[Talking Poker]

got me to thinking about how far JD has come since finding this site last July. I mean.... it's truly amazing. For anyone that doesn't remember or wasn't here at the time, he started out just like any other broke, punk kid. I don't know that he ever officially begged for money on here, but he was playing low, low, low limit stuff, if that. And honestly, I don't even think he was all that good. I just browsed through some of his older posts, just for kicks... it's stunning. How someone can improve this much in half a year astounds me. I mean, I can't even comprehend it.

His first hell of a lot of Railbird threads are gold. $1 tourneys, mostly... occasionally a big $3 buy in. And hardly anyone would reply in them or actually rail him. If they did (like Brian a few times), they would usually rip into his play. My, how things have changed.

JD - Do you even remember what the turning point was for you? I remember you being that broke kid, and then you won $4000 and cashed most of it out and then lost the rest and were the same broke kid again, and then I don't remember what happened for a while, and then those 180s were born on Stars and suddenly you were winning them one after another. That was the turning point, wasn't it? Your streak with those?

I mean, in September, you were still palying $1 tourneys!!!


September!

Ok, here it is.... the mother of all JDMcNugent posts. Please note the date on this as well:


Are you kidding me???????

Words can't express my awe. I'm truly, truly impressed with how far you've come, man. Hell - I'm proud of you.

I can't wait to see what this place looks like in another 6 months. Who will the next superstar be? HeWong? jmayo? Rook?

Shit.... in 6 months, the WSOP will be over. I might be a millionaire by then!

Edit: Please don't post in any of these super old threads that I have linked to. If anyone does, I'm just going to delete the posts - no need to resurrect dead threads.