[shaniac]

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Keep in mind I am still in school and rarely talk about poker money except with very good friends but from my own experience talking to people I get a lot of "Well make sure you don't lose it all" and comments like that which make it really annoying to talk to people who don't play poker about poker.

On top of this a lot of college kids don't have money so for Jman to say well I lost/won 100k today is not really something you want to talk about.

I mean I don't play high but whenever people see me playing they're shocked that I have $400 on one table so I can understand why Jman doesn't really want to talk about it.

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Are you guys really not capable of explaining the rudiments of the poker life without detailing the nitty gritty of 100K swings or bankroll relativity? It's so easy to describe to someone that there are many professional poker players, that there are a variety of ways of making a living as a poker player, many forms of poker, what yours is, and how you structure your work. Poker, after all, work. If they still say, "make sure not to lose it all" then they are idiots, move on.