Hiii-yaaaaaaaaaaaaah
 

I'm sure this has been asked before but it's hard to spell this so the search function will recognize it.

What's up with this noise that I hear in pokerrooms all over the country? Mostly followed by "Gambooooooool!" The second part I get...the nasal karate chop sound...No Savvy.

I heard this more at LC in oakland than anywhere out here.

This one crazy drunk cat at the Trop is the master of it: Snake, I believe is the name. Older semi-asian character who loves to cap pf in 2/4 w/ NADA. When he sucks out he leaps up screaming that "hAIiiiiiiiyaaaaaaaaah" and bangs the table...various other degenerates scream back at him from other 2/4 games around the room and the broke ones scurry over to get loans or handouts.

It's eerie, actually....like a bunch of paratroopers going "gerrrrronimoooo!" simultaneously.


What's up with--that?

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I hate the hi-yahhh myself and can offer no explanation. Gamb00000l on the other hand is great.

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Holy crap i'm going to AC for some Drunken 2-4. I can't wait for stupid crap like this!

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LC is in Colma, no?

Also, I think "Hiiiiii-yaaaaaaah!" is actually "Aiiiiiyaaaaaaaaaa!" Gabe is quite good at these.

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Whoops, I meant the oaks club in oakland. I've never been to LC.

I'll concur with the spelling... But what does it mean?!

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"Hiiiiii-yaaaaaaah!" = karate chop

"Aiiiiiyaaaaaaaaaa!" = chinese equivalent of "oh dear!" when something bad happens.

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Overhead at Commerce 9/18. RMoratti sitting to my right (where he belongs) as usual. Rich yells "Aiiiiiyaaaaaaaaaa" with his trademarked [censored] eating grin and the Korean players at the table couldn't stop laughing for the next 5 minutes.

But in all honesty, it didn't beat him screaming GAMBOOOL at the top of his lungs in the high limit room, and I do mean screaming. Priceless.

By the way, anyone notice how quiet Commerce is? its the quietest big poker room I've ever been to.

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it's "ai-yah!" and it means something like "yikes!"

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It sounds the best when you say it like you're being punched in the stomach. Think a short, deep tone.

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Overhead at Commerce 9/18. RMoratti sitting to my right (where he belongs) as usual. Rich yells "Aiiiiiyaaaaaaaaaa" with his trademarked [censored] eating grin and the Korean players at the table couldn't stop laughing for the next 5 minutes.

But in all honesty, it didn't beat him screaming GAMBOOOL at the top of his lungs in the high limit room, and I do mean screaming. Priceless.

By the way, anyone notice how quiet Commerce is? its the quietest big poker room I've ever been to.

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Playing 9/18 with bukakke one Chinese guy kept correcting people saying "Gambool!" and pointing out that it's "Gam-bewl" with an accent on the second syllable. He was hilarious. He would also 3-bet and tell the original raiser that they would "chop chop in the parking lot later."

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YO, I would actually like that sound. In my experience (mostly from Snake) it sounds like a rubberband propeller airplane taking off or the little girl in "Soul Blade" doing her Magic Power Attack.

YIKES!

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Also, I think "Hiiiiii-yaaaaaaah!" is actually "Aiiiiiyaaaaaaaaaa!" Gabe is quite good at these.

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Or, if you're from Taiwan, it would be "Ai-YOH"

Unfortunately there aren't enough of us around.

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Or, if you're from Taiwan, it would be "Ai-YOH"

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even better would be the full-length treatment: "ai-yoh-wei-yah!"

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ointing out that it's "Gam-bewl" with an accent on the second syllable

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I stand corrected, forever more.

First night at Commerce, old Korean man is mumbling to himself non stop. He is hyper aggressive, and will bet/raise any 2 cards if he smells weakness. Even the other Korean natives at the table were looking at him like he was a freak of nature. Every time he bets he would scream BET! at the top of his lungs and slam his chips on the table then continue mumbling. When he raises, he would say RAAAIISSAA! and do the same. When I say slam, I literally mean it... he would slam a whole stack then start taking chips away to make the bet correct. I did everything I could to keep myself from laughing out loud... until he said "ok, I gabool!". I lost it then, and the whole table cracked up with me.

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Sorry dooder. Dad gets moody.

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Have you considered the possibility that these people are just morons? [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

al

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Last Saturday night at the local room, some guy kept yelling "Whoop, there it is!" every time an A hit the board. Every ... single ... time.

The Iranian guy at my table was getting pissed at him. Between that and my cracking his KK with a trip 4s for the biggest pot of the night, he was cursing in Farsi all night long.

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The Iranian guy at my table was getting pissed at him. Between that and my cracking his KK with a trip 4s for the biggest pot of the night, he was cursing in Farsi all night long.

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"may the fleas of a thousand camels infest your grandmother's armpits."

al

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its an asian term meaning "damn it" but not in a serious way. But now this term has been adopted by white folks all over poker rooms in america.

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"Hiiiiii-yaaaaaaah!" = karate chop

"Aiiiiiyaaaaaaaaaa!" = chinese equivalent of "oh dear!" when something bad happens.

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Tell your chinese friend this..he will get a laugh! LOL

Also listen to DO MAAAAH ( for viets) and SHI BA RE (for koreans) which translates to Mother F....