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Poker Forum => General Discussion => Topic started by: AmandaCamm on December 03, 2010, 11:36:51 AM
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I am intrigued to know how some members came about their APAT forum name. For example, Steve and his AMRN
Mine is rather obvious...
But for those who do not know me, my better other half is HaworthBantam
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my kids are Anthony, Matthew, Rebecca, and Nathan...... there"s a clue....
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I"d just had the first operation on me back and was laid up for a goodly long while. Downloaded a poker site to play free chips poker and first thing they were looking for was an alias. WTF?! Sat there stumped for ages as I was up to me eyeballs on meds and couldn"t think straight. lol About the time I"d planned to give up and shut down the computer a friend walked in. She"d been great to help out while I was stuck in bed. Groceries, house work, cooking...you name it. Only for her. Anyway, Colleen is from a townland near here called Laxie (pronounced Lox - eye) and that was that.
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I have an interest in astronomy (nothing geeky and I don"t even own a telescope unfortunately), and Quasar originates from that. Wish I"d picked something else now though!
A quasi-stellar radio source ("quasar") is a very energetic and distant active galactic nucleus. They are the most luminous objects in the universe. Just in case you were wondering ;D
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My name came about due to the fact that my wife, then girlfriend had her 1st toy, a stuffed cat which slept beside her each night replaced by me. The toys" name was Pables (sounds like DABBLES) so I became Pables.
She is looking everywhere hard to get the cat back and replace me :"(
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Erm....cos it"s me name! ;D
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Marty = name
Lucky Number = 7
Age when opened first acc = 19
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Guess when my birthday is...
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....I was very drunk and I like sweets ???
My name"s David!
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I am intrigued to know how some members came about their APAT forum name. For example, Steve and his AMRN
Mine is rather obvious...
But for those who do not know me, my better other half is HaworthBantam
Can I just say I was honestly waiting for a Bradford city reference actually.
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I am intrigued to know how some members came about their APAT forum name. For example, Steve and his AMRN
Mine is rather obvious...
But for those who do not know me, my better other half is HaworthBantam
Can I just say I was honestly waiting for a Bradford city reference actually.
Ok, reference coming...
I live in Haworth and I support Bradford City...
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I used to play Tight End in the UK American Football league
People assume it"s because I am tight at Poker. Of course, nothing could be further from the truth.
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Waz1892.
Name is Warren which has always been shortened to Waz....but it is pronouced Woz.
1892 -The birth of the greatest football club in the world- Liverpool.
Betfair name Waz1974 (year i was born)
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DUKE3016
Always been nicknamed Duke as long as I can remember, don"t even recall why.
3016, so many dukes I tagged the first 4 digits of an old bank account.
Variations on other poker forums/sites
Ger
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I used to play Tight End in the UK American Football league
People assume it"s because I am tight at Poker. Of course, nothing could be further from the truth.
Okay, I get that one, but what about "TINY" ?
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I used to play Tight End in the UK American Football league
People assume it"s because I am tight at Poker. Of course, nothing could be further from the truth.
Okay, I get that one, but what about "TINY" ?
45 seconds in
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kpVovlKq2k[/youtube]
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No idea ??? ???
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Pears was a nickname at Uni, still used by that circle of friends. Long, fruit-based story.
27 is the magic number. People have a natural intrinsic inclination towards it. See how many times a "randomly" selected number by an actual person turns out to be a sub-conscious choice of 27. More than any other number, I promise.
My old Betfair name was adidap, which stood for All Day I Dream About Poker.
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A bow for my personal favored actor Steve McQueen and his role as Eric Stoner in one of his most impressive movies "The Cincinnati Kid". For me he was the greatest actor ever.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x42q79_the-cincinnati-kid-theatrical-trail_shortfilms
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Long story, buts it funny how many people call me Bob!!!
