Not to derail the thread, (lol), but i was playing basketball with my son and when he went to shoot, i yelled "brick", he just looked at me dumbfounded. Apparently, these days, " whack" is the appropriate phrase to use. Who Knew?

To the detractors, the bottom line is the above use of "all in" (to this excessive degree) is something that is new. This "amount" of use by the media just didn't happen 4 years ago and certainly not 8 years ago. Yes, it might have been used before that by poker players in their general conversation but I'd bet you couldn't find one example of it being used by the media in let's say 1992. Bottom line is the media started using the word after the poker craze and its use seems to be increasing as evidenced by the above excerpt.

From the article you seem to like so much:

I know, that's just one reference. But if it was being used in such a mainstream manner 10 years ago, it makes your claim of an exponential increase in the last year a little harder to believe IMO.

If you want to shift the goalposts and instead talk about the increase in its use over the last 24 years, this would be a much different conversation. No one's disagreeing that its use has increased over that time span - most of us are disagreeing that "...the phrase (within mainstream culture) has increased exponentially in the last year. Certainly the last 2 years."

Yes, it may well have increased somewhat over the last year; that happens with phrases. This is threadworthy?

The merriam webster link I provided lists an alternate definition of "allowing almost any technique or method", which fits with the colloquial usage that people attribute to NL holdem but actually predates it.

so clearly the goal is to get GTO out there next .

I'll take an ounce of whatever this guy is smoking please.

I think the current usage of "all in" in the media means "totally committed" to something just like a poker player has totally committed all of his chips. You can be totally committed to something or "all in" and yet not be willing to use almost any technique or method to achieve your objective.

Explain.

Explain why you think "on the same page" and "that's awesome" are expressions from 15-20 years ago? What makes you think the mainstream usage of "all-in" has increased in the last two years? Why do you care?

And I definitely want to hear why you think someone should "back poker" if they use a poker-derived phrase?

By your logic, I can only use the expression "i'll nuke it" when I warm up something in a microwave if I support nuclear warfare.

I disagree, I think the "all in" expression has increased greatly in the last 2 years and the excerpt I cited earlier from the New Yorker:

-- is some evidence.

Those are just estimates when those expressions started to have increased usage in culture. The "that's awesome" phrase probably came into increased usage longer than 20 years ago, but I was just estimating. But the fact is I rarely if ever heard that phrase growing up and then all of the sudden it was everywhere. I'll try to get to your other points as time permits.

Thanks for restating exactly what you said before; it makes things much clearer. I'm pretty sure if you assert your point of view several more time, it will become true.

Since there's no real evidence either way (a few examples is hardly evidence), I guess you'll be going around in circles with everyone about this until they all tire of it; I'm already there. Still have no idea why you think this is important or in any way threadworthy.

"Nitroll" will be huge 10 years from now, if we do our part and help it survive.

To get the same effect, you'd need to roll it in old copies of the New Yorker that you've read 10 times.

GMC has the rights, acquired from John Nash in the '60s.

Government here in the UK uses it to push their workplace pensions, using the tagline "We're all-in!"

Personal observation, and the objective evidence shown in post #9.

I just think it's kind of hypocritical for society as a whole to be against internet poker and yet society and the media constantly proves poker is very much ingrained in our culture by consistently using numerous poker expressions (and increasingly so) in everyday life. Hell, even Jeb Bush (a conservative who is probably against internet poker) used the poker expression "all in" to a great extent in his campaign.

Great idea. I've drafted a little letter for you to send to Obama.

Dear Obama,

Since the phrase 'all-in' is mainstream now, you should legalize online poker.

Love,

Well Read Ted

It's kind of interesting that you equate the words all-in to internet poker. It seems to be related to poker (mainly live) and poker seems to be part of American culture much more than online poker and poker obviously isn't illegal.

Now that we're on a roll, we should get Obama to legalize guns since the phrase 'with guns blazing' is pretty common. Also, there's the phrase 'balls to the wall' so.....

I hear Jimmy "Gobboboy" Fricke is all-in whenever he goes to McDonald's =)

" in Arizona, ... no-limit cash games aren’t legal. You can enter a no-limit tournament without issue, but you can’t play no-limit cash games.

Why? The Arizona Revised Statutes. ... Arizona says the most you can bet at one time in a poker game is $500. So what do we do? We play spread limit...

Here is the confusing part: You can play against poker peers and bet $500, but if you play blackjack you can max bet $1,000."


So, in AZ, you can drink in a bar, while carrying a concealed pistol, cocked and locked and loaded with 17 rounds of .40 S&W, as a "constitutional right," but you can't bet more than $500 on a game of cards.

IM AWWWW IN BABY!!! ONE TIME!!!!!!

broke poker players are trying to make a living in mass media

Wrestling term long before poker



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all i know is my wife calls me a fish if i **** something up now. and it's awesome.

yes, i have noticed that the plebs use that expression a lot lately, and it usually makes me cringe.

"Mainstream media" is more overused than "all-in" IMO.