2007 played.my first MTT on party poker. Literally was taking a dump on the toilet, reading about rebuy MTTs while registered. I ended up 2nd. There were pros in the tournies like SCTrojans, but most of the field was like totally oblivious to poker. But young and poor money management. Didn't read about money management. Had a lot of fun playing basically full time and working full time at the same time. But was unlucky in a lot of crucial spots and couldn't sustain unfortunately. Played 109s and 55$ and a lot of tables with not such a huge roll. Had the insight and IQ but needed a little bit more discipline in money management and I could have sustained and maybe even make it career. But alas.. I also had more interests and it was stressful and time consuming as well. To be honest, the MTT grind is really tough, and cashgames super easy. But also super boring, whereas MTTs just gave that competitive rush.

So many people hosted illegal clubs and they made so much money off players

In 2015 in pokerstars in from romania , i was unemployed and i borrow 20$ in same night i play and make 13,000$ dollars that was insane , that borrow money and torunament satelite with 1.10$ won 55$ ticket and won this money it was insane ofcorse i lost the money on atupid things and bad habbits and surrounding by negativity and not being understood about playng tournaments and pay also taxes to government and participate and win and play casualy it shuld be legal guys wtf goverment is fucking around thry shuld allow and also , skilled game make more youth some important money some solve some serious issues like health or help a loved one with that miney prize and also pay taxes why is not something ilega it shuld be legal its a conpetition the best shal win and run good.

@@Wakeupyouu Yes for sure a lot of uncertainty with taxes. In my country it also changed each year. There were court battles with players and government. Sometimes people had to pay back large sums. They were hunting poker pros specifically. A lot of uncertainty and stress doesn't help .

Too many fcn adds

😂😂😂

You were ahead of your time

Ah back in those days i was an online pro poker player already! i was the best!

How did you foresee that it would become such a big thing? Was real-life poker a big deal back then?

Let's give it a few more minutes...

repeat watching please! lol

It is an old documentaryy that most people have seen plenty of times already....thought it is good enough to watch again and reminisce. :P

its like 15 years old doc :D

There were more views, but apparently Full Tilt was using them for expenses.

lol, Moneymaker.

I played live cash game with Chris in Tunica. I felted him one day. The next day every time I opened a pot he raised me $50. He out monied me. lol

@@anthonyfoutch3152I played with him in Tunica right after he won the WSOP He ran over the 10-20 PL hold ‘em game at the Grand I will say he was still running very good. Not playing real well but hitting everything

i took moneymaker for $150 in an omaha cash game

I beat Moneymaker's mom's chicken's cousin at tic-tac-toe at the state fair in 08. He had some good moves but my perfect GTO strategy was too much for him and I won in best of 24.

300$ is not the end of the world...And remember to gamble only what you can afford to lose !

Yes the owners of full tilt were and still are criminals, how they are allowed to play in regulated casinos blows my mind... In the end the American players got paid, well they got paid if they used their real name, had an audit, then paid taxes on the winnings, the cheaters that used fake names on multiple accounts forfeited a lot of money to US government... I still miss the American fish...

So even if u won u lost, funny. ironical.

PokerStars bought FullTilt and payed players back. Look it up.

you're welcome

Is it back and booming really?

no wonder you don't see them play anymore. they would give a very bad vibe

I wouldn't be surprised if some of those guys meet a bad end one day. People do crazy stuff over way less.

would be a great netflix untold!

Not even remotely close to accurate. Stick to talking about subjects you actually know. 👍

Lol, not at all. You have no clue.

@@ThisHandleFeatureIsStupid You're wrong: What percentage of poker players make a living? What Percentage of Poker Players Are Winners? (2023 ... It is likely that only around 30% of poker players are winners over the long term. And only about 10% are significant winners (i.e. make a meaningful side income or can consider going pro).

I was on holiday in South Portugal, tried to play a few hands from an internet cafe and found out the whole thing - I had $800 in Full Tilt ... no big deal as such but the games were never ever as fun w/o the American players -

Who cares.

