Has Poker Hurt your Social Life?

[valenzuela]

yes

[CrayZee]

The problem w/ poker is that the games are always best when most people want to hang out and stuff. Most people have normal 9-5 human hours, etc.

You gotta balance out your social life. Poker isn't everything.

[bmxicle]

I can go out 7 days a week if i choose to do so, and spend large amounts of money on crap when i do go out.

So yeah poker has definately destroyed my social life, its horrible.

[ed8383]

I have a feeling many 2+2ers didn't have much of a social life before poker and now even less!

[Dan.]

My current roommate and I met basically because we played poker, so poker has had a positive effect there socially.

[Pokeraddict]

I'm married so my social life was over when poker came along.

[Jay Riall]

My social life hurts my poker tbh. Friends are constantly getting in the way of me wanting to put in the hours I want at poker. Eg. today - open up 9 tables to get going on a long-ass session. 5 minutes later 5 people at the door saying come out. I don't have the willpower to say 'no I'm playing poker.'

[ilya]

Maybe it's just that you don't like your friends all that much?

[xhawks]

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Just the opposite, actually. My social life constantly gets in the way of playing poker. I'm at the point where the only thing I enjoy about playing poker is the money.

It involves a significant amount of effort to get myself motivated enough to log on and play poker.

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[Scotty.]

Poker itself hasn't, but 2+2 certainly has.