Poker SMASH Game & Shirt Giveaway

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Ah poker, one of the best pastimes I've personally ever experienced. I mean, nothing's better than taking money from your grandma when your flush beats her straight when you both went all in.

And what better than to play that game with a twist? Thanks to our pals at Void Star Creations, we not only have three redemption codes for Poker SMASH, but we also have four shirts to give away! The prizes will go as follows; first-third place will choose either a redemption code or a shirt. If one of them wants a shirt instead of a redemption code, the code will go to the next available winner.

This won't be a one-size fits all kind of tournament either. You, the people will get to pick the design and size of the shirt if you win! There are four designs, and four sizes to choose from. The designs are as follows (click to view image):

Poker SMASH Army Green (http://www.xbox360achievements.org/images/news/pscompps_army.jpg)
Poker SMASH Blue/Grey (http://www.xbox360achievements.org/images/news/pscompps_grey.JPG)
Void Star Blue (http://www.xbox360achievements.org/images/news/pscompvs_blue.JPG)
Void Star Black (same logo as the Blue, but with a black shirt instead)

Each size will be available in small, medium, large, or extra large.

But how can one win such an awesome prize? Simple, just tell us your fondest poker memory. Let it be a joyous story with you taking money from a loved one, or a tragic tale of you losing your life savings.

The contest will be open for roughly a week and winners will be chosen from a random integer generator. Winners will be PMed, and will have 72 hours to respond or be disqualified.

Winners: 7
Prize: Poker SMASH XBL Redemption code or T-shirt
Restrictions: Only one entry per person.
How to Enter: Simply post your fondest poker memory in this thread.
Closes: April 26th 11:59PM PST
Rules: Official Rules can be found HERE (http://www.xbox360achievements.org/forum/showthread.php?t=66921).

Good luck!

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[CWL91]

My fondest memory in poker is when I won 300 dollars off a couple of friends, after getting a straight flush!

[Sanction]

My fondest memory was beating all my friends, knocking them out one by one, then realizing we were playing with Monopoly money and I hadn't won anything [real]. :( :p

[Maraku1]

Playing with the whole family one night.

[Birky]

My fondest poker memory would have to be when I was at my friends cabin and we were all playing poker (6 or 7 of us). My one friend though he had a royal flush and started screaming and jumping up and down. But it turned out he really only had Ace, King, Queen, Jack, Eight; and four were hearts while the other one was a diamond. Everyone laughed at him for like five minutes.

Birky x360a

[ii br00tal ii]

The only one I remember right now is when I played poker with my brother and I won all his money, but decided to keep playing. I ended up losing it all back to him. I was pretty disappointed.

ii br00tal ii

[bosInFusioN]

I have so many fond memories but the biggest had to be winning the weekly poker games with my friends 3 times in a row. Only downside is the winner buys the beer for next week!

GT: bosinfusion

[Spades12321]

Mine was coming second in a 72 man University poker league satellite, to qualify for the university poker league grand final. The top two places got seats, I didnt win the tourny becasue my A 10 lost to A 5 heads up when my opponent hit a straight on the river but second was good enough. A video can be found here YouTube - The University Poker League's 4 Nations Tour : 1 Week To Go, if you skip 6mins into the video you get the scenes from Leicester. I am the guy who shows the aces in one of the scenes and prays for no 5 at the end however a 4 hit on the river giving him a straight.

[MrMondayNite341]

The first time I played strip poker was also the frist time I ever saw a woman naked without paying for it.:woop:

[ShaunMichael80]

Best memory was my brother and I were in Atlantic City for work. We were just playing some Carribean Poker. When this guy walked up to us and said to my brother to deposit those 2. So he did, He got back 2 Aces and won the hand and took the pot of about $660. We turn around and the guy was Ben Affleck. I have the picture on my facebook if no one believes me!

[Krueger]

When i was 10 i learned and played poker with my whole family at Canadian Thanksgiving so on the last night we played for real my dad gave me 20 bucks to enter against all my older cousins and uncles. Eventually it came down to me and my 21 year old cousin and he went all in and i had a four of a kind get pwned. I won over 300 dollars and spent over half of it on MLB Showdown cards and my dad took the other half. I still brag about it to this day he doesn't really like it to much:p

[Jetpac]

Favourite poker memory would be just after my 21st birthday, me and 5 friends from uni, 1 guy 4 girls. Strip poker, getting delt horrible cards and ending up just in my boxers, then winning most hands after that, leaving all the girls with nothing else to bet if you see what im saying! great photos from that day aswell!

GT: Jetpac UK

[Scarybread]

Scarybread

I remember playing Strip Poker on my Amiga when i was 13 and staying up intill 2am trying to win as i did not know how to play Poker i did it in the end though thats my fondest moment

[DwayneDays]

My fondest poker memory, so many

It'd have to be the time my dad and I were at his friends house and I caught a strong read on his friend, I knew for sure he was bluffing and with out a doubt had him beat so I go "I call your bluff and put your dead ass all in" I won the pot and knocked him out naturally

Great feeling to tell your dads friend that

[Cyrex]

i was playing at camp with 6 other people, the way that we play there is we all cash a $20 in for Quarters so that is a total of 80 Quarters or our poker chips. Winner gets lots of Quarters, but we each had to buy in with something big. I ended up taking home about $180 in quarters, 60 Red Bull, a Really Nice Lacrosse stick and 3 sets of strings for my tennis racket, the other stuff was not really worth much

[narcolepticshee]

narcolepticshee

Getting in a heads up for £40 and then going all in with QQQ only for my opponent to take 30 mins deciding. He eventually called and he got AAA which was the nuts. After he said he waited that long just to make me sweat :(. Sucks because I thought I had it in the bag haha

Peace

[botafogo007]

My fondest poker memory came from my great uncle trying to teach my cousin and I to play when we were around 10. He was drinking while he was teaching us, and after a few hours was starting to lose some of his judgment, so we asked him if he wanted to play for money. He agreed, and the two of us proceeded to win all the money he had in his wallet, which wasn't a huge sum but was a big deal to a couple of kids.

What he didn't realize is that light from the chandelier was causing his glasses to reflect his cards, making so both of us could see what he was holding every hand :).

[HoodMod]

My fondest memory was even I though I barely understood how to play, I managed to win a single hand.

[The Drumber 1]

Ahhh.. playing at college every Wednesday, for chips (the potato sort). Good times.

[firehazardcs]

I was never really much of a poker player until 2 years ago. I was at my friends house and he plays poker all the time with his other buddies. Well we all decided to play poker for fun. After a while we were all getting into the game and my friend said he was positive that no one was going to beat his hand. Someone else who was there said that he would bet him $20 that his hand could beat my friend's. My friend took the challenge and the rest of us decided to play along and we all chipped in $20. So the pot had gone from $0 to $120 in less than a minute. When my friend laid down his cards everyone else in the room moaned because they saw that he had a straight flush. I had no idea what I was really doing but I laid my cards down and everyone went from moaning to laughing because I was one card away from a royal flush. I had the 9, 10, Jack, Queen, and King of Hearts. I just thought I had a flush because that was the only thing I really knew other than pairs so I just wanted to keep the cards of the same suit. So there I was a novice at poker who was $100 richer because I didn't know anything.

Thats about the only time in my life that not knowing something has actually benefitted me.

[Keytta]

Ok, here is a bad story...

Three of us co-workers entered a local tourney just for the fun and agreed to split any winnings no matter what. In the end one of us won the teh $2000 pot, but renigged on the deal. Had to work with him for another six months before I had to fire him for something completely unrelated (honestly).

GT - Keytta

[Chorley]

my fondest poker memory is beating my odler sister at texas hold'em without looking at my cards. (whilst she was trying to teach me), i think i ended up with four aces as well. Pure luck i know, but hilarious at the time.

