Haha I loled.
There just doesn't seem to be a good answer though.
Only good ways to avoid the answer

Look them dead in the eye and say drug dealer.

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Look him in the eye and say "refuse manager". But make sure you pronounce "refuse" like the way you say it when you mean "garbage", not the way you say it when you mean "deny", though you would intend both senses here. But the latter might be obvious enough that he would catch on too quickly, thus spoiling the fun. The former is a pronunciation that he probably wouldn't know about, which would lead him to be confused and lose interest in talking to you.


The garbage sense would be an implication that the person you are talking to is a kind of garbage, someone we could think of as being valueless and discarded by society. Since part of your job requires handling such people, then you could truthfully say your job is to manage refuse.

In the sense of "deny", your job as refuse manager would be to manage the denials you must make to men at the table who make advances to you.

And "refuse manager" works because it does sound like an actual job.

So you can say it with the easy confidence that comes from insulting someone to his face in a way that is incisive in its veracity yet subtle enough that he is flustered by not being able to immediately understand what has been said.

As a non-pro, I don't mind playing against a pro (as long as they're not jerks). I'll tighten up my play, but I would do that anyway if I thought they were a good player (male or female).

When people tell me they are pros, my first response is usually to ask how they go about maintaining and improving their game because I'm trying to get better myself. I hope that doesn't fall into the category of annoying/stupid questions.

FWIW, someone on these forums got the US Department of Labor to list Professional Poker Player as one of their official job titles in 2013. Evidently there was a lot of discussion of the category in which we belonged. We are with athletes and enertainers.

I'm hoping that the DOL listing will be one more small step to legitimizing poker for people in general and state and federal legislators in particular.

I see that I posted this twice, with different years. In the earlier post I said that this happened in 2012. 2013 is the correct year.

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I have felt for the past year a lot more comfortable telling strangers my true profession. It just seems that the general public is becoming more and more aware of poker as a living. I definitely get less of the shock reaction nowadays too, from being a woman doing it.

I totally agree actually. It seems like people are very interested now whenever poker is mentioned!

this is late, but watch out for teddy KGB. respect, booyakasha

I basicallly outed myself last week, not necessarily as a pro, but as a "math player."

Most of my play has been online, and I'm still getting used to the mechanics of live play, especially keeping track of the numbers (my tournament M, stack sizes, pot size, etc.)

I frequently look at the board with all the stats (time remaining in level, avg. stack size, etc.) and I probably study player stacks too long and too often. But I think that what really gave it away was that if I lost track of the pot size when several players were in a hand, I studied the pot to estimate the amount.

Finally, someone said, "You use math when you play, don't you?" Oops. I'll have to work on being less obvious.