I'm 19 and live in Estonia, so try to understand my bad grammar and idiotic sentence structures anyway, ok?
A new friend from my college classes and with who I hang out with sometimes, seems to think that online poker is a scam, that there is not a way to take money actually out.
I have tried to explain him many times, that for example, PokerStars, is like virtual-online bank account, where i keep my money to play, and can actually take it out when-ever-the-fruck-i-pleeeeeeze.
A month ago we had a birthday party, a lot of new people from my college, some friends who I had known a couple of months. All older than me, like 2-4 years.
Anyway, when my friend introduce me to others, they just can't shut their mouths and HAVE TO tell that I play poker online, and that I play for real money.
None of them really understands whats poker about, and think I am degen.
A negative image to me, yeaaaah.
My parents, uhh... My mother basically understands that poker is not gambling, but also keeps asking "But how much did you lose?", which is so sick that I would like to eat the kitchen knife at that moment, goooooood.........
My father, I have tried to explain it to him a couple of times, but it always ends like this, he will not listen or doesn't understand what I am trying to say, and just gets mad at me, because he thinks it's pure luck and I will soon be playing for our house, lmao.
When I state the most obvious point, like in "the rounders" movie... That how could the same people be winning at poker over 10+ years. Are they the luckiest people in the world?
Ignorantly he answers "YES!", trying to stop the convo and make it obvious that I am a gambler who doesn't care for money. At that point when he answers "YES" to my quiestion if they are the luckiest people in the world, I would really like to throw something at him for his ignorance and stupidity.
Oh, and when he says yes, they are, I just state "Well, **** that, looks like I am one of the luckiest people in the world also, then, as I have successfully played live poker over 1.5 years and a bit online poker for a couple of months, read number of poker related books, always analyzing my play with better players, and always trying to improve...
Anyway, how the hell could I explain something like poker to a ignorant person like my father, who just starts yelling at me every time I bring up the subject?
Once in a while my mother asks hows it going at poker, I said I have won X amount since she last asked, my father overhears it and says "will it ever stop, in 2 years you will be out on the streets"....
LIKE WTF IS THE MATTER WITH HIM?