GT - Chorley

[Deyankees1]

Oh Man this brings back so many thoughts. One of my fav was last summer I was playing poker with 2 friends and these 2 random chicks( I was in Vacation in Miami) and one of my friends was drunk and he lost about $200 to one girl, like a dumbass he thought it was strip poker so he striped down and ran out the hotel lobby we were in and ran out the hotel. Didnt see him till later that morning. It was great.

GT: YunG YanKee1

[JC]

When it was my first time playing, and I mamaged to win £10. :)

Good Times...

[Impulse]

Running low on Cash before going out on a night.. Took enough to see me through the night without buying many drinks..

When i got to my friends he asked me if i wanted to enter a poker tourny at his.. £5 entry and winner take's all.. I did and ended up walking away with £70 :woop: let's just say i did have a good night out..

[teh HoboLord]

Beating all of my friends constantly at band camp.

[ThunderStorm101]

winning £100 against 5 other mates

[o0 TommyGuns 0o]

I was playing texas holdem with a couple buddies a while back and it was just and my one buddy left and i got a royal flush on the turn.At the same time I got a royal flush my buddy hit his flush and he went all in. He was so pumped I got a royal flush he didnt even care about losing his money it awsome!:woop:

[Lord Nahte]

playing poker with my brother and cousin where the losers had to drink mixtures we made.

[doom3killer]

playing with a pinnacle deck but pretending it was real

[SolvingJunk]

My fondest memory is losing. I never win a game of poker...

SolvingJunk

[Fabio360]

My fondest memory relates to when me and 4 other friends started what we called "Friday Night Poker", in which we played after college on fridays in our rookie year. We started it w/ 5 people and after some time we played with two tables of 7 or 8 people which was very cool... lost a lot of money at that time but it was fun

[RupturedRapture]

Unfortunately both my famil and freinds are great players, so i suppose my favorite memory is anytime im not the first one to lose all his money:p

[MyAbsolution]

MY favourite memory of poker is winning back to back hands at least 20 times in a row. Lucky deck in my favour. Unfortunately it wasnt strip poker, which I wanted... lol

[gskillz99]

Playing poker with swedish fish instead of money was real fun.

[X VAE VICTUS X]

My fondest memory was making my brother in law cry, after stuffing him everytime he thought I was bluffing.

[Godge]

I remember playing in a friendly family game for no money, and my uncle (who was very drunk at the time) decided to make it interesting by betting his car keys, my dad won that game and to this day my dad still technically owns my uncles car.

[FreaKyDeaKy]

getting kicked out a casnio after drinking to much while playing poker. love that game.

[TheWrestlingGod]

Playing Texas Hold Em on XBLA, and trying only for achievements.

Gamertag: TheWrestlingGod

[Majik 666]

I remember the first time I played I had won 5 hands in a row but, we did not play for money.

[Cr4shed]

I've had a few fond poker moments, one of which happened to be last night! The cards had gotten spilled on and were all horribly soggy... impossible to shuffle. This yielded a heckofa lot of pairs, and a whole new drawing strategy. Deep.

GT: CR4SHED

[I o DGK o I]

my fondest poker memory would be when my friend had a 3 of a kind of king's and he went all in and then i threw down my 4 of a kind of 3's and took all his money.....it felt great

GT: PanthersFan 89

[Slormer]

TOTALLY bluffing in the final 2, going all in, and WINNING.
Gamertag: Slormer

[Prius Owner]

Drawing out on my friend in a large pot and him getting sick of it and flipping the table over.

[dreamweaver1984]

playing poker and winning like 200 bucks from my dad when i was little gt dreamweaver1984

[d4rlp3nc1l]

My fondest memory of poker is as the following;
It was my first time playing cards with my high school buddies, it was a $10 buy in, and we had like 12 guys playing, I went out within the first 10 hands, always loosing on the river, to 3-of-a-kinds/full-houses. They allowed me to buy back-in, since it was my first time playing with them, and they should not have. After 2 hours later, it was a showdown between me and my best friend/neighbor. We both went all in after the turn, on the turn he had a flush, and i had 3 of a kind, and on the river i picked up a 7, and that gave me a full-house. I ended up going home $80 richer, and bought a great dinner after, because I just won $80.

[Illusived]

Going all in on a pair of Kings before the flop and losing to the chip leader who had a pair of Aces who sealed the deal by getting another ace on the river.

GT: Illusived

[DropDeadArtemus]

GT & Forum Name: DropDeadArtemus

I remember way back before I could even count, me, my little brother, my mom, and my dad would play poker and we would use pennies to bet with. Those were good times.

[DeAtHisLaNd]

I remember playing poker when some friends...and when I got a royal flush my friend hit his flush and he went all in...it was funny.
GT: DeAtHisLaNd

[deathchant]

best poker memory was a tournament that our company was holding. i got knocked out of the main deal, but the owner of the company opened up a side tourney for 'fun' then threw down 100 bucks to whoever won. lucky for me, most of the people in the side tourney were dumb, and i won.

gt: T0rtureTactics

[Teddite]

I used to play poker every Tuesday with my family. We'd always have a full house and lots of drinks and pizza. My best memory from that time was the night I DIDN'T drink, and everyone else did. They all got taken that night, but of course having won all the money the pizza and drink tab was on me.

[INSANEKID13]

winning 7k at the Stardust the last day it was open before they blew it up

GT - INSANEKID13

[Himself0890]

When I started learning how to play, when I was probably 7 or 8... my dad was showing me and he kept winning, so I called him a 'c0cksuck3r'.

I heard the word just being tossed around at a xmas party a few weeks before that and didn't know what it meant. ha

Gamertag: Himself0890

[xMA55ACRE]

being humiliated by all my friends cause i dont know how to play, but still good laughs

GT: xMA55ACRE

[Veritas34]

being the chip leader the whole game with a bunch of my friends then loosing it al :(

[Marx0r]

Doing that thing where you hold the cards and make according bets, that was pretty sweet.

[JohnTheGamer]

Embarrassing myself in an actual casino by not knowing all the small un-important rules, how to slide the cards, etc.

[Sportsman11]

Lets see, I was at a party for a cousin. And we decided to play poker, my dad gave me $25 to play. Well it was me and John left (23 yr old cousin or b-day boy lmao). We decided to go all in about $200 total. And I had a straight flush or atleast i thought I did because i was getting a little help and another cousin to get back at me said it was. So, short and simple it was not even a flush and I lost it but my cousin said he got enough money for his b-day he gave me $100 =]. But, I owed my dad $20 all in all it was good.

GT: sportsman11

[Janca5]

Making my friend believe that I beat him with a pair of aces when he had four of a kind!

GT: Janca5

[Marzera]

Teaching my Nephew how to play poker (only game I know with cards other then war) soon to be out lucked. I was proud hehe.

[Kal The SJ]

My fondest memory would be winning two games in a row with a pair of two's.

Kal The SJ

[iceefudgesickle]

My fondest poker memory was actually back in elementary school, in 5th grade, we played poker when recess was cancelled due to rain. But since it was against school rules to gamble, we just used our markers, we would place bets by amounts of markers and whoever won got all the markers. Nobody kept the markers or did anything about it, but MAN, back in 5th grade, we thought we were cool, doing pretend gambling. That was so fun.

I would like a redemption code if possible if I win :D

[Khaos]

I've never played poker, but that last poker scene in Maverick was pretty bad ass, when he gets the card for for royal flush. It was awesome

[RPDfire]

Too young to Gamble =]. But i played illegally and won a ton of quarters. Won around $5 that night. I had the luck on my side with the Aviators on to help me bluff. Hahahaha!!!

