KingRevolver Posted March 1, 2015 Report Share Posted March 1, 2015 I was trying to find an old poker article, and I saw this story told by poker player Todd Brunson about that lunatic Sam Grizzle: "About 14 years ago, I was playing in a $150-$300 hold'em game at Commerce Casino. Early in the morning, Sam Grizzle walks in and starts commenting on how good the game is. When asked why he's not playing, he pulls out his bankroll ($2) and sarcastically asks how much the buy-in is. He leaves, and after talking to Puggy Pearson, comes back with $10,000 and starts to play. Now, after about an hour, Sam and Puggy get into an argument (about what, I can't remember offhand), and Puggy picks up his $10,000 and half of what Sam was winning, leaving Sam with about $400, far short of the required buy-in. Fortunately for Sam, no one says anything. Sam goes all in five or six times right away, and in about four hours, he is winning around $40,000. If this isn't amazing enough, Sam quits the game, announcing that he's going to do us a big favor and go play the tournament, allowing us to keep what money we had left. (He also told us how smart he was and dumb we were, of course.) You can guess what happened next: Sam the genius wins the tournament and another $120,000 to go with the $40,000 he won from us earlier that morning; not bad for a guy who showed up at the casino with $2 in his pocket. It's now 6 a.m. and he's been in the Commerce Casino for exactly 24 hours. It's time to get some sleep; that is, if he were a normal human, but Sam's far from that. He comes up to the top section, where there's a tough $800-$1,600 Razz (lowball) game in progress. Sam stumbles over and bellies up to the table, losing his entire $160,000 in a fairly short period of time. Instead of becoming upset, Sam simply told everyone how dumb they were, shook his head, and walked out of the casino with the exact same $2 he had showed up with the day before. Just another day in the life of a gambler." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rito Posted March 1, 2015 Report Share Posted March 1, 2015 Been some big ones on NFL teasers losing on nonsense, like missed extra pts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milwaukee mike Posted March 1, 2015 Report Share Posted March 1, 2015 my biggest swing was 40k on the first tyson/holyfield fight... back when i was broke and stupid. was dumb and naive enough to think vipsports would pay me 40k without a hitch, and they did that was on sporting events though. my biggest risk swing was when i didn't buy a penthouse on auction on lake delton (wisconsin dells). listed at $1.1 million, 4000 sq ft, fully furnished, private beach/indoor pool/hot tub... one went for 420k, the other 400k and i almost bought it. well wouldn't you know less than 2 years later one sold for 750k and the other is still being rented for $1100/day in the summer... i will never stop kicking myself for not buying that, and for not buying property in florida/az/vegas when it was being given away 5 years ago Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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