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Originally Posted by Your Ex
"The couple that plays together, stays together!" It can work its way into your relationship and turn out a healthy thing.
Not for me and my b/f, at least not at the same table.
My boyfriend got me into poker, and we both play recreationally, but we absolutely should not play cash together (which is fine, I prefer tournaments anyway, he prefers cash). When we do have to play together - for example, we've been on several cruises with only one table - there have been some interesting blow-ups. The worst of which resulting in him storming off from the table and my being forced to give him back the money (since he's more important to me than poker or money).
The situation was that there were three people in the hand on the turn, myself, my boyfriend, and another player. OTT I had a flush + an OESFD, so when my boyfriend shoved, I called. Seems pretty simple to me, right? I mean, why would I fold a flush on an unpaired board? He was absolutely furious - he said I should have known I wasn't playing against him but against the other player, and that I should have folded.
He was completely irrational on the subject; I told him that at the table he's not really my boyfriend, not for the purposes of play, but ended up just giving him the money back in order to soothe his extremely ruffled feathers.
Suffice it to say we don't play cash together anymore.