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On October 26, 2006, the Poker Gods smiled down at me and said, "First Lady - it's time to author a Poker Corner article." As it turns out, it takes about three and a half months to type one article when you're wearing a velvet glove on your iron fist...
So what type of poker knowledge do I plan to share with the 4th Street masses? Having played in all but 2 4SPT games since its inception, I decided to answer some of your frequently asked questions (FAQs for acronym fans). In pennance to the Poker Gods for my procrastination (and because I'm jealous of the attention the Storm is getting with his TGT of the Week), I am offering my insights in a weekly column for at least the next three and a half months.
Inspired by an interesting conversation during Slim's Celebratory Roscoe's Dinner, I'm also planning on assuming the role of Lead 4SPT Player Historian (no offense to C-Mint) and unravel the interwoven web of how individual players came to the Tour in a section of this column that I'll call 6 Degrees of 4SPT.
FAQ: How do you color up chips?
It constantly amazes me, week after week, that most
Regulars still don't understand how we color up and race off chips. Then again,
most of you are drunk and/or high during our games so I guess I should cut you
some slack.
6 Degrees of 4SPT: In the beginning...
As you should know, I am called the First Lady for many reasons but perhaps most importantly because I won the very first official 4th Street Poker Tour game. How many were in that field, you ask? Eight. These eight players will heretofore be referred to as the OG 8 of 4th Street.
Of course, there could be no 4th Street game without Jeff "Complex Slim" Holsey and the Duke of 4th Street, younger brother Keith "The Cooler" Holsey. And I'm sure all of you know the 4SPT lore of our former next door neighbor, John "Pibb/Rising Sonny" Antonino, being the rebel rouser to introduce poker at the Complex.
But I think it may surprise you to learn who else was at the table on that fateful first game...
Charles "C-Mint" Wachter? No. Marc "Big Papa" Cahill? Nope. In fact, the only other true "4th Street Crew" member at the first game was proud new daddy, Jeremy "Helen Keller" Edney - called Helen Keller because of his penchant for going all in blind, a move that's both blind and dumb.
Who dare opposed the Complex on their home turf, you ask? As it turns out, two of the remaining three players in the first game grew into what became the GIK Crew (Globe IT Killas), including Jay "Big Bossman" Jakosky and Josh "Jeopardy" Smith. Bossman was Jeff's and Josh's boss at the time and Jeopardy was coined after Tom "Dog's Playing Poker" Bray hand-farted the Jeopardy themesong during one of Josh's patented slow plays.
And finally, the eighth OG of 4th Street was someone that hasn't been seen on the Tour in a long, long time - Dave "I don't have a cool poker nickname but everyone calls me Grubby" Grubstick.
Now that the official OG 8 of 4th Street have been named, from here on out I will link one player from the Tour back to one of the OG 8 within 6 degrees of separation or less.
So until next week, please feel free to post questions for the FAQ section or nominate a player for the 6 Degrees of 4SPT, by commenting here or emailing me directly.
I just studied up on the color up procedure in case of a pop quiz. It says that the correct number of replacement chips are to be presented to the table before the cards are distributed. I am not sure that is how its done on 4th Street. But hey, what does Wikipedia know?
Posted by: II-Pod | Thursday, February 08, 2007 at 15:26
They also call it the "little blind" which is not a sanctioned 4SPT term.
Posted by: Slim | Thursday, February 08, 2007 at 15:33
That Dogs video is epic.
Posted by: will | Thursday, February 08, 2007 at 15:34
Which is better the Dog's video or the Drop It Like It's Hot logo? I say it's a tie and the only way to settle it would be to have Dog's fart the DILIH tune with Snoop.
Posted by: Slim | Thursday, February 08, 2007 at 15:38
Great article and a good idea for a regular one. And that video of Dog's is indeed epic.
Posted by: Drudus Pullo | Thursday, February 08, 2007 at 16:28
it's gonna be awesome when we get to see my .gif at the top of the page tomorrow...well foreshawdoed.
Posted by: jamie | Thursday, February 08, 2007 at 17:26
Link the Amazing Race boys back to the OG 8...go!
Posted by: II-Pod | Friday, February 09, 2007 at 11:28
Thanks for the suggestion - II-Pod. I'll link the winners of the Amazing Race back to the OG-8 in 3 degrees in next week's post.
Also, I'd like to congratulate second place finisher titALating for his B+ grade on the color up pop quiz.
Posted by: FirstLady | Friday, February 09, 2007 at 11:51
what grade does titALating get on his ability to put his ante in the pot before somebody reminds him?
Posted by: jamie | Friday, February 09, 2007 at 13:39
D+
Posted by: FirstLady | Friday, February 09, 2007 at 17:08
Yes, great explanation !!
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