So your saying all winning players or made for poker? Its impossible to be a winning player and poker not be for you?

how many levels are in this post?

I don't really know what you mean. There is only one question in this thread though it is a multiple part question. I've just tried to respond to peoples comments to the best of my ability. That question is "How do I tell people about poker, and if I don't, how do I make up for the need to talk about big wins or big losses etc?

Yes. Poker is "for you" if you make money off poker and enjoy it most of the time. By that definition, poker is for me. Anyway, this doesn't address the main question.

a) don't tell people that you play poker. It gets you nowhere in society and is generally frowned upon.

b) why do you feel the need to talk about big wins and losses? Haven't you learnt to cope with the swings yet? People don't care about how much money you lost doing what they consider to be gambling and you really shouldn't be bragging to people earning close to minimum wage about how much you're making playing cards. You'll come across as a douche.

Poker =/= fun.

Money =/= fulfilment.

Quoted from SSFR...

And if you feel like reading: http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/29...y-life-703423/

Check out this thread. More for entertainment purposes though.

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/54...lay-poker-308/

People feeling the need to broadcast wins/losses in social circles just adds to the perception that the majority of society has of the game.

You wouldn't discuss your salary with some of your closest friends let alone mere acquaintances and you should treat poker no differently for basically all the reasons that have been discussed above.

If you took any actual professional, who relies on poker for an income, whether that be in the live circuit or online; they will just put in a session/play a tournament/whatever and then once that is over, its over, you then go out and grab a beer with your buddies or something. For the majority of people in these forums I imagine poker takes a lot of their time and is something they are interested in but to let it consume your thoughts and life (in particular the results aspect of it) is just unhealthy and again, as said above, you will just lose friends over it....

You want it to be a job and pay for college...treat it as such
You want it to be a hobby with financial benefits...treat it as such
Either way, as somebody else summed up perfectly - nobody else gives a rats ass

OP,

Grow up, you sound borderline autistic

Enjoy it most of the time? Do you not understand what life is about? Do you not have something that you enjoy all the time? You should really only do things that you love doing all the time.

So I should play russian roulette if the payoff for not being killed is 1$ because I will enjoy the outcome majority of the time?

If Poker is seriously effecting other avenues in your life it is not for you.....you should be able to separate poker and outside life....

A wise man once said, "Do what you love and you will never have to work a day in your life"

go find teh thread in bbv callled "Why I don't tell people I play poker" or something like that, and then don;t tell people you play poker.

When you have a losing day you should just bottle up those emotions and let them come to a head one day when you go on a serious downswing...then throw ur computer through a window... much more theraputic then talking to friends.

barg when you make money, dont be a puss when your lose and stfu, problem solved ?

What in the hell is anyone even talk about. My god. Its like you are just making up random stuff to be argumentative because thats the way the thread was heading. Adress the question and stop being ******ed.

Please someone close the thread. I'm tired of microstakes players telling me I'm a pussy and should suck it up in a manly fashion (which is probably the truth, but I'm looking for something new or else I wouldn't have created a post about it in the first place).

That was exactly the thread i needed

True lol.

It took me seeing this thread at 5 a.m., hammered drunk, to realize how much I hate the title of it and how condescending it sounds.

lol

You are obv very clueless when it comes to poker, you must not enjoy your life outside poker if you feel the need to talk about poker....

And you dont know anything about the people posting ITT so stop assuming stuff....

op sounds like a social superstar.

Karak uses poker slang irl to his non-poker friends and brags about doing so to his poker friends.

True story.

See, this is why I opened the thread - to see how others ARE able to talk to their non-poker friends. Lets keep the thread going. I just thought the roullete comment was pointlessly argumentative - and i don't like generic advice... but apart from that, the thread has potential. Is the point of using poker slang to non-poker friends to confuse them to the point that you can talk to them, but it sounds like giberish?

My friends and GF all love Bing Blang Blaow lololol they just have no idea what drybes is saying

Okay, let me clarify.

There is a HUGE difference between saying stuff like "bling blang blaow" and whatever when you know it's a joke and you're just being goofy.

I go out of my way to not say stuff like "that tilts me" IRL. I just don't feel like explaining it to my friends.

I think of it almost like if one of my buddies made money playing WoW, and then seriously used warcraft slang around me. I'd think he was a ****ing tool.