Lurkers , Regulars all please read.

opr

Following on from PL's experiment into the mind of NON poker playing people.

I started reading the thread in PI and the first thing that struck me was how viemently people who i have never seen post in this forum were defending poker.

Just how many people are reading this forum on a regular basis ?

Opr

Rnger

CO 3-bets utg's raise, BB calls ATC(donk), utg calls and c-bets a rainbow rag flop


I'd be more interested to know how many people can read that!

Mellor

Rnger wrote:

CO 3-bets utg's raise, BB calls ATC(donk), utg calls and c-bets a rainbow rag flop


I'd be more interested to know how many people can read that!

pfft, standard, you can do much better than that

Mellor

alot i'd imagine,
also there could be alot of people who have no interest in poker
but they are close with someone involved so they dont see it as a bad thing,
and see it as a real game of skill with a luck element. so they defend it in PI

Goodluck2me

Rnger wrote:

HJ 3-bets utg's raise, BB calls ATC(donk), utg calls and c-bets a rainbow rag flop.


I'd be more interested to know how many people can read that!

its not hectorjelly btw

ollyk1

WTF is WFT?

phantom_lord

opr wrote:

Following on from PL's experiment into the mind of NON poker playing people.

I started reading the thread in PI and the first thing that struck me was how viemently people who i have never seen post in this forum were defending poker.

yeah that surprised me as well, there seems to be a huge amount of lurkers in this place

*looks over shoulder*

Rnger wrote:

CO 3-bets utg's raise, BB calls ATC(donk), utg calls and c-bets a rainbow rag flop


I'd be more interested to know how many people can read that!

anyone remember the feedback thread about a hand i posted? I'll go find it.

Goodluck2me

phantom_lord wrote:

anyone remember the feedback thread about a hand i posted? I'll go find it.

along the lines of...tell the poker forum to **** off out of boards! its was lol all right

phantom_lord

Not really a request for another section, more of one querying other peoples thoughts/feelings on whether another should be moved.

More of a (probably ignorant) rambling this, and probably not in the right section either. Out of the last few "new posts" I have checked, most of them are for the poker section.

Now, I like a game of poker every so often, nothing against it whatsoever. But these threads that are raised are often full of pokery jargon that I cba (see I can do it too) to understand thus, these threads may as well be in Chinese or something as I do not understand them.

I can't actually imagine one of these threads being discussed IRL (another one there) with the people actually keeping a straight face and not bursting out laughing at the jargon used. I have included an example below:

Quote:

"I've 9k, villain 16+k

blinds 75/150


he limps utg+1, not 100% whether he open limped or not.

I make it 500 to go with AdQh in mp.


He's the only caller.


Flop:

7d5c4d

He checks, I bet 700.

He c/r to 5k."

Wtf? I would have a better chance understanding hyroglyphics or something.

Those of you who can actually understand these threads are probably about to hop on your keyboards and go for a right auld dance, fair enough knock yourself out. I just think that the poker section has overgrown boards and should be hosted elsewhere or like not appear in the new posts section or something lol.

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pok3rplaya

where The Hell Am I???

Lafortezza

pok3rplaya wrote:

where The Hell Am I???

Pipe down.

phantom_lord

wp sir

pok3rplaya

sorry

robinlacey

wtf is atc?
serious question

phantom_lord

any two cards

5starpool

I'm lost too Robin if it is any consolation.

opr

lol , i used ATC cause i seen it in a post recently and i didn't know wot it was thought i would kill 2bw1s

Opr

Ste05

LOL, I didn't know what ATC was either...

BrokenArrows

When i first started lurking i had no idea what all that jargon was till i asked ie. started posting.

This is a forum ffs. If you dont know. Ask. Start a new thread. EP(easy peasy)lol.

I suppose to the total non poker player this must all look like 133t spk to the non geek (im kinda geek but despise leet speak, its just pointless)

But the use of c/r, ATC, UTG, rainbow, etc etc just saves time and space.