GT: RPDfire7

[LK-1987]

Playing using skittles and starburst with my friends in middle school (I think each skittle was like $1 and each starburst was like $5 dollars so that 5 skittles = 1 starburst). I remember one time a friend brought m&m's instead of skittles by mistake and we made fun of him for like 5 minutes acting like the m&m's were some kind of foreign currency

[spartancell]

I was playing poker (5 card draw maybe) and my smug friend though he won with his 4 Jacks, then I laid down my 5-9 Diamond Straight Flush. After arguing that 4 of a kind was higher, everyone laughed at him so he ripped the deck and stormed out of the room, classic.

[maliguen]

My fondest memory in poker is the first time I play it and win the game without even know the rules. Was really funny to see others faces.

[Otisbum]

My fondest poker memory would have to be the time I beat my uncle in hold'em. I was really sucking the whole game until I miraculously beat him with a pair of twos. After that it went back downhill.

[Gun-Nut]

My fondest memory would have to be finally beating my Dad :)

[Talos26]

My fondest poker memory has to be when I beat my cousin's full house with four of a kind. The look on his face when he realized he had just lost his money was priceless.

[slowpantz]

When I was young I played poker with my grandpa. One night I was dealt my hand and thought WOW! this is the greatest hand ever. I get bidding away with my grandpa and finally revealed my hand. I won. I was 5 when this happened, I later learned that my hand had nothing of value in it :(

[flyingmario5404]

best poker time was once I was playing in a game in my dorm room. I had a pair of aces, next to me (which I didn't know who had pocket kings) and the next person had pocket queens. THe flop Ace, Queen, King. We all went all in and for good measure the river was an ace. it was my best hand ever.

GT:flyingmario5404

[Tubson57]

When I was about 15 I went to a family reunion which had a poker game going on with the adults. Everybody had put in about 50 bucks, and my dad was playing. He ended up having to leave early, and so he gave me a chance to keep playing for him and have fun. Basically what happened was I was able to beat the rest of the guys because I was a kid and they couldnt read my emotions very well. I finished the game in second and came home with $150 for my dad, who then proceeded to give me $100.

[RED Z3RO]

Once back in high school me and a few people in class were taking bets on a poker game. Needless to say I won over 50 dollars from everyone. ;)

[Irish Indian88]

Several years ago, while playing poker at a friends house a friend of mind throw over a hand and she said she had a flush. I look over and tell her, "no you have a straight." Doing a double take, "i shout, you have a straight flush." Everybody erupted in excitement and yelled. She won the hand

[Avelena]

I do not have any fond memories. I gave my friend 20.00 to play a game with me and he ended up winning 80.00 and I went home in the negative. I never seem to win anything.

[SkeetSkeet]

My fondest memory of a poker game actually occurred during my first game. I didn't know the rules and whatnot. So I would continue to take my money from my friend's pot when he went to the bathroom, and everyone else did too. He realized something was up when he had only ten dollars and he won the previous hands lol.

[sampster351]

Alright, I was playing with about 6 of my friends once. There was a $20 buy-in. After one of my friends went out in the first 5 minutes, I was able to sell him my seat for $30. I was pretty happy with the quick 10 bucks.

sampster351

[ThirdeYe]

Fondest memory:

Probably 6 or 7 years ago, I was at my relatives house for Christmas and they always play poker at the dinner table with quarters that they bring. My aunt kept pushing me to play, even though I was a little uncomfortable with the idea. I knew how to play poker, just never actually played it in person (just online). I ended up winning nearly every hand and coming out with 50 dollars in quarters, starting with only a few quarters!

Gamertag: Derek1337

[n00b1sh m4n]

My fondest memory was on my sixth grade trip to Devils Lake WI. We were playing on the bus for candy and I had just gotten a straight flush and my teacher came back and confiscated our cards and the candy. Later in the day when everyone was sitting around the camp fire the five teachers were off playing poker for candy on a table in the camp area. :)

[The Danielnator]

A couple years ago i was playing texas hold em with a bunch of asians. They have crazy good luck and always get the perfect car on the river, i was tired of loosing my hand on the river/turn card and was about to go all in just to get it over with and leave, there was 4 of us and we all stayed in till the end and i took the pot in with a 4 5 off suit because i got a straight at the river. It felt good to have finally gotten lucky.

[Confusious]

My fondest Poker memory was playing with my entire family on Thanksgiving and winning three times in a row.

[Grimgravy57]

my best memory was just hanging with my buddies playin texas hold em
i dont get to see em often so it was awesome playin poker em

[Parkerktm]

I went to my brothers house to play poker with him and his friends and they were mostly all drunk so it was easy money for me. Made around $80 in 2 hours

[gtrmonkey]

A bunch of friends and I get together for poker about every other week. The most fun we had was when my friend got so drunk that when she went to grab a chip she missed the table entirely and went forehead first into her stack 'o chips. Of course, that was pretty much the end of the game....

[MantleNotMouse]

My fondest memory is playing poker with my whole family and a group of friends when I was really young. We had gone camping and we had a lantern and my dad got out a deck of cards and showed us how to play poker. Good times.

[299]

Mine is watching my friend cry when he lost $5000 with an "unbeatable" hand.

[antnie]

Playing poker every christmas night at my house with my family.

[Frostbite]

My fondest memory is when I was playing I got 4 of a kind of ACES!!! I could not belive it, still my best hand, no straight flush or royal flush YET!!

[Nightdragon]

Mine would have to be when I first learnt how to play Poker. I remember my friends and I had a huge load of 1p and 2p pieces that we used as chips with a regular set of cards.

I have almost no tells and can keep my cool, so i ended up winning over £1, which in pennies is loads!!! Its not particularly exciting, but contest ftw!!!

-ND

[kiwi18]

Me and my friend were playing poker against my brother and his friend. When they went to get us drinks we slipped some Aces up our sleeves. They never knew.

[McQBallPlayer17]

Well I don't really have any fond memories or anything like that, but I can tell you that I've always been a fan of poker. My next door neighbor when i was a kid had a poker family, and we would always have poker nights with a bunch of their family. As I grew up, poker started becoming a party thing, where a bunch of friends and I would get together every weekend and chow down on snacks and drink soda (we weren't quite at that alcohol age yet).

[Walcherina]

definitely getting a royal flush, it was pretty all time

[kingster888]

winning the first time i ever played for money

[rubberchicken69]

gt. RubberChicken69
1st time i got a royal flush (won 10 bucks)
black void tshirt

[Codered33]

Well one time i can remember me playing in a poker tournament at a local bar where i live. I was down to my last chips and go so lucky, pocket rockets(aka A's) So i push all in, and the chip leader calls me. He has a pair of kings. So on the turn a king comes and so im losing. then a 9. So its down to the river and bam there is my Ace. Ended up getting a FUll house and doubling up and ended up finishing 5th out of 180 people. Was one of my very few positive poker stories lol

Codered33

[Gawain X]

Without a doubt winning my first online tournament. It was only $20 prize, on a free-roll, but still awesome :)

[Frijolie]

Fondest memory was playing with a bunch of pals. After going back and forth for a few hours, winning and losing, I finally pulled a bluff and went "all in" with a pair of Jacks and won! I got to go home with everyone's poker chips...

[Undead Disco]

Mine would have to be taking over 200 bucks from my dorm mates one time freshman year.

Undead Disco

[vulkean]

My fondest memory would be when I went the entire final round blind (not looking at my cards at all) and bet £50... My opponent then laid down a flush so I crapped myself but when I laid my cards down I had four of a kind :woop:.

Good times.

Gamertag: vulkean

[DeathCow]

Back in 8th grade, on the last day, we all bought chips from the cafeteria, and used them as chips and gambled the rest of the day away.
GT: DeathCowZ

[sdito]

My fondest memory was on a night in 2007. I was playing with some friends, we knew the rules... And my little brother wanted to join. He was 12 years old. And we had played a few rounds.. And he didn't understand the rules. But one round he said: "This will be my last round tonight". So he went 'all-in', a few of us did too.. because we knew he was too bad. But he had us all with four aces!!
We were very surprised!

