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Let me start out by saying that I don't know where this thread really belongs and thought for a while before posting it here. If it doesn't, mods accept my apologies and please move.

OK, so recently I have stepped up my playing from part-time to almost as a second income. I work a regular day job and have a wife and son. My wife is TEH NUTZ when it comes to me playing and has no problems about me going off and putting in a session pretty much whenever I please.

Prior to this I did play in a casino a good deal, but not at the frequency I am now. As a result, I have pretty much stopped putting together the home game I used to host. The game, while actually having reasonably decent players, was usually for only $10-20.

I said to another friend of mine who plays as a FT job while in college last night that I find it incredibly difficult to get my "poker juices" flowing for a total pot of $50-60. Like damn near impossible. As a result, I usually play terrible in these home games and am a LAGtard x 1,000 because I don't take it seriously.

I was asked recently if I thought I was a "poker snob" because I would much rather sit at a table with 8 strangers with a total of around $2-3K on the table vs. playing in a home tournament where first prize is $50.

My counter was that if I'm going to do an all-nighter and spend time away from my wife and son, I want to make it financially worth my while. Plus, I can't take such a low stakes, more social event seriously.

I ask this because I have another friend who is a very decent player however from what it sounds like from what he tells me, his wife is not as cool with him going casino playing like mine is. Like she's virtually not ever. He's only been to the local casino with us twice and every time we ask him, he always has something going on or whatever.

This is where I'm torn because he's a good friend and I respect his game. He could absolutely hold his own in any of my regular casino games. However, since the only chance he gets to play is the home tournaments, he takes those very seriously which I understand.

Is it wrong that I don't feel bad at all nor do I want to organize a home game just so he and a few others from our circle can play? Also, anyone else have experience with this topic? Like your friends are having a $20 home game but you choose to go take a couple hundred or more to the local casino or log on to Stars/UB/etc. because you take the game more seriously?

I like making teh monies when I play and if I'm going to dedicate 6-8 hours or more of my life to playing, I want it to be financially worth my while.

Or am I just being a jackass who ditches his friends for a poker game? [img]/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img]