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Mayor of Valuetown

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i play with my nuts

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I make other people sad

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lololol

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I always say finance, ambiguous yet implies a lot.

It's better than "I exploit the weak and addicted and launder the money from offshore accounts through prepaid phone cards".

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then they proceed to take out $50 bills and ask me to turn it into $500 for them

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ZOMG I HATE THAT!!!!!!!!

I want to murder the next person that does that to me.

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Risk analysis and short term capital investment over the internet.

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It seem it's still not always taken well enough if one says one is playing poker for a living, but that's the burden one still has to live with. There are many types of people who won't know it's possible and one never knows how they will feel about it; it seems from their look that they don't often know themselves what to think about it. It helps if they know someone who is also a winning poker player.

In case it matters more and I can get away from it, I say I am working at some place where I worked the last time and that might have been e.g. a week ago. You play full time and have a bigger problem in case you want to rent a new place or stuff like that.

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they either think you are a scumbag for taking money from people, or a liar/degen losing compulsive gambler, or you are just a young punk on a lucky streak or whatever. The only way to win is if you are making obscene money. Most pros aren't

I define pros the way mason does in his poker essays books: If your poker winnings are a substantial portion of your total income.

Most people think of "pros" as something glamorous. Really, they have it backwards. The tv players are all staked/busto/degens/cash donks, and the grinders playing 20/40 are more likely to have it together (even though it's not glamorous and it's unlikely you drive a benzo and drink Cristal like it's water)

Like if someone tells me they are a waiter, I'm not gonna expect them to make 500/night, even though I know some waiters do.

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then they proceed to take out $50 bills and ask me to turn it into $500 for them

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ZOMG I HATE THAT!!!!!!!!

I want to murder the next person that does that to me.

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yeah, they should know $50's are unlucky.

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"i'm not paying you to talk"

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