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Oh good, an excuse to post this story again.... ;D
July 4th 2007 (a miserable day weatherwise) was the annual Carlsberg Golf Day at The Forest of Arden Championship Course. Independence Day Themed and I was on Team America (we won) and my fourball won the best group for which I still have a nice Crystal Jug (I"ve played quite a bit of golf but haven"t won much)
Anyway the highlight of the day (and my golfing "career" tbh) came on the 5th hole - A 163-yard par 3, I take my 4-iron (I hit like a girl ok!!), a sweet strike and it sails to the green moving a little left to right and rolls gently to the pin, rests against the flag for about 20 seconds leaving us wondering from back at the tee (Is it? Isn"t it?) before dropping into the hole for the happiest, and most expensive, golf shot of my life.
An Ace.... on the 5th.
5th Card = River
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:)
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I used to play Tight End in the UK American Football league
People assume it"s because I am tight at Poker. Of course, nothing could be further from the truth.
Okay, I get that one, but what about "TINY" ?
You didn"t explain yours Leigh!
Irony?
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Mine was tagged to be by some mates who always played higher than me and always bought directly into comps and I always joined them but via satellites - the phrase What a Satellite Player became WASP and then soon became What a Sh1te Player lol
It wasn"t until I started using forums that people thought I was some sort of right wing extremist ???
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I used to play Tight End in the UK American Football league
People assume it"s because I am tight at Poker. Of course, nothing could be further from the truth.
Okay, I get that one, but what about "TINY" ?
You didn"t explain yours Leigh!
Irony?
Lol
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I used to play Tight End in the UK American Football league
People assume it"s because I am tight at Poker. Of course, nothing could be further from the truth.
Okay, I get that one, but what about "TINY" ?
You didn"t explain yours Leigh!
Irony?
Nah, nothing that interesting though. I"m an accountant, and the word accrual is used a lot in my profession.
Without boring everyone in the technical details of it, accrual can be defined as an addition, grow by addition, accumulate, so chipaccrual is in essence accumulating chips in terms of the game of poker.
So, in answer to your question, yes, definite irony. ;D
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Pears was a nickname at Uni, still used by that circle of friends. Long, fruit-based story.
27 is the magic number. People have a natural intrinsic inclination towards it. See how many times a "randomly" selected number by an actual person turns out to be a sub-conscious choice of 27. More than any other number, I promise.
My old Betfair name was adidap, which stood for All Day I Dream About Poker.
So tell us the story...
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Long story, buts it funny how many people call me Bob!!!
It"s the story, we want to hear...
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I used to play Tight End in the UK American Football league
People assume it"s because I am tight at Poker. Of course, nothing could be further from the truth.
Okay, I get that one, but what about "TINY" ?
LOLOLOL ;D
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Suprisingly it has nothing to do with my tendancy to "snap".
As a Dublin native living and working in my adopted home Drogheda, my accent stood out just a tad, this at a time when
[youtube=425,350]WzS5VivXZYk[/youtube]
Roddy Doyles Dublin based "The Snapper" was released as a TV film. The nickname stuck.
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mines pretty obv.
William Young, and at the time i joined here, i had slept with 83 different women.
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mines pretty obv.
William Young, and at the time i joined here, i had slept with 83 different women.
Sorry Will, I didn"t know you were homeless before starting poker.
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Back in the days of disco there was a very dodgy looking dancer named Grant Santini so my mates called me Santino to wind me up. It obviously stuck as some of them still call me that today.
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Pears was a nickname at Uni, still used by that circle of friends. Long, fruit-based story.
27 is the magic number. People have a natural intrinsic inclination towards it. See how many times a "randomly" selected number by an actual person turns out to be a sub-conscious choice of 27. More than any other number, I promise.
My old Betfair name was adidap, which stood for All Day I Dream About Poker.
So tell us the story...
Really? It"s one of those "sound like it should be interesting but really isn"t" jobs.
In my student house of four, three of us were called Paul. The other, Gareth, was sick of answering the phone to people who asked if Paul was there. One Paul already had the nickname Peaches for reasons that are even more boring and long-winded than this one. So we got assigned other fruit starting with P to follow suit.
The other lad ended up as Plums, so I think I actually ran pretty well.
Told you.
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Suprisingly it has nothing to do with my tendancy to "snap".
