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Sigh, I totally thought everyone would be psyched to hear I play poker for a living... not true though. So far there's been a pretty even split between people who think it's neat and people who don't get it AT ALL.

My landlord's wife is in the latter camp - she really likes me but is completely convinced I'm delusional and for some reason don't realize it's all luck. She knows I was a physics major at Harvard too, and yet pays no attention whatsoever when I try to explain the math to her... gd it's tiltifying [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

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The vast majority of people do not see poker as a game, but strictly as a form of gambling. I even have a couple of friends who play for fun on an occasion and they don't get it either. If I have a big score, in their mind I essentially just hit my roulette number.

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This is so true. When I told my Dad I was playing he got real upset and told me all these stories of successful people who lost millions of dollars gambling. I asked him which games they played and he told me "Craps, Roulette, Blackjack, etc." but not poker. I tried to explain that in poker you aren't playing against the house, but in his mind its all the same. Once I started winning the argument he switched gears and told me I'm going to lose because online poker is rigged. I asked him to prove this, and he could not, but of course I cannot PROVE that it's not rigged either. (And the whole Absolute thing REALLY didn't help here) So I just ended it by saying I'll stop playing online and start playing live in A.C. instead!!