Hollay
09-16-2005, 11:43 AM
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Each week I read the Player Spotlight and it’s interesting to get to know a little more personal stuff about the players I've sat at the tables with. I am 37 until Oct 1st. I own my own business and have been a custom painter for 21 years now. I have also been racing since I was 6 years old. I currently race Speedway Midgets and Quads professionally. Of all the classes I've raced, I have won numerous track championships and 2 national titles. I also spent 4 1/2 years in the Navy and 8 months of that was spent in Desert Storm. I was married for 6 years and been divorced for the last 6 years. My work and racing keeps me pretty busy but I hope to find that special someone that's actually the "right one" again.
I have made tons of new friends here at HP. It’s a pleasure to come here each day and get all the ‘hellos’ from friends in the lobby or when I sit at a table and have someone ask me, "How's it going quad?" because they remember me from a month ago sitting at their table and talking to them.
Recently, I have learned a very valuable lesson and I would like to share with everyone who takes the time to read the Spotlight. I know that there are hundreds of players who venture through the site and read the threads and posts in the ‘Green Room’ and such. To date there have been 5 pages generated on a thread about me. I made a serious error in judgment one night by letting my fingers type faster then I could think. I said something at a table just as I was getting booted for loosing all my chips for what I thought was a bad beat for the particular situation. I won’t get into all the details here because I posted a response in the thread and explained in detail what happened and what I said. I don't think a lot of people take seriously the outcome or emotion pain that talking with such hate causes others. I said one word that offended someone to the point of writing to HP and had my chat banned! I take full responsibility for what I said and have served my time. I truly found out a lot about who my real friends were and also how what I said made an emotional impression on who knows what I said. Michael Woods even posted a reply in the thread and it was well put and to the point. After being banned, (and while I was banned), it has opened my eyes to what is really being said both in the games and in the lobby. HP is very serious about the kind of things we talk about and have taken actions in many ways to help keep HP a great place to play. You can get banned from chat or banned from the site completely for doing something like colluding or just by saying something derogatory. All it takes is for someone to see you say it or hear that you did it and HP can (and will) find out the details and take action!
So, in conclusion, I would like to say thanks to everyone who supported my UN-BAN effort and I look forward to seeing all of you not only in the main lobby but at the tables. HP is a great site and I plan on being here for a very long time.
~quadjammer
P.S. Making new friends online is awesome and I do believe that what we have here is a new age in chat rooms. I live in So Cal and have made so many friends that a bunch of us are planning on getting together at a local So Cal casino; maybe the Bicycle Club. So, if you are in So Cal, drop me a personal message and we can all get together for a night of real table action and get to know our friends that we play with for hours on end each day here at HP. I for one have knocked out a celebrity and will be wearing my HP hat with pride.
Each week I read the Player Spotlight and it’s interesting to get to know a little more personal stuff about the players I've sat at the tables with. I am 37 until Oct 1st. I own my own business and have been a custom painter for 21 years now. I have also been racing since I was 6 years old. I currently race Speedway Midgets and Quads professionally. Of all the classes I've raced, I have won numerous track championships and 2 national titles. I also spent 4 1/2 years in the Navy and 8 months of that was spent in Desert Storm. I was married for 6 years and been divorced for the last 6 years. My work and racing keeps me pretty busy but I hope to find that special someone that's actually the "right one" again.
I have made tons of new friends here at HP. It’s a pleasure to come here each day and get all the ‘hellos’ from friends in the lobby or when I sit at a table and have someone ask me, "How's it going quad?" because they remember me from a month ago sitting at their table and talking to them.
Recently, I have learned a very valuable lesson and I would like to share with everyone who takes the time to read the Spotlight. I know that there are hundreds of players who venture through the site and read the threads and posts in the ‘Green Room’ and such. To date there have been 5 pages generated on a thread about me. I made a serious error in judgment one night by letting my fingers type faster then I could think. I said something at a table just as I was getting booted for loosing all my chips for what I thought was a bad beat for the particular situation. I won’t get into all the details here because I posted a response in the thread and explained in detail what happened and what I said. I don't think a lot of people take seriously the outcome or emotion pain that talking with such hate causes others. I said one word that offended someone to the point of writing to HP and had my chat banned! I take full responsibility for what I said and have served my time. I truly found out a lot about who my real friends were and also how what I said made an emotional impression on who knows what I said. Michael Woods even posted a reply in the thread and it was well put and to the point. After being banned, (and while I was banned), it has opened my eyes to what is really being said both in the games and in the lobby. HP is very serious about the kind of things we talk about and have taken actions in many ways to help keep HP a great place to play. You can get banned from chat or banned from the site completely for doing something like colluding or just by saying something derogatory. All it takes is for someone to see you say it or hear that you did it and HP can (and will) find out the details and take action!
So, in conclusion, I would like to say thanks to everyone who supported my UN-BAN effort and I look forward to seeing all of you not only in the main lobby but at the tables. HP is a great site and I plan on being here for a very long time.
~quadjammer
P.S. Making new friends online is awesome and I do believe that what we have here is a new age in chat rooms. I live in So Cal and have made so many friends that a bunch of us are planning on getting together at a local So Cal casino; maybe the Bicycle Club. So, if you are in So Cal, drop me a personal message and we can all get together for a night of real table action and get to know our friends that we play with for hours on end each day here at HP. I for one have knocked out a celebrity and will be wearing my HP hat with pride.