How to tell girlfriend about amount of money spent playing poker

[Captain R]

surfdoc is wise.

Anyway, I still don't understand why she doesn't like gambling. It doesn't make sense when she says it "cheapens her work" when you win, and then when you lose it's not good either. It sounds like she doesn't understand variance, which as we all know does take some time to understand in a poker sense.

As for contributing to society, most people who make a$$loads of money are not contributing to society as much as they should. They're charging way too much for whatever service/product they are providing.

Doctors provide a great service to society. But you know what? They also charge a crapload of money for this service. Most of them wouldn't be in the profession if it paid the same as a teacher (who also provide a valuable service to society).

Smart people don't take low-paying jobs.

Maybe you need to ditch Gretchen Mol for Famke.

Just kidding, good luck with the girlfriend. It will not be easy or fun, but I'm sure you can get her to eventually understand poker. My wife was extremely against me playing early on, but over time I have showed her I was a winning player in the long run, and that ended up being the strongest argument I could make. She was more in the "I'm afraid you're going to get addicted and lose all of our money" camp than anything about being productive to society.