Maybe your love life consists of 5:00 "conjugal visits" every hour on Sundays, or every vacation you guys take must coincide with pca or wsop tour, or the only dinner dates you go on are to places where you have comps... or when you wear sexy lingerie, he asks you to please cover your pointy elbows.

Poker-playing boyfriends are a quirky species. ITT, we make fun of them.

Oh dear....what if the female is the one who plays more poker?

I'd say the only thing I can pick on my b/f about is when he suddenly swears loudly and slams his fist onto the table, which tends to make me jump outta my skin since it's coming from the other room. Do Not Like.

so what shoud i talk about first: that i dated a fellow PLO grinder for 3 years or that i recently started dating the guy with the most posts in all of 2p2? I can make fun of either endlessly.

Aaaargh that drives me nuts. One of my guy friends just mangles furniture and needs a new mouse every week. I don't agree that we're the more emotional ones, lol.

Also irritates the crap out of me that he insists on being logical when I'm on tilt or bitching about some monkey getting there with ATC, but when he's running bad he's like a small, moody child and is allowed to snarl at me all he wants.

The sheer fact that my bf does not tilt, tilts the hell out of me actually.
How dumb is that.

No, I get that completely. Like, how can you not tilt after your 12th bad beat in a row?

Hahah that's awesome katie, I'm in the same boat. I'd rather him tilt a little, so I don't so feel bad when I casually suggest sacrificing small animals most Sunday nights.

Sgt, you have no idea how perfectly I understand your last statement...not with my current bf, but with every other guy I talk to about poker. Too funny.

Everyone has their breaking point. The PLO player I dated for 3 years would keep calm LONG past the point where I would have tilted, but on the 1 or 2 occasions where I actually did see him tilt it was fascinating/a little frightening.

True, and I've seen him break down. What I don't get is, he knows what it feels like to tilt, so why does he get all rational and vaguely condescending with me when I do it? I've even pointed this out, and told him what I want from him at that point (just agree with me that donkeys are awful luckboxes that deserve to burn in hell for beating me), but he seems incapable of remembering that for more than 5 minutes.

Yup, you basically just want a little empathy for a second. I do think it's helpful not to have anyone who will indulge me for an hour when I want to wallow in self-pity though.

You all are making me glad I'm the only poker player in the house lol
I will admit that I've been caught multiple times with the earbuds in, music cranked, grinding away and singing at the top of my lungs... luckily I have the earbuds in drowning me out, my people don't enjoy the same benefit though lol.

He's only allowed if you allow him . My wife sure won't put up with that crap, lol.

My BF and I generally have a healthy relationship when it comes to poker-related stuff. I tend to degen long sessions way more often than he does, but he's ok with that.

The only thing that is slightly irksome is that I don't always want to do full hand analysis when I've just completed a session. I know that he's trying to help (and he loves analyzing hands), but I often just want to sleep. He has gotten very good at knowing when to save the talk for later

oh my sweet zombie jesus my ex used to do this ALL THE FREAKING TIME and it got on my nerves like none other. however, he was the one who always wanted to do the super-long degen sessions and i'd want to go home halfway through.