Starting Sunday Nov. 13, the converter's going on vacation for a week.

[bisonbison]

What: From whenever I get to it on Sunday, November 13, to whenever I get to it on Sunday, November 20, the converter will be unable to process Hold'em hands.

When: For one week, sunday to sunday. THE CONVERTER WILL RETURN AT THE END OF THAT WEEK as buggy and destructive and helpful as always.

Where: The site will still be available. When you attempt to convert a hold'em hand, it will spit out a message that says, in effect: "the converter is on maternity leave this week. Please type your hands manually for discussion."

Who: I'll be doing it. In recognition of the fact that many people will complain, I will be disabling my ability to receive PMs, because I don't want to hear about it.

Why: The idea of a converter-free period originated from posts made by Sublime and Joe Tall, the gists of which were: the small stakes forum suffers from a perpetual struggle with bland uselessness, and the ability to mass-produce hand posts without context or reads is not helping.

Everyone agrees that the ability to convert hands automatically is useful, but it has contributed to a certain texture of shitty mechanical sameness that causes many a SS forum veteran's heart to despair. So:

1. this isn't being done to punish anyone, to make the converter seem blahblahblah or anything like that.
2. this isn't permanent.
3. whether or not it's going to happen is not up for debate.

If you have any questions, I will, in fact, be happy to answer them in this thread, as long as you understand the depths of my potential not caring.

[Ajax410]

Rather than complain about not using the converter, I actually just wanted to thank you for making it available in the first place. I don't know how much time you put into it, or how hard it is to maintain, but I think you do a great thing for the 2+2 community by keeping it there. If you choose to take it offline, that's your perogative, but I think, as users of the converter, we all need to recognize the effort that you put into it...so thank you.

Alex

[billyjex]

So we can have this for a week:

No reads. Please comment on all streets.

***** Hand History for Game 1168275089 *****
$2/$4 Hold'em - Friday, November 12, 00:02:46 EDT 2004
Table Card Room Table 2983 (Real Money)
Seat 8 is the button
Total number of players : 10
Seat 1: the_chark ( $52.5 )
Seat 2: esirish ( $109.5 )
Seat 4: knowcents ( $77 )
Seat 5: TrojanMan86 ( $97 )
Seat 6: mombyrd ( $52 )
Seat 7: mr_knish ( $121.5 )
Seat 8: TAAAAAAPIS ( $215.5 )
Seat 10: rfk_daddy ( $97 )
Seat 9: billyjex ( $98 )
Seat 3: JediPimp1284 ( $57 )
billyjex posts small blind [$1].
rfk_daddy posts big blind [$2].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to billyjex [ Jh Js ]
the_chark folds.
esirish folds.
JediPimp1284 folds.
knowcents folds.
TrojanMan86 folds.
mombyrd folds.
mr_knish folds.
TAAAAAAPIS raises [$4].
esirish: i try
billyjex raises [$5].
rfk_daddy folds.
TAAAAAAPIS calls [$2].
** Dealing Flop ** [ Ts, Qs, Ah ]
billyjex bets [$2].
TAAAAAAPIS calls [$2].
** Dealing Turn ** [ 9h ]
billyjex bets [$4].
TAAAAAAPIS folds.
billyjex does not show cards.
billyjex wins $22

[River2Pair]

my eyes hurt already.

[bisonbison]

If the converter is the only difference between the level of effort between the posts made here and the crap that gets posted in the zoo, I'd say that's pretty damning.

[Entity]

If we have posts like those, we'll just treat them the same way we treat posts that are asking what happened to the converter: we'll ignore them.

Sounds good, bison. Thanks for making the converter in the first place.

Rob

[Joe Tall]

[ QUOTE ]
So we can have this for a week:

No reads. Please comment on all streets.


[/ QUOTE ]

and your lazy azz won't get any responses

[brian0729]

I know it has already been said, but bears repeating. The converter is a great tool for those of us that take are game serious. Thanks for your time and effort.

Brian

[ArchAngel71857]

[ QUOTE ]
So we can have this for a week:

No reads. Please comment on all streets.

***** Hand History for Game 1168275089 *****
$2/$4 Hold'em - Friday, November 12, 00:02:46 EDT 2004
Table Card Room Table 2983 (Real Money)
Seat 8 is the button
Total number of players : 10
Seat 1: the_chark ( $52.5 )
Seat 2: esirish ( $109.5 )
Seat 4: knowcents ( $77 )
Seat 5: TrojanMan86 ( $97 )
Seat 6: mombyrd ( $52 )
Seat 7: mr_knish ( $121.5 )
Seat 8: TAAAAAAPIS ( $215.5 )
Seat 10: rfk_daddy ( $97 )
Seat 9: billyjex ( $98 )
Seat 3: JediPimp1284 ( $57 )
billyjex posts small blind [$1].
rfk_daddy posts big blind [$2].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to billyjex [ Jh Js ]
the_chark folds.
esirish folds.
JediPimp1284 folds.
knowcents folds.
TrojanMan86 folds.
mombyrd folds.
mr_knish folds.
TAAAAAAPIS raises [$4].
esirish: i try
billyjex raises [$5].
rfk_daddy folds.
TAAAAAAPIS calls [$2].
** Dealing Flop ** [ Ts, Qs, Ah ]
billyjex bets [$2].
TAAAAAAPIS calls [$2].
** Dealing Turn ** [ 9h ]
billyjex bets [$4].
TAAAAAAPIS folds.
billyjex does not show cards.
billyjex wins $22

[/ QUOTE ]

Preflop: Looks good, might want to have limp reraised.

Flop: When you can C/R this, you will be a better palyer.

Turn:Next time try flopping a river and stop wasting our time.

-AA

[PhatTBoll]

[ QUOTE ]
Preflop: Looks good, might want to have limp reraised.

Flop: When you can C/R this, you will be a better palyer.

Turn:Next time try flopping a river and stop wasting our time.

[/ QUOTE ]


Flopping rivers will add a whole new dimension to your game. Try it when you hold a suited pair.