That’s was the person that hacked the site, was caught by boasting about it in a thread and was thrown off the site.
Oh really, I never read about that.
I thought the guy who hacked this site a couple years ago was boasting and showing in the Toplist section, had something like 40 billion chips and his handle was Tomwest or something similar.
I think you were thinking about this guy TomWest74 who I think was banned for Hacking this site back in 2022.
How did someone get $36 billion at a 250k/500k table? - Off Topic - Replay Poker
I don’t think you really need to grind at Replay, especially now that you’ve got to 1B. It’s not really a high standard deviation game in my experience, so you don’t need a huge bankroll to just drop into the elite stakes games whenever you have the chance.
Yes, you’re right. My aim was to as best as possible mimic real world conditions, and back in the day the advice for bankroll managemnt was always to have 20 buyins for the stake you’re playing and start to take shots at the next stake when you get to about 35. This allows you to minimise your risk of ruin. So, this is the method I used, which means that the challenge took longer.
The dude in the other thread said that his strategy was to put 40% of his bankroll on the line at any one time. That is completely insane from a variance minimisation perspective but in soft games its probably fine. Having said that, I went through some insane periods of bad luck where I’d have things like AA vs KK all in preflop like three times in 100 hands. So seems like the other guy either didnt experience any bad luck at all, or just moved up and down a lot.
This was an interesting thread (the hacking one). For what it’s worth I never saw anything at the tables which seemed out of line or untoward to me. I also had some stretches of bad luck which had me questioning my sanity but nothing that I had not seen before in many years of playing. The Replay shuffle seems fine.
For what it’s worth back in the day there was always a loud chorus of people claming that online poker sites were rigged against them. I did see a fair bit of table chatter about the “Replay special”, meaning setup hands or suckouts. But the bottom line is that if you play for long enough, you’ll go through stretches of bad luck that will leave you incredulous.
Here’s a fun fact, back in the day there was a company called “Real Deal Poker” which tried to address this by acutally having a physical machine which shuffled a real deck of cards, scanned them, then sent them to an online poker client. Here’s a video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ndit25Cgbk0
Us “serious” players used to think this was the funniest thing in the world. A truly randomised digital shuffle is more than adequate, but there will always be a vocal minority of players who just cant trust that the game is fair.
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If I worked it out correctly, to go from 3K to 1B int 12,000 hands you’d have to double your bankroll about every 600 hands, which equates to a win rate of ~16bb/100.
I would think that’s easily achievable at low stakes but probably not sustainable at higher stakes. It’s certainly possible with a bit of luck over such a small sample though.
(sorry didn’t mean that to be a reply to you @smooth99)
For the curious, here is a chart of my chip counts over time, data kindly provided by the admin team:
As you can see it is fairly smooth sailing except for a long stretch during November and December where I had a run of bad luck that I can only describe as “cataclysmic”.
The ending of the final sentence can be written many ways…lol
I was thinking, " going through stretches of bad luck that will leave you in need of padded walls "
I’m sure every player here could write the ending differently.
I’ll PM you in private hopefully tomo…
crabtastic was one of the biggest winners on the site for a long time… they also played frequently very fast even on 2 tables and rarely had losing sessions, often against the very top ranked players which was all very impressive
What I find even more impressive is that Chezecow folded 64% of his hands which means he played only around 4,300 hands to reach 1 billion chips.
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You won playing against poop flinging monkeys , not really much to brag about lol
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Yup, you have to fold a lot of good hands on here because any raise usually gets a bunch of callers …they all limp until you raise then call …
Swmore, by popular request, and yes I have had a few… LOL I would like to interview you for the Replay blog. If you are still around please PM me. Thanks. 
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Thanks Jen and @swmore I hope this success story on the Replay Blog will also help us all, to set our goals higher for the new year and every year forward ! 
Heck yeah, and I want the inside scoop bc I have dreams of being the first lady to win that WSOP Main Event bracelet. LOL 
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Can’t compete with the first lady’s win, but would be very nice to be one of the guys win, in dreams lol
Totally in dreams for me. But hey a girl can dream, right?
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I thought at the time it was incredibly interesting too! It actually shocked me how little interest it got on the FORUMS. You can find some videos on YT. This cheating player just “hack” added chips through rebuy and top ups. There was no cheating by seeing cards.
I watched the YT video. Im surprised I’ve never found it on YT as ive watch a lot about poker & RNG etc. It seemed like a marketing ploy more than anything. Getting the players to cut the deck? LMAO where is the proof this actually does cut the cards as per players selection? Funny video yes. I get people wanting a truly random RNG for poker tho, so I bet it made some money before it crashed.
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chezcow had an incredibly risky and agro maniac BRM strategy. You can read about it in there post similar to this one.
They would buy in min with 40/60% of bankroll in ring games, according to their post.
I think they would aggressively move up stakes too.
I think most players on RP wouldn’t be able to mentally and psychologically handle those swings!
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I’d be honoured! I’ve added you as a friend - I think that’s what I need to do in order to be able to PM you.
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