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08-25-2006, 03:43 AM
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Re: Why I don\'t tell people I play poker.
this thread is gold
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#75
08-25-2006, 03:47 AM
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Re: Why I don\'t tell people I play poker.
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[ QUOTE ] 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 ] I get this too from people or "but how much did you have to spend to win that?" [/ QUOTE ]
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#76
08-25-2006, 03:53 AM
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Re: Why I don\'t tell people I play poker.
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"Oh really you play online, how do you cash out? How does it work?" [/ QUOTE ] Oh yeah, one I get all the time is, "so how do you get your money?"... I use a bank account analogy, but I need to find a better response, preferably one involving a blunt object. And so often, the same person who has asked me like every week asks, "how much did you make?" and i'm like... "today? this week? last month? life time?"... seriously, such arbitrary random questions. I think I take back my "don't be jealous because anyone can do it" line... because based on these responses, it's obvious that a lot of people couldn't do it.
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#77
08-25-2006, 03:55 AM
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Re: Why I don\'t tell people I play poker.
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[ QUOTE ] 60K is a little over the top Baron. But hey, you lie against your own flesh and blood, so let's call it even. [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img] [/ QUOTE ] whaaa ive had 60K at a table on a lot of occasions....40-50K regularly (60K yesterday actually) [/ QUOTE ] Uhm, not saying you haven't. [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]
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#78
08-25-2006, 04:07 AM
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Re: Why I don\'t tell people I play poker.
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[ QUOTE ] All my buddies just assume I'm a degen [/ QUOTE ] Ugh, this is going to sound so stupid but.... degen = degenerate??!? I always just thought it was 2p2er Degen's last name or something. I can't believe I actually just looked up degen at dictionary.com, then sat there confused for a minute before I figured it all out. woo! Also I have this same problem, for some reason I only talk about my losses if at all so I keep getting questions like "so you think you're up overall?". ugh. [/ QUOTE ] I thought degen rhymed with vegan.
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#79
08-25-2006, 04:11 AM
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Re: Why I don\'t tell people I play poker.
My most frequent one so far is "So will I be seeing you on TV?" I just politely state that I only play online, so probably not.
If you guys think poker's tough, try telling people you're a competitive Scrabble player. Tournament Scrabble is about 50 times as different from living room Scrabble as serious poker is from a penny ante home game. "Oh, I could never be good at Scrabble--I'm such a bad speller." "That's okay. Many of the top players are Thais who don't even speak English." "WTF?!" [ QUOTE ] I'm always afraid to meet someone who'll be like "My dad lost his life savings playing online poker." "Uh...my bad?" [/ QUOTE ] "There's this great book called Small Stakes Holdem--I'll lend him my copy."
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#80
08-25-2006, 04:30 AM
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Re: Why I don\'t tell people I play poker.
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My most frequent one so far is "So will I be seeing you on TV?" I just politely state that I only play online, so probably not. If you guys think poker's tough, try telling people you're a competitive Scrabble player. Tournament Scrabble is about 50 times as different from living room Scrabble as serious poker is from a penny ante home game. "Oh, I could never be good at Scrabble--I'm such a bad speller." "That's okay. Many of the top players are Thais who don't even speak English." "WTF?!" [ QUOTE ] I'm always afraid to meet someone who'll be like "My dad lost his life savings playing online poker." "Uh...my bad?" [/ QUOTE ] "There's this great book called Small Stakes Holdem--I'll lend him my copy." [/ QUOTE ] tell me more about Professional Scrabble please. Do you win?
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