As a Dublin native living and working in my adopted home Drogheda, my accent stood out just a tad, this at a time when
[youtube=425,350]WzS5VivXZYk[/youtube]
Roddy Doyles Dublin based "The Snapper" was released as a TV film. The nickname stuck.
Never noticed you had an accent.
A cracking movie, even if my sister hadn"t been in it. If you really bored, she is in the blue top in the hospital bed from 7.10 to 7.11 of Part 2. You have to be quick to glimpse her!
[youtube=425,350]pMrszbC0T50[/youtube]
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because im a big cock from halifax
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Got the knickname the fat cat when i was playing footy in goal for a five a side team.
I think it was ironic as i am blatently a finely tuned athletic machine.
And a lightweight.
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In the days when we watched Corrie in homage to our northern routes, Jack Duckworth used to have all these silly liitle names for Vera that made us laugh out loud.
Some would be cutsie and some not depending on Jack"s mood - whatever he called her, if Andy liked it I would get the same name for a few days ....."My little blowfly" was one of the ones that stuck "cos we thought it was funny.
Of all the nicknames I got it was one of the ones I didn"t mind in public and didn"t sound too girlie online ....
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For reasons that escape me, by brother called me "Joker" when we were younger (nothing to do with the propensity of jokes, or looking like an ugly clown, I think). There were variations like Jokin" Joe and the Japester.
I used to teach in a house off the main school campus, at 161 Eastern Road.
So, Joker161.
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jbworldwide pre dates APAT and has been a name I have used across the internet.
It comes from me listening to some Wu Tang Clan, Gravel Pit, one of them (I don"t remember who) shouts "Wu Tang Worldwide!, Guaranteed Son!" so I just took the Wu Tang out and put my initials in front J B Worldwide.
Video below, its at 5:50 just after a ninja battle;
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGS7I8_UXhM[/youtube]
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I used to participate in the highly strenuous sport of Skittles. After a few noggins my voice could be heard echoing down the alley. Some of my fellow team members remarked I had a voice like a Foghorn. This was shortened after a period, hence Foggy
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Back where I used to work and before the days of windows, we used to have four digit log in codes make up of our first initial and the first three letters of our surname. I worked in an office with three other women, and our login names (or anagrams of them if they weren"t quite snappy enough) became our nicknames. I was claw, m griffin was grim (or, affectionally, grimmy), s king was "skinny" and g gleeson was "girgle" or "gleg". Fast forward a few years later and I"m signing up for my first online poker account. Pretty uniformly I"d use the screen name clairep75 (my name, the initial of my, by then, first married surname, and the year of my birth), so that was what I chose for my account. I then had to choose something else as a "screename" and was a bit stumped as I"d wanted to be clairep75. I went for claw75 mainly due to lack of imagination. When I joined the blondepoker forum a few months later it seemed to make sense to use the same name as on betfair (which was the only site i"d played on up til that point), and later when I joined other forums like APAT I"ve stuck with it for continuity.
anyone still awake?
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MintTrav was an ancient Irish warrior who carried out many acts of bravery and, as every schoolchild in Ireland knows, is best known for putting the frighteners on the Sassanachs.
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I think too much...
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Got the knickname the fat cat when i was playing footy in goal for a five a side team.
I think it was ironic as i am blatently a finely tuned athletic machine.
And a lightweight.
Really?
I always assumed that as Top Cat was the leader of the Stockton Massiv that you all had feline nicknames and was expecting others to follow suit with names like "Stockton Rock Cat", "Baldie Cat" and "Always bitching and Moaning about getting outdrawn Cat"
we used to have four digit log in codes make up of our first initial and the first three letters of our surname.
I used to work for a company that had the same system for email. The company was FFwd so my email was jrou@ffwd.co.uk
Theresa Watson was NOT happy
True Story
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Got the knickname the fat cat when i was playing footy in goal for a five a side team.
I think it was ironic as i am blatently a finely tuned athletic machine.
And a lightweight.
Really?
I always assumed that as Top Cat was the leader of the Stockton Massiv that you all had feline nicknames and was expecting others to follow suit with names like "Stockton Rock Cat", "Baldie Cat" and "Always bitching and Moaning about getting outdrawn Cat"
we used to have four digit log in codes make up of our first initial and the first three letters of our surname.