@@derekgleeson1353 credit is due

It said who made it at the start and the end, dunno how else they’re supposed to give credit?

@@dylanr8481 Did they put it anywhere to see it? This is the first time, very enjoyable and very enlightening.

90% of decisions are easy so it’s mechanical. Sounds like you need to spend more time off the table studying than at the table playing, for now. Good luck!

@@Gibraltariano Nah. You're simplifying dude and making a judgement without knowing his experience. It's mechanical TO YOU. You are not everyone. He makes a valid point.

@@aiconic10 You dont get playable hands at all the tables at the same time, So how is it difficult to play 4 tables ? I always played between 15 to 25 tables at the same time and even then there were lots of times i was just waiting for hands, maybe you just slow

@@aiconic10 Eh?! OP said he doesn’t “understand how ppl can process and play that fast to play 4 tables and more at once.” I just explained how they do so. I also went further and advised how he can get to a position where he can can also do so. I don’t get your point?

srsly?

2013

what was that?

What games got tougher?

Unless you are in Australia .. we are still in a Poker black hole

What sites?

@@gappuma7883ggpoker

he's a really solid mindset coach.

who makes you risk that money it’s discipline poker teach you to be disciplined or be wild and unprepared to lose that

This doc is now quite a few years old. While there are a few individual states who have legalized online poker, it is widely still unregulated. Notice, I said unregulated and not banned. There are unregulated sites you can play on but be aware that something similar to what happened in this doc could happen. What is illegal is for banks to accept money transactions for gambling purposes.

Because no one gets punished for white collar crime

The guys featured here are mainly millionaires now, although in general most lose obvs

I've seen three online pro's so far. I know two of them. Both are literal millonaires if not multi-millionaires and still playing actively so your assumption is pretty off.

Tony Dunst is currently deep in the WSOP main event ayt the moment.

Why not 2009

And anyone sponsor by full tilt needs pay that money-back like phil ivey got pay like 900k a month

Online poker is not spending money to get state to pass legalization on reps

It came out ten years ago.

Read the titles

no i didnt

no its easier to copy and paste these days

Yes but also they’d call three streets with bottom pair

@@amazingabby25 People would also bet and instantly fold to pressure on many rivers. Playing blockers back then was a powerful thing. Bottom line, people didn't think of lines of how to play certain scenarios.

The stack a donk line also netted more money than US Steel.

yes ask phil helmonth. how you think he got them bracelets

The level of play has far exceeded what a casual viewer can understand, sure. Those days were definitely the most profitable, however the skill today vs 2007 or whatever is incomparable. It's great to see.

yes its a big scam , they have bots that mekes you lose thew big ones🤣🤣🤣

Did full tilt do it? Is that why Phil ivey won so much?

What'd you mean?

just wait i said, how can u know u are playing alone vs other players fairly ?.. never.

@@TGSM19you can tell if two people are colluding against you. I sent global poker an email about two people i suspected were collabing. Global confined they were cheating. An experienced poker player can tell when you’re being colluded against.

The internet is addictive? You mean informative? Should we break all computers and go back to smoke signals? The reality is, if thats how she chooses to live her life and support her family then so be it. If she was stock broker who had to travel around all the time for work would that be ok? If it was the man leaving to play poker to support his family would you still say that? You sound like a close minded person that is from a generation that is afraid of change. Every industry or vice has growing pains. Over zealous idealogues are the reason the laws are so screwed up.

I am from the Woodstock generation and very opened minded person. In the real world anytime a spouse leaves the home for an extended period of time thing happen. Being married is not an easy thing to do with all the pressures of everyday life. Being away is a carefree experience for either a man or a women. Especially a man. Men are more prone to temptation. Lastly, poker is not a great way to attempt to make a consistent living, unless you are Phil Ivy or his contemporarys.

