Why I don't tell people I play poker.

[costanza_g]

Tell her you will teach her to play in exchange for sex.

-I usually try my hardest to refrain from telling people I play. They almost always recoil as if I have some sort of highly contageous, terminal disease.

[PITTM]

honestly. how many girls have you had look at you as excitedly as possible and say "wow, so how much are you up?" and get fixated on that question. if my friends are too nitty to do the mansion bet than theyre too nitty for real risk [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

rj

[PITTM]

my new housemate was talkin to my mom while moving in. my mom apparently told her i play poker and she responded with "oh, well hes gonna have some competition"...yeah, somehow i doubt that...

rj

[boomshakalaka]

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somehow i doubt that...



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yah, its the funniest when people try and challenge you and they are serious through and through. I was at a home game with my brother. These are his freinds that have the game, and they are mostly pretty baller. The buyin is just 40-100$ though. Structure is pretty bad, but its fun to [censored] around. Anyways last week I busted first and my brothers loud mouth freind starts to berate me. I ignore him. Later he busts and hes saying how hes better then me and stuff because he lasted longer (neither of us moneyed.. dumb ass..) I tell him I dont really care about this home game its just for fun, a 40$ stt isnt a big deal. He then says "ok lets play for some big money then, just me and you one on one. How about for 100$!!" Keep in mind this guy is pretty balla, yet 100$ is a BIG hu match to him. He probably thinks that thats big money to me too.

I think its increadibly hard for the average person to imagine wagering hundreds and thousands of dollars in poker.

[fslexcduck]

i dont know guys - i'm kinda wishing i was still a pokr player so i could tell women.

this happens so often - last night i'm out at a bar and she says oh so what do YOU do after talking about her job forever. i say i'm a consultant, then the normal "what do you consult" blah blah blah then i'm like "but i just came off of a career as a professional poker player" and she gets all interested and talks about how cool it is and we have something awesome to talk about and i wind up closing the deal.

i feel like very often it actually helps with girls rather than hurts - other people don't feel that way?

[AceCR9]

I played a bunch of home games while visiting a friend 2 weeks ago. I got berated multiple times by this guy, telling me what a bad poker player I am.It was a $10 sng. EVEN after I told him i play 5/10NL for a living he still thought I was a bad player.

He figured poker was poker- buy in shouldn't matter- you should always try to play your best.

[sdunsmb]

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i dont know guys - i'm kinda wishing i was still a pokr player so i could tell women.

this happens so often - last night i'm out at a bar and she says oh so what do YOU do after talking about her job forever. i say i'm a consultant, then the normal "what do you consult" blah blah blah then i'm like "but i just came off of a career as a professional poker player" and she gets all interested and talks about how cool it is and we have something awesome to talk about and i wind up closing the deal.

i feel like very often it actually helps with girls rather than hurts - other people don't feel that way?

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Thats a promising story, but Im still caught in two minds as to whether I would use this line when I meet girls in bars.

Last year, I attended my first year at college, and when I met girls it was the pretty standard "yeh Im a first year Business major, whats your degree" BS chat up lines.

But this year, I quit college and am playing poker completely full time and Im not sure whether it will be +lifeEV if I go round telling girls I meet in bars that Im a poker pro. Overall, I think it depends on the girl, since you will get the type who will be like "WOW you made 40k in 3 months playing an internet game, thats awesome" and then the type who will be like "ZOMG you are dropout degenerate gambler".

Just a side question, what do people think is a good profession to tell people who you do not think should know that you are a poker player? I mean, I still want something that sounds impressive and can explain my decent income for my age, but not something that is A TRAGIC GAMBLING ADDICTION!!1!!

[LeatherFace]

A while ago I actually tried explaining how I win money at poker to a group of people. Convo went something like this.

Someone: Isn't it mostly luck though, eventually you will lose

Me: No its more percents. Like flipping a coin is 50/50, but with my skill advantage in poker Its more like 65/35 in my favor.

Someone Else: So you could lose?

Me: Yes

Someone: Have you?

Me: Ofcourse
(disgust looks at me)

Someone: So you could still lose all your money

Me: Well I have enough money saved just for poker that I could handle an unlucky run of cards.

Someone: Ya but you could still lose it all.
(laughter and the group looks at me like I'm an idiot)

Me: (getting angry and wanting to kill everyone in the group) Ya theres a chance I could get in a car accident driving home too! Should I just stay locked in my room?


Nothing is more annoying that a bunch of ignorant people laughing at you. I hate people.

[fslexcduck]

hang out with more intelligent people.

seriously, i get this conversation a lot too but what usually happens is either a) people understand that there are weighted probabilities and the idea of variance (not necessarily knowing the terms but understanding the concept)

or

b)they give me the benefit of the doubt for what i say because they know i'm pretty smart and probably wouldn't do anything to [censored] myself up. also i like to use big mathematical words when describing it so that adds to the effect =)

[LeatherFace]

Ya I should have used the word standard deviation. Their heads would have exploded.