Why I don't tell people I play poker.

[Sponger.]

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You gotta play good hands and stare into peoples eyes so you know what thye have.....
Thats not it at all

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I think you blew this. You should have asked him to elaborate.

[SmackinYaUp]

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to mother, after she kept asking:

me: "i dunno, i think i won $450 today or something."

her: "but how much did you lose??"

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That's funny...that's the exact same line my mom gives me.

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OH man, i HATE this one the most. The question confuses me and I don't understand what the hell is going on in their confused little minds:

friend: "how much did you make today?"
me: "about $450"
friend: "yea, but did you lose any?????"
me: "uhh...what? I said I made about $450. NET."
friend: "yea, but did you LOSE any!??!?!"
me: "I don't get the question. I said I netted $450, wtf?"
friend: he must have lost a lot...poor guy. too bad he can't play like I did at our last home game. I always hit that third seven.

[private joker]

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OH man, i HATE this one the most. The question confuses me and I don't understand what the hell is going on in their confused little minds:

friend: "how much did you make today?"
me: "about $450"
friend: "yea, but did you lose any?????"
me: "uhh...what? I said I made about $450. NET."
friend: "yea, but did you LOSE any!??!?!"
me: "I don't get the question. I said I netted $450, wtf?"
friend: he must have lost a lot...poor guy. too bad he can't play like I did at our last home game. I always hit that third seven.

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Yep. Standard. What you have to do then is just say, "Fine. I won $500 and lost $50. Does that make you happy?" Then you kick them in the shin.

[Bart$impson]

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Them: Have you ever had a Royal Flush
You: Yeah
Them: WOW! You must be really good!

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I have gotten this before. A variation is:
him: have you ever gotten a royal flush before.
me: yes
him: wow, you must play ALOT
me: you only have to play at least 1 hand to get a royal flush

[Bill King]

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Last week, the most amazing thing happened.

My brother in-law, father in-law, and my sister in-law were all playing poker. All of these people play poker with friends and in the casino on a semi-regular basis, yet still believe that the game is all luck. My sister in-law's husband came over and asked what we were doing.

Long story short, he likes the game and ends up coming over for a home game. After the home game, he essentially expressed to me several concepts from the Theory of Poker. He said something to the effect of, "I see how you could make money in this game since in the long run, the better starting hands will make better hands, and if your opponents make mistakes, you profit."

It was pretty surreal. Especially since even a lot of the "smart" people I know dismiss poker as just another casino game.

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book smarts and actual intelligence is more different than black and white.

[Reef]

preaching to the choir

[Dominic]

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do any of you guys ever get fans? like ppl who know you from whatever and are like "OMG you're baronzeus?!!?!?"

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I was playing 15/30 at the Wynn and some kid asked if I was 2+2. I said "yeah, I'm Private Joker." And he goes, "you're Private Joker? Wow, I thought you'd be a big black guy."

Actually, 6 people have said that to me when they met me.

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wait, when we met you WERE a big black guy! ...was I that drunk?

[Dominic]

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do any of you guys ever get fans? like ppl who know you from whatever and are like "OMG you're baronzeus?!!?!?"

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ive had a few cases of this... its weird

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try it from my claim to fame on here. nothing like playing live and having some young 2+2er figure out who I am and then announcing to the whole table my former profession.

[paperboyNC]

The biggest mistake I made was telling one of my really close friends the stakes and I played and then having him ask me to borrow money. I ran into a guy a I know from high school at the casino the other day. I watch him lose every dollar he brought with him at blackjack and then ask me to borrow money.

My mom lectured me about all of the people I am "stealing" from to make money.

And my roommate asked me like 10 times if he could give me $200 (a huge sum of money to him) and double it for him. I told him I needed 20k to make it worth my time.

To strangers, I usually play it off as a hobby and focus on losing money playing small stakes for fun.

[Bill King]

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preaching to the choir

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lol, good call.