@@stephenbraverman4484 here's a valid scenario for you: being stuck at home, working in a bar and being deprived of enjoying her favorite activity, the gal goes into depression, the tension leads to a divorce, husband starts drinking and they split violently multiplying the sorrows of this world. internet is a *platform* for many things and *things* are addictive, what can you do, internet got invented and now it's everywhere, allowing for sooooooo many activities previously out of reach. maybe it's computers that are addictive? or maybe games? how about games outside of the computer, etc. how about addictions like food or air? maybe addiction is inherent to life. and final note: "screwing around in LA" - this just shows glimpses of your perception of women and the "serious shit" that everyone should be doing. i guess if she spends tons of hours playing poker there to earn money for a horse for her mother and provide a next level livelihood for her family then your concerns are purely fantastical and you've completely missed the point - people should be free to chose what they want to do, especially if a platform is already produced by some other creative people AND no thing is inherently evil, contrary to the purpose to which a human can put it into. you can kill with a knife but you can also produce food with it.

my thoughts exactly...

poker became a great side hustle / hobby, and a horrible "profession" in my opinion.

stability is not worth nearly as much as freedom and love for what you do

i worked a fulltime job and played poker as a Hobby < turned $50 deposit into 27k most peoples Hobbies cost em $$ mine was well paid for a side hustle :)

I average 7k a month playing poker the past 2 years I play online when I want, travel when I want, sleep as late as I want. Nobody tells me how to live but me

You must have great bankroll management alot of poker pros dont!!@@Satoshiisnaruto

What? How I have played since 2013 and I have been a winner in the game since 2015. I dont play to high but nl50-nl100usd/euro tables. You dont have any proof , if you did you could show that things happen to often because you know how often it should happen. You are just a normal human bad feeling and knowledge of probability theory

Played thousands games online and my worst bad beat is still in live poker , flopped quads holding a 88 and lost to river quads Flop 8Q8 he was holding QQ Rivered a Q brrrrrr ....and that was over 35 years ago , since then turned $50 deposit online into 27k over a couple years so no complaints here ( except Australia sucks and we cant play online now ) :(

@@Nobody0512 U sucked out on the flop. Then he sucked out on the river. Big deal

I played from 2007 to Black Friday on full tilt and poker stars and I made so much money. I didn't even have to work for four years . Lol. Sounds like somebody just sucks at poker

I saw that

You need someone to help you walk through what you just said.

he played wsop 2023 wth you talking about

@@cali_cal irrelevant ... did he ever finish in top 100 ? no.

@@TGSM19 he still around

Nobody can see your cards man, dont be so paranoide.

Sure they can

@@rlsupab Ok AK player.

i didn't like you till your last sentence ;p

Her husband, Kory, teaches at Liberty High and is the offensive line coach/run-game coordinator for the Patriots’ nationally ranked football team.

You are delusional as all hell if you think they wanted to protect players. There were two reasons for the ban: 1) stop money laundering 2) drive revenue to the casinos, and everyone knows what really "convinced" the republicans.

@@fbpo1699 ...stopping money laundering is a bad thing?...

America government feels the need to tell other countries and companies how to operate... Rightfully the Republicans were demonized for subverting democracy in the USA, let alone sovereign nations...

There is tons of skill, just HUDs ruined online poker - made it more of a data mining game vs. memory

@@jimbojones9118 people still user HUDs?

Just play low stakes, nobody will bother cheating and spending hours playing poker to win maybe 5$ a week.

They don't, that is the rub. You loose over time and cannot understand why, but you still loose to anonymous people

@@stephenbraverman4484 why bother to comment when you have no clue?

Poker is a social game. Your generation does not know how to do that. You are too busy looking at your phone or tablet.

​@@stephenbraverman4484what did you type this comment on? 😂

Good advice, especially with that pro at the WSOP who said Bellagio drilled his box and stole all his money and said he won't be able to get it back

I remember around that time. There was a strike and people sat at the table and not play or was that something else?

​@@jimbojones9118drilled how?