I guess in a sng or tourney (which is what people know from TV poker) you have to spend $X to win $Y so your profit is only $Y-$X... even though you said NET and that should've ended it.
I'm so not sure why this is hard for people to comprehend about cash games. heck, most people don't know what I mean when I say cash game. "uhm, don't you always play for cash?"

So are that actually real money? I mean can you withdraw them and buy stuff?

Thanks for bringing this threads up again. Gold!

my uncle: "I was in this play money tournament last night right.."

my thoughts: lol

My brother plays alot online too and is a big winner, my father is proud of both his sons achievements with poker and I have no contact with my mother, so familly is covered. My GF supports me playing poker now cause I bought her all kinds of stuff out of pokerwinnings My GF's parents however think poker equals gambling, and think its crazy I play poker some times (I only told them I play live some times for 10 euro, they would go balistic if they ever found out I 6table 100nl for 50k hands a month now ).

A few months ago, I was basically busto cause I cashed out all of my roll and havent been playing for like half a year. My brother plays a €50 rebuy PLHE tournament in the casino of amsterdam (there is only 1 lol) and my father went there too watch, he asked if I came, and said he would pay me my buyin for the tournament. I explained I needed €150 for that due to rebuy and he was ok with it. So obviously I played it, and ended 2nd for a €2280 prize. I was quite happy with this, becouse my GF and me (who were living together) wanted to buy a closet earlier that week, but wich we couldnt afford (€1,2k).

So later we tell her parents that we bought the closet, and a few other things for in the house. and they were like "Huh? We thought you couldnt afford it". So I explained about how my father payed me this one tournament entry (I emphasised on that I would never ever ever have played it if I had to pay the buyin myself, wich was a lie ) and that my one time came and I made some extra money.

And they were like "ow damn thats scary! be carefull you wont get addicted to gambling now blablabla"

BITCH! I GOT THE MONEY IN CASINO CHIPS INSIDE THE CASINO, did I take it to the 500nl table right there? NO! Did I take it to the roulette/blackjack? NO! I TOOK IT HOME AND BOUGHT A ****ING CLOSET WITH IT! AND YOU STILL THINK I AM A GAMBLING ADDICT NOW?!

anyways, thats what I wanted to say, but I just smiled and sayed I am carefull and never play myself for more then €10

I looked at him and smiled with 32 gold teeth and said 'whatchu makin in a year, im makin in a week'

-wyclef, the carnival

LOL great post so far,

So i emailed a company in UK to get help investing some of my poker monies and stuff. i just recieved the answer after truthfully diclosing that i am online poker pro...

"unfortunately cannot offer advice from a student whos only income is from gambling and is only age of 22.



I suggest you utilize the monies to be placed into cash isa each year and stop gambling as one day you may have lost all your cash.





Another IFA may offer advice but I cannot as previously stated"

Fok them.

person: hey mate, you'll never believe this bad beat i got last night
me: the bad beat is on me, for having to listen to this bull crap about him making his flush on the river when you had top pair. And you stacking off.

I'm glad that I'm not the only person who this tilts. Of all the things mentioned in this thread, I really think is the one that bothers me the most. I just can't understand how STUPID one would have to be to ask this in the first place. It bothers me even more that they don't understand they're asking for handouts. It's like they think they're doing me a favor by lending me their money to play with. And then it makes me wonder how I ended up with friends who have the IQ of a rock.

One example: I was in the hospital last year and there were two smokin' hot college girls doing an internship from the local state college, and they interviewed me. As I was talking, I revealed that I play online poker for a living, and you could see their eyes widen...they both started lecturing me on how addictive online poker can be...I told them I made like $26k last month and it was like they believe that inevitably, you'll lose the money, so there's really no short way to explain to them what you do. I really regretted mentioning it, b/c I left feeling like they viewed me as a person with a severe gambling addiction.

Things I'd rather call online poker:

*computer business
*online business
*online investing

my mom keeps asking me why i keep playing computer. also, you should get a real job so you dont need to play computer so much.

Honestly the next time someone asks if they gave me $20 if I could double it for them I'm gonna go "sure thing!" and lose it as quickly as possible

be like give me the cash and we'll see, sit at what ever table with all of it and shove every hand.

When people tell me its all luck my standard response has become "thats ok, I run hot as ****."

that's my story next time i pay off a nit on the river, except i made my dad put up double.

lol i say that EVERY time. best part is it keeps getting funnier.

I dont gamble for a living, I exploit other people that are gambling for a living

meh. i got asked by emc's friend's dad: 'would you say in your poker career that you're up or down?'

me 'wouldnt be much of a career if im down would it?'


i hate the phrase poker career but whatever just think fast people

Interesting twist on the "How much did you lose?"

Friend deposits $50 and runs it up to $1K with great br management then of course busts. Here's the basic conversation:

him: only lost 50
me: you had 1K?
him: yeah
me: you could have withdrawn it and bought stuff?
him: yeah
me: like a 1K bucks worth of stuff?
him: yeah
me: how much did you lose?
him: 50

pokers one long session. seems to me he lost 50, but its all a matter of semantics/time-frame imo

having to hear AA stories


being asked "how you did" every single time they know you went to AC for the day.


idiot - howd you do today
me - i played well, some standard stuff

idiot- how much did you win
me - oh i actually lost money today

idiot - well you mus suck then

Reading this thread I was thinking back over experiences of this kind. I would have to say that the "Do you bluff a lot??!?!" question is the most annoying to me because there is no possible evasive answer. I guess you could just answer "Yes" but I don't want to do that because it would make me feel like a ****ing ******.

One incident sticks in my mind - I was playing bridge at a local club with a friend who also plays poker for a living, and we got involved in a conversation with some old lady there. It went like this:

Old lady: (Addressing my friend) So what are you doing for a job?
Friend: Actually I just play poker for money
Old lady: Hmph. Poker is all luck.
Me: Actually, there's quite a bit of skill in...
Old lady: No there isn't. It's all luck.

Given that the only possible response to this was "HU4ROLLZ?", we just shut our mouths and exchanged grins. The thing that got me wasn't the opinion, but the hostility. A similar conversation would be:

A: What do you do for a living?
B: Well, I've become a qualified Shiatsu massage practitioner, and...
A: Oh, Shiatsu is useless. It doesn't do anything.
B: Well actually, studies show....
A: No they don't. It's all quack bull****.

I'm pretty sure this lady would have recognised this line of conversation as uncool, but she had no problems informing us that a favourite activity of ours was all crap. I don't get it. Is it because everyone thinks they're an expert on gambling?

So you acutally play poker?
yeah...
SHOW ME YOUR POKERFACE

hahaha

That sucks, I can imagine that being very awkward. I think it's because see poker as a "game" and not as something you can seriously consider as your job.