Seriously why do poker player say "I'm all in"? What is this 2003? Even in No-Limit, table stakes play. If you have $500 in front of you, you can only stake $500 on one hand. So why don't players say "I bet it all" or "Raise it all" or "Whole stack"?

"I'm all in" would imply that the player himself is putting himself on the line and at stakes. Even back in the Wild West days when a player wanted to bet it all, he would leave the bolts of his charriot on the table so that if he lost that hand he couldn't escape. Hence the term "the nuts". But HE wasn't "ALL IN"! His chips were.

To find a true "all in" we would have to go back even further in time, during the Indian epic Mahabharata when Emperor Yudhishthira played a game of dice with his cousin Duryodhan.

The game started with the stakes of a few rare necklaces. Yudhishthira kept losing (as the game was rigged) and began staking currency and slaves. Then elephants, gold, chariots, maidens,... then his estate and finally, his kingdom. (Former) Emperor, in order to win back what he lost, staked one by one, his warrior younger brothers on the game, who eventually became slaves of Duryodhan. And finally, Yudhishtira staked himself on the game (and lost) and was doomed to become Duryodhan's eternal slave.

Hence, HE was...

If you were at the table and bet $3.50, you'd be all in.

If you got 4 inches into a vagina, you'd be all in.

Are you mtt 97 97 former lover?
Just wondering how you know?
Do you blow him for tree fiddy?

I have photos of everyone's genitals that has ever had an account on 2+2 Disciline12 (or should I say "banana man").

Nice save, kudos to you

WTF did I just read

tl;dr

OP wants and needs attention, he is crying 'ALL in" for help

His name is Allin.

You're the Seinfeld of poker-related observational humor, if Seinfeld was a complete failure who everybody hated.

How about if you were climbing inside a box or similar?

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OP "All in" is just an expression that people are used to say in these situations; and not all expressions are to be taken literally. You could also say you're only really broke if someone flash-froze you in liquid nitrogen and then smashed you on the floor. But it's still a fine expression for having no money. That's how language works sometimes.

Requesting ban

Petition to ban MTT_9797?
Signed

"I play all my chips."

+1

Great memories, thanks for that, this will be what I am saying from this moment forward, in the future, so to speak ...........

Interesting story: I have a friend named Alladin, who I've known from when I was 4 years old. We grew up in the same neighborhood and went to the same school. After we graduated high school, we went our separate ways. I went on study electrical engineering, and he became a doctor. Last week, I was in Boston for a friend's bachelor party, and who do I meet there? Alladin! It felt good to catch up with an old friend after all these years. I learnt that he was married to this girl who was all sorts of crazy. One time when they were having sex, this girl got so upset that he finished before she did that she grabbed a knife and cut his penis off.

So yes, my friend Alladin, without A D, is now All in.

solid 6th post in 12 months.

requesting ban

edit: im laughing at this story ironically goddamit lmao

Lol

U suck MTT, can't believe we've had too put up with ur aids for 2 years now.