Comeup

1. A good run in poker or gambling.

The Comeup

The following tale from Shane Schleger's blog You Can't Miss What You Can't Measure is an example of a nearly complete "comeup" that ends tragically:

shaniac (10:44:08 PM): so ok chino
shaniac (10:44:15 PM): lol this story is decent actually
shaniac (10:44:22 PM): he's in a $20 SNG
shaniac (10:44:24 PM): on Stars
shaniac (10:44:25 PM): HU SNG
My friend (10:44:28 PM): why?
shaniac (10:44:29 PM): basically his case 20
My friend (10:44:32 PM): k
shaniac (10:44:33 PM): whatever, why
shaniac (10:44:35 PM): he's a grinder!
shaniac (10:44:37 PM): anyway
My friend (10:44:38 PM): ok
shaniac (10:44:40 PM): he's down to 95 chips
shaniac (10:44:44 PM): so the other guy has
shaniac (10:44:48 PM): 2905
shaniac (10:44:55 PM): and Jordan [Morgan] offers him 15-1
shaniac (10:44:58 PM): on $20
shaniac (10:45:00 PM): that he cant win
shaniac (10:45:01 PM): he wins
shaniac (10:45:07 PM): $300 for Chino
shaniac (10:45:11 PM): obv it was a bad line but whatever
shaniac (10:45:53 PM): so $300 for Chino
My friend (10:46:07 PM): that line seems almost ok
shaniac (10:46:15 PM): then Chino wins another $100 off Jordan on another prop bet so his roll is 400
shaniac (10:46:41 PM): then jordan kicks in 400 and I kick in 200 and we have a 1K bankroll, 40/40/20....
shaniac (10:46:43 PM): on FTP
shaniac (10:46:48 PM): and we work it here and there
shaniac (10:46:54 PM): from 8/16-25/50 NL
shaniac (10:46:59 PM): then sometime during this
shaniac (10:47:07 PM): Jeff Madsen comes into the room with a friend of ours during their dinner break
shaniac (10:47:37 PM): anyway, we pull out from all games and are grinding out this 10/20 PLO game
shaniac (10:48:06 PM): we're in the 10/20 PLO game with 2500
shaniac (10:48:11 PM): and another 1200 in the account
shaniac (10:48:16 PM): which we have grinded up from a 1K roll
shaniac (10:48:51 PM): and we get headsup with this dude who has likle 7500
shaniac (10:49:29 PM): 10/20 PLO. First hand of HU play He raises to 60, and we make it like 180 with ATT8 double-suited,
shaniac (10:49:32 PM): he calls
shaniac (10:49:36 PM): we flop the joint
shaniac (10:49:41 PM): 7-9-J rainbow
shaniac (10:50:23 PM): we bet, he raises, we push, he thinks and calls with top set. 5K pot. Turn is a deuce. Jeff Madsen looks at the screen, goes "wow big pot" and then says "no deuce."
shaniac (10:50:26 PM): and then the river is a deuce
shaniac (10:50:29 PM): and then he sort of slunk out of the room
shaniac (10:50:31 PM): and that's the story
Friend (10:50:40 PM): lol
shaniac (10:50:48 PM): maybe you had to be here, but we were all like "fucking Jeff Madsen!!!"
shaniac (10:51:02 PM): he was like this chipper little kid, talkin about how he was into Magic the Gathering
shaniac (10:51:09 PM): and he just said the worst possible thing
shaniac (10:51:19 PM): it was like silent
shaniac (10:51:34 PM): Chino's run from 95 chips in a sng to a 5K pot and Jeff Magic Madsen puts the cooler on it