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Originally Posted by Sneaky Pete
It just reads like you're desperate for social interaction, and it's actually very normal for most OMC who walks into a poker room.
This is ridiculous. I didn't realize how many people I knew really well until a conversation came up about the risks of loaning money to poker players. I would never do that I thought, except a few. Then I started counting people that I've known over a decade & would loan money to without any worry whatsoever of getting paid back.
Mostly because they are very well off, I have "broke break" with them before & the only reason they have no cash is because they didn't bring much & don't want to pay the ridiculous fee to make a bank withdrawal.
I counted well over a dozen. And, if I was in a jam, say where my car broke down at midnight & my wife wasn't in town to come & get me, I'd be able to get one of them on the phone to come & pick me up. Even if they had to drive 60 miles.
Last winter, when it was freezing out, a friend of mine's diesel wouldn't start. It was one of those big trucks & he needed to hook up an electrical heater to it. So I loaned him my car to drive 20 miles home & get the heater, go to Wal-Mart buy an extension cord & hook it up.
I'm done playing later on & we try together to no avail, so I take him home
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Originally Posted by zuneit
On to 2 days later when I see him. I again arrive after he does & get seated at a down from his. I recognize him, & despite the previous occurrence, I say hello as I'm walking by & I get a nod in response.
Fast forward 2 hrs later when I'm going to have dinner with another friend. After the dealer change & I get up, I stop by my the guy's table I'm having dinner with to let him know where I'll be & walk out of the poker room. I have to walk by the table of the guy I'm talking about & he calls me out by name. LOUD. He must really want to talk to me.
Now he must really want to talk to me, because I can't remember him doing that. I'm not even sure it was my name I heard, because it's so loud in there, but it sounded like his voice. So I turn around.
He's waving me over. So, I walk over & he asks if I am "putting anything together over there" ....... I tell him no, that I'm just floating along. He nods his head up & down like one of those head bobbing toys.
He has nothing else to say. That's it. Just bobbing his head, acknowledging what I've told him, waiting for me to recognize the fact that he's sitting on ~$600.00. He usually buys in for $200.
Finally, I realize he went thru all that trouble to call me over for no other reason but to show off his stack. He has nothing else to say. I thought he had some news or something, so, I told him I was going to dinner & keep on hammerin' 'em & left.
His ego is so bad, that when he pulled off a bluff on the river, OOP, by betting ~$140 otr into 2 players & they folded, that he tossed his hand face up into the middle of the table showing he had nothing but king high.
Now I know another guy, ~47 yrs old, that is the exact opposite. He'll come over to my table to tell me that he is at an action table & I should also get over there as quick as possible. He'll then tell me "I'm already stuck $400 but I know I'll get it back" and "You should get over there asap before the fish go broke."
However, he's a rare bird.
He'll even stop by on his way out to say: "Man they ate me alive tonight! I've gotta' give up for today."
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Originally Posted by Sneaky Pete
FWIW, above is kind of craycray in the stalkerish kind of way.
"craycray" on whose part?! The guy who went out of his way to call me over to show off? I could understand that.
Or, the guy who says hello whether or not he's stuck? Or me?
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Originally Posted by Sneaky Pete
Anyhow, thank you for putting in words of the kind of social interactions that OMC's are looking for in a poker room.
Really now? OMC's are different in their social interactions than others?
What about my ~47 year old friend, who is a LAG and talks with everyone in the poker room? Makes it a point to learn everyone's name & be sociable?
Is he exhibiting "stalkerish" mannerisms?
When I went to dinner with him & his girlfriend, we talked sports, about his girlfriend's family, his family etc. No poker.
Anyways, this conversation isn't leading in the direction of what this thread is for. If you have anything further to say, PM me.