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Originally Posted by Jamie Platinum
Pardon my ignorance but can someone shed some more light on the excess/consumption that a 30-something year old would have to drink to such significant harm to his body?
Was he drinking a handle every day?
That's a common age for an alcoholic's body to start going to ****. It's more on the extreme sie but it's nothing out of the ordinary. I knew a couple of people who had liver failure in their early 30s. It's probably blacked out drinking every night while mainly drinking hard liquor.\
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Originally Posted by TimStone
Only for poker. I mean every semi interesting city you go to these days there will be at least 10 other grinders and none of them will say **** you if you try to get in touch with them. And those guys normally already have friendcircles
so as a pokerplayer you are instantly connected from teh getgo pretty much everywhere you decide to move. Maybe we euros just dont mind seeing close family/old friends 2-3 times a year while alot of americans are more family orientated - dunno. But pretty much everybody i met enjoys that lifestyle and wouldnt have it any other way while alot of americans seems to put up with it bc poker is their job but instantly would go back home if they could...
Anyways, enough derail
The thing is poker already attratcs antisocial personalities so you're gonna have lots of really ****ed up people. If you knew other types of ex pats I have a feeling you'd think way differently. It's like that one guy who made 7 million in Canada, that dude did nothing but play poker and lived right next to the US and did absolutely nothing socially. If you looked at a salesman he'd have a totally different lifestyle and be part of the culture and into social scenes.
Come on man I know you're smarter to than to think a bunch of US card players, especially internet players are the best pool of people to make any type of cultural opinion/perspective. These people tend to be natural shut ins, mentally ill and lets face it egotistical ****s compared to normal/healthy people.
You need to study more if you think they represent any type of norm whatsoever or you need to just get away from poker bro. Lets' face it this realm is toxic and changes people for the worse a lot of times.
Last edited by Sir Huntington; 09-12-2020 at 07:55 AM.