Why I Am 2p2

[Conspire]

I had actually heard about 2p2 through a 30x smaller poker site called liquidpoker. There was a transparent 2p2 hatred vibe (kinda like bbv and oot), it is that vibe about 2p2 that first got me browsing this site. Now this was almost about a year ago, and this site was just so massively huge that I prefered to be at LP where it was a much smaller community. I compare 2p2 and liquidpoker as city and village, the city has everything u would ever need, but can be hard to navigate, the village is much more personal and even though it doesnt have everything the city can offer, everyone contributes and makes the village work.

I had started lurking 3 or 4 months before I got an account, and stumbled across some great forums like psychology, bbv, and nvg. These forums were really great and each of them had all kinds of topics on everything, which is something I was never used to. I found myself browsing 2p2 more and more until I finally registered an account. My first couple posts were.......I dont even remember probably some "LOL" and "rigged" basic stupid newbie posts that when looking back seemed real dumb, but as a new member of 2p2 the best thing I thought I could do is start getting my name on peoples threads. For the first 1 or 2 weeks when I started posting I was hardly getting any reaction whatsoever out of people, I was pretty much being ignored.

At this point, I kinda stopped posting and just went back to lurking and reading the enormous amount of content that is spread across this site. Occasionally I would read something that really made me think and I would reply something along the lines of "well written", "very nice". I still wouldnt consider myself known, I was just another sub par one liner replier, but that didnt matter I was learning a lot from this site. I had always been a frequent lurker of bbv/bbv4life, and this is really where I started to become an active member of the group.

I had never tried to be fake or jump on bandwagons, although I did and still do get caught up in drama and hating on other people, I never seeked it out. I just kept being myself and always giving out my opinion, I have never been afraid to look at things in a different way and here and there I would write something that was out of the norm. Imo that is how I started gaining the respect of the forums that I frequented and posted in. I was not just going around making diss threads, and I definitely was not always agreeing with the more popular regular posters. I was just being myself and speaking on what I know, I now see myself as a well respected by a lot of 2p2, and I have made a lot of friends that I play with at the poker tables and talk to on AIM. I have moved from unknown to known and 2p2 is no longer a website forum to me, it is the place where all my E-friends are hanging out.

This post is dedicated to u guys and gals at the lounge where the majority is a tad older than me, but I feel u frequent 2p2 for the same reason I do. [img]/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img]

Also let me hear your story of why u are 2p2.

[Blarg]

Originally for the poker, then for the amusement too, and now entirely for the amusement and not for the poker at all. I think I probably stayed because the forums are broad enough to be about a variety of things, and strike an okay balance between strictness and being goofy and relaxed. That's a tough thing and an ongoing struggle, but at least the place tries. The people who run it are fairly level-headed and don't cultivate hero worship, which helps keep the place adult. It's a pretty decent place to be. I tend to outgrow other boards sooner. This one itself seems capable of growing, so even in dull or sub-par periods, I can be optimistic that it will get better and stay a good place to visit.

[Dominic]

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Originally for the poker, then for the amusement too, and now entirely for the amusement and not for the poker at all. I think I probably stayed because the forums are broad enough to be about a variety of things, and strike an okay balance between strictness and being goofy and relaxed. That's a tough thing and an ongoing struggle, but at least the place tries. The people who run it are fairly level-headed and don't cultivate hero worship, which helps keep the place adult. It's a pretty decent place to be. I tend to outgrow other boards sooner. This one itself seems capable of growing, so even in dull or sub-par periods, I can be optimistic that it will get better and stay a good place to visit.

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what he said

[Lurker.]

i think 2p2 is actually detrimental to my life. But i guess at this point i'm hopelessly addicted. I get enjoyment at times when browsing/posting so whatever.

[Dominic]

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i think 2p2 is actually detrimental to my life. But i guess at this point i'm hopelessly addicted. I get enjoyment at times when browsing/posting so whatever.

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what he said, too.

[daveT]

Please don't quote me, dom. (?)

My sign in date is sort of a fossil. I started playing right around this date. My initial posts got a ton of attention because I was stupid.

I just heard about LP last week. Took a look, laughed and left. I brown rec as well, but it is too hard to use. I like it here because it is easy. Watching some of the posters I know move up from the small stakes to medium, to high, to moderator, to other forms of poker has been sort of fascinating to me. I started posting a ton at Psychology, outgrew it, and stayed mostly in strat.

Why am I 2p2? Because some of the best players and best thinkers in the world come here to chat. That everyday I learn something useful. I can compare my thinking with others, be corrected, and correct others. Yeah, personalities clash sometimes, but that makes it more interesting.

BTW, I never went out of my way to meet or AIM anyone. I have ran into other 2p2ers at casinos, but I never introduced myself. I prefer the anonimity of this site.

I thought of attending some of the 2p2 donkfests and parties, but meh, I like it like this better.

[mrbaseball]

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Originally for the poker, then for the amusement too, and now entirely for the amusement and not for the poker at all. I think I probably stayed because the forums are broad enough to be about a variety of things, and strike an okay balance between strictness and being goofy and relaxed. That's a tough thing and an ongoing struggle, but at least the place tries. The people who run it are fairly level-headed and don't cultivate hero worship, which helps keep the place adult. It's a pretty decent place to be. I tend to outgrow other boards sooner. This one itself seems capable of growing, so even in dull or sub-par periods, I can be optimistic that it will get better and stay a good place to visit.


