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11-20-2007, 01:35 AM
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Re: Talking poker outside 2p2
Sigh, I totally thought everyone would be psyched to hear I play poker for a living... not true though. So far there's been a pretty even split between people who think it's neat and people who don't get it AT ALL.
My landlord's wife is in the latter camp - she really likes me but is completely convinced I'm delusional and for some reason don't realize it's all luck. She knows I was a physics major at Harvard too, and yet pays no attention whatsoever when I try to explain the math to her... gd it's tiltifying [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img] 
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11-20-2007, 11:33 AM
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Re: Talking poker outside 2p2
[ QUOTE ]
Sigh, I totally thought everyone would be psyched to hear I play poker for a living... not true though. So far there's been a pretty even split between people who think it's neat and people who don't get it AT ALL. My landlord's wife is in the latter camp - she really likes me but is completely convinced I'm delusional and for some reason don't realize it's all luck. She knows I was a physics major at Harvard too, and yet pays no attention whatsoever when I try to explain the math to her... gd it's tiltifying [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img] [/ QUOTE ] The vast majority of people do not see poker as a game, but strictly as a form of gambling. I even have a couple of friends who play for fun on an occasion and they don't get it either. If I have a big score, in their mind I essentially just hit my roulette number.
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11-20-2007, 11:44 AM
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Re: Talking poker outside 2p2
[ QUOTE ]
[ QUOTE ] Sigh, I totally thought everyone would be psyched to hear I play poker for a living... not true though. So far there's been a pretty even split between people who think it's neat and people who don't get it AT ALL. My landlord's wife is in the latter camp - she really likes me but is completely convinced I'm delusional and for some reason don't realize it's all luck. She knows I was a physics major at Harvard too, and yet pays no attention whatsoever when I try to explain the math to her... gd it's tiltifying [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img] [/ QUOTE ] The vast majority of people do not see poker as a game, but strictly as a form of gambling. I even have a couple of friends who play for fun on an occasion and they don't get it either. If I have a big score, in their mind I essentially just hit my roulette number. [/ QUOTE ] This is so true. When I told my Dad I was playing he got real upset and told me all these stories of successful people who lost millions of dollars gambling. I asked him which games they played and he told me "Craps, Roulette, Blackjack, etc." but not poker. I tried to explain that in poker you aren't playing against the house, but in his mind its all the same. Once I started winning the argument he switched gears and told me I'm going to lose because online poker is rigged. I asked him to prove this, and he could not, but of course I cannot PROVE that it's not rigged either. (And the whole Absolute thing REALLY didn't help here) So I just ended it by saying I'll stop playing online and start playing live in A.C. instead!!
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11-20-2007, 11:45 AM
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Re: Talking poker outside 2p2
And hopefully it will stay this way. If everyone understood the ins and outs of gambling it would be horrible. So cmon guys be carefull what you wish for, and at least you can make it more fun by saying something along the lines " I am such a degen and gambler that no one will be ever jealous"
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#5
11-20-2007, 11:59 AM
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Re: Talking poker outside 2p2
Lots of people who you talk to about what stakes you play and how much you make prob are the donks donating. If a random guy hears that someone plays 400nl and is making 10k a month, they probably want to go home deposit 400 and sit with the entire thing at one table thinking thats how poker works.
Maybe if everyone boasted about how much they were making, it would be an overall +EV for poker.
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#6
11-20-2007, 01:33 PM
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Re: Talking poker outside 2p2
[ QUOTE ]
And hopefully it will stay this way. If everyone understood the ins and outs of gambling it would be horrible. So cmon guys be carefull what you wish for, and at least you can make it more fun by saying something along the lines " I am such a degen and gambler that no one will be ever jealous" [/ QUOTE ] I don't think a single person on the planet, including Sklansky, understands every single in and out of gambling. Seriously. But if all people had a better understading of gambling than they do now then things would be much better. People would still suck at it but I think some of the misconceptions that the anti-gambling lawmakers might have would be lessened significantly. About talking poker with other people: I really just don't do it. Sometimes I get roped into it and I just try to be as vague as possible. My favorite is when somebody is all excited to tell me about some hand they saw on TV, "The first guy had an ace and a king...and the other gy had a pair of 7's...and the first guys went all-in...and then the other guy was thinking and thinking about it and then he called!!! And then the one guy hit 3 of a kind!!!" note, I did not ask WHICH one guy hit 3 of a kind because I really didn't care. The way people describe hands to me that they saw on TV is similar to some guy who watched a football game, "OMG!! Some team got the ball first and then they scored,...and then the other team was about to score but they fumbled instead and it was all very exciting!!"
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