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#151
08-25-2006, 04:20 PM
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Re: Why I don\'t tell people I play poker.
Try doing it like this.
[ QUOTE ] Father-in-law: "You still playing poker?" Me: "Yep." Father-in-law: "People are really getting in trouble with credit cards and online gambling." Me: "Yeah, I know. That's what allows me to support your daughter's insane spending habits." [/ QUOTE ] 
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#153
08-25-2006, 04:23 PM
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Re: Why I don\'t tell people I play poker.
All of my non-poker playing friends think I have a gambling problem, even when I pay for the pizza for 15 people with poker winnings ;(
PS. I think I have a gambling problem
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#154
08-25-2006, 04:30 PM
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Re: Why I don\'t tell people I play poker.
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[ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] Try being knowledgable with computers. Anyone time you step in to anyone's house... [/ QUOTE ] Try being a poker playing computer guy. I can't have any conversations about what I do for 14 hours a day without wanting to kill myself. I don't have much to say. [/ QUOTE ] Yep that is me. Something my wife's boss recently asked was essentially this: Them: "Which parts from these old, broken computers should we combine to form one working computer that would be the sole location for tons of important files." Me: "..." [/ QUOTE ] 2nd
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#155
08-25-2006, 04:42 PM
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Re: Why I don\'t tell people I play poker.
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WOW EVERYONE IN THIS THREAD NEEDS TO CALM THE [censored] DOWN AND BE HAPPY SOMEONE CARES ENOUGH TO ASK QUESTIONS ABOUT YOUR JOB. CAN YOU GUYS HONESTLY SAY YOU KNEW HOW POKER WORKED BEFORE YOU GOT INTO IT EITHER? [/ QUOTE ] Yeah, why does everyone think that he is the most interesting person in the world and someone who has no clue how to play would be asking so much questions about his "carier"? Get a clue, most of the askers are just being polite. I don't care if some guy is a programmer, engineer or a doctor, why would they? A few that are actually interested don't know anything about poker and all they heard about is some degenerate who lost all his money on slot machines. And yeah, most of them saw those movies where it went like " omg, i changed 3 cards and i have a full house, i bet 100000$" and his opponent has straight flush and raises him his company and his wife and if he doesn't call, he looses. I actually enjoy talking to my friends about poker, cause i taught them all to play. I talk about it to my family, cause i taught my dad to play and he is a very successful play money high stakes player for a year now [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] Even my grandmothers learned that i make money so they only encourage me to play. At first my family was worried, that i can lose it all in one hand, like "what if you have a great hand and your opponent has the unbeatable hand and you bet all your money and lose?Or what if your opponent bets a lot of money, that you don't have, can you loan the money to call?You can lose everything.". I explained them about all-in rules, capped buy-ins and bankroll management, so they are very supportive now after seeing that i make money. And i played HU with my friends after teaching them, so they are interested too, asking me from time to time how it goes. Few asked if i can teach them further sometimes. I got bored at beating them, so i suggested that we would play for money, but only from my side, so if i lose, i pay them their 5-10$, to make it interesting. So far i didn't lose [img]/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img] I made more than 5k last month, in Israel that means much more than in USA, so when people ask me how much i am making and i tell them "well, last month i earned 5k from poker" (and i have a job besides poker too), they are very impressed. Also, a lot of tournament poker is shown on TV, i played in Israeli league which was televised on national sports channel, so poker has a more appealing look now and people realise that it's not just gambling. So, my experiences in this field are actually positive.
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#156
08-25-2006, 04:45 PM
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Re: Why I don\'t tell people I play poker.
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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??" [/ QUOTE ] Lol. This is a classic! I can't believe how many people think in terms like this. This also helped me realize why so many people say that they always win at slots. They are not thinking in terms of overall winnings, but just whether they hit even a small payout during the whole time they shoved ALL their money into the slot! In their mind, they are a winner, even though they are $300 down. I just get so tired of the ignorance that I avoid talking to almost anyone about it. Although, my father-in-law watched me play poker for a while. I talked about all my plays while I made them. Afterwards, he said that I was not a gambler, but a technician--I like that. I think intelligent people at least have the ability to understand if you're willing to spend the time.
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#157
08-25-2006, 04:46 PM
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Re: Why I don\'t tell people I play poker.
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"I always play low cards, because alot of people don't play those cards so there are more left in the deck" [/ QUOTE ] That's the best rationale for a flawed strategy I've heard, yet! Replace "always" with "sometimes" and that guy might become a player.
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#158
08-25-2006, 05:00 PM
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Re: Why I don\'t tell people I play poker.
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[ QUOTE ] Amazing you play trivial pursuit? WHEN AM I GOING TO SEE YOU ON JEPOARDY, LOL Amazing, you are a plumber? I tried to fix my plumbing once with a hacksaw and rust exploded in my eye and I had to go to the hospital. Can you believe my bad luck? Amazing, you are a tax lawyer? If I give you my tax returns, can you do them for me? Amazing, you are a doctor? I have been getting bluish-green patches on my taint whenever I have sex with dead people...can you help me with that? [/ QUOTE ] A lot of doctors I know are constantly hounded by people for medical advice or try to discuss their health problems or whatever. I think it would be a horrible job to have to talk about with clueless idiots. [/ QUOTE ] Its like the exact reverse of poker, and just as inappropriate, ridiculous and embarassing. You tell someone you are in med school, they are like, "ZOMG why does my chest hurt/what does this look like to you/you make the big bucks, huh/guess yer a supergenius!" You get all sorts of (fake) undeserved respect, just like telling people you play poker for a living gets you undeserved scorn and condescension. It seems like it would be nice to get all this undeserved respect. It isnt. It makes you lose respect for the person who says it to you, and for me at least it makes me want to punch babies.
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#159
08-25-2006, 05:10 PM
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Re: Why I don\'t tell people I play poker.
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[ QUOTE ] WOW EVERYONE IN THIS THREAD NEEDS TO CALM THE [censored] DOWN AND BE HAPPY SOMEONE CARES ENOUGH TO ASK QUESTIONS ABOUT YOUR JOB. CAN YOU GUYS HONESTLY SAY YOU KNEW HOW POKER WORKED BEFORE YOU GOT INTO IT EITHER? [/ QUOTE ] Amazing you play trivial pursuit? WHEN AM I GOING TO SEE YOU ON JEPOARDY, LOL Amazing, you are a plumber? I tried to fix my plumbing once with a hacksaw and rust exploded in my eye and I had to go to the hospital. Can you believe my bad luck? Amazing, you are a tax lawyer? If I give you my tax returns, can you do them for me? Amazing, you are a doctor? I have been getting bluish-green patches on my taint whenever I have sex with dead people...can you help me with that? [/ QUOTE ] lmao! Very nice.
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#160
08-25-2006, 05:14 PM
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Re: Why I don\'t tell people I play poker.
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[ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] People always want to learn how to do it too or the cliche... "Hey man, what if I give you $300 of my money for you to double it, can you do that?" [/ QUOTE ] LOL, its sick how often I get this. [/ QUOTE ] [/ QUOTE ] yeah I've gotten this many many times. [/ QUOTE ] Í've never had this. Is this an American thing? Can any European players say if someone asked them this?
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