# People Who Are Ignorant About Casino Life (RANT) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 31, 2015, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-are-ignorant-about-casino-life-rant/726670 "2015-07-31T20:01:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Tibby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tibby/32/17030_2.png) [@Tibby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tibby)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2015, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-are-ignorant-about-casino-life-rant/726670/41 "2015-08-01T18:04:55Z")
> [@DinoR](#): > > Ooooh I have a good idea… _forwards request to change my account name to BudL_ghtL\*me _hmm…_ [snapsfingers3times]_ **Ed Zotti!** _[/snapsfingers3times] I wish to change my account name to **M_dd_g2_2_inaBr_wnP_p_rB_g** \*\*_k Y_u! (that’s supposed to represent _Thank You_…I was short one \*) ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2015, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-are-ignorant-about-casino-life-rant/726670/42 "2015-08-01T18:16:31Z")
If “the worst thing about playing poker is dealing with people’s perception about the game”, then why do you ever mention what you do? Instead just choose an extremely boring job nobody has the remotest interest in–so they will quickly change the subject whenever they ask what you do. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2015, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-are-ignorant-about-casino-life-rant/726670/43 "2015-08-01T20:45:18Z")
> [@PastTense](#): > > If “the worst thing about playing poker is dealing with people’s perception about the game”, then why do you ever mention what you do? Instead just choose an extremely boring job nobody has the remotest interest in–so they will quickly change the subject whenever they ask what you do. Oh, I’d bet a ten-dollar chip that he already has that “day job” that he could mention. But “sandwich artist” doesn’t have that intimidation factor (that he pretends to sneer at). Cite: I play poker with a guy that could quit his job and play professionally, but he figured out how much time he’d have to put in and his hourly rate is much better at his “real” job. His advice: “The next time someone tells you they won a couple hundred at poker, ask 'em how long it took. They may have played all afternoon and night and made a whopping ten bucks an hour.” ---
**Author:** ![grude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47774/32.png) [@grude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grude)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2015, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-are-ignorant-about-casino-life-rant/726670/44 "2015-08-01T20:46:06Z")
> [@Tibby or Not Tibby](#): > > bolding mine > > That doesn’t make much sense. Are you sure it didn’t say “pickaninnies?” Some of those casinos are pretty racist, you know. So now not only am I going home penniless, but with some extra kids? Fuck that! ---
**Author:** ![Rune](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e68b1a/32.png) [@Rune](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rune)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2015, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-are-ignorant-about-casino-life-rant/726670/45 "2015-08-01T20:56:35Z")
Poker and casinos in general are neither pathetic degenerate activities (if not overdone) nor glamorous (unless you’re James Bond). It’s just so fucking boring it boggles the mind grown up people want to spend more than ten seconds on it. I used to play Uno card game with my kids, fortunately they’ve grown too old for that shit. Poker is a few steps below Uno. ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2015, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-are-ignorant-about-casino-life-rant/726670/46 "2015-08-01T21:05:11Z")
You people don’t understand. This isn’t some frivolous activity. He has BOOKS on the subject. And two of them were $50. ---
**Author:** ![russian\_heel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f05b48/32.png) [@russian\_heel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/russian_heel)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2015, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-are-ignorant-about-casino-life-rant/726670/47 "2015-08-01T21:59:12Z")
> [@Slash1972](#): > > You complain about people calling poker a “degenerate activity” and then go on to call people playing craps degenerates? LOL as if sitting for hours on end playing cards is productive behavior for society. The OP probably has no idea how to even play craps. :dubious: Which is more degenerate BTW? A camaraderie of dice players rooting for and supporting the shooter to roll a good number so together, everyone can beat the house, or a bunch of card sharps either trying to screw each other out of money or worse, take advantage of inexperienced players trying their hand at learning a new game? Furthermore, I’ve sat at enough poker tables v craps tables to tell you the manners of many poker players make craps players seem like British royalty. ---
**Author:** ![Ravenman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ravenman/32/2929_2.png) [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2015, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-are-ignorant-about-casino-life-rant/726670/48 "2015-08-01T22:57:17Z")
> [@Hampshire](#): > > You people don’t understand. This isn’t some frivolous activity. He has BOOKS on the subject. And two of them were $50. You could get like four cases of good beer for that kind of scratch. Pardon me, I’m going to go figure out how to make my manual typewriter connect to the Internet. ---
