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The really question I'm asking here is what do your family and friends think about you pursuing or trying to become a poker player as your main income source. What do they feel about you travelling to places in the world after you win a tournament to play for a week. Would your girlfriend/boyfriend mind at all if you're gone for awhile trying to win some money?For me I'm in a tough position. My mom is an anti-gambler but my dad says, "If it can make you money, DO IT!"My girlfriend doesn't mind poker but is more into hockey hockey hockey and if I have to go some place in a tournament on the weekend, she gets sad because I didnt go to the Canuck game with her.Soo....post away. Try to keep the sarcastic down even though the first poster will be a jerk and say +1 or +1 before lock..

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I wont +1 you, but I swear you posted this same thread like 6 months ago? Maybe I'm