lol how do these threads get serious replies

Whoa did not know Rui Cao was such a badass!

I can't speak for the others but I replied just for the heck of it (stats).

I have never calculated triplerangedmerged turncheckraise bluff frequency either

You don't understand. Just because my friends were nerds, and in Junior High I used to spend my lunch hours playing Dungeons and Dragons, I was also anchor man on our relay team in track. I was the fastest kid in the whole school. In high school one day after weight lifting class, the football teams Halfback challenged me to a race. He beat me in the 40, but I was faster than him in the 100. I was benching about 265 around that time and just starting to get into boxing. The football coach wanted me to join the team, but I knew how much they make those kids run, and that's why I quit track. Most kids in HS though don't get asked to join the football team. I already knew I couldn't throw or catch, but I woulda been a good safety.

Big, fast, and smart. I'm a bullies worst nightmare.

Short derail: once in college, some jocks from the jock fraternity were walking by our house and apparently trying to start a fight with one of our guys. 4 against one. Pledge runs in reports the problem and like 20 guys all come running out of the house, with me leading the way, and I sprint down the alley and I get up in this guys face who was much bigger than me. I knew the other 19 guys were a few seconds behind. This guy says to me, "You got a serious problem pal." A couple seconds later I had him pinned against a fence, punching him over and over saying, "Oh yeah? I got a problem!?" while my 19 friends beat the crap out of his 3.

Simple math ... 20 is more than 4.

^ you should start a blog about your school days.

I probably should. I got a ton of old stories. Before I was a frat boy I was a punk rocker. i have slam danced at CBGB.

ETA: A guy in our house, bout 6 foot 4, 250 was not far behind me, wont say his name but we used to joke he was the "biggest Jew in the world." So, I got one guy against the fence, big Jew walks around the corner, and punches one guy square in the face. One guy explaned it like his "face exploded", so there's two down ... and at the last 2 guys pretty much gave up and were happy to just leave and not get their ass kicked. Dumb move, starting stuff at someone elses house. You think just because you are football players, you can get away with that? Not on my watch.

Afwoods is my favorite 2p2er

Revenge of the Nerds was filmed at the school where I went to undergrad, but I was just in junior high then. Can't Buy Me Love, on the other hand was filmed at my High School while I was going there. I am not in it. I was against it because it was a non-union shoot.

Before all of that I had a speaking role as an extra on an old show called "Father Murphy" so I was SAG eligible. SAG picketed outside the school and sent in reps to talk to the students, and pretty much blackmail us. Told us if we were in the movie it could prevent us from ever getting in SAG.

Course ... Years later, when it's in their best interest ... mcDreamy, whatever his name is, played the lead nerd in that movie, won a SAG award.

Thanks. I apologize, I tend to ramble. Like I said, I go a lot of stories.

True story, this skateboarder stoner friend of mine was banging the blonde chick in Can't Buy Me Love.

But that scene where the nerds are all sitting there playing poker ... "We've been playing poker for years."

Yeah, I think I first played when I was about 6. That would be almost 40 years.

I remember as a kid I got DOYLE brunson and HOYLE ... Whoever he was confused. But as a kid, in the 70's, I knew who Doyle Brunson was.

In the 80's and early 90's, actually I played a lot of card games, gin, gin rummy, hearts, spades, black jack of course ... i was good at all of them right away. Gin, even after college I used to win the electric bill off my roomate. Talk about a skill game. I am badass at gin.

Even someone who has played and understands the game has no chance to beat me to 500 points.

I've played countless different kinds of poker and used to carry a "Rank of Hands" card in my wallet in case of an argument over if a straight beats a flush ... and trust me, people were that bad back then. I got some stories about when I had to use that card.

Ok, it's probably a must tell now. mods can delete if I am telling too many stories.

So, it's like 1992 and I am in college and my friends and I go to an afterparty. I was poor, had spent all my money at the bar. i literally had 35 cents on me. My friends head right for the keg, and I see this group of like 5 nerdy kids playing poker for change. Couple of them were girls. So, I acted like a clueless frat boy, like the 5 guys I walked in with, said "I only have 35 cents. I think I know like ... What beat's what.. that's about it." 2 hours later my friends were ready to leave, I had like $80 in cash on me and was selling them their change back. At one point, the two girls were HU and one had a straight, and one had a flush, and I pulled out the rank of hands card and said, "The flush wins." at which point there was an audible "Ooooohhh!" sound from several people at the table, that just figured out I was just acting like I didn't know how to play. This was pre-texas hold 'em, mostly 5 card draw.

Both girls quit right away. One guy thought he could hang with me but after awhile he gave up too. Friends were ready to go anyway.

I'm also a decent pool player. One time, after playing for drinks and winning them faster than I could drink them, on the way home my 1965 Galaxie convertible got hit by a freight train, but I'll hafta save that story for another time.

ODOYLE RULES

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Hoyle, Doyle ... it was the 70's and I was in Arizona, with a mini-roulette wheel in my treehouse. That's another one for the blog I will never write. Parents had a meeting, I was like 8 years old, "Are you gambling with your friends in the tree house? John Smith's Mom just called and said he lost his allowance playing Roulette?" and they took it away from me. Left me with just cards and dice, like any other kid.

I now no longer want to hear any more of your stories. Instead, I want to hear from your skateboarder stoner friend. Amanda Peterson was one of my celebricrushes growing up. She, Nicole Eggert and Alyssa Milano were more or less the hot girls of that era who were also my age.

Fairly sure that scene was used in a documentary to illustrate how poker was only played by nerds prior to the boom. Someone can corroborate this. I'm also fairly sure that's exactly how the OP pictures every other online poker player.

I played a lot of cards, before I played a lot of simulated cards on the internet. And now I am back to physical cards again. Remember when there was no internet? I gave some of my old marbles to my nephew recently ... Kids don’t play marbles anymore, that was like gambling 101.

Yeah, seriously. Skateboarder Guy went on to be a pro mountain biker. I rode some too, before I messed up my back jumping my Gary Fisher. I mean a real, original Gary Fisher, not some Canon-fail. Last time I saw him, he was sponsored by Klein, which at the time made the baddest bikes you could imagine for 1990.

The bike that hangs in early Seinfeld episodes is a Klein.

They dated, during the filming of Can't Buy Me Love ... And trust me, amongst our group of friends, we agreed she was hot, but we had no idea at the time that the movie would end up being so iconic to the era. As a matter of fact, it wasn't even going to be called "Can't Buy Me Love" ... i forget what it was, but they saved so much on the production, they could license the Beatles tune ... and the rest is history.

Amazingly, Stir Crazy ... also filmed in Tucson. I didn't know that until recently while I was in the actual bank where they filmed the bank robbery in chicken suits scene.

Town used to have a vibrant future for film, but it got too greedy.

Revenge of the Nerds though, they used the current University of Arizona logo at the time and everything ... was no hiding it, Can't Buy Me Love is actually set in Tucson.

Amanda was also not local, like we were, she was flown in from LA. So, wasn't like we had any idea of who she was. Wasn't famous yet and I think the relationship ended, after she left back to LA, but he was such a cool dude ... he was never bummed out about anything.

I'm sure he went on to date a lot of attractive young women.

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And in full disclosure ... John Pappas was also a member of my fraternity in college and is a friend of mine. I haven't seen him for years, but he knows who I am. So, sorry if I come across as a PPA cheerleader sometimes.

He's as honest, and as smart and dedicated as anyone I have ever met. Poker players should be really appreciative that John and the others at the PPA are working as hard as they are, still, for the right outcome.