I won about 6 or 7* PCF games in a row over a short stretch last year. It was epic, and the legend of Moxie Mike was born on that captivating weeklong extravaganza of PCF poker mayhem.
It was a glorious time. It was pandemonium! Women wanted to be with me. Men wanted to
be me. Mrs. Moxie wanted me more than
@MrCatPants. Colors seemed brighter. Food tasted better. All was right in the world and your humble hero could do no wrong for one magical week.
However... it was not all rainbows and roses for PCF's resident dragon-slayer. The legend has taken on many forms over the months and depending on who you ask, people will provide a much different account of
what actually happened. Ask
@BGinGA and without hesitation he will gleefully point out that while the streak happened as described
he was absent from competition during the entire streak and we would have had a much different outcome had he been involved.
@Beakertwang will tell you it was all luck (to be fair he also says this when he wins) and
@davin might suggest that the winning period I experience was because his lucky 5-leaf clover was in the repair shop being mended from a freak skiing accident.
Couldashouldawoulda... go whine to your grandma.
The streak stands nonetheless. There were many fallen soldiers along the way - countless (ok like 10 or 11) valiant warriors such as
@toynoob @AK Chip @bsdunbar1 @Highli99 @doughboy63 @binisha @Chris La Mantia and
@IaHawk to name a few - worthy adversaries whom despite promises of riches consisting of gold and silverware and 72 virgins were mercilessly vanquished to poker-purgatory in one-deftly wielded dagger-strike after another by yours truly. The accepted figure is that Moxie Mike registered 443 KOs during that lethal 7 day stretch. Some say it's higher. Others say it's A LOT higher. We'll probably never know, since only the abyss that is the heavily-guarded PokerStars' hand-history archives can reveal the true number.
And then it ended on a
coin flip horrific suckout by the villainous, diabolical
Brutus Erik - and the legend of Moxie Mike and his
even-more-legendary-like streak of 6 or 7* straight PCF sit-n-gos victories came to an end - seemingly as quickly as it began.
People who were there only wish they'd realized the history they were witnessing in real time. For now it is only folklore. But those who know,
know.
In terms of the history of mankind's incredible, never-to-be-seen again streaks, there's:
DiMaggio's 56
Ripken's 2,632
The Grim Reaper's 101,823,563,002+++ (counting cavemen, cro-magnon man and a rough estimate of the number of flies I've slain with my
Bug-a-Salt)
Moxie Mike's 6 or 7*.
*I can't remember if it was 6 or 7. I'd say it was 6.5 to be fair - but no one like a pedant... Right
@WedgeRock?