And for those who are looking at this thread saying, "what? more things i dont understand":
ffs = for fcuk sake
c/r = check raise
ATC = any two cards
UTG = under the gun = person to the left of BB(big blind) lol...i cant help it
rainbow = when the flop has three of the four suits
etc = Et cetera = and so forth

Ste05

lafortezza wrote:

Pipe down.

P.S. I love this on soooo many levels.

EDIT: WTF, I posted this after post #21 above (on other page)

Ste05

BrokenArrows wrote:

I suppose to the total non poker player this must all look like 133t spk to the non geek (im kinda geek but despise leet speak, its just pointless)

Huh??? 133t = ?? I thought I was an internet geek, maybe not....

phantom_lord

yeah it's great, was my 2+2 avatar for a while!



um, yeah, a year ago I hadn't a clue what was being talked about in the hand histories, co and bubble left me mystified for awhile. now I have people complaining about me in feedback :rolleyes:

BrokenArrows

Ste05 wrote:

Huh??? 133t = ?? I thought I was an internet geek, maybe not....

leet speek or l33t spk is where internet speaking muppets exchange letters and numbers together to make a word that looks like the original

example: leet = l33t

wiki defination

"Leet is the all-alpha translation of "l33t" (the "3" is represented as a backwards "E"), broken down as "l" and "33t," and thus "elite." "leet" doesn't exactly become "elite" until you know how it breaks down. It is an online culture or attitude sometimes identified by frequent use of leetspeak (l33t5p34k, 133t, 1337, or l33t). "

It originated back in the day when internet people who developed their own culture didnt want outsiders to understand what they were saying/typing.

Man i really hate myself for knowing this stuff.lol.

lol = laugh out loud

lol rofl roflcopter

http://www.rofl.name/roflcopter/

phantom_lord

didn;t start off with hackers or something, so they could talk about being hackers without using that word cause it'd come up in search engines and stuff?

BrokenArrows

BrokenArrows wrote:

It originated back in the day when internet people who developed their own culture didnt want outsiders to understand what they were saying/typing.

Hackers/crackers/jackers/crackerjackers/haxorz

l33t h4xor ftw

Goodluck2me

BrokenArrows wrote:

http://www.rofl.name/roflcopter/

l0v3 th3 mus1c

Goodluck2me

BrokenArrows wrote:

leet speek or l33t spk is where internet speaking muppets exchange letters and numbers together to make a word that looks like the original

example: leet = l33t

Im pretty sure these guys started it....

BrokenArrows

goodluck2me wrote:

l0v3 th3 mus1c

nothing but the best for the boardsies

Mellor

BrokenArrows wrote:

leet speek or l33t spk is where internet speaking muppets exchange letters and numbers together to make a word that looks like the original

Like spelling BOOBIES on a calculator

CiarraiRi

opr wrote:

Following on from PL's experiment into the mind of NON poker playing people.

I started reading the thread in PI and the first thing that struck me was how viemently people who i have never seen post in this forum were defending poker.

Just how many people are reading this forum on a regular basis ?

Opr

ne1 no wot PI is?

eoghan104

One that I never knew was FWIW???

Lex

PI = Personal Issues forum.
FWIW = for what it's worth

fo shizzle.

smurph

what does the following mean?

What do the following mean

ftw
rolfmao
fyp

Im pretty desperate at these as I thought for yonks that lol meant Lord Oh Lord:rolleyes:

impr0v

ftw = for the win
roflmao = rolling on the floor laughing my ass off
fyp = fuct if i know, but hardly important

Shadowless

goodluck2me wrote:

its not hectorjelly btw

HJ != "Hectorjelly"?
WTF?


FYI FYP = "Fixed your Post"

pok3rplaya

Ste05 wrote:

P.S. I love this on soooo many levels.

I don't get the joke but I think it's on me

jacQues

goodluck2me wrote:

Im pretty sure these guys started it....

L337 was first used on hacker BBSes, meaning the old no longer used privately ran Bulletin Board Systems using an analogue dial-up modem. Hacking in those times meant recoding parts of software to make it free to use (mostly games). In those times there were no graphical solutions yet and most systems ran on DOS. Using ANSI-codes (escape codes) SysOps (BBS owners) could use colours and create text-based animations.