Gr.
Ps sorry for my bad english!

[pivo1889]

I dont have much luck with poker but i suppose i make it myself. My fondest memory is betting all of my chips on a pair of twos, jus for a laugh. Surprise surprise i didnt win

[jackanape]

My fondest memory is ending up with 4 aces in a hand of Texas Hold'em. However, one of the aces in the deck had a rip in it, which we all knew and the ripped one was one of the two I had in my hand - everyone noticed, subsequently folded and I won sod all. Good times..............

[Pheonix_Assassin]

playing a game of poker with 4 mates then losing all my money apart from a tenner then creamed them with a last bbit of luck and took the pot!

GT: RETRO TM

[Smugu]

In a tournament with friends 4 people went all in and turns out 3 people had flush. I was one of those three and i got the Aceflush so i wont a major stack and won the tournament mainly because of huge stack in beginning. Winning prize : 20 €... :D

[xXDeSolat3Xx]

My fondest memory was when my friends was learning me how to play poker and i lost all my smarties to losing :(

[BioHazard117]

Going all in as the underdog i a game with my friends, and winning it all! GT: BioHazard117

[Echo]

Family poker with matchsticks. HARDC0RE!!!111oneoneone

[Fishy2606]

Just playing Poker one night with my mates in Spain, first time i'd played, and did amazingly well! Plus one of my friends had turned into a Lobster because of the sun, so we spent most of the time laughing at him and coming up with lobster related put downs!

[NokkonWud]

Playing poker at the Luxor in Las Vegas, after a cold deck I get KK. I'm middle of the table and decide to raise the pot $30 or so dollars. The next guy folds, the following guy calls, as do a couple more people.
I'd already decided my raise amount after the flop (baring a catastrophe) but the guy before me raises $30, I re-raise $30, the guy 2 on who called last time calls, everyone folds bar the guy next to me, who goes all in $40, I call (~$30 dollars) and the other guy calls $40 :eek:.

The last guy turns over QQ. I turn over KK. The guy on my right turns over AA.

The place went absolutely mental (even by Vegas standards), before you know it 20-30 people are standing looking at the table from the railing, an area that was somewhat quiet only 2 minutes ago.

The flop comes down, it's a multi-cultural flop, no connectors, no picture cards. I know I need a King, and I'm informed one has already gone, so I'm shooting for 1 card in the deck and know the chances are slim, the Turn comes and it's an Ace. There's now no way for me to win and the guy next to me rakes in a $400 pot and apologizes (like he means it ;)), but I'm not disappointed, it was such a massive buzz that people just kept talking about it.

It's such a rare thing that most people will never, ever see it live, even on TV, so to be a part of it was great, even though I lost. Though winning this would someway make up for it :p.

[Swizzler]

Fondest memory was going all in with 4 kings and losing, then won a £200 pot with 2 jacks :D

[white3er]

Playing Strip Poker Senor Year of High School - 2 girls got BUTT NAKED

[DarkenHell]

Playing 12hrs straight Texas Holden at Trump Taj Mahal (New Jersey). I went in with 3,8 offsuit & three 8's came out on the flop. I slowed played it & a King came on the turn. 4 people went all in & I called of course. 3 of them had the King Full House, the other guy had pocket Aces. $965 in chips went my way..... =)

GT: DarkenHell

[Lokosis]

Best poker memory was walking in with $5,000 and leaving the table $113,000 within an hour of playing.

[Cash42O]

Played in a big tourney with my buddies. Won it...about $400 pot. As we were putting the chips back in the case, we find the Ace and Jack of clubs under the case we keep the chips in. (Someone must have mucked them and thrown them under there by mistake).

I reluctantly gave everyone their money back......well those who sticked around until the end at least :p

[Jim Ignatowski]

Yeah, this is lame, but one time I got 4 of a kind on a quarter slot machine in New Jersey. Can't remember the exact payout amount... couple hundred or so, but it felt like a million dollars at the time.

[The Mork]

About 2 years ago I was playing at the casino and somehow managed to get 4 ACES! Needless to say, I cleaned that pot up :)

[BustaMo]

First time I ever played poker over at the college I currently attend, I was in a room full of about 14 people playing poker and EVERYONE was trashed because of drinking. I had just got there so I was still pretty stable-minded.

Almost everyone was still in and I was only playing for small money that night, but a bunch of the guys went all-in on a hand that I had 3 ace's and 2 9's. I figured that was an aright hand and half these guys and girls were drunk anyway, so I called.

Ended up winning $620 from that hand and wiping them all out for the night because they all bet on shitty hands like 1 Jack, 2 7's and a 4 or something like that.

They paid up, but they were pissed the next morning.

[P3nguinOrgy]

just sitting around when i was in college drinking and planing poker those was good times and it was for pennys

[juniormint52884]

My fondest memory was playing poker at the casino with one of my buddies. He turns to me right before a hand and says "hey lets play without looking at our cards. we'll just keep raising and see what everyone else on the table does." i thought it would be funny so i went along with it. we were on a 5/10 limit table and with us capping it at every card the pot was getting pretty huge. right as the river card flips over he turns to me and tells me that he looked at his cards at the beginning of the hand. with him and i being the only ones left in the pot, he flips over top pair with an ace kicker and starts reaching for the pot. I flip over my cards only to find i made 2 pair on the river! i only had one thing to say to him. KARMA!

[ExpectingFlame]

My fondest memory was beating all my friends, knocking them out one by one, then realizing we were playing with Monopoly money and I hadn't won anything

[Perks1]

my best memory would have to be loosing to a complete noob at the game n he one £400 i was angry put i aint a playa hater :uzi:

[RagabooMustang]

My fondest poker memory would have to be playing with my friends and only throwing in $10 to start out and I walked away from the day with $175. The greatest part was that I took the money and pre-ordered God of War II with it.

[nobodieshero]

Mine is actually quite simple. Me and the boys used to have a poker night every Wednesday and we used to play at a guy named Neils house who lived off of online poker he was so good. He usually kicked all of our asses. Well one night he did the classic all in on nothing and my buddy called his bluff because he would still ave a couple bucks if he lost. Neil lost it when his money disappeared. I mean like really lost it. Yelled profanity, threw his keyboard at the wall and shattered it into pieces, kicked over his stack and told my buddy to pick it up if he wanted his money. And then he did the most amazing thing which to this day still makes me live in fear of Neil. He punch a whole in the wall but no like a dent in the wall his arm went straight threw and came out the other end and dented the water heater on the other side (laundry room of course). Needless to say we stopped playing poker with Neil.

[ch9209live]

best must be when i play with my cousins and i could won three times in row but i fold every time and next when i get in i lose..... :p

GT:ch9209live

[onemorechanc]

The first (and only) time I played for money. I was on a school trip, and I was too cheap to use my own money in a poker game. Somebody gave me two pennies (the stakes started rather low), and I won enough to buy two meals and still had a couple of bucks left over. I figured it was beginner's luck, and haven't played for money since.

[Mullock94]

my fondest memory is when i entered a poker competition on partypoker. there were 3000 people involved and i came 49th. Best of all i was only 12!!

[egocentr1x]

My fondest memory is when we were at the casino celebrating my brothers birthday, i told him to play a game of poker and adviced him in it and told him to do this and to that. BOOM! 10.000 Euro's!! We were so fuckinghappy!!! Then when we had to go talk to the manager, turns out that the time on my bro's clock didnt match out and that he was still 17 instead of 18. So those fuckers only gave him a 1000. I was so pissed i was going to cry, my bro didnt care after though but i did :(. He saw how sad i was and gave me the 1000 Euro's cause he won true me. So i bought a 360 + games of it and im still enjoying it. Im happy, but still if we would get that 10.000 ....

