Tour Freeroll) 2nd/1000

Best so far ;)

Won a $30+3 a couple of times
 

Which pays $150 for first. One of these days I'm going to get lucky in the $5 massive-field multis at 11:30 on Party. I've made it to the money a few times on those, but I'm yet to make it to the final table, where the real cash is.

$1750 tied for first in a 30+3 HE Limit at Party.

It came down to the last two, me and another solid tight aggressive player and he asked if I wanted to chop. I said OK as I had to go out to dinner. I'd been playing the tourney for almost 4 hours, and I'd had enough.

The other day I won $1165 in a Speed Tourney on Party.

I have also won $2000 for coming first in a B&M tourney.

CF

I wasn't aware party allowed chops.... Interesting.

Glad to hear there's other players playing on the lower tourneys on this forum..

CF, how did you do the chop? was it a trust thing or did admin get involved?

My best
3rd place $10 freezeout on UB. $500
1st place $5 freezout on UB $405
3rd place $5 re-buy on you guessed it UB. $360
15th place $10 re-buy on Stars (the other night) $280

I'm going to start trying for the Weekday Supers on Party soon.

No cash in this one, but just missed the Aruba WPT Event....
Finished 3rd place.... Only 1st got paid with trip to Aruba. on UB.

i got 1400.00 for getting 5th out of 242 at a local charity tourney. Also, I used to play the 2 and 3 table multi tables at Party a lot. I finished first in a two table 50 for a 400.00 win. Also got second on those a couple of times. In the 30 dollar three table I got third a few times and 1st once.

480 in a pokerroom.com limit HE is my highest so far

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That's my name, 35th on this list:


Well, it would be if that list was just a tiny bit longer.

I felt like I played really well, but I continued to lose races against short stacks, not to mention losing a ton of chips TWICE when I got shorter stacks all in and had them *dominated*. I'd build up slow and stready, then get my chips in when I was in great shape, only to lose a ton and have to do it all over again. Finally, the blinds were so big I couldn't recover.

If I had NO luck in that tourney, I would have made the money... but the bad luck got the best of me.

Quick side note: I won my seat in this through a satellite. You know that guy who shouts "PRO-FESS-IONAL" in the WSOP intro? I knocked him out on my way to winning it.

last summer, came in 3rd in a tuesday night nl tourney at foxwoods: 3k
" " chopped a saturday morning limit tourney at foxwoods, 2500

On Party...2nd in a limit tourney, 1600
1st in a 10 nl multi late at night, 1200
2nd in a 30 nl, 3500 or so
2nd in a 20 nl, 2100 ( worst loss ever, had a 4-1 chip lead, lost with 10 10 against 10 6 suited to runner runner flush, he put me in preflop...next hand had aces, he put me in again, with 35 suited, flopped a flush)
4th in a 1300 nl people 30...2k or so
7th in a sunday special nl......3500 or so
5th in a 5 nl.....300

Think im missing a couple but those stick out

Forgot a few weeks ago, 5th in a thursday morning nl at foxwoods, good for 1200

My biggest win to date was in B&M and I got £1000 for first place, about $1800. Have yet to have a win online, but have had about 15 2nds. Hopefully I will win an online tourny in the near future.

My (future) brother-in-law just played his first ever live tourney 2 weekends ago at the Eaton's Centre. He just really starting playing poker a few months back. Anyway, buy-in was $15 and there were 40 people in the tournament. I found out about it the night before :mad: and was unable to go. The SOB won the tourney and $200. Thing is, if he won it, could have been some easy money for me, but I was glad he had some success. Maybe now I have a companion that wishes to turn pro with me. ;)

Wish I knew about that....
Congrats to your brother! :)

Yeah, James, something called the Toronto Poker Tour or something. I'll tell you what, I'll try and get the site info and all that off of him and maybe we could hook up or something and go school these people. Apparently they have a leaderboard for points and the most points wins entry to the 2005 WSOP. I'll try and find out this weekend and post the info here and at ITS.

Note: I'm not actually engaged, but it is as sure as Sean Vernon winning a tourney. ;)

That would be cool.
Then we can blow all our winnings on cheap beer and Golden Tee. :cool:

LMAO.

The tables sure can't be too strong, because if I know how he plays, he will play any pair and weak aces.

Great to hear about all the wins/final tables.. my goal for next year is to make it to a final table at a multi (>3 table) tourney. Don't matter the buy-in, any final table will do...

how long did it take you guys to work up to the final table level?

My brother played a freeroll on UB, and I know it's not exactly the brightest balls in the shed playing, but he managed 21st out of 2500 players. I couldn't believe it when he told me, it was his first multi. Took about 4 hours of play.

I won a 20 man that paid $54 or something to the winner. $8 + .80 buy in.

I've one more in shorthanded home tourneys with 6 dudes all chipping in $15 - $30 (rebuys) winner take all. I'm hoping to win that tonight!

It was basically a trust thing. The guy I decided to chop with said he'd transfer the difference in prizemoney (between first and second) into my account - but it took a little time so we had to post and fold blinds up until then.

I wasn't going to intentionally lose and trust him to give me what he owed me afterwards. It all had to be done during play.

After the money went through, he asked if he could take the title as he wanted the tourney points. I didn't have a problem with that.

CF

I won $1000 in a b+m tourney we chopped it 3 ways. Also have placed 5 to 7th about 5 times in the same weekly tourney at my local casino. 8th ina $50 on UB for around 300. Second in a freeroll on Prima for 100. won a couple sats into the 200 on UB. A bunch of final tables in $5 tourneys on UB.

No reeal decent money wins, like 260 was the most, but I have been damn close to winning the 5+1 at Party on weeknights:

14th
14th
9th
8th
8th
6th

ALL of those bustouts came when I went on with the best hand and got run down. Also a bunch of top 30 finishes, one day I will win that game.

Won a few $5 and $10 tourny's, a couple of freerolls.

Had loads of final table finishes, esp this week.

Just wondering why we haven't seen "Talking Poker" put up his
best results....
35th is nice, but I have a feeling you probably have a few "larger" cashes.

Share with us?

Yes, TP, please entertain us with your tourney winnings. Got any big 200K+ guaranteed titles under your belt?? :P

I just won a 2600 freeroll to win a 1.7k seat at the poker millions final sat on sunday where 1/10 seats get 17.5k seat in London. :)

Guess this really IS your week, huh. Congrats and GL in the next round :)