No Jeets Allowed — The story of BIG $SLICK the Poker Dog (long version)

16 min readJul 3, 2024

Late on a Monday night, last night in fact, when I was definitely supposed to be getting ready for bed, I decided to spontaneously stealth launch the $SLICK coin on PumpFun. I say spontaneously, but there was quite a lot of pondering on how this scenario should play out for some weeks prior. In a way, this was a long time coming.

Ever since I started a spontaneous dog coin on BSC in 2021, people have been asking me to launch another token. I’m serious, a lot of people have asked me a lot of times. It’s not hard to understand why. That particular dog coin was one of the first fair launch tokens in the space. It was done before the land was filled with jeets and over saturated with blockchain choices and free contract deployers. There were scammers everywhere sure, but somehow still less than today. After a mediocre launch and some persistent networking on Telegram, that token did a 50x in a day which was the most euphoric experience I’d had so far in crypto. Bear in mind I was here for the 2016 bull cycle and I bought 16,000 XRP for $100 in their presale. This wasn’t my first rodeo as a trader. Man I gotta shout out all those who were with me in the poloniex chat box when XLM Stellar Lumens would pump so freaking hard and coincidentally every single F*ing time Poloniex would go down and nobody could sell LMAO. It was terrible but those were the days! And maybe I’m getting too nostalgic as I freestyle this article but I’m in crypto for the culture and always have been. I’ve seen the culture change and evolve over the years. And for me, I can go back to before Silk Road shut down in 2013, when my Russian friend who mined BTC on the laptop I borrowed him randomly disappeared with it one day. And that’s another story in itself tbh. I digress a little, stick with me. I’ve been on many rides to multi billion dollar mcaps and I’ve always loved being in the community, that’s what it was all about back then. I wasn’t a whale and I suppose most weren’t because it was all new, people weren’t aping 100 bags like they are today, that’s for sure. I saw so many active communities formed voluntarily while tech wizards in the background worked on the sh*t we pretended to understand, or at least half of it. I made online friends, I made some money, I got left with some gnarly bags, I made mistakes, I learned some lessons and I had a blast. But back to the point of this paragraph. Nothing hits like when you and a community you built from nothing launch a coin just for the fun of it and then you see it flying. The website was terrible but I still liked it. That first 50x rally had to end though of course and I did a round trip with like 95% of it while the price somehow went to below the launch price - *sigh*. At the time, that was serious money to me and my life if I rugged or dumped on everyone at the top. I won’t go into it all, I know 2020 and the following years were mighty tough for a lot of people. For me, it was a time in my life when I was struggling with A LOT of health issues, whilst caring for my Mother (RIP, I love you, if you’re reading) who had late stage cancer and whilst trying to keep my girlfriend positive who was stuck not being able to travel to see her family in another country and yet not having a visa to work here. But the community and the adventure of trying to achieve something bigger than me kept me sane for a good while. The thought of rugging or selling it all wasn’t even a thought, the value wasn’t in the tokens I bought early this time, it was in the people. That was the year I became Crypto Jesus (whatever that means I know) and the year I gained a good reputation of trust and made a crypto family. You might be pleased to know that after persevering that same dog coin came back and we did a 1000x in the space of like 3 weeks and went on a crazy run to 70m market cap. The community pulled together, worked and had a long term vision. I know it won’t always pay off but you gotta try in life, you can’t give up when you are knocked down. The greatest stories always seem to have strong turbulence. Bitcoin ended the show for everyone late 2021 or who knows how far we would have taken it. With quite little experience and budget we accumulated just short of 10,000 members and made our mark in the BSC landscape and did so with a tweet from ELON. Sure I’d like to bring that token back to life and the community is still there and has plans and all but this article isn’t about that one now is it. 2024 has clearly been the year of Solana and tbh I’ve had personal things to tend to including my health so I was late to the party this time folks. I knew there was money to be made trading but health is wealth you know and I had to get that right.