[Jahmuz]

Definatley the night where my friends were drunk and wanted to play a game. We had a game of poker (for fun) and when a girl named Casey lost she started to take her top off. We all just started to laugh and she wondered why. Apperently she thought it was strip poker. Girls eh? :P

GT: Jahmuz

[Setobou]

Just hanging with a friend that I never get to see playing Texas Hold 'em (ironically in Texas), even if it wasn't for actually money.

[sleepynow]

Guys! Drunk strip poker! (with girls)...pretty girls!

[yagman23]

Mine would be flopping a royal flush at the local poker room. And winning $30 and a stupid hat after everyone folded!

[UDGuy]

Playing in my first money tournament game and taking it down. Have won just a few since.

[ShiryuX]

Playing poker (online), having terrible cards (3 and 6, and the draw wasn't any good), bluffing really...and winning to someone's all in bet with a pair XD.
Too bad it wasn't real money >_<;.

[Jamie Solo]

Playing it in a free lesson in school, me and 5 others played it, I ended up getting lucky and well... they didnt have dinner that day ;P

[Halimbo2005]

Well we often played this at school, and I was cheating since I can count cards and i spotted that 3 other dudes had cards hidden, I managed to get most of their cash after exposing them, the filth!

and thats my story.

[Bouncybhall]

My fondest Poker memory?

Simple. Two Christmases ago I was given a Jack Daniels Brand Poker set, with official chips and cards.

Unfortunately it came with a big arse bottle of JD as well, and as such we were drunk before the end of the first hand.

We are not sure what happened next, but the next morning my friend had no longer got his car, another was missing the tip of his finger and I was inexplicably handcuffed to a radiator.

Actually... not sure if that should be regarded as a 'fond memory' now... damn you all for reminding me...


/sobs

[PsychoPsymon]

My fondest poker memory was when I pulled out a straight on the river, beating 3 aces. :drunkGreat Times

[Viperruels]

My fondest memory was when i was playing poker with some friends and i lost hand after hand. At my last hand by some stroke of luck I got a straight flush and my friend Josh bet everything and he had a straight so I got all my money back.

[cbotwell]

My fondest poker memory, was freshman year of college at the University of Arkansas. There are a ton of Native American Casino's right across the border in Oklahoma. So, one night my buddies and I go to play poker and we spend the minimum 25$ to get onto a table. Of course being my first time, I loose everything in a few hands. However, the casino gave away free Pepsi. That night I drank 25$ worth of Pepsi. True Story.

[dumbestgenius]

My fondest poker memory was the first time I ever played poker with the correct rules. I was thirteen and my cousin had flown in from Florida. After playing the arcade game Texas Hold 'Em (his not mine), we felt like playing Poker. I was at a tremendous disadvantage because I had never played poker and he and his cousin had both been playing Texas Hold 'Em for several months now.
Yet somehow, I ended up winning. Sure, we only played with oreos as money, but still. Just the fact that I beat them both was good enough for me.

[xmadrussianx]

I was in Vegas. I played poker from 1AM to 7AM and was down about $5. That was the smallest amount I lost that week. Good times.

[v_thorne]

My dad teaching me how to play poker and then beating me at it each and everytime we played because he knew how to count cards and all that fun stuff.

[Blackjaw x]

Using my knowledge from the Texas Hold 'Em arcade game to show my friend the 'poker master' how things work. He was trying to teach me because I'd never really played real poker and laughed when I said I thought I knew a lot from the game. Kicked his ass.

[InFlames]

I was really feeling bad because me an my girlfriend splitted up...then I went to my mate. Some guys wanted to play poker...at first we didnt want to play but then we said yeah! We went downstairs...and there she was! The girl of my life...that was pretty cool! I taught how to play poker and she taught me how...;)


cheers!

[Slarak]

Fondest memory was when I played when I was real young with my father and his work buddies. I was learning the game and after about 30min I ended up with all of there cash. I was only 12 (they were so pissed lol)

[EarthboundRK]

My fondest memory of playing poker is my most recent one, We had planned to have a game of poker round a mates house one night, and his little sister wanted to join in. Thinking that she would be no good at the game we all said yes, to find out she was the luckiest person ever. I went head to head with her, and went all in on a hand, thinking i would definately win, she beat me with a straight flush :( I then bought back in to put her into her place, winning the next three hands with straights.

[Valenard]

my fondest memory was not of me playing but watching my gramps playing wiht a couple of his friends,i was about 5,and he was drunk and put my gba,and my dreamcast on the table,but the guy who won it,gave it back to me

Gamertag: Valenard19

[B Rad8908]

My fondest poker memory was a night when me and a bunch of the guys got together for some Gears, and some poker. We started off by playing Gears via system link, and that was a lot of fun. Then we moved on to some poker. We had a $10 buy in. So everyone put their money in and we were off. I started pretty aggressive, and lost a lot of money the first two hands. Then I realized that I actually had to start trying. No one thought I could come back, I had the least amount of chips after the first couple of hands, but I guess as they say it was the luck of the draw, and I started getting really good hands. I won pot after pot, and soon I was the leader at the table. I ended up easily winning, because I kept forcing them to go all in, and I won most of them.

[Staios]

My fondest memory would have to be the feeling I get everytime donkey's bet into me when I'm holding the nuts... There is nothing like slow-playing a flopped 4 of a kind, and having some dude try to push you around!

[Bavarian Erin]

I played poker for pennies recently with my family and my "know-it-all" step father was the dealer and he kept smacking his hands on the table and waving them around and all this other weird stuff...when my Mom finally asked "What *are* you doing?" his only answer was "It's what they do on TV Poker!" So, for the rest of the game, everytime one of us did something, we'd shrug and say "well, it's what they do on TV Poker!" So I guess my favorite memory is making fun of my step-dad!

[Anthony11085]

I went to the Hard Rock casino and played 1 - 2. Well the people there aren't exactly the best players so a lot of bad beats happen. One time in particular, I had big slick so I decided to bet big before the flop. Most people dropped out but one really drunk man decides to call me. The flop is ace, eight, four which lets me believe that I am sitting pretty nice. Then the turn is a king, looking good so far. And the river is a two. So of course I call all in with two pair thinking that I have this guy. This drunk son of a b*tch turns over a pair of twos! Who the hell would have stayed in pre flop with such a low pair! And after drawing blank all the way to the river! Worst night ever!

[superman1477]

My fondest memory was just last week. We all gathered at my uncle's place and we were about 10 guys. Had a great time even though I didn't win:p. Hope to play sometime soon.

[VampireViking]

My fondest memory was me not actualy playing but helping a friend win loads, pretending all night that i didnt have a clue what the game was or the rules.I sat there and said loudly (pretending i didnt know what it was) "your betting on that!?"
Everyone thought my friend was bluffing because of my outburst and went all in.
My friend had a Royal Flush and everyone just looked at me with angry faces, whilst me and my friend just laughed.

[EliteKillr]

My fondest memory had to be when I caught my first royal flush. I was playing with about 7 other guys and it was 2 a.m. in the morning. It was a cash game and on the turn I caught a royal flush. Sad thing is I only won like a dollar off of that hand, but it was still pretty cool.

