Why I don't tell people I play poker.

[philfan05]

I love how people assume I know every poker player that they see on TV and am good enough to judge them.
"Do you think xx is a good player? I saw him go all in with pockets 4s and I'd never do that." or "XX is really good, I saw him call someone's hole cards, I'm surprised he hasn't won the ME yet."

[Dynamic]

I usually go through a convo like this about once a week:

Them: So you play poker for real money?
Me: Yeah its kinda like a job.
Them: So do you play alot?
Me: Ummmm like 10-15 hours a week....like a part time job i guess.
Them: So do you have a gambling problem/addiction?
Me (calmly looking at them with a straight face): You cant have a problem if you win!!!! [img]/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img]

[MatthewRyan]

"so I heard your playing poker fulltime..."

"yes"

"how much money do you make?!??"

annoying

[HustlerLA]

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People always want to learn how to do it too or the cliche... "Hey man, what if I give you $300 of my money for you to double it, can you do that?"

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I'm so glad I'm not the only one who gets this.

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I get this from my sister once a month

[HustlerLA]

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what about this " if I make an account and we play together, we can both play at the same table and tell each other our hands over the fone!! WE CANT LOOSE!!!!"

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This is so funny, because this was me the first time I ever played online.

[D.L.M.]

I have lots of fat gold on me and always new clothes on like always and i told some people i was a janitor, they believed me and felt sorry for me LOL. Only half the people I tell that i play poker belive me unless its one of my drunk friends intro ducing me "Hey meet thsi balla ass mother [censored], he plays poker for a living"

[obiedman]

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I have lots of fat gold on me and always new clothes on like always and i told some people i was a janitor, they believed me and felt sorry for me LOL. Only half the people I tell that i play poker belive me unless its one of my drunk friends intro ducing me "Hey meet thsi balla ass mother [censored], he plays poker for a living"

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lol i have a friend who does this. pretty annoying

[AKbully]

Just bough a new car with my largest tourney cash and my dad who is starting to understand thought it was a good idea to bring it up at my brother's house during a family dinner....uh oh...

"How much did you lose that day first?"
"Don't play for a while now so you dont lose all the rest"
"So now that you won this big one, youre probably even for all the times you lost." etc, etc, etc

Man I love how positive and understanding my family can be when it comes to poker (and the apparent degenerate gambler that I am)

[RiverHebrew2]

They think that I make ridic money and they can ask to borrow money. They also forget the sick variance, and if I have a losing day, they go "WTF YOU SHOULDA CASHED OUT YOU'RE AN IDIOT" but when you win they're like "NICE KEEP GOING!." Also, people somehow get the assumption that all I do is play poker on the internet and have no fun elsewhere. Yea, there are huge misconceptions about online poker in the U.S, probably just because people are dumb in general.

[DMoogle]

God I love this thread.