Beat: Parent set me up with therapist about me playing poker

[keikiwai]

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and without pissing in the punchbowl of BBV.

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wait, is this a positive or a negative?

[LiveNow]

i had a psychologist and it just depressed me more. She got pregnant, referred me to someone else and i just never called the new guy. I prefer to lead a sheltered life where i don't think about the meaning of things, seriously.

[LiveNow]

also,
don't bother talking about poker. It's stupid. Regular people don't understand.

[kindergartencop]

tell the therapist you would quit tomorrow if you had some other way to support your crack and alcohol addictions.

[kiddcheckers]

bring printed out graphs showing your winnings or even how they improve your losings w/e. Just show the breakdowns of how it's skill yadda yadda.

Also get some prozac and snort it.

[Jeff_B]

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tell the therapist you would quit tomorrow if you had some other way to support your crack and alcohol addictions.

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or tell them yuo like little girls and think about touching them all the time...
They wont care if you play poker anymore.

Oh i have been to one of these guys. Bunch of dumb questions then he was like you dont seem happy...

I told him it was like 8 am on a saturday and im being forced to come talk to him against my will.

Not sure what happened after that.

[mother_brain]

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Since all of the above online nerds can only crack jokes to distract everyone from their utter lack of anything resembling intelligence, I figure I'd lend a helping hand. One point I think you can mention is that poker isn't like blackjack or sportsbetting. Give an overview of the way you think about the game and he/she should be able to see that its not some compulsive/dangerous gambling problem. As said, however, if the therapist has some emotional block in this matter already then nothing you will say can change his/her mind.

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Since none of the online nerds above have pointed it out, you said nothing that hasn't already been stated in this thread. Congrats.

Plenty of BBVers are jackasses because its funny, your natural personality just seems to be shining through.

[ipitythefool]

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I guess I'll go into a little more detail. I've just started about 2 months ago and haven't played that much.

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So if you just started playing two months ago, you aren't even playing much i.e. showing addictive behavior, and your parents are already sending you to a therapist... well, I'd talk about that.

[DeucesNeverLoses]

LOL I was in this same situation a few years back. Basically you have to find a way to convince them that you play for money and it's a skill game. This was easy for me cuz I was playing $2/$4 NL and $3/$6 NL and was up around $12-$15k and I was only 18 or so. Your situation will be a little worse, since you are a uNL player but...

I would just try to convince them that you have only invested x Dollars and are playing penny games plus you win and whatnot, idk I thought this was funny cuz my 'rents did the same thing.

Also, tell them that you are in control and you can quit when you want to and only play x hours etc...

[skillgambler]