Thankfully things started looking up for me in many ways in 2024 and I decided to embark on a personal adventure outside of crypto. I have always been a huge poker fan. And now you’re thinking okay maybe we’re gonna get to the point here finally. Soon, we’re getting there I promise. So I learnt to play poker when I was 18 and immediately fell in love with the game. I became obsessed and studied it for hours every day. I guess I do that a lot when I find something new I like lol. I was playing tiny stakes and remember thinking maybe I can go pro after I took down a field of 12,000 players in the Daily Dollar on Full Tilt. I was a long way from pro but I did get some online staking and grinded Sit and Gos for some pocket money. I ended up travelling to Italy for many months where online poker was banned and casinos were scarce and when I came back I never really got into it again. I would win most of the home games with some Spanish friends I made but I’d usually let them win it all back so we could keep the vibes good and do it again. I had a stint when I got back home to the UK too but probably went broke and needed to get a job tbh. For the next 15 years I played maybe once or twice a year and some years not at all. But every time I played cash game poker in the local casino, for some reason I would fully clean. It felt like I was knocking them out of a tournament the way I’d be the last one standing sometimes. But I just never had the drive to play it full time. It felt like I played better this way too and the late nights weren’t ideal. I had other passions to pursue like music. But something inside of me always said one day I’m going to play the World Series of Poker main event (and if you ask me I’m gonna win it). I won’t lie, I can see my name in lights right now. We can fast forward again to the end of 2023. I opened a spreadsheet and made my dream poker schedule for 2024, filling it with all the professional circuits I would love to play and had always dreamed of. I knew I couldn’t really afford to take that risk but I wanted to manifest it anyways. I played some cash games and built up a nice bankroll in early December, I was running hot tbh. Since I was away with my girlfriend (now fiancée btw) in USA from December ‘til January, I had to miss the first poker tournament on my schedule by default. But the day after I landed I played a £250 buy-in (the biggest tournament buy-in I had ever played live). It was a crazy ride because after all the long distance travel, I was so tired after Day 1 of the tournament that I nearly missed day 2. I turned up 1 and a half hours late and didn’t even expect to have any chips left when I got there, but lo and behold I did. And I went on to get 2nd place for £12,000. I should have probably won heads up with an 80/20 chip advantage but I’m not complaining. What happened next is I used that money to go all in on my dream of being a professional poker player, with the WSOP in mind of course. I had a good run for several months and my best score was 6th place in a WSOP circuit event for £17,500, but I definitely played above my means bankroll wise. Poker is a high variant game and I didn’t make it to Vegas this year. I wouldn’t change it though (well maybe I would have not touched the cash table in Monte Carlo haha). I gained all the experience I needed in a short space of time and proved to myself that I am capable. I was very close to some life changing results really and I will continue that quest and come back stronger soon enough. Besides the running late for day 2 in my first tournament success, there’s a couple of moments that will always give me inspiration when I think about it. Going back to the WSOP circuit event where I came 6th, a pretty well known poker player named Dan Charlton, who is now a friend of mine, actually won it. But the way he did it was a bit of a fairytale. He literally got down to his last 25k chip with 12 players left, when the average stack was well over 1 million , and somehow managed to make the final table and then take the whole thing down. You hear about those things but you don’t see it that often. I might never see it again tbh. After that I said to myself I’m never going to count myself out again. The next morning I went straight to the Irish Open and something happened in the main event. I’ll tell you now I didn’t win it before you get your hopes up but still it was pretty crazy. On day 2 of the event I found my self down to my last single 1k chip after losing an all in. Usually at this point I, and I assume 99% of players, just say okay I guess that’s me done. But I couldn’t do this after seeing Dan days prior do what he did. The big blind came, 8k each and guess what, it was my turn and I only had 1k lol. The chances of me surviving another round were slim and the whole table had no idea what was coming. I told the story of Dan and his win to them and one guy looked at me with real sincerity in his eyes and said “well I have faith in you”. I felt it straight away and knew I wasn’t done. I went on to flip that 1k chip into 600k in the next few hours and laddered up the prize structure nicely. I swear if I wasn’t so fatigued from the adrenaline of being forced to go all in about 15 times in quick succession, I would have made day 3 with a fresh brain and maybe made the final table. It was a deep run and I played well but most of all I didn’t quit, I didn’t count myself out, I did a 600x against some of the toughest players in the world. I suppose it’s quite obvious that this and all the journey mentioned so far is the spirit that BIG SLICK was born out of. So let’s get more to present day and talk about him shall we?...

