Any periodicals discussed Greg's IRC poker

[mzrtopera]

Have any magazines gone into the history of Greg's IRC poker, who played there, the bot names, etc? Everywhere I play I ask about IRC poker but no one knows anything about it. It would be nice to have some magazine print up the history of IRC poker.

Thank you;

Sherman

[beernutz]

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Have any magazines gone into the history of Greg's IRC poker, who played there, the bot names, etc? Everywhere I play I ask about IRC poker but no one knows anything about it. It would be nice to have some magazine print up the history of IRC poker.

Thank you;

Sherman

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Jesus used to play there (perhaps just after he left Chicago).

I played there as dookey from early 1999 until the demise. Anyone else want to fess up to an old IRC poker nick?

[Aceshigh7]

There's a bit in the book Aces and Kings in Chris Ferguson's section talking about IRC poker.

[tonypaladino]

Google?

[tonypaladino]

It seems Conjelco has a page on the history of it:

http://conjelco.com/faq/ircpoker.html

[cwsiggy]

I actually used to play on Greg Reynolds interface. It was awesome. I won a little tourney on it. This was just before and during the beginnings of poker sites like Paradise etc.

[Phat Mack]

If you're really interested, I could probably come up with the names of some of the bots. I saw them about a year ago on an old floppy. But it would take me a while to find the floppy and then find something to read it. The only name that pops in to my head is rulebot.

I had a bot that played some of the weirder games. It was too slow--kept timing out, and its chat function was, I'm sad to say, detested. If memory serves, irc had chinese poker, pot limit TD 2-7 (maybe even tournies), mississippi stud, etc.

As mentioned elsewhere, Reynolds's GUI was the nuts.

[Eldon]

Played there for several years. Tarbaby was recognized as PL champ.

Think we started at 10/20 limit with $1000. At $2000 we could buy into 20/40 limit and $3000 got you into PL.

Bots were beatable and "chatted".

Got good training in starting at 10/20 moving to 20/40 and busting in the "big game".

Lot of fun.