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As someone who actually works in the IT field I hope you're being sarcastic. This answer will invariably lead to many follow up questions. People will literally start coming in off the streets to ask you how to set up their email on their phones...

I found it to be the opposite. maybe it's my combo that does it.. IT + Healthcare = silence?

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08-14-2017 , 01:37 PM

#1302

SpewingIsMyMove

Pooh-Bah

Join Date: Jun 2015 Posts: 3,529

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Originally Posted by Crazy Joe Davola

People who stack their tournament chips in one big tower as opposed to sorting them by denomination. This is awful. Slows the game down

How big a tower are you talking. If I have fewer that 15 chips of mixed denominations, I will probably stack them in a single tower, big chips on top, blind\ante chips on the bottom.

Now a mixed\dirty stack of 20+ chips where it is impossible to estimate the value of the stack, yeah, that is annoying.

Also, the guys who riffle their chips with a significant amount of the chip stack value (for example, using the larger denomination chips). Not only can you not see what is in their hand, they usually make dirty stacks with the riffling.

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08-14-2017 , 01:39 PM

#1303

SpewingIsMyMove

Pooh-Bah

Join Date: Jun 2015 Posts: 3,529

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Originally Posted by Noles1724

I found it to be the opposite. maybe it's my combo that does it.. IT + Healthcare = silence?

Yeah, my latest gig 'Solutions Architect for IT Interoperability of networkable Medical Devices' usually does not result in a lot of follow up questions.

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08-14-2017 , 01:52 PM

#1304

Noles1724

grinder

Join Date: Aug 2016 Posts: 453

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Originally Posted by SpewingIsMyMove

Yeah, my latest gig 'Solutions Architect for IT Interoperability of networkable Medical Devices' usually does not result in a lot of follow up questions.

common response: "oh ok" *crickets*

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08-14-2017 , 02:23 PM

#1305

Dominic

Tripod

Join Date: Jun 2004 Posts: 74,263

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Originally Posted by Carnivore

I have a live webcam feed of my dick whenever im at home. Do you want the link?

how much can you make doing that?

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08-14-2017 , 03:00 PM

#1306

King Spew

Just average

Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 15,220

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Originally Posted by Noles1724

I found it to be the opposite. maybe it's my combo that does it.. IT + Healthcare = silence?

Software EMR stuff? What system?

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08-14-2017 , 03:08 PM

#1307

BDHarrison

Pooh-Bah

Join Date: Nov 2016 Posts: 4,529

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Originally Posted by Crazy Joe Davola

Just tell them you work in IT. They won't ask any follow up questions.

Can you bluff your way through a conversation with a legitimate IT professional? I play with a few regs who work in IT.

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08-14-2017 , 03:33 PM

#1308

BruhKGB

grinder

Join Date: May 2004 Posts: 415

Likely win the "Welcome to 2015" award on 2+2 but I guess iPads at the table are a big thing now?

Played a live cash session for the first time in a few months last weekend and 3 players at my table were turned around watching their tablets on tables behind them the entire time.

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08-14-2017 , 03:35 PM

#1309

Poker Clif

Pooh-Bah

Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 5,806

Mathematician, specializing in the analysis of equity in an environment of incomplete information. That should cut off most questions and amuse the ones that get the joke.

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08-16-2017 , 05:36 AM

#1310

Shai Hulud

old hand

Join Date: Feb 2010 Posts: 1,919

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Originally Posted by Poker Clif

Mathematician, specializing in the analysis of equity in an environment of incomplete information. That should cut off most questions and amuse the ones that get the joke.

I actually am a mathematician. Or was, rather.

I like "independent contractor". It's very vague and threatening sounding.

I also think I could bluff my way through IT stuff as I have a computer science degree also, though I am a bit rusty. Hmm...how about I work night shifts in a data center that handles classified information? There we go. No more questions fellows or I have to kill you. Or I get fired. Whatever.

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08-16-2017 , 07:06 AM

#1311

codeartisan

centurion

Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 181

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Originally Posted by Shai Hulud

I like "independent contractor". It's very vague and threatening sounding.

Not so threatening in these days of the gig economy. It just means Uber Driver.

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08-17-2017 , 03:17 AM

#1312

Degenx2

centurion

Join Date: Jan 2016 Posts: 112

Independent Contractor is a **** answer. The very next thing you'll hear is "doing what" and you'll have to come up with a real answer anyway.

If you really feel the need to come up with something believable, small business owner is the easiest. Just tell people you own a small retail store: they're boring, there's millions of them around, and on the off chance you run into another business owner that wants to talk about it, it's not exactly hard to bull**** your way through a conversation about one.