My crypto community of chads and I just felt like it was time for a fresh adventure and where else to start it than in the land of jeets (logic huh). Sure we looked at Base, BSC, Ethereum and some others but Solana is where it’s at right? I suggested my Poker Dog idea and got some good feedback and enthusiasm. I think I could have said I’m gonna launch $RobertDeNiro’sSperm and they’d have been hyped up tbh. I considered a lot of goofy ideas that did crack me up but I dunno, I just want life to feel simple and connect with the things I’m interested in these days, you know? I’m a crypto enthusiast and community builder who loves Poker. I also don’t love all these puppies and small dog breeds I’m seeing everywhere. I don’t have a dog but if I did and I probably will at some point, it would be a strong specimen of a Doberman Pinscher wif a fat gold chain on him. I don’t think my dog would like hats. I designed him and the website myself using AI, stock images and doing various edits. Took me a lot of prompts and a lot of attempts in Microsoft's image generator to come across this guy let me tell you. I chose the name BIG SLICK because this is the nickname of AceKing, a strong poker hand. It also led to the slogan of Go ALL IN with BIG SLICK because it is quite a common hand to see people go all in with in poker tbh, especially pre-flop. Is it just me or is Poker becoming more popular again btw. I remember the first boom in the early 00’s and I feel like we’re having one again. I see celebrities playing and talking about it a lot. Mr Beast, Ryan Garcia, Neymar, even Ansem been tweeting about it on X recently. So the timing is just a coincidence, but if a poker meta did start in crypto, just know BIG $SLICK started it and he is the original Poker Dog. But anyway, we have the concept and that’s not good enough. I had to get accustomed to the land of jeets and figure out how me and my community could do something that adds value to the culture. What even is the culture right now because sometimes I’m lost and think, ‘ you know what, this is all a load of b*llshit and I can’t even be ass*d with it’. Greed is a motherf*cker and this space has a nice portion of it delicately blended with 2 scoops of fear, uncertainty and doubt.

So anyway I made my proposal to my peoples. I wasn’t really keen on starting something just to watch it follow the footsteps of all the other new meme coins and PEPE wannabes. Don’t get me wrong I don’t have a fool proof plan, and I’ll tell everyone and their dog that this crypto game is a gamble. It’s risky and it always has been. But I do try to make it more than just about the money, and the gamble because like I said earlier, the value really is in us the people. We can come together and we can make sh*t happen. When I first got into crypto that’s what got me going. It was a revolution for the people in my eyes. Since then I’ve come to accept that it isn’t going down like that and I probably aren’t going to change the world in any way, shape or form with a crypto coin. But hey, maybe together we can change the narrative. Even if just for some time, enough time to make a mark people will remember. I don’t know how I’ve made it this far without mentioning Pump Fun lol. Look right… Pump Fun is pioneering, hats off to those guys, but dang what is going on with the tokenomic structure of newly deployed coins these days? No offense but sometimes I’m thinking to myself how am I in crypto feeling smarter than most people when this space used to make me feel dumb. I know I’ve learned a lot but I think people have just gotten lazy. Back in the day, you had to learn sh*t to even take part properly. Nowadays, you don’t have to learn sh*t. You could fall over in the street, drop your phone down the drain, smack your head and go unconscious, and wake up the next day to see you just created a meme coin and are now the dev of 100 holders all sat on x100 with more $ value in one person’s wallet than the whole liquidity pool. I mean, sh*t I just realised while writing this, it really was designed just to pump and just to have fun lol. But I guess the reality is it isn’t fun anymore when 9 out of 10 projects die the first day, and that’s if you’re lucky. I think people are fed up. That’s why I came up with a structure that actually does change a lot of this. I couldn’t have done it without the blessing of the community tbh we are doing it together. There isn’t much I can do alone, is there? Sure I did use Pump Fun for the $SLICK coin launch but there was a method to this madness.

