Really, how old school are you?

For a while, that was the case with my first reading of 2p2 books.

When Small Stakes Hold'em came out, I was tickled pink by the number of times I read the phrase "As explained in Gary Carson's book Hold 'Em Poker . . ."

I founded and was CEO of an online poker network in Spring 2001. I transferred it many years ago.

(I also bought the DoylesRoom domain from the DOJ following its seizure, because I wanted to buy back a different domain I had owned and they insisted on an all-or-nothing deal.)

doylesroom.com and .net are both parked at different places I see. The .net has a listing price of $10k. Do you own both? I'd reach out to Brian Ballsbaugh. Maybe he can make something happen with them. I also feel like ~now is the optimal selling point because while Doyle will always be a historical character in gambling, his relevancy wanes with time and the coming of age of a new generation of poker players who aren't even old enough to remember pre-UIGEA.

I still can't believe Dynasty was Joey

i think i am the last one of the high stakes players alive that attended the first wsop in 1970. still playing in games with 100k plus on the table. how old school is that.

you win.

Incredible, well played Sir.

My screenname was all_insane on 888, and i used to do the move of honor, means openshoving AA for 100bb at cashgames. Used to get called by AJ, 66 etc.

My old buddy Carl McKelvey was also there at WSOP-1 and he's still playing 25-50 games in Texas 1-200 k on the table so there are at least 2 of you. But most of the old guys are gone or stopped playing for sure,

you win too good sir. It is an honor to have you posting on 2p2.

The smoke stench was hard to even get off your body. One shower wasn't enough sometimes. Have to scrub your eyelids, inner ear, every hair on your body, belly button. Don't see how we tolerated it.

And we passed the deal.

thank you brotha!!!!!

Best call was AJo in bb, when i openshoved 200$ in sb and chatted "insane"... Move of honor

Joey who?

If you don't know, then you're not old school. Now it's time to get delicate.

I saw it twice in the theater back in the fall of 1998. I started playing online right after, and live casino poker in August of 1999 (Horseshoe/Grand Tunica, MS).

I know exactly what site you're talking about. I played there all the time back in 2001-2003. I was the robot, and sometimes James Bond. I can still hear the albino guy saying "BET," and the African American guy saying "nice hand." Can't leave out the cowboy, he was a very popular character.

see my join date

^^^ Noob

very old

I have you beat by two days, pleb

I'm really Old School! I remember when Gardena and all of California could only spread Five Card Draw (high or low). The players passed the deal! Oh yeah! And they had to close at 4 AM and reopen at 8 AM. Hardcore guys would go sleep in their cars at 4 and come back in and start over at 8. I remember when the laws changed around 1987 and they could now spread Seven Card Stud (and Hi-Low Split). That brought me back to the cardroom. Hold'em was introduced here a couple of years later and things really took off after that. Those were really the good old days. The games were JUICY with lots of guys who were completely clueless! That lasted a few years.

The Splash casino in Tunica, Mississippi opened in 1992. It charged something like $10 to enter, and people stayed lined up to enter it nearly 24 hrs a day.The poker room was run by Jo Jo(don’t recall his last name), and the main big game was 5/10 Pot limit Holden.It ran nearly 24/7 and was filled with action. NLH wasn’t begun until a few years later.. I may be be wrong about this, but I believe this game is where the button straddle originated, later to be called the Mississippi straddle. Also, it may have been the casino where triple draw lowball started. Again, someone can correct me if that’s not right. Those early days of Tunica poker were a player’s dream. At one time there were about 7 poker rooms in that small little hamlet in the cotton fields of northern Mississippi. Now, there is only one left.