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What they said. I actually started reading 2+2 back in I think 1999? There were only a couple of forums back then and all about poker. Some absolutely terrific poker talk back in those days. Planet Poker was the king of online and about to be usurped by a newcomer called Paradise. Party? Stars? Those weren't around yet [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

Now I barely ever read the poker forums anymore. The place has gotten too big but there are still smaller and freindlier spots like the lounge and a few other forums I enjoy.

[entertainme]

My first interest in poker was from watching the WPT on TV. Just happened across it one day and loved the psychology of the game.

In Jan. '04 we went to Vegas. I was incredibly naive, to say the last. Learned the basics of limit at one of those player classes the casinos give for free. I read somewhere they had a no limit tournament at the Monte Carlo so I went there to play. Dropped a few hundred to the local no limit sharks at the cash game table. (You're welcome!)

During this trip I picked up a few books from the Vegas gambler's book store, Harrington, etc. That was the end of it for a while.

In Oct. 2005 I saw James Woods on Fox and Friends, and within a day or two signed up for an account at Hollywood Poker, an Ongame skin. This is when I began to learn how to play, and was certainly the most fun I've had playing.

There was a great group of regulars that played at HP. We played SNG's, the regular tourneys, (Wed. and Sun. celeb tourney, etc.), and organized our own private tourneys, (Hogs and Hags, etc.)

I remember seeing 2p2 on the back of Harrington's book. The first thread I remember reading here is the ZeeJustin thread in Feb. '06. I registered in the wee hours of the morning a few months later. (I still dislike my forum name, "entertainme" which was chosen on a whim during a period of sleep deprivation.)

I've made a few, (probably fishy), strat posts in STT and SSNL when I dabbled in cash games in the early days. As a mostly recreational player though, the strat forums can be intimidating.

My first contribution to the forums was tracking WSOP cashes in July 2006, (with a ton of help from posters like Kevmath who seemed to know everyone.)

Ongame kicked out US players in Oct. 2006. I still miss the old gang. [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

Soon thereafter I set up an account with FTP and have played mostly SNG, (with a positive ROI), but not nearly as much as I played in the HP days.

Became a mod this year when the WSOP rolled around again.

I have asked myself why I hang out here. I'm well outside the normal 2p2 demographic, being both older and female.

I ignore a large portion of the content and look for subjects that are interesting or amusing. I'm a very private person IRL and it never ceases to amaze me what people are willing to put out there on a public forum. [img]/images/graemlins/ooo.gif[/img]

2p2 is a diversion (along with a few other forums I frequent) between work e-mails and real life.

[ChipWrecked]

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Planet Poker was the king of online and about to be usurped by a newcomer called Paradise. Party? Stars? Those weren't around yet [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]



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I miss Planet. I started my play money learning there. Miss the sound effects (you could type things in chat that would play a sound, tyvm would cue Elvis, 'loo' would make a flush noise, etc). Made my first deposit there and still proudly wear my T-shirt, though it has a few holes.

[diebitter]

You've got to be really bored to read this.


I came here when I found out I was getting a present of a trip to Vegas a few years back, and I decided to get up to speed on poker and craps (blackjack + roulette don't need any prep) to enjoy the gambling as much as possible.

Being a 5 card draw and stud player in my misspent youth, I started playing these online, and it was okay, but I kept noticing so many more games going for holdem, and when I looked into it, holdem seemed the only game in town for Vegas. So I drifted into limit, and practised enough for a few months to come away as a slight winner from the lowlimit Vegas limit games. I came to 2+2 on the back of the miller/sklansky/malmouth low-limit LHE book, and registered here about 2 weeks before going to Vegas.

Stuck to limit for a while, then started trying very cheap tourneys, and did pretty good. I also played the odd STT. Up until then, it was the limit forums, the MTT and STT forums, pyschology, politics, SMP, but around July 2005, there was the London bombing and doing a search I came across an OOT post about it.

Then I discovered OOT, and it was like falling in love. It was full of smart people acting dumb and sometimes VERY smart, witty, irreverent, lively as hell. I was smitten. My limit game was okay but boring, and I started flirting with NL, but I found the NL forums seemed to be full of far too aggressive and frankly retarded advice. Looking back I guess it was very geared to 6-max, and I never ever realised this. I never even played 6-max, as I was used to full ring LHE, and FR NL seemed a much more intuitive to play.

At this point I sort of gave up on the strat forums for developing myself, as my LHE game was pretty solid, as was my tourney game. I persisted with my NL game and gradually got better, but actually really only came to 2+2 to tard about on OOT. I then became a mod for OOT, but avocated a split of entertainment content into its own forum as I Felt some of the longer and more detailed posts on movies etc were being lost in the OOT flush and that this discouraged longer posts, which caused a BIG fuss. Eventually the Lounge was formed to suit a slower, more thoughtful and less asshat type of posting. Then I partly left OOT and returned briefly where I enjoyed playing the forum villain for a while, and now am fully exiled after drawing in the last Survivor against PIITM. As long as there is a less restricted forum like BBV4Life, that suits me fine.


Finally when someone proposed a Full Ring Forum a while back, the penny dropped about why I found the other NL forums so inappropriate in terms of advice - they were 6-max! DOH! I Was fully behind the creation of the Full Ring forum, and even wrote its first sticky for the forum, and was happy to find a forum that actually suited my ring game so well. I eventually moved into modding it as nation seemed to disappear and Berge was so busy, and the forum continues to flourish and be a really great forum. I have to say I don't participate there (or in the Lounge) as much as I should or would like to but I find that free time these days tends to be more about playing and reading and thinking on the more advanced NL books, and less about talking about it on the board, but I try.