Firstly, Pump Fun does some of the work and I’ll happily let them make a secure smart contract for peanuts and deploy it to Raydium with a burned LP. But I’ll be damned if I’m gonna let snipers become uber whales. And I’ll be damned if I let jeets pump & dump it for a quick buck on day one and leave me with the painstaking task of building up the good vibes again. What an anti-climax, no thanks. So I bought all the supply I could upon creation and decided to control the supply. I ended up getting 79% of it whilst simultaneously being crowned King of Hill and being sent to Raydium. One lucky sniper got 2.5% but besides that it was 0.6% and lower. This, my friends, is pretty good. But of course people who don’t know what’s going on or know me could be inclined to think, who the hell has got all those tokens and what if he dumps on us? Well, my friends, that’s why more than half of the supply has been locked in immutable smart contracts. What about the people who you airdrop tokens to, won’t they have mad X’s on the launch and dump on us? Nope, not this time. My community literally paid a premium in order to make this shit happen. They literally sacrificed their SOL knowing they could lose and this could fail. But they have faith. The coin hit Raydium at 0.0007 and after the bots calmed down we were ranging between 0.00012 and 0.00015 for a while. But my peoples only got approx 220m tokens between them after sacrificing approximately 400 SOL. They literally didn’t know what the price was going to be. It wasn’t about a quick flip for them. It was about being a part of something we can build together. The price they got was 0.0003, which when I started writing this article it still hadn’t even passed. So we now have the healthiest launch in the history of Pump.Fun folks. The liquidity is strong because there isn’t whales left right and center, there is no 100x before we even made $1m market cap and there is a community of non jeets and quite a lot of SOL to play with. You can call me the dev if you want but you could also say I am the leader of the CTO. We took over our own coin and gave everyone a chance to build something big here. We all dream of riding something all the way to Binance (or is it just me). Sure I am here using my experience and creativity and peanut brain to bring this vision to life but the fate of this thing is in the hands of the people. I just had a quick look at the chart and it says .00056 (over 500k market cap). It’s clearly going in the right direction. People haven’t even been allowed into the group yet so clearly a well structured supply and prepared launch can change the narrative. I feel like we now have a battle of the hodlers and the jeets and the jeets are losing. But hey maybe the jeets were misunderstood hodlers afterall? Maybe when you give a jeet a safe space he becomes a CHAD? Bet you never thought about that one did you? And no I haven’t had one of them green infused cookies I got stored in the freezer today either. Let’s make Solana great again. Let’s make crypto culture and meme coins great again. Even if it’s just in our little world for a snapshot in time. Let’s turn jeets into chads. These KOLS aren’t gonna do sh*t for you if you don’t do it for yourselves first btw. The show has just begun and tomorrow we will say goodbye to stealth mode and embark on the next chapter together. None of this was meant to be advice, I would not recommend buying this coin or any crypto if you are not willing to lose your money. Or at least go small if you are just intrigued and want to learn more about crypto. On that note, I encourage you all to learn the beautiful game of poker if you haven’t too. It really has a transferable skill set to life imo. I look forward to seeing who joins this community and hope there are many poker loving hodlers out there!

Good luck to all the blessed hodlers out there and thanks for reading.