In my last column, I gave you the first four of my top ten poker moments. Here are the remaining six...

5. Bad Beat/Not-In a super satellite for the 1995 WSOP, I found myself down to the final seven players. Only six of us would win a seat and it appeared that I would finish seventh. I went card-dead and almost out of chips. I found myself with half my chips on the big blind. Everyone folded around to former world champion Hamid Dastmalchi on the small blind. He hardly looked at his hand before putting me all-in. Going to the river, the board was a rainbow 9-9-9-A and I was in bad shape with 5-4 suited. I was crushed when a deuce fell on the river and stood up to leave, throwing my hand face up. Amazingly, Hamid reluctantly turned over the only hand that I could beat-a three and a four. A few hands later another player was eliminated and I had my ticket to the show.

6. Stu Ungar-The morning of the 1997 WSOP Main Event, I stopped by the satellite room to watch a last-minute, one table satellite, for the main event. A tough field was involved, including Stu Ungar, who could not stay awake after playing all night. He often had to be awakened by his fellow players to play a hand. After watching for a few minutes, I went off to bed. I was certain that Stu could not win the satellite, and if he did, he could not be effective in the 4-day long event. How wrong I was. Stu won his third world title and $1 million in the process.

7. Back to Back at Amarillo Slim's Tournament-In the 7-card stud $1,000 buy-in, I finished fourth in back to back years at Amarillo Slim's Superbowl of Poker at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas.

8. Getting my first book published and selling out the first edition. The Great, The Bad, and The Lucky (My Most Memorable Poker Hands was published in November 2007, and quickly sold out.

9. Chris Moneymaker-Watching Chris turn $40 into a million dollars by winning the WSOP Main Event and the subsequent poker boom is certainly on anyone's list.

10. Two Billion-to-one-In an online 7-stud/8 tournament with 561 players, I had a verifiable* experience that was 2 billion to one.

a. I won eight all-ins and barely survived thru Hand No. 146 with only $16 of my original $1,500 remaining. Odds: 50-to-1.

b. From that $16, I won nine more all-in hands. In four of them I was all-in for part of the ante, and increased my stack to $14,724 by the time I reach Hand. No. 175. Odds: 800,000-to-1.

c. I won giant pots in two of the next five hands and became one of the tournament leaders with $25,431. Odds: 5-to-1.

d. Fourteen of my next 16 hands were unplayable, and I lost the first two hands I played without winning another single chip, I was out in 17 place. Odds: 10-to-1.

e. Overall the odds of me surviving 17 all-ins and coming back from $16 to $14,724, winning two more hands to give me $25,431, and becoming a tournament favorite with only 30 players left, then finishing in seventeenth place without winning another chip: 2 billion-to-one.

*You can verify the details of this story by checking Poker Stars Tournament and Hand Histories for tournament #433620, which began 12:30 am on August 23, 2004.

There you have it. Numerous other events could have made the list, but that is what I ended up with. Feel free to e-mail me your top poker events.

Mike Eikenberry got his undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Virginia, where he played varsity tennis and basketball. Founder of one of the leading national tennis camps, Mike is an avid amateur who has played both tournaments and live games for over 25 years. He can be reached at theeiks@comcast.net