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Personal "Slang"

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In response to the absence of chatter on this board, I offer the following words that cross my mind often when I am playing. Slang is only slang if "everybody" uses it; to my knowledge I have not heard these words used by others in a VP context.

Some of these may sound a little mean, but they aren't intended to be. They are just intended to be descriptive. Nor is anything supposed to be clever or funny, these are just the words that are in my head.

VERTICAL - sort of a measure of variance, based on how the game "feels" when you play. Double Double Bonus and Triple Deuces Wild are the most vertical games I can think of offhand. Basically in a truly vertical game you watch your credits drop almost vertically until something really good happens. Also can be used to described a run of bad or good luck on any machine.

SMACKY - nickname for the person who has to whack the buttons with ten times the force of anyone else playing in the casino. He or she usually moves on to another machine only after messing up the buttons on his or her machine first.

SURFING - When you insert a bill in a machine, and play for an extended period of time without getting too far ahead or behind, and without exhausting your credits. Like putting a $20 bill in and hitting a bunch of flushes and full houses in JoB, and noticing you are up ten bucks after an hour of play.

ACE-JUNKIE - A person who comes across a multi-game machine with ten options but will only see the button that says "Double Double Bonus". A true Ace-Junkie ignores any and all paytables as long as they have DDB up on their screen.

CORN - This word has two meanings:
1) A game with very -EV, or a bad paytable, such as 6-5 Jacks or Better
2) Any machine that you are having particularly bad luck on on a given day.
The metaphor behind this term is that the game or machine is a steaming ear of boiled corn, and your money is a stick of butter set out on the dinner table. Try and imagine what happens to the butter when the hot ear of corn is set down on top.

Does anyone have ones they'd like to share?

#2

Guys,

I rarely play vp in Detroit anymore, the current games offered there can't be beaten (negative expectation), at least by me. Was up to Soaring Eagle for a couple of days recently. Did alright (lost a little) playing a close to full-pay Pick'em. Had comped rooms, comped food. Beautiful place.

From my, probably never to be published poker book, "The JOKE-TIONARY of POKER JARGON" by Terrence "VP Pappy" Murphy:

YOUNG GUNS:
1. Nickname for a pair of Jacks as a starting hand.
2. Some breeds of animals eat their young at birth. I understand why.
3. The young know rules, the old know exceptions.
4. Want to look young and thin? Hang around with old fat people.
5. Guns and liquor? That's almost as much fun as beer and power tools!
6. Guns don't kill people, Rap music does.
7. Guns don't kill people; it's those darn little bullets!
8. If guns are outlawed, will we have drive-by slapping's?

A beautiful young girl is about to undergo a minor operation. She's laid on a trolley bed by a nurse in a white dress and brought to the operating room. Before they enter the room, she leaves her behind in the corridor and checks whether everything is ready.
   A young man wearing a white coat approaches, takes the sheet away, stares at her naked body, then walks away and talks to another man in a white coat. Then a second man comes over and does the same examination.
When a third man starts examining her body so closely, she grows impatient and says,
   "I know all these examinations are necessary, but when are you going to start the operation?"
   One of the men in a white coat shrugged his shoulders and said, "I have no idea. We're just painting the corridor."

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--- In vpFREE_Detroit@yahoogroups.com, "kendall_mintcake" <rrakay@...> wrote:

In response to the absence of chatter on this board, I offer the following words that cross my mind often when I am playing. Slang is only slang if "everybody" uses it; to my knowledge I have not heard these words used by others in a VP context.

Some of these may sound a little mean, but they aren't intended to be. They are just intended to be descriptive. Nor is anything supposed to be clever or funny, these are just the words that are in my head.

VERTICAL - sort of a measure of variance, based on how the game "feels" when you play. Double Double Bonus and Triple Deuces Wild are the most vertical games I can think of offhand. Basically in a truly vertical game you watch your credits drop almost vertically until something really good happens. Also can be used to described a run of bad or good luck on any machine.

SMACKY - nickname for the person who has to whack the buttons with ten times the force of anyone else playing in the casino. He or she usually moves on to another machine only after messing up the buttons on his or her machine first.

SURFING - When you insert a bill in a machine, and play for an extended period of time without getting too far ahead or behind, and without exhausting your credits. Like putting a $20 bill in and hitting a bunch of flushes and full houses in JoB, and noticing you are up ten bucks after an hour of play.

ACE-JUNKIE - A person who comes across a multi-game machine with ten options but will only see the button that says "Double Double Bonus". A true Ace-Junkie ignores any and all paytables as long as they have DDB up on their screen.

CORN - This word has two meanings:
1) A game with very -EV, or a bad paytable, such as 6-5 Jacks or Better
2) Any machine that you are having particularly bad luck on on a given day.
The metaphor behind this term is that the game or machine is a steaming ear of boiled corn, and your money is a stick of butter set out on the dinner table. Try and imagine what happens to the butter when the hot ear of corn is set down on top.

Does anyone have ones they'd like to share?