Please allow me to set a scene for you. You have been playing poker casually and have decided you want to take it a bit more seriously. You play for cheeseburgers and you do ok. You know you have leaks but don't mind working a bit to improve. So you hear about this social media type website called Two Plus Two. You lurk for a while and read the hand histories.
Then you lose a huge pot and it nags at you. You think you played it fine but figure maybe I'll run it past some of the wizards on Two Plus Two. You have never been to the Live Low-Stakes NL forum but that seems like the right place for you to post. You're a bit nervous but you lay out the hand and your thought processes along the way. You have to jump into a meeting and have a few things to do so you can't check back on your thread for 5 or 6 hours.
You log back in and see that your thread has 34 responses. "Oh man my hand must be really interesting!". The first response is a line by line quote of your original post. He keeps calling you OP and you don't know what that means. He is asking questions like "What were you wearing?" and other things that don't make much sense. You decide to skip over that response and go to the next one. Well the next one is a response to the initial response telling that poster he is a douchebag and should stfu. This is crazy.
You scroll through the responses and realize it is the initial responder breaking down every response to him with more and more questions. Like a ****ing onion this guy just keeps peeling back the layers of questions and asking deeper and deeper questions that drift further and further away from the original question. Finally the thread is locked and you still don't have an answer. This place is bizarre!
Congratulations! You have just met the
Number 5 entry in the LLSNL Chat Thread Power Bottom Rankings-Richard Parker aka SeaUlater aka Amazon Prime akaa bunch of other names I'm sure.
Not sure what RPs deal was. He is now just a memory receiving the BanHammer a few years ago. If I recall the last straw was a fight with Skip about I have no idea what.
People highly disliked RP. I appreciated the troll game but thought he took it too far at times. He did most of his AIDs sprinkling outside the Chat thread in the strat. He could take a thread off in a tangent faster than Feelers could self-ban himself. RP relished it IMO.
He loved the AIDs bucket that is the Winrates thread. He did not like people that posted high WR and thought they were full of ****. Thus, MikeStarr was one of his last foils. I remember at the end his exchanges with Mike being pretty loltastic.
Incredibly, RP is still the 2nd highest poster in that thread despite having been banned 2 1/2 years ago. Here is a sampling of the type of response RP would provide should you posit a question:
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Originally Posted by Richard Parker
Why would it not be possible?
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Originally Posted by Richard Parker
Curious why you added that caveat?
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Originally Posted by Richard Parker
Key word: should.
Why should you feel good about losing, because you made the right decision?
Should you feel bad about winning if you made the wrong decision?
FWIW, if you're new to the journey of poker? Yes, you should tell yourself that losing isn't necessarily bad.
However, if you have been at this game for a while, it shouldn't even be about feeling good or bad; it should be "when are we playing the next hand?"
Not much is known about Mr. Parker. We know he lived near Seattle and was a Seahawks/Mariners fan. I believe he was married with a family but honestly don't recall specifics. (I know a few things about him that I don't think were for public consumption so I will keep those to myself).
Anyway, I am sure this entry will meet with some resistance. I say to those people "Don't Care". Please to be sharing your favorite (or least favorite) RP memory for many many lulllz.