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Poker is full of survivors of pre-Black Friday online poker. I am not one of them. I wasn't around to enjoy Rail Heaven, the Durrrr Challenge or the rise of Viktor 'Isildur1' Blom.
By the time I came into the industry, high-stakes online usernames were almost anachronisms of a golden age of poker, appearing only in archived forum posts; various legendary hand histories more akin to myth or legend.