I used to work for a company that had the same system for email. The company was FFwd so my email was jrou@ffwd.co.uk
Theresa Watson was NOT happy
True Story
:) we had an S Cuming. as if her surname wasn"t enough to encite a bit of ribbing....
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Ian is my first name, ski is the last three letters of my surname (and infinitely easier to pronounce), and 309 is a number which has held a huge personal significance for the past 30 years. I claim the prize for the most boring name :D
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scouse = loves trackys and trainies !
marmite = love hate thing
3465 = last 4 of my army number
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Long story, buts it funny how many people call me Bob!!!
It"s the story, we want to hear...
not sure why he couldnt but dave couldnt open account so got his mate to open account in his name who was called bob. And i would like to say bob kept giving dave money out of account but it was mainly the other way round ;)
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Built like a mouse.
Play like a mouse.
Like cheese.
& my name"s.......Bob.
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Got the knickname the fat cat when i was playing footy in goal for a five a side team.
I think it was ironic as i am blatently a finely tuned athletic machine.
And a lightweight.
Really?
I always assumed that as Top Cat was the leader of the Stockton Massiv that you all had feline nicknames and was expecting others to follow suit with names like "Stockton Rock Cat", "Baldie Cat" and "Always bitching and Moaning about getting outdrawn Cat"
Giggle :D
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Rudders is just so much easier than Rudling-smith which is my surname.
Khazi which is my screen name on many sites came about when I decided to depart from total rockdom and dabble with some occasional [mod: removed]ness. I opened a new account on the old tribecca (now ipoker), and proceded to bad beat my way through my friends and rivals without telling them it was me. Had a lot of fun, still have some of those friends and learnt a lot. And yes I am still often accused of playing like a total s***house.
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Mines is a bowling term.The sport for old men that i play in the summer months.
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Prepare to get bored........
My forum name comes in two parts, firstly "Thinsy" came from many years ago when I weighed about a third less than I do now. A bunch of us decided to do a 24 hours snooker/pool/darts event for charity at our local snooker club in the quaint little town of Holt in Norfolk and after a fair few drinks, a chinese takeaway, more drinks and many games of pool no-one could beat me... Along came the comment of "Who needs Minnosota Fats when we"ve got our very own Holt Thins". Over the years Holt Thins turned into Thinsy and stuck even though the bodily stature didn"t!!!
The 147 bit is a reference to snooker although I have not managed to have that break yet!!! (my highest is 136) ;D
I wouldn"t normally use the 147 bit unless the nickname "Thinsy" has already been taken on a site... It has already been taken on here because when I was first registered on here by a friend (during the "clickfest" years) he used it but forgot to tell me and I registered with the 147 bit!!!
WAKE UP.......... I"VE FINISHED!!!!! ::)
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i used last part of my surname - johnstone for the stone - tried hard to think of as name that was sort of poker related and hard when gfaced like Laxie for a poker alias when joining a site - went for eyes and the whole thing was too long for this particular site so shortened it to ii
stoneii was born and has remained as dull ever since!!!! lol - but at apat games i drink like a fish to make up for it ;)
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My family and friends have always called me Mair, a short term for Mary, always seem to use xx before and after nicnames that way I get the name when registering for stuff.
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Rudders is just so much easier than Rudling-smith which is my surname.
Khazi which is my screen name on many sites came about when I decided to depart from total rockdom and dabble with some occasional [mod: removed]ness. I opened a new account on the old tribecca (now ipoker), and proceded to bad beat my way through my friends and rivals without telling them it was me. Had a lot of fun, still have some of those friends and learnt a lot. And yes I am still often accused of playing like a total s***house.
oh is nothing to do with being a fish then you learn something new every day ;D
http://www.gma.org/fogm/Seriola_zonata.htm
http://www.websters-online-dictionary.org/Welsh/pysgodyn+du
http://www.picsearch.com/pictures/animals/fish/fish%20po-sal/rudderfish.html