Why I Am 2p2

[Suigin406]

friends told me of the site during a poker game, thought i would give it a try as i hadn't really considered online poker before...i did and i'm sure it's helped a ton with my game, however, now i stick around for the community/sports threads, partially because i'm lame and bored at work, but still, i like the people around here

[Conspire]

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I honestly find it refreshing that people can speak their mind to a mod here without fear of being banned, like it did there.

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[Aloysius]

I was introduced to 2p2 by a friend who occasionally posted back in the day. Started by reading tourney hands. Lurked for about... I think a year or so. When I began transitioning from mid-limit to NL ring, and wanted to step up my tourney game, took the plunge and registered so I could get some feedback on specific hands.

The signal to noise ratio for strat posts was very high in 2003-2004. I learned a ridiculous amount in a short time frame. The best posters at that time that really stood out, imo, were Ulysses, SossMan, PrayingMantis, and a bunch of Bay Area regulars with strong math backgrounds that I'm forgetting the handles of right now. CrisBrown was actually a very helpful poster in someways, fwiw - if anything she fomented a ton of hand discussion.

I didn't even know about OOT (or I guess OT at the time) for the 1st year I was registered. In fact, weirdly, when I looked back through my post history, alot of OOT-ish topics were in NVG (e.g. your favorite songs to sing in a bar).

I stopped posting strat about a year ago or so. I play mid-stake NL cash primarily now, and I got sick of wading through alot of the OPs, many of which were simple decisions posted by weak-tight players with no sense of effective stack sizes. It could be different now, I have no clue.

As I mentioned in another thread, I am always trying to "quit" 2p2. But it's way too entertaining and there's a good community of posters in OOT, Lounge, EDF etc., so hard to break away.

I can only pray I start traveling alot again for my job, that should help [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

-Al

[MrWookie]

I found 2+2 largely because I had been playing Magic the Gathering online, but then I decided it was too expensive, boring, and difficult to be good at. So, I quit, but then I was bored and looking for a new computer game to play. I'd played in a few casual home poker games with my brother's group of friends, and that was fun, plus I heard about other MTG players quitting and switching to poker, since it was more lucrative. I didn't have any delusions of winning the WSOP; I just wanted to play a game, almost any game, that I both enjoyed and could play for free. I figured I might be able to get good enough at poker to play for free, and if not, there was always play money. If I got good enough to subsidize my "beer and loose women" fund, all the better.

I decided to get some books to help me get started, so I poked around on amazon.com and eventually settled on buying the Lee Jones book WLLH, and then HPFAP. I figured one beginning book and one advanced book (hey, this one even has advanced in the title!) would be a good start. I liked the books, and soon I began crushing FTP's play money tables, and having a good time applying what I'd learned. This was around Jan '05. Eventually, I saw the note on the back of HPFAP about the 2+2 forums, so I checked them out. I didn't understand anything at first, and it seemed that no one wanted to talk about play money hands, so I just lurked for a while. Soon, though, btspider posted the FAQ that still adorns the top of the Microlimit forum, and then I started understanding all the hand posts. It was also around then that I heard about a no-deposit affiliate bonus at Party, a free $75, with $25 more after some number of raked hands. I was still too poor and risk averse to want to deposit my own money, but that seemed like a great plan. It was about then that I actually started posting. I had hands that were no longer play money, and combined wit the fact that registering for an account meant that I could change the background and number of posts per page, I was in.

[tuq]

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soon I began crushing FTP's play money tables

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Pretty sick brag IMO.

[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.

[diamonddawg]

Relationship with online hs nlhe player led to me wanting to know more about what he found so interesting on 2p2. Asked dumb opening questions about bikini waxing, but wasn't totally run out of town. Have since met some smart, funny ppl here on 2p2 and in person (from 2p2) that expands my circle of friends in LA, a not-so-friendly town & have had some fun partying with 2p2rs in Barcelona, my transplant hometown.

[youtalkfunny]

LOL at the "Back when there were only a few forums here" posts.

When I joined, around 1995, there was ONE forum.

Internet poker had not caught on yet (hell, the internet itself hadn't really caught on yet), and it seemed that most of the posters were B&M players from Las Vegas. After all, if you hadn't been to the Gamblers Book Store on Charleston and 11th, you probably never heard of DS, MM, or 2+2 Publishing.

I haven't looked at a strat post on 2+2 in years. B&M is my home, as my career path has me currently working in the poker industry (I've dealt, floored, and run tourneys).

Before working in the poker room, I was in the sports book, so Sports Betting and Sporting Events are still near and dear to me.

LoL and the Lounge are fun.

And finally, I'll check OOT every day for as long as I live. THAT is "Why I Am 2p2".