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08-17-2017 , 03:48 AM

#1313

Shai Hulud

old hand

Join Date: Feb 2010 Posts: 1,919

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Originally Posted by Degenx2

Was kinda joking about independent contractor. I just like how it sounds as to me it evokes "hitman" or "mercenary" or the like.

I'm going with I work night shifts in a data center and not supposed to discuss details for operational security.

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08-17-2017 , 05:38 AM

#1314

BDHarrison

Pooh-Bah

Join Date: Nov 2016 Posts: 4,529

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Originally Posted by Degenx2

If you really feel the need to come up with something believable, small business owner is the easiest. Just tell people you own a small retail store: they're boring, there's millions of them around, and on the off chance you run into another business owner that wants to talk about it, it's not exactly hard to bull**** your way through a conversation about one.

If you own a small retail store, are you going to be close-lipped about it at a table with potential customers?

What about e-novelist who self-publishes on Amazon....and it's trash that you write under a pseudonym and don't want linked to you in real life? There are probably people out there who make a living from writing gay incest werewolf erotica. There definitely are people who have had healthy six-figure annual incomes from porn novels. Amanda Hocking became a millionaire self-publishing young adult paranormal vampire romance stuff.

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08-17-2017 , 11:28 PM

#1315

WateryBoil

Pooh-Bah

Join Date: Jul 2014 Posts: 5,762

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Originally Posted by BruhKGB

lol that would be super annoying. cash game? id table change so fast and i rarely table change.

so like they were facing away from the game? thats so strange. id expect it on their lap or something

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08-18-2017 , 03:12 PM

#1316

Giltech

journeyman

Join Date: Nov 2016 Posts: 231

A: i'm an independent contractor
B: doing what?
A: contracting ... independently

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08-18-2017 , 04:00 PM

#1317

SpewingIsMyMove

Pooh-Bah

Join Date: Jun 2015 Posts: 3,529

Just tell that you don't want to sell anything bought or processed, or buy anything sold or processed, or process anything sold, bought, or processed, or repair anything sold, bought, or processed.

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08-18-2017 , 04:15 PM

#1318

27offsuit

actions have consequences!

Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 38,532

Guys who habitually fold 2-4 spots before action is on them, often causing a snowball effect of suck. Often OMC dipwads who just don't GAF.

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08-18-2017 , 05:38 PM

#1319

Carnivore

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 8,192

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Originally Posted by WateryBoil

lol that would be super annoying. cash game? id table change so fast and i rarely table change.

so like they were facing away from the game? thats so strange. id expect it on their lap or something

This is what 2-5 at the Aria is like the 1 or 2 times each winter I make the mistake of going in that room. And when your name is called, you have to wait about 5 minutes for all of these guys to go look at other tables to see if they want a table change.

I have my tablet in front of me about 1/3 of the time when I'm playing. But it's an 8 inch tablet that sits on the rail just behind my chips, and I only look down on it after I've folded my hand, and even then, I'm still socially present at the table.

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08-18-2017 , 05:39 PM

#1320

Carnivore

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 8,192

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Originally Posted by Dominic

how much can you make doing that?

Enough to buy in to this game.

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08-18-2017 , 07:26 PM

#1321

W0X0F

sit back, relax, and enjoy the flight

Join Date: Nov 2008 Posts: 5,829

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Originally Posted by BruhKGB

Played a live cash session for the first time in a few months last weekend and 3 players at my table were turned around watching their tablets on tables behind them the entire time.

IMO, the dealer should just automatically take and muck their cards in turn. Having your back to the table, and being otherwise engaged, is no different than being away from your seat.

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08-18-2017 , 07:35 PM

#1322

Asterix811

grinder

Join Date: Feb 2012 Posts: 650

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Originally Posted by BDHarrison

Because poker players are a whiny lot.

I've come to the realization that they only thing poker players love more than playing poker is complaining about the game they're playing and the room in which they're playing it.

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08-18-2017 , 07:41 PM

#1323

Asterix811

grinder

Join Date: Feb 2012 Posts: 650

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Originally Posted by codeartisan

I'm a ex-pat living in the US. My stock answer to the "what do you do for a living?" is "I'm working over here as a missionary."

Or "I could tell you, but then I'd have to kill you"

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08-18-2017 , 07:48 PM

#1324

Asterix811

grinder

Join Date: Feb 2012 Posts: 650

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Originally Posted by Crazy Joe Davola

People who stack their tournament chips in one big tower as opposed to sorting them by denomination. This is awful. Slows the game down

Harrah's AC last week, 2 seat had his chips in a tower, at least a foot high, conveniently located right in front of his cup of soda. He was constantly spinning one of those fidgit spinners on top of the tower.

I think you all know what eventually happened.