A List

Posted on March 20, 2008 by jkprevo

I am not in the A-anything group. But, visiting the blogs of late has a bit of hilarity going on. There are poker bloggers acting like nouveau riche or worse. The theme is: ‘I am

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4 Responses to A List

  1. Fuel55 says:
    March 20, 2008 at 12:40 pm

    I am proud to be an H-lister.

  2. glenda says:
    March 20, 2008 at 8:25 pm

    I have been and always will be on the Z-list.
    I assume that’s as far down as one can be??
    :-)

  3. jkprevo says:
    March 21, 2008 at 8:03 am

    Well, I’d move the pair of you way up but if I tried that I’d go against the article’s idea.

    Hope the new house is going well, Fuel. And, oh yes, avoided one of those sub-prime loans. lol

  4. Uncle Bracelet says:
    March 21, 2008 at 4:32 pm

    You’re missing the point on this issue, and I should know because I’m an A-Lister of epic proportions.

    When we A-Listers gather for our bi-monthly meetings we always invite a senior level B-Lister to record minutes. Sure, we may poke (figuratively) a B-Lister in the ribs a bit whilst blogging about things, but all we are really doing is preparing said B-Lister for what it’s like to become, and more importantly, maintain A-List status. It isn’t for the faint of heart.

    So we bring the lower listers underneath our wings and groom them to become like us, which is to say, the elite of the poker blogging community.

    Just the other day I wrote a post so devastatingly awesome that I couldn’t post it lest a C or D-Lister’s head implode. These are the crosses we must bear as A-Listers.

    A few years back, as a freshly minted A-Lister, I showed a D-Lister a rough draft of something I was working on. Sort of a, bad-beat meets hand history meets table notes meets overlay analysis meets pictures of my kid type opus. I didn’t know he wasn’t ready. I didn’t know the power with which I could blog.

    The young man bled out quickly that day, his eardrums exploding mere seconds before his internal organs shut down and his eyes rolled back in his head. I’ll never forget the smell, but that wasn’t the worst part.

    No, the worst was letting everyone at Full Tilt know that he’d no longer be chasing pair draws and angrily calling everyone fags in the chat.

    I can understand how you’d be confused about the true meaning of the A-Lister’s purpose, and also how the banter between levels can be difficult to decipher. But trust me on this, as an A-Lister I can vouch for all of it. It is a necessary evil at times, but it serves the greater good and we all benefit in the long run.

    Thanks for your time.

    Let me know if you’d like career C-Lister Joaquin to add anything. He’s being groomed to move up to the B-List and part of his training is working with others.

    Uncle Bracelet
    Tall. Dark. Handsome. A-Lister