Those BBSes were mostly ran using RA (Remote Access) and connected to other BBSes with echomail using FD (FrontDoor). Echomail is the original electronical form of boards just like boards.ie, used number sequences very simular to IP addresses and there were thousands of those networks (node example: 31:100/103, point example: 31:100/103.2). The biggest and best known network was FidoNet.

Not too long later, the demo scene (hard-core programmers that can write directly in hexadecimal machinecode) adapted L337 solely as a gimmick. This was the first introduction of L337 into the general public. It was not until the Internet "exploded" in 1995 that some people started using L337 in their home pages. Now it almost seems to be some kind of weird fashion statement.

jacQues
(hamster W007463)

5starpool

CiarraiRi wrote:

ne1 no wot PI is?

No matter how many acronymns and whatever poker speak we use here in the poker forum, text speak is still frowned upon. It makes me frown anyhow, so please don't make me frown again.

DeVore

Those BBSes were mostly ran using RA (Remote Access) and connected to other BBSes with echomail using FD (FrontDoor). Echomail is the original electronical form of boards just like boards.ie, used number sequences very simular to IP addresses and there were thousands of those networks (node example: 31:100/103, point example: 31:100/103.2). The biggest and best known network was FidoNet.

I too was a fidonet rodent! Alienline, TOPPSI, Nemesis Dungeon etc etc. From there I moved onto Usenet and became something of a hacktivist (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacktivist). I would have known a fair number of what the media now calls Hackers though the subject is so polluted with political agenda, testosterone and misunderstanding that I doubt many people would know the real story. Ever heard the name Pengo? Koch? Mitnick? LOD? MOD? CDC? The likelihood is that if you sent a mail or made a telephone call in the early 90's you passed through a system they controlled.

The Chaos Computer Club in Germany represented what many of us wanted to do and that was civil disobedience via the ultimate non-violent means. Unfortunately most of the governments of that time were quite willing to express the "violence inherent in the system" and when Koch ended up dead in a forest (he was into some fairly heavy stuff as well) and LOD/MOD/IO and others had their civil rights utterly ignored during operation Sundevil everyone got very scared and EFF came into being. Much of this is the reason behind why I am a bit bonkers about Boards.ie and freedoms and non-commericalism.

All of that is a round about way of saying I never heard any of these groups or people use the term L33T or anything like it (other then as a derisory comment aimed at $cr1pt-k1dd13$).

DeV.

bohsman

smurph wrote:

what does the following mean?

What do the following mean

ftw
rolfLmao
fyp

Im pretty desperate at these as I thought for yonks that lol meant Lord Oh Lord:rolleyes:

FYP = fixed your post

Google always has the answer btw.

cardshark202

Nerds

PiperT

phantom_lord wrote:

any two cards

Dang. I thought it was Ace Ten of Clubs. Guess I don't meet the high standard to read this forum never mind post on it....:D

BrokenArrows

lol. love the way this thread started out asking about poker acronym's has turned into a discussion of the origins of L33t and the original hacker agenda v's the the media hyped evil hackers that make the news.

Most people dont understand that the computer industry/internet would be nothing without these so called hackers.

Anyway back on topic. YAY for poker acronym's

o/

zAbbo

always read the poker forum, it's the new PI.

zomg i got teh nutz

zAbbo

BrokenArrows wrote:

lol. love the way this thread started out asking about poker acronym's ....

Anyway back on topic. YAY for poker acronym's

o/

you may want to read the 1st post again

BrokenArrows

zabbo wrote:

you may want to read the 1st post again

Ok my bad!

I was close, it was the second post by Rnger who changed it to the discussion of acronym's.

lol. the thread has been hijacked twice within 3 pages. lolz

Rnger

1337 is my pin code for my phone... what? its an easy number to remember!

Solksjaer

i H A

dK1NG

self-confessed lurker here:o


I would be no where near the same level as a lot of the posters here, usually only play at the wk-ends on PPP and the odd home game. But reading the posts here has def improved my game!

opr

Not bad but taken as a percentage of the Irish poker scene its small but i suppose thats a good thing right.

The less people getting educated the better.

Opr