05-01-2002, 01:12 PM
My friends and I play in smaller poker community where we often tell stories to each other about what happened last night. To this end, we have labeled most of the players we play with by certain nicknames that identify them immediately. My favorite ten are:
1) Tilt-o-Whirl Pimp Don: I guess this one is pretty self explanatory. He goes on tilt. And he's a pimp!
2) The Rounder: a young punk who thinks he knows the game pretty cold. He isn't aware that we enjoy mocking him and once confided in me that he had quit his job to play 3-6 for a living. Predictably a month later when I asked him how it was going, he was back at work. At that point, he uttered the infamous line "Its tough work being a rounder", at which point he was derisively labeled "the rounder" for eternity.
3) Grumblin' Dunc....oops did I write that? mwa ha ha
4) Tighty McWhitey; another young guy who thinks he knows the game pretty well. I gave him this nickname after he ran me down with pocket 4's in a rather egregious way
5) The Greatness: a middle aged dealer from another casino. When he walks in, we generally note that we are in the presence of greatness, since he's the worst player in the history of holdem.
6) The Pokah Dealah; houseman at one of the casinos. I generally like to remind him that pokadealahs are the worst players and take great pleasure in continually eliminating him from tournaments. Must emphasize the "-ah" at the end of pok-AH deal-AH
7) JimmyGirl: used to deal at a casino with 2+2's own Jim Roy and they were friends. So one time he and I are playing and she comes into the poker room and squeals out "Jimmy!" and their whole conversation is peppered with her calling him Jimmy. So then she goes down to the floor for a while. Then she comes back into the poker room and as soon as she shows her face, the whole room erupts in shouts of "Jimmy" from EVERY player in the room. She turns beet red and runs from the room.
/images/glasses.gif SheepZeeMunny!: So named since when he wins a pot, he says "Sheep Zee Munny! I'm Zee Best!!". Also noted that he hates me because I taunted him for getting shot down when he hit on a dealer way beyond his league.
9) Shallow Alex: ok this one is a bit cruel. This guy is pretty much a jerk and has an odd tendency to date women that are a bit larger. So after seeing Shallow Hal, we named him Shallow Alex. Is that cruel? Probably, but it makes me laugh.
10) The older Aaron: this one only makes sense to a few people. I just think this guy looks exactly like 2+2's Aaron Lovi will look in about 30 years.
There's one other one: TIUTA Lisa. But I don't think I can explain that one without getting banned.
1) Tilt-o-Whirl Pimp Don: I guess this one is pretty self explanatory. He goes on tilt. And he's a pimp!
2) The Rounder: a young punk who thinks he knows the game pretty cold. He isn't aware that we enjoy mocking him and once confided in me that he had quit his job to play 3-6 for a living. Predictably a month later when I asked him how it was going, he was back at work. At that point, he uttered the infamous line "Its tough work being a rounder", at which point he was derisively labeled "the rounder" for eternity.
3) Grumblin' Dunc....oops did I write that? mwa ha ha
4) Tighty McWhitey; another young guy who thinks he knows the game pretty well. I gave him this nickname after he ran me down with pocket 4's in a rather egregious way
5) The Greatness: a middle aged dealer from another casino. When he walks in, we generally note that we are in the presence of greatness, since he's the worst player in the history of holdem.
6) The Pokah Dealah; houseman at one of the casinos. I generally like to remind him that pokadealahs are the worst players and take great pleasure in continually eliminating him from tournaments. Must emphasize the "-ah" at the end of pok-AH deal-AH
7) JimmyGirl: used to deal at a casino with 2+2's own Jim Roy and they were friends. So one time he and I are playing and she comes into the poker room and squeals out "Jimmy!" and their whole conversation is peppered with her calling him Jimmy. So then she goes down to the floor for a while. Then she comes back into the poker room and as soon as she shows her face, the whole room erupts in shouts of "Jimmy" from EVERY player in the room. She turns beet red and runs from the room.
/images/glasses.gif SheepZeeMunny!: So named since when he wins a pot, he says "Sheep Zee Munny! I'm Zee Best!!". Also noted that he hates me because I taunted him for getting shot down when he hit on a dealer way beyond his league.
9) Shallow Alex: ok this one is a bit cruel. This guy is pretty much a jerk and has an odd tendency to date women that are a bit larger. So after seeing Shallow Hal, we named him Shallow Alex. Is that cruel? Probably, but it makes me laugh.
10) The older Aaron: this one only makes sense to a few people. I just think this guy looks exactly like 2+2's Aaron Lovi will look in about 30 years.
There's one other one: TIUTA Lisa. But I don't think I can explain that one without getting banned.