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[snapsfingers3times]Ed Zotti![/snapsfingers3times]
I wish to change my account name to Mddg22inaBrwnPprBg
**k Yu!
(that’s supposed to represent Thank You…I was short one *)
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.”
So now not only am I going home penniless, but with some extra kids? Fuck that!
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.
You people don’t understand. This isn’t some frivolous activity. He has BOOKS on the subject. And two of them were $50.
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.
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.
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.
Hot Mama, I’m livin’ in Flush Town!
Eh, call me a degenerate. I love Vegas and casinos. In fact, we will be going back next week.
Just got done watching a marathon of Rounders, Maverick, and The Cincinnati Kid, eh?
<Russian John Malkovich>Just like a young man coming in for a quickie. I feel so unsatisfied.</RJM>
Stranger
Diamonds Are Forever and Vegas Vacation, actually. 
Well, you could try Jenny C****m. Though that also looks misinterpretable.
And it’s pronounced Lah-MAY.
But were the books about FEELING THE POWER OF THE LORD?!?! 
Has anyone noticed that the OP starts these asinine topics, yet never returns with follow-ups?
(Requesting name change to S*muel dms before it’s taken.)
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.
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?