another great bbv saga was this nl50 grinder who was fairly well respected went on like a 1 million hand Break even or something nuts and BBV determined that it wasn’t anything to do with his play he was actually running bad
sharkscope graphs thread was a gut buster but all the images are dead in that one now. 2006-2009 was such a great time in the poker world.
How does BBV end up being the only board you post on at the start?
I was attracted to the despair and the chaos. I had a few good threads of my own iirc.
I read BBV a ton back in that mid 2000s time frame then moved to the cesspool of BBV4L. Grimstarr comes to mind as a BBV legend.
Sucks that all of the photos in old 2p2 threads are dead, missing some amazing stuff
I recently posted about reading Truestoryteller’s home game thread and I’ve started on WarmDeck’s thread, but the degenning just makes him seem unlikeable. I have a bit of a potential personal project where reading such threads has value, but these do not seem like the kind of people I ever have wanted to hang out with at any point in my life.
yea most of them were probably scumbags
BBV at its peak was really just a bunch of young 20 somethings shitposting with way more money than we had any business having, funny stuff can come out of that
Shout out to the Davino home game pics thread
The two players I remember were Dynasty and, I think, David Ross. Both seemed like they were targeting a grinder-type life that didn’t seem at all appealing to me, but it was interesting to watch from afar.
I feel like I remember David Ross. He was a MTTer right? Used to sweat him a bunch because he always seemed like a nice down to earth guy
I thought I remembered him being a fairly small stakes limit player, but could be wrong. He seemed like a nice and genuine guy making a very odd life choice in his goal to be a full-time pro.
I might be thinking of David Grey?
David Grey is kind of a dink I think, and more known for mixed games? (Although he did final table some tournaments in the boom years.)
Hmmm. Getting old sucks
I believe Grey is known as a stud specialist who played a tight ABC game.
https://twitter.com/HUSTLERCASINOLA/status/1554574154946547712?s=20&t=jAJHGs7Pb4eBUFZhRNX-Yw
Ooof. Not a good look.
Cliffs?
Can’t believe there’s BBV reminiscing without Joyofpoker or Dan Bright (or Ban Dright).
They are removing a guarantee mid event because a competitor is also hosting a tourney. Basically LOLGTDs
best thing about joyofpoker was all the posters calling him an idiot and questioning his poker ability