Why I don't tell people I play poker.

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Whenever I play live my dad will ask me the next day "HRHRHRHR SO DID YOU WIN ENOUGH FOR ME TO RETIRE? How did you do?" I used to respond "I did fine" whether I won or lost, but I've since realized that just leads to him asking what "fine" means, so I've resorted to just saying "I lost" every time. It seems to be working well so far, I may regret it if he actually believes me because I've told him I lost quite a few times now.

A similar situation came up a couple weeks ago when I got back to my apartment after being at home and playing live over the weekend. Roommate asks "so what'd you do this weekend?" and I told him I went to the casino. He knows I play poker because my door is basically only closed if I'm jerking off, so it's easy to see when I'm playing. "Did you win?" I of course, made the mistake of telling him not only that I won, but how much I won, which resulted in "hey do you think I could learn how to play? I'm not a pro but I'm pretty good. " Maybe I should offer him HU for rolls?

Why are people so retarded when it comes to things they don't understand? If there's something I don't understand I don't go around giving people my completely moronic and incorrect views on it, I either figure it out or stop paying attention to it. I remember a few months ago I was in the car with my dad when we were going to pick up his car that was being worked on and he bothered me when I was in the middle of my biggest losing session online at the time (possibly a brag that I was forced to get up) and he asks "how much did you win last night?" and for the first time ever I told him whatever the amount was and then followed it with "but I'm down $1400 online today" which was a lot more than whatever I had won live the previous night, and he says "OMG I HOPE YOU'RE NOT CHARGING THAT ON YOUR CREDIT CARD". Honestly, a million years old, and a retarded statement/belief like this is what he comes up with? "I hope you're not charging that on your credit card"? Since he pays my $20 a month or whatever I spend on my credit card I'd think he'd be smart enough to know that maybe, just maybe, I use actual money I have as opposed to magical fairy money that comes down from the sky that somehow doesn't appear on the credit card statement on the only credit card I ever use.

[iron81]

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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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Credit nuggetz87 for beginning the "But how much did you lose?" craze.

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Our govt would never ban online poker...geez, that would be like restricting personal freedom, like prohibition...never happen

[Velocity]

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tell me more about Professional Scrabble please. Do you win?

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Yea, and if you do win....how much have you lost? [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

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Teeeeeech meeeeeeee!

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So if I gave you $20 and three extra letter tiles can you double it?

Bonus Scrabble Word = DHOOTIE

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Delicious bass started the forum wars!!!! when trying to anagram dhootie into a good word the obvious DIE OOT comes out with an extra H. Delicious can you tell us who really killed JFK and where the aliens are???

[Colonel Kataffy]

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"Did you win?" I of course, made the mistake of telling him not only that I won, but how much I won, which resulted in "hey do you think I could learn how to play? I'm not a pro but I'm pretty good. " Maybe I should offer him HU for rolls?

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Umm, it sounds like he just wants you to teach him how to play. Help the guy out.

[HOWMANY]

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"Did you win?" I of course, made the mistake of telling him not only that I won, but how much I won, which resulted in "hey do you think I could learn how to play? I'm not a pro but I'm pretty good. " Maybe I should offer him HU for rolls?

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Umm, it sounds like he just wants you to teach him how to play. Help the guy out.

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He has watched me play a couple times which I wouldn't mind at all if he didn't constantly ask questions like "WOWZA YOU HAVE LIKE TWO THOUSAND DOLLARS ON THE TABLE, YOU COULD LOSE THAT ALL IN ONE HAND HUH?" which I of course, couldn't, because I was 9 tabling 1/2 NL and it's somewhat difficult to lose 10 buyins spread between 9 tables in 1 hand.

[aceupthepants]

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"Did you win?" I of course, made the mistake of telling him not only that I won, but how much I won, which resulted in "hey do you think I could learn how to play? I'm not a pro but I'm pretty good. " Maybe I should offer him HU for rolls?

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Umm, it sounds like he just wants you to teach him how to play. Help the guy out.

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He has watched me play a couple times which I wouldn't mind at all if he didn't constantly ask questions like "WOWZA YOU HAVE LIKE TWO THOUSAND DOLLARS ON THE TABLE, YOU COULD LOSE THAT ALL IN ONE HAND HUH?" which I of course, couldn't, because I was 9 tabling 1/2 NL and it's somewhat difficult to lose 10 buyins spread between 9 tables in 1 hand.

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you sound like one hell of a roommate.

[WORKAMENTS]

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Try being knowledgable with computers. Anyone time you step in to anyone's house...

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Yeah. I spent the last three years working at Microsoft. Strangers who want you to troubleshoot Excel for them are at least as annoying as the poker things mentioned in this thread.

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OMG I have serious Excel issues, can I PM you?

On a sad unrelated note, counting university and work, I would guess I've used MS Excel an average of 5 times a week for the past 7 years ... and it sux [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

[Jeremy517]

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Try being knowledgable with computers. Anyone time you step in to anyone's house...

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Yeah. I spent the last three years working at Microsoft. Strangers who want you to troubleshoot Excel for them are at least as annoying as the poker things mentioned in this thread.

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OMG I have serious Excel issues, can I PM you?

On a sad unrelated note, counting university and work, I would guess I've used MS Excel an average of 5 times a week for the past 7 years ... and it sux [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

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You must not use it properly, because Excel is pretty much great.

[bluey]

excel is prob the best microsoft product ever btw.