This is all Kelisitaan's fault. We were all so starstruck by his presence that we didn't notice he was secretly planting the seeds to grow his master plan. He single-handedly sparked the golden age of twoplustwo. His entertainment was alcoholic, and we all drank the cool-aid. His time on 2p2 was like Jesus's time walking on Earth. And now, we are witnessing the fruition of Kelisitaan's Master Plan. The demise of 2p2 is imminent. We were warned this would happen and ...we didn't listen! We didn't listen!

Why, did he level a lot?

haha THIS...its a poker forum dont get it why every thread is full of naked womenpics...(see SSFR and MSFR...)

X-Post from the thread I made:

I am not a regular member in this forum. I post more in hsnl (but that's a ghost town nowadays) and msnl. Anyways, I'm a mid-high stakes pro that splits my game between the interwebs and live (3/6-25/50 online and 10/20 - 50/10 live), but lately have been playing almost exclusively online. I read the thread started by Jlocdog about the demise of this forum, and I noted that in my time lurking this forum that I believe that the posters and replies are equally to blame for the lack of strategy discussion as the OPs. Most people just flamed all the stupid OPs, and I did not agree with it. I believed that the replies and anlysis in this forum were just as much a part of the problem.

So here's what I did. I created the gimmick account livepokergod and posted four hands that I had previously posted in either hsnl or msnl or both. I made no changes except that I reduced the stakes from 25/50 to 10/20 in two of the hands. I also waited about six hours to see what replies would be posted before I posted my own analysis (which I posted in the msnl and hsnl threads). I am going to post the link to each individual thread from msnl or hsnl that correlates with each hand in a couple of minutes. I made the livepokergod threads almost 24 hours ago.

People can compare the threads if they want to. I personally don't care if this does anything, and some people will probably flame me for being arrogant. But there was essentially no hand range analysis done by any of the replies in this forum until I posted my analysis. And even after that, there was still little analysis. Most replies were like "this is just spew" without any analysis as to why. The replies in hsnl and msnl delve much deeper and incite a lively discussion on merits of the plays on multiple streets. That simply did not happen in this forum. And personally, I found most replies in this forum to be just bad fundamentally even in their conclusion.

Also, these hands received replies and debates from players like Raptor, Stinger, AAismyfrined, Kirby, Flexsduck, and a lot of msnl regs. However, I noticed many of the reg posters in this forum who were online a lot did not find these threads worthy of their contribution.

Again, you can take this experiment however you want. But I think it is useful.

Posting the links in the threads now.

FDS

I'm going to sticky this and keep it open for further questions, comments, or suggestions for this forum moving forward...

By the way, this forum has been a pleasure to view lately.

Well as someone who has played a bazillion hours live 10/20 and 20/40 NL in the last 6 months, its certainly more sophisticated then you guys are letting on and certainly as sophisticated as MSNL or HSNL online hands. But yeh for the stuff live 5/10 below it probably seems weird/stupid to most online players.

For example, last night I saw a Commerce 20/40 NL game with Eskobarr_returns, aejones, a live pro, some meh live regulars and the token fish. Definitely an interesting dynamic.

How does everyone like how the forum has been going lately? I for one think some quality discussion has taken place over the past month and appreciate eveyones efforts in making it happen.

So thank you.

I've enjoyed lurking and even contributing a bit myself lately. I look forward to reading more mid-high stakes situations and trying to understand the thought processes involved.

If anyone has issues, questions, comments, or suggestions, please put them here instead of derailing a thread (oh hi there jumanji).

Beyond that I'd just like to say I am very pleased with the path this forum has taken. We have a nice mix of live/online hands and seem to all co-exist quite well. I sincerely appreciate the effort put forth up to this point.

I am trying to get a bit more quantity in this forum and slowly but surely some very good posters are making their way over here as well. Though I must say, it is kind of nice to not have sooo much traffic where posts fall off the front page so quickly. A nice delicate balance is what I seek.

Anyways just a shout out to the community to thank you for your contributions.

edit to add- If there is interest in a "best of MHFR" thread, please PM me any links you feel would be worth you make the list and if I get enough interest I will create a thread for it...

yeah, it has indeed been quite pleasant to read this forum lately. I even surprised myself posting a hand here and got interesting replies. Well, live hands are still meh for the most part but who cares.

Quit editing my posts you knucklehead.

I will when you stop being as knucklehead, knucklehead.

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I'm a new poster so my 2 cents may not even be worth that but, I've been playing for 7 years.

A forum setting is like any other public setting. As a matter of fact in can be representative of a single poker table. Your going to have your ranters, ravers, drunks, hecklers, and complainers. You ae also going to have the usual %age of intelligent contributers.

Throught history nobody has been able to change that fact. I appreciate your efforts, and I appreciate the intelligent posters (of which a lot I know from live games.)

Thanks, and keep up the great work!

JLoc edits way too many posts. This is an online forum full of adults. If you can't handle a little somethin somethin then GTFO. Also if you can't handle a little insult then you're probably not meant for MSNL poker where pissing wars and insults happen. I wonder if people are reporting posts or what.