Poll: What's in a name?

[Hollay]

Hey everyone!

So, here's the question: How significant is your Hollywood Poker nickname?

I've set up a poll, but feel free to expand on your answer by replying to this thread as well.

I, personally, spent hours and hours in intense delibration to come up with mine.

[calo4]

C = Chris (me)
A = Allison (my wife)
L = Leah (my daughter)
O = Owen (my son)

[Schaf545]

SCHAF545
Schaf= portion of my last name (SCHAFran)
545=address

Our names actually are very significant at HP. It is how we recognize one another and it is much better to have a username than Player 1-10 at each table, this way we can take notes on each player's game-which is SO helpful! Without our names, gameplay would definitely be much more difficult.

[appers9]

I think MOST people make a name is representative of themselves - i.e. as calo explained his.. it shows his family is first and foremost on his mind.

As in real life, most people will seek the origin of their name and see how it fits their personality .. I've come to find the names online do the same. When people are approached about a Negative or Vulgar name, seems the one with the name will attempt to pass it off as attempting to be humorous or in a pissy mood the day them declared it -- however, they typically live up to the negative name in their actions -- Crude begets crudness; hateful names beget hate

[Al N Smithee]

I like for the nicknames on my poker sites to reflect an image or have some significance other than just being a bunch of randomly and hastily chosen letters and numbers. This actually, coming up with a unique name, is the longest part of the registration process on any poker site for me.

On a site I knew mostly europeans played who play very, tight aggressive as a group - making them all easy to read actually - I was 'GladUCalled' as I would play ONLY the NUTS there or not at all. I'd usually blind out or win. People didn't remember as much as I did the times I blinded out, BUT THEY DID REMEMBER the times I had beaten them and in the Chat box was: <GladUCalled>GladUCalled. Soon after about a month of getting well-known there I could sit back ONLY PLAYING THE NUTS and occasionally BLUFF as well and hardly EVER get called. So I started not being blinded out so often and at least placing most of the time, if not outright winning. That name had much significance for THAT site.

Earlier on, when signing up for my 2nd site I ever played on I used the name: DyslexicMonk. It is still my Yahoo IM ID to this day. The reason behind this name was strategic also. As I was learning the game of poker on my first site, I fell prone to 'chasing' flushes but ESPECIALLY straights. I wouldn't catch often, but when I did the wins were big and the complaints at the table were many, which I also enjoyed but as yet had not learned how to take advantage of all that grousing by other players, so I was losing money. 'DyslexicMonk' was to always be there reminding me of how NOT to play. Thelonious Monk wrote a tune called 'Straight No Chaser'. I became NO Straight Chaser, hence the dyslexic part. (I am slightly dyslexic myself so am familiar with word and letter order reversals.) It did help a LOT and I stopped losing money for the first time playing poker with this name.

As for Hollywood Poker . . . I noticed that there were Celebrities here so that using a name such as even a 'dead' celebrity was probably not going to be so original. I also figured there were probably a lot of 'JamesWoods101', 'JamesWoods2000' and such. Irony is I've never seen even an allusion to either here having been a member over a year now, but thought I wanted to be more original anyway. I needed a pseudonym that was Hollywood related but was NOT the name of some actual person of fame yet would still be widely recognized as being associated with solely Hollywood.

Then it hit me. As a long time film buff and stayer-late-after-the-movie-is-over-in-the-theatre-CREDIT-reader I remembered some trivia about directors who, for whatever reason - usually over artistic vs financial editing decisions between producers and directors - would no longer wish their name to be associated with the project. They would instead request an 'Alan Smithee' (or some variation of this name) Director Credit rather than using their own name. Alan Smithee would be a GREAT NAME to use at HOLLYWOOD POKER that wouldn't infringe on the rights of true namesakes and yet would have strictly a Hollywood derivation.

Alan Smithee, however was NOT allowed to be used by HP as a registered name. HP also blocked the use of the other variations prevalent in the film industry: Allen Smithee, Allan Smithee, etc. But they missed one, and phonetically it reads true as well: AL N SMITHEE

Once I figured out how to get around this minor road block I HAD to use this name for HOLLYWOOD POKER. It is the name of a 'celebrity' who never WAS a celebrity in fact. Perfect fit I thought. Done deal. So here I am, 'Al N Smithee'.

I also like using it as I often don't wish the final product of HOW I've played here to be associated with my REAL name. Quite apropos, don't you think?

Aren't you sorry you asked now, Hollay?




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[BrendanEff]

I would say that my screen name is pretty significant. My first name is Brendan, and my last name begins with F.

[drb61573]

my initials and birthday. no imagination ya know.

[buuuud.]

mine is taken from the Cosby show, the little girl on there had a friend that she called buuuud, my name is bud, so buuuud (with 4 u's) came naturally. in fact thats what most of my family calls me. the only mistake i made was when i came from another pokersite to this one i just added a dot to my nic since you cannot use the same one. (shared servers i assume) and now i have been accused of being a monkey account because of the dot.

funny how something like a dot can mark you

may the flops be with you............

[semperfiwm]

I, like my father and my godfather (Dad's brother), are/were Marine Corps air wing veterans. My Dad and Uncle Bill served during WWII and I during Viet Nam. I am the female in the group, thus the wm-Woman Marine. SemperFi is an abbreviation of Semper Fidelis, the Marine Corps motto, which is Latin and means always faithful.
(My mother loves this nickname )