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