If you spend a lot of time playing poker...
 

...what do you do to allow you to have things to talk about with others?

Since I started playing poker seriously, I find myself having less and less to talk about with friends and people in general.

It´s pretty well accepted that telling people about poker is -EV, but how do you overcome problem spots like "so i did this and that all week, what have you been up to?".

If you tell them you´ve been playing a lot of poker, they think degen, gambler, loser, etc.

If you only tell them what you got up to in the few hours that you were not playing, then they think all you do is laze around all day.

do you guys just force yourselves to take an interest in general things that appeal to everyone like politics, headline news, a particular soccer team, etc?

Otherwise, it´s pretty tough to have a random conversation that lasts more than 10 mins. Anyone else experienced this?

Re: If you spend a lot of time playing poker...
 

Um, don't you have interests/activites other than poker? If not I suppose you would have to find some or just lie about it..

Re: If you spend a lot of time playing poker...
 

the fact that you have nothing to say to other people doesn't seem to have that much to do with poker, and more to do with the fact that you either

1 can't make conversation
or
2 aren't interested in anything that a normal person is, or don't do anything other than play poker, in which case you are boring

Re: If you spend a lot of time playing poker...
 

dude no one in OOT plays poker anyway.

Also, you sound like a boring loser.

Re: If you spend a lot of time playing poker...
 

What's poker?

Re: If you spend a lot of time playing poker...
 

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the fact that you have nothing to say to other people doesn't seem to have that much to do with poker, and more to do with the fact that you either

1 can't make conversation
or
2 aren't interested in anything that a normal person is, or don't do anything other than play poker, in which case you are boring

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Re: If you spend a lot of time playing poker...
 

I had this problem when I was playing poker a lot. Then after I stopped playing, I still had this problem.

Basically I just hate making stupid [censored] smalltalk with people I've just met. Talking to friends of course is totally different.

Re: If you spend a lot of time playing poker...
 

My solution is to not talk to anyone ever.

Re: If you spend a lot of time playing poker...
 

When I first started playing I talked about poker a ton, now I rarely talk about it really and actually avoid talking about it for the most part. I prefer to flip the script and get the person I am conversing with to talk about what's going on with them as its more interesting to me than talking about me since I already know about me.