The need for pokerforum's equivalent of brown trout..

BBC Z

So I'm playing 2-5 at brantford last night (this morning whatever)..
and I swear that one of the guys at the table is either a Pokerforum-er or a 2+2er (19..seat 10 then seat 5.. chris or mike.. a little overboard on the table coaching.)..

The only problem is that I have no way of subtly asking the question without revealing I know a bit more about poker than your average idiot..

Thus, I think we need a forum equivalent of 'sup bro' or 'brown trout'...

Any ideas?

Anyone wanna fess up to being that guy?

literation

I know what you're saying BBC but I usually just have to ask.  Last time at Fallsview I mentioned pokerforum to the guy beside me and we got to talking about online play, books he's read (Doyle) and how he came 3rd in a tourney at Stars just missing the main event.
This has happened before and think it's not uncommon the guy to my left and right will start showing me their cards before they fold them.  Lots of valuable confirmed information!

I'll have to think about a secret password.  Perhaps Dave will let us use 'aren't you a T.A. Beaver' if he doesn't become too famous.  If someone isn't from CPF they'll be puzzled why you're calling them a beaver.  Anything to keep them off balance.

macbb

Good idea, BBC Z ... we need something.

I know a few of the forum members who are Brantford regulars, but would like to know more, especially if they are at my table.

macbb

rgspence

literation wrote:

I'll have to think about a secret password.  Perhaps Dave will let us use 'aren't you a T.A. Beaver' if he doesn't become too famous.  If someone isn't from CPF they'll be puzzled why you're calling them a beaver.  Anything to keep them off balance.

LOL, I agree.

AcidJoe

And I'm sure when you answer, Why yes I am tight aggressive beaver the whole table will be looking at ya like WTF?

Graham

http://www.pokerforum.ca/forum/index.php?topic=5110.msg42392#msg42392

JD_BB

for those of you too lazy to click the link, sloth is trying to tell you that he's trying to get a forum store up and running by the end of the summer...so it'll be alot easier to pick us out of the croud then...but i still think we need a secret passcode...lol

B

BBC Z

I'd never wear poker gear to a casino cash game..

Graham

BBC Z wrote:

I'd never wear poker gear to a casino cash game..

two reasons:

1. you don't want to give the image you're active in the poker commuity (and maybe scare fish)

2. you don't want to look like someone trying to look like someone from #1

or 3. you think the cpf logo is lame...like Don Johnson 80's lame.

rgspence

I'll wear the CPF clothes, team canuck and witchdoctor. I don't care what people think. I have had a few questions asked when I wear witchdr. stuff like "you play a lot?' "you a wanna be?" "are you involved in poker stuff like organization?" and I say yes to all of the questions. When people make assumtions about you that are wrong it can do nothing but help your game.

ScottyZ

I'm considering getting a custom made T-shirt with the words

I'd never wear poker gear to a casino cash game

and wearing it to Brantford.

It would be so Magritte.

ScottyZ

BBC Z

Via Dictionary.com:

Ma·gritte Audio pronunciation of "Magritte" ( P ) Pronunciation Key (mä-grt), René. 1898-1967.

Belgian painter whose surreal works, such as Steps of Summer (1938), depict ordinary objects in unexpected or implausible situations.

ScottyZ

That's the one!

One of his famous works was entitled "Ceci n'est pas un pipe", or "This is not a pipe". The content of the painting was a pipe, and the words of the title underneath.

Man, why am I describing it in words? I forgot that they've got the internet on computers now...



Anyhow, I thought that it might be cool (or nerdy) (or both) to a wear self-referential poker T-shirt to a poker game which says that I am not wearing a poker T-shirt to a poker game. Probably just nerdy.

Well, it's either that one, or my "I'm with Fish [arrow pointing to my left]" shirt.

ScottyZ

P.S. If you thought that Magritte is a loon because that clearly is a pipe, consider this. It is actually a painting of a pipe. In fact, it is really a JPG image of a painting of a pipe. Or we might think of it as a well-organized bunch of cathode rays or pixels (depending on what kind of monitor you have). Maybe it's just a long stream of 0's and 1's. Or some specific configuration of axons and electrons in your brain that remind you of some class of objects which you would call "pipes".

P.P.S. This is not a forum post.

ScoobyD

Well at least someone's been hitting the pipe... ???

Unknown

I'm in Brantford often, playing 2-5, and am generally happy to chat with anyone. Would love to meet some more forum members.

I'll be the guy in the Tigers cap, I've not seen another one in there, so for the time being I think it's just me.

Hope to see you there.

Unknown

It would be so Magritte.

Scotty, you are one of a kind dude.  Thanks for the translation BBC, I had no idea what or who Magritte is or was.  And about the shirt (I'd never wear poker gear to a casino cash game) I'd die laughing if I ever saw someone wearing one.  I say, go for it.  Freak out the 'norms'.

I don't usually mention anything about any of my poker-related experiences at casino poker tables.  Online, however, I will talk about this forum if I run across a Canadian (particularly if we've been chatting for whatever reason, and he seems cool).  Also online, I've been known to let my ego take full control of my brain.  If an opponent makes a really really bad play, and I write something sarcastic in the chatbox like 'nh sir' (which I am getting better at not doing) and my opponent then starts telling me that I'm damn right it was a nice hand and that I suck and that he just won a tournament like a week ago, I have in the past given this opponent some indications about my level of experience (which I am getting better at not doing, as well).

I have no idea why I wouldn't care as much that an online player knows I'm not 'new', as opposed to a live game player.  Really, it should be the opposite.  It would be very easy for someone to make a simple note on me in an online game, but in a live game, faces can be tough to remember sometimes.     

pkrfce9

ScottyZ wrote:

P.P.S. This is not a forum post.

So...it doesn't count towards your post count, right?

BBC Z

BUMP.

I still think we need the equivalent of a 'sup bro' for CPF.

ScoobyD

sup hoser?

moose

I am going to take a stab at it...

This guy has been playing loose the whole time I was there. I just lost a pot to him about 4 or 5 hands ago as he was playing runner, runner cards and caught his flush on the river. THE GUY HAD 10-3 SOOTED??

http://pokerforum.ca/forum/index.php?topic=1884.0

The players there are calling 9 and 12 cold with T3s. Give them sooted cards and they shall play

http://pokerforum.ca/forum/index.php?topic=4799.0



So I would suggest:
"Anybody here play 103 sooted?"
Response:
"Give me sooted cards and we shall play."

SocietyRed

moose wrote:

So I would suggest:
"Anybody here play 103 sooted?"
Response:
"Give me sooted cards and we shall play."

How about:

Q: Is that your pussy on the felt?

A: Why Sir, yes it is!

Popkorn

LOL

I'm a Blue Heron and Rama 10/20 regular, any regulars for those casinos here, seems like most of you are Brantford regulars?

dawnsboyrich

I vote for...."Fetch that fish will ya, bye?"

Or perhaps when we walk in we could do the Ric Flair strut and go "Whooooo!!!!"

Just kidding, this is a great idea, I just can't think of what phrase to use, so i am amusing myself with dumbass comments.


Ohh, how about "did you play at the F.U.C.K. M.E."?