[Kermad]

My fondest memory of playing poker was when i played with some guys at a place in London. I really needed to win the money for a ride home. Anyway it turned out the guy next to me was a cab driver. He folded early on a few times so i knew he wasnt much of a risk taker. So, one round i noticed that he was putting his chips in like crazy. There were still people in, so the pot was going up and up. He seemed so confident that he told me i might as well fold. This wasnt no regular game, and it seemed like he was the one who set up the game, so no one was objecting to him saying this. I told him why i needed the money and that i couldnt just fold. He explained he was a cab driver and that he'd give me a lift if i folded. I told him that it was a generous offer, but i was gonna take my chances with this hand. Strangely he then folded and i took the money. As i was leaving he told me that i'd been lucky and he only needed the 6 in his sequence of 5,6,7,8,9 to be a heart for a flush. I didn't want to embarrass him by telling him he had thrown away a straight. Turns out it was like the second time he'd ever played. Pity for him, as anything would have beaten my pair of 3's:woop:

[anslytlid]

My fondest memory has to be when playing at school.

I sat with 2 hearts somewhere between 8 and Q. During the round I got all in, and when the round was over, everyone expected I sat with either the straight, or with the flush. But I had the straight flush :D

Another story is not relly good for me, but once we were playing at school, it came Four of a kind in 6, in the little timespan of like 2 hours.

[ReDWasK]

Finishing 2nd place in a college tournament and win the opportunity to play in a province wide tournament in Toronto, Ontario (of which I didn't win, flushed out with pocket aces)

[DanteElDiablo]

my fondest poker memory is playing with my friends at my High school so much stuff said so many memories

[pavementpoop]

playing with a few mates who didnt have a clue what they were doing, so funny to watch them loose so much money but hey good times

[Y2JerichoHALic55]

My fondest poker memory happened just last month. Me & a friend of mine were on an airplane going to Orlando for WrestleMania 24 weekend. Despite flying many times, we're still not the best fliers. So we're both a little nervous on the plane and we decide to play some poker on the plane to calm us down. So we wound up playing poker for about the next 2 hours. It really calmed us down and made the flight more enjoyable.

GT: HAL4WWE
Forum name: Y2JerichoHALic55

[MYRM1D0N]

when i was like 13 years old, I didnt really even know how to play. But i still won some money from some relatives one night though we were only playing with quarters mostly, i won about $10 worth. lol

[turtlebyaa]

i used to play poker a lot back in the day with all my buddies. we would meet up everyday. and i was always the one losing like crazy. no matter what, i would loose. i dont even know why i kept playing, cause i would lose game after game. i was often picked on (in the friendly way). but one time i had a decent hand and i said screw it and went all in. the others thought that i had given up, but i beat all of their hands liike crazy.

[Executioner™]

when my dad taulgt me how to play.

[xGodDogx]

Back when i use to play PokerStars I had just over $1000 went into a $250 and came second netting me $7500 it was pretty Sweet. Now that was a long Ass Tourney... Last Hand I had 4h3h Before the Flop Pushed just over 45000 chips leaving it to me and one other guy Flop Came (6h,Jc,8h) I pushed a bunch more chips in he called The turn came a (9h) Now here i had the Flush so im like yeah.. And knew mabey if he had the Straight he Call so then I checked he Raised I reRaised and he Called. I was Thinking hard here as i dident know what he had but still thought mabey he had me beat then the River Came a (jh) there i knew he may have the Straight Flush but dident believe it. Threw it All in he called and then showed the (7h,10h) Thats when i came Second... What a last hand..

Gt: xGodDogx

[JellyFox]

fondest memory has to be getting quads twice in a row. the odds of that happen are just unbelievable even for just getting four of a kind once, never mind twice in a row

[D0ctorNick]

Definitely when I was playing online for a Qualifier that got me into a tourney for a World Series Seat. Top 4 got seats out of a 200+ man tourney. Needless to say I'm in the last 5 and have a straight (6,7,8,9,10) off the river so I go all in. Ass across from me has the same.....yet its a flush

Made me quite sad lol and what are the odds

[Strongbad107]

So every so often we have a family poker night. We play for real money and play by the real rules of poker. Anyway so i was on fire that night. No one could beat me, they said i had the best "Poker Face" they had ever seen that night. So our game of poker was coming to a close and we were going to play a few more hands. I decided to screw around and go all in with some rather small numbered cards, not knowing that my father had a better hand than me. My dad had nothing to lose cause well, i had almost all the money. As you probably have guessed my dad won the hand and took all my money. Twas a fond yet sad memory of me losing several hundred dollars.

GT: Mitch Tubbs

[Yaz Comix37]

winning $50 dollars off my 2 friends they were pissed

gt: MO Guns37

[Air Miles]

Fondest memory was when I was playing in a tournament with my buddies the weekend before the superbowl and it was a dense game with 4 of us left when me and a buddy of mine kept on raising each other. On the Flop came Ace, King, King... We both slow played it until he eventually went all in. I called almost immediately.

He stood up and slammed his card on the table and revealed Ace-King to make the full house of kings over aces. He riched for the pot when I flipped my two cards over to reveal my Ace-Ace to make a full house of aces over kings.

This was one of my happiest poker moments ever.

[J Lo]

The only memories I have of poker are watching the World Series of Poker on ESPN and pretending I knew what I was doing on Hoyle Card Games for the PC. :p

J Lo x360a

[Drunkensatyr]

My most fond Texas Hold'em moment was when my best friend, who happened to teach me how to play, was going heads up against me for a 250.00 prize. I never would have believed this if I had not been there but we went all in each with a pair of 6's, then the next hand again all in with Q 10, then both with 4's. After this incredible run in with the poker gods, I walked away with a Q high straight to his A 8 pairs.

[whomynextvictem]

dont play that often though probly just playing with my family on new years eve

[Thom&Jess]

Most people will post how much they won with hand. But real poker players remember the big losses not the wins.

Although it was a small game it was a big hand.

I was playing with about 6 others, maybe 40 dollars in the pot. I had a jack high flush in texas holdem. I kept pushing the pot and making it bigger..When it came down to show I turned over my jack high flush..and the only other player in the game turned over a queen high flush...That game happened over 4 years ago..and every time since then that i have a flush...that hand ALWAYS pops into my head

[blazin]

first time ever playing.. didn't know much... folded a ace high flush. My friend never lets me forget that

[StndAlneDieAlne]

Gamertag: StndAlneDieAlne

[Cheezbrgr]

Prodding many people to their discontent.
I hope that's the POKEr your talking about ;)

[TranClan67]

My fondest memory was when I only had two blue chips left while everybody else had like stacks and stacks of blue, red, and white which made me the poorest. I had no choice but to go all in and they all went all in since they were doing it for fun and they didn't think I had anything. I had 4 aces while everybody else had like pairs which made me so happy that day. I forgot the values we assigned for the chips since we were just kids and such.

[asquidsurvives]

my fondest memory is when i won against pocket kings when i had pocket twos. it was great my friend got extremely pissed i ended up losing that night but that hand was great.

[Jabberwocky CPA]

There were five of of us playing with only pennies and nickels. After a couple hours it was just me and one other guy. I had a full house of 3 jacks and 2 aces so i assumed I would win it all. After some agressive betting I lost to another full house of 3 kings and (the other)2 aces.

[lukej107]

Going to the casino with my buddy visiting me at college and getting first in a 35 person tournament, he got second.

[kyosh1ro]

The best poker moment of my life occurred at Barona casino near San Diego, CA. The casino used to run (maybe they still do, I don't go anymore) an hourly promotion where $100 was added to a pot at a randomly selected table. I was playing $40-200 no limit with about $200 in front of me when my table was chosen. The table decides to go friendly and everyone calls the big blind ($3) to the flop. I am holding A7 offsuit, and the flop is Ac 9c 4d. I am first to bet so I throw 25 into the pot, getting four callers. The turn comes 7s, so I instantly move all in for the rest of my chips. Two people call almost instantly so I knew I was in trouble, they ended up having A9 (top two pair) and KcQc (nut flush draw). So I stood up and got ready to leave the table when the dealer spiked a 7c on the turn, and my full house took down top two pair and nut flush for over $700. Two hands later, I cleaned out the guy with A9 with a diamond flush and left the casino extremely happy with about a grand after buying in for $100. As long as I live I'll never forget that day. Honorable mention goes to seeing four-of-a-kind Kings losing to a Royal Flush at a home game for just over $800. Ouch.

[manicpunk111]

Me and 5 freinds met up to play poker but I didn't know how to play so I was going to ask one of my freinds but he didn't know either so we got round my other freinds house and asked how to play and none of them knew how to play either. We ended up playing snap. We were only betting in 10p coins and £2 each but I won and i brought drinks and ice cream. I know how to play poker now but have never played for money before. Snaps more fun anyway.

[boofarama]

playing strip poker and saw a beautiful women naked!!!!

[ZeroCoolest]

My fondest poker memory is winning $500 after playin for 6 hours in an online poker tournament.

[Bodendein]

My cousin beat me three times in a row at poker, just two hours after I tought him how to play.

[chris113113]

Meh, my memory kind of sucks. About 10 friends and I were playing poker one night, and we thought, hey it's getting late, lets go all in. So we all went all in, about $1500 pot right now... And BAM! The guy across the table throws down a Royal Flush. He still brags about it, even 3 years later.

[ru-e-z]

I had a 9-6 off suit and flopped a straight. I suckered the guy to go all in by slow playing the hand and ended up busting him out.

[Theluckylefty26]

x MrReDuNk x

[MasterYensid]

I still remember the time I bluffed my pair of deuces and took the whole pot over somone that had a two 7's and two 4's. Went home with an extra $200 that night. Unfortunately, I lost it all when my girlfriend took me to the cleaners with a full house the next night. :(

[dlogan5]

I was able to pull the classic "crap, I only have two pair". My buddy had hit his straight and thought he had the hand... i pulled the "crap, i only have two pair" so my buddy got excited and i said...."a pair of Nine's and .....another pair of nines!!" BOoyah!! Quads!!" He was pissed

[FunkyCD]

Betting every round no matter what hand I had and that really threw my opponents off guard not knowing what to expect. When the finally round came, i bet it all with confidence despite having the worst possible hand one can imagine. And when my buddy took time to decide I knew he had a good hand...but not the best. Managed to get him to not only fold, but quit too. He couldn't stand the tension....hahaha

Gamertag: FunkyCD

[bluebear1979]

sadly i dont gamble so i dont have any :(

[Wriggy]

My fondest memory of Poker was when we played without Aces... It was quite strange.

[twotonkoala]

gt: milehighkoala

The first time I ever played for money....I remember taking 300 dollars to an indian casino in California (was also the first time I had ever been to L.A.). Didn't really know what I was doing as far as buying chips, finding a table, and so forth. I knew how to play, but not live. So, after an awkward time of finding the first table (a 3/6 limit) and buying chips (40 dollars worth), I sat down to play. 15 minutes I got up because I knew I was out of my league (and already out my 40 bucks). So I went, with my tail between my legs, to a 2/4 limit table. After 3 hours, I was up 250 dollars, and had been playing on the same 40 bucks for the last hour just going up and down. I stood up, cashed out, and that was that. Up 210 bucks my first time playing (albeit at some low stakes tables). I ended up playing for a bit more and lost another 20, but more goofing around at a table with 3 of my buddies at it and one, somewhat intimated, 20-something year old girl. Poor thing.

[Blake]

Lost £500 Trying to win some money, i only stopped when i realise i have no money left.

[squirreltakos]

betting with m&ms cause I'm poor

[speedchudy]

Being down to my last $30 out of 300 in a no limit cash game. Guy geats a bad beat jackpot and i got like about 300 out if, for just being on the table.

[Mogablah]

i kicked it on a 7-2 offsuit and flopped a full house.

it was player.

GT: Mogablah

[mithridates22]

A neat poker memory for me is playing the included Poker! game with my Intellivision over 25 years ago. I remember once getting a straight flush, but my Dad pointing out that I really had a Royal Flush. I was only 8, so I didn't really realize the significance of it. In the years since I've played a decent amount of poker with friends and some poker games and have yet to see another one.

[Liquid ID]

I will always remember the night my friend decided he was going to start entering poker tournaments for money. To start his new career we had a poker night with the guys. Collectively, we cleaned out every penny he had put in that night. I went home richer and my friend the poker host decided against his new job path. He got burned bad.

[Badman]

My fondest memory was when i was playing party poker and i had a 2 , 3 suited. i decided to go all in with 100,000 chips that took me forever to earn , and i ended up getting a straight flush and Quadrupling up.




BOO YA!!! ABM= All Bout Money

[Chibi the Balla]

Fondest poker memory: Senior year of high school (3 years ago). Myself, my friend (his house), his dad, and 3 other friends playing some hold 'em after school. His dad and 2 other guys were in the hand. Flop comes A-J-10 all spades. His dad (who sometimes pretends like he doesn't know what he's doing) bets the minimum, the other two guys call. Turn comes 9 of spades. His Dad bets a good amount, the next guy raises all in, last guy folds, Dad calls. His son says "If Larry (his dad) has a Royal, I'm gonna drop my pants and run outside." Larry turns over K-Q of spades...he FLOPPED the Royal. We all start yelling and jumping around. His son runs out the front door and streaks through the front lawn doing flips on the lawn with everything hanging out. The rest of the hand didn't matter and the guy who was out first had to jump in the pool so he ran out the back door and jumped in with his clothes on saying it's worth it to lose that way. Greatest moment in my poker life.

[ShinUkyo]

I love to play poker, ever since I was a kid... so it's tough to single out a specific time. Very rare that I've ever played for money, so usually it's just good times all around. Although I do have fond memories of playing strip poker once back in highschool. At a friend's party, and it was mostly really cute girls. They were the ones who suggested it, too, so who was I to say no? And thankfully no one was really good at poker, haha.

[Valo916]

One time we had no cards or chips to play, so we drew up cards on paper, and bet with pepperonis, when we got hungry we just ate the chips till they were gone, thats when we all passed out.

[PKBronson]

I remember my dad teaching me and my brother how to play poker when we were very young. We'd just learned about blackjack and go fish (and chess a bit before that), but it was finally time to move up to the big leagues. You never forget your first, I guess.

[wigidywaxa]

We used to always play in school when we were bored.
This one time there was a big game going (well big since it was in school) and right near the end of the game, the teachers caught us, took our cards and the money! HAHA

GT: wigidywaxa

[D3ANO1986]

Me and a few family members were playing and i have in my hand AK and on the board were AAK and two others (can't remember what they were). I kept a straight face and one of my mates bets big and went all in so i called and was the only one I showed my cards AAAKK my mate couldn't believe it he had KKKAA. so i knocked him out.:woop:
later on in the game it happened again just i was on the receiving end. :mad:

[Deell]

playing with a pink chicken when I was drunk. And yes, I won.

[Femstar]

Losing a tournament with a Full House getting beat by a Royal Flush : (

[Pieface]

Just playing at school, and won on the trot 4 times and each time someone bet all in

[Gorjira]

Losing to my dad for the first time.

[FuggedUp]

My fondest poker moment was... When I went out, then they let me buy back in, and I ended up winning all of the money. I think I walked away with like 100 bux that night. We weren't playin too big, but it was still fun.

[SoulProphet85]

My poker memory was with the family. I was losing badly to my brother. As we went on the night, I went the opposite winning the money back. It was paper money because we didn't have enough cash to divide evenly to all the players.

[LaCara Cicatriz]

I dunno if it is necessarily a "fond" memory but I was playing Texas Hold 'Em with three other friends recently...and I had gotten a great hand...I think A full house...one folded in the blinds and I thought that there was only one other guy...when I hit my full house I had badgered away a minor chunk of his chips and then I bet half my money and he Folded and I showed him emphatically....unaware of the other person still in the hand and he said, "Well I'm not calling NOW!! I was gunna, but not anymore. you freakin tard! why would you show?! whahaha".....God was I angry at my self.

GT: LaCara Cicatriz

GL to all!

[Gigamonks]

My fondest memory was playing in the library in our lunch break at school and the librarian coming over and kicking us out

Was really funny that day

GT: Gigamonks

[DBobMane]

Being up 150 bucks and ended up losing 200 GT: DBobMane

[rican ninja89]

Anytime i can bluff;)

[I KmaC I]

My best memory of poker was a few months ago when me and a few of my friends were playing one night...we just had a poker night. I came SO close to winning but unfortunately my other friend ended up getting it all. And even though it was fun...I was pretty ticked off.

GT: I KmaC I

[weiman]

winning with 7 2 off suit with full house

[Vernox]

My fondest poker memory, there are many.

But I am most excited to be competing in a satellite for a chance to make it to the WSOP this year. I had played a tourney to make it to this one where they will pay my entrance fee, hotel room, and 2.5k spending money.

What's lift without a little gamble every now and again right?

[Butters782]

My best Poker memory, I went over to my cousin's friends house with my cousin. It was my first time playing poker for money (only 5 dollars though, although we let one guy come back in for another 5 bucks cause he was doing so bad). I got second place, with my cousin winning it all (pretty much only because the game was going on to long, and it was just me and my cousin so we decided at the end to just go all in). I would say that is pretty amazing for my first time! Was filled with lots of great laughs and good times. Made me REALLY appreciate the fun of poker (small bets are the best, so much less stressful, but still have that little bit of stress so that you dont WANT to lose). Only downside was my cousin wasn't nice enough to give me back my 5 dollars.

Gamertag: Butters782

[LoganDX]

my fondest memory was listening to a co-worker tell everyone about this new form of poker he learned. He was so excited to tell us since he played with some chicks but as he kept going on and on I realized he was actually describing euchre...

[Spec7rum]

God, there are so many. I guess I'll say my fondest is my most recent. Me and six friends go out to a field about once or twice a month to play poker, have a bonfire, consume illegal things, etc. The last time we went there, we built the fire, sat down, and started playing. One of my friends named Seth plays guitar, and brought it along with an amp to play around on. Well, Seth was the first to get out, so he began playing his guitar (around $2000). My friend clancey can't hold his liquor well, and was setting closest to the fire (not a good idea since he works on a pipeline and has oil and other flammable items on his pants all day). Before you know it, the right leg of his pants are on fire up to his knee, so he gets up runnin around, rollin on the ground. In the midst of this, Seth, who is sitting near us with his guitar gets push over out of his chair, onto the ground. The treble knob on his guitar broke off and the frame of it cracked. He plugged it back up to see if it still worked, and it sounded horrible. Clanceys pants were finally put out (we had some buckets of water for the fire), Seth was pissed, and me and everyone else were laughing our asses off.

[Cavalieroscuro]

Never played poker in my life :l

[Hammy8107]

playing with my buddies l got knocked out and bought back in 5 times for a total loss of 100$

[coddy1975]

My best win at poker turned in to my worst lose although I won !!

I was playing online and hadn't been doing to well, when things changed suddenly. I thought I had a bad hand when I suddenly realised I had a straight flush after the flop :woop:. I played very carefully, only raising small amounts until somebody went all-in and 2 other players followed. I was in dreamland. The river appeared and I new I had won. The pot totalled just over $4,000 dollars. I was on my feet punching the air with joy.
UNTIL I realised I had been playing the free money games, so I hadn't actually won anything :rant:.

I ended up getting very drunk and took my anger out on some poor people in Call Of Duty !!!

GT: Fishy Fins

[Mothershed_52]

Winning the pot with trip deuces but then realizing we just bought our chips from Wal-Mart so I had won no money....damn..

[Bear]

My fondest memory was when i got the millionair club achievement on texas hold em on xbox live oh yeah

[Noble Templar]

I was in my first tourney with friends after high school, and managed to make it to the final table. I had Ace/8 unsuited which gave me a middle pair. I came up against a huge raise and knew I shouldn't call, but I didn't want to get pushed around. Needless to say, I lost lol.

[OpenSourcePong]

Losing all my chips in one hand!

[Mythtakes]

A fond memory that I am reliving at this very moment...

Playing poker online in uni when I'm supposed to be doing assignments...

[psycho harry]

this happened to me a couple years ago when I was playing on Ladbrokes.com 025/050UDS cashgame table..

Psycho Harry: QQ bet 2$
Player1: re-raise to 10$
Player2: re-raise to 50$ (max buyin)
Player3: call
Player4: call
Psycho Harry: "wtf AA KK JJ TT ??? I am done.." but call anyway
Player1: call

flopp 8 6 2 os.. turn T.. river 5.. no flush on the table..

player1 shows AK os
player2 shows AK os
player3 shows AK os
player4 shows AK os
Psycho Harry shows QQ.. :D

most hilarious hand I ever played..

[I Head5hot I]

Being smug and going all in with 3 queens, but then losing too 3 kings.
Gutted, I was.

[ROOKdaddyPIMP]

being too drunk and angry about losing a game that i got all my money back from the people i was playing with. then waking up and finding their money layin around in my apartment:woop:

[Now Evergreen]

I remember the first time I played Poker:

I kept folding, and folding, and folding, and eventually I came to the conclusion that people assumed that I wouldn't go in unless I had a great hand.

So I bluffed, I went all in, and so did everyone else.
My plan seemed to fail...

But BOOM!
It turns out I had the best hand anyways, and just didn't know the rules enough to know it :P

[Dragonfire 360]

GT: Dragonfire 360

I called my cousin's bluff. He said "F**k you!" and I won $45. First time I ever heard him swear. It was hilarious.

[Fibinachi]

winning $100 on a $5 buy in at a dorm tourney.

GT Nineheavens

[Crimson Drifter]

I came over to my buddys house and they were in the middle of a game. They told me the buy in was $5 so i jumped in. To make it short I swept the table and took home $30! now thats what friends are for lol

GT: Crimson Drifter

[Ghost2314]

One night me and a few friends decided to sit down and play some poker which is something we don't get to do very often, anyways needless to say I was doing pretty lousy that night and was down some big money. About an hour into this wonderful endeavor we heard squealing tires and a loud crash that shook the house. A drunk driver (probably coming home from a long night of poker elsewhere lol) hit my damn house. A poker experience that will never go forgotten!!!

[ChickenHugga]

Going all-in on a king high and everyone folding, with £80 in the pot

[Callidus171]

I was playing at the casino had a 10 and queen of spades, some other guy raised so i folded, within all the other 5 cards a king, jack, and ace of spades came up, I threw away a Royal Flush.

[Dabigamc]

playin with about 8 mates, having a drink, you know life then he raises £8 i call and hit the straight on the river card, quality lol

[JHeights NYC]

Playing poker in vegas while being drunk I forgot how much I lost maybe it's better that way.....

[x Zot x]

Getting the "Luck of the Draw" achievement in Texas Hold 'em after only 51,000+ hands!

[dda24]

My best memory is when my wife tried to call my best friends bluff.. But she knew nothing about poker.. So she had no hand herself... It came down to my best friend winning his bluff with a jack high card.. and my wife mad cause she knew he was bluffing so she thought that she should have won..

[Duce Bandit]

Playing with the whole family one night.

GT: Deuce Bandicoot

[Sol]

Sitting in my friend's basement with him and a bunch of other friends, playing it at like three in the morning.

[vennom78]

many fond memories of home tournaments probably the best was when we had 27 players for texas hold 'em squeezed into my basement