**Author:** ![Isosleepy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/isosleepy/32/479_2.png) [@Isosleepy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isosleepy)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2015, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-are-ignorant-about-casino-life-rant/726670/49 "2015-08-01T23:12:23Z")
With his first few OPs I thought there was something there which maybe I wasn’t entirely getting, but was _something_. Like the board version of “The life aquatic with Steve Zissou”. Entertaining, funny even, at times, and possibly supremely self aware. I was wrong, or if I wasn’t, the well just wasn’t very deep. ---
**Author:** ![Penfeather](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penfeather/32/384_2.png) [@Penfeather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Penfeather)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2015, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-are-ignorant-about-casino-life-rant/726670/50 "2015-08-02T00:27:45Z")
Hot Mama, I’m livin’ in Flush Town! ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2015, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-are-ignorant-about-casino-life-rant/726670/51 "2015-08-02T00:29:00Z")
Eh, call me a degenerate. I love Vegas and casinos. In fact, we will be going back next week. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2015, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-are-ignorant-about-casino-life-rant/726670/52 "2015-08-02T00:44:30Z")
Just got done watching a marathon of _Rounders_, _Maverick_, and _The Cincinnati Kid_, eh? \Just like a young man coming in for a quickie. I feel so unsatisfied.\ Stranger ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2015, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-are-ignorant-about-casino-life-rant/726670/53 "2015-08-02T00:54:18Z")
_Diamonds Are Forever_ and _Vegas Vacation,_ actually. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![GrumpyBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bc8723/32.png) [@GrumpyBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrumpyBunny)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2015, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-are-ignorant-about-casino-life-rant/726670/54 "2015-08-02T01:44:05Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > I was thinking about changing my username to [Jenny Cream](http://www.geneseecreamale.com/home.php) but I was worried some people might misinterpret it. Well, you could try Jenny C\*\*\*\*m. Though that also looks misinterpretable. > [@Giles](#): > > Bud Laught Lame? And it’s pronounced Lah-MAY. ---
**Author:** ![Shockaholics](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@Shockaholics](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shockaholics)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2015, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-are-ignorant-about-casino-life-rant/726670/55 "2015-08-02T03:21:32Z")
> [@Hampshire](#): > > You people don’t understand. This isn’t some frivolous activity. He has BOOKS on the subject. And two of them were $50. But were the books about FEELING THE POWER OF THE LORD?!?! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Conspicuous\_Conspiracist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5fc32e/32.png) [@Conspicuous\_Conspiracist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Conspicuous_Conspiracist)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2015, 8:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-are-ignorant-about-casino-life-rant/726670/56 "2015-08-02T08:46:04Z")
Has anyone noticed that the OP starts these asinine topics, yet never returns with follow-ups? (Requesting name change to S\*muel _d_ms before it’s taken.) ---
**Author:** ![bucketybuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/898d66/32.png) [@bucketybuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bucketybuck)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2015, 10:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-are-ignorant-about-casino-life-rant/726670/57 "2015-08-02T10:31:15Z")
> [@Arrogant\_B\_st\_rd](#): > > Oh my, and you have those who want to come and join me. They think they can BECOME A POKER PRO IN TWO MONTHS!!!1 This right here is instant proof that you are not a poker pro. The poker world cannot exist without all the new people who think they can play but really can’t, All poker pros know this, there is nothing more pleasing to the eye of a poker pro, and a casino in general, then a person who thinks they can win. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2015, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-are-ignorant-about-casino-life-rant/726670/58 "2015-08-02T12:06:30Z")
> [@bucketybuck](#): > > This right here is instant proof that you are not a poker pro. > > The poker world cannot exist without all the new people who think they can play but really can’t, All poker pros know this, there is nothing more pleasing to the eye of a poker pro, and a casino in general, then a person who thinks they can win. He’s like a lion saying he hates gazelles. ---
**Author:** ![russian\_heel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f05b48/32.png) [@russian\_heel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/russian_heel)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2015, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-are-ignorant-about-casino-life-rant/726670/59 "2015-08-02T22:25:21Z")
> [@Ravenman](#): > > You could get like four cases of good beer for that kind of scratch. > > Pardon me, I’m going to go figure out how to make my manual typewriter connect to the Internet. If the OP spent 1/2 as much time learning a useful skill instead of poker he’d probably learn a new language. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2015, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-are-ignorant-about-casino-life-rant/726670/60 "2015-08-02T22:30:35Z")
> [@russian\_heel](#): > > If the OP spent 1/2 as much time learning a useful skill instead of poker he’d probably learn a new language. May I suggest the OP learn English? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-are-ignorant-about-casino-life-rant/726670.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-are-ignorant-about-casino-life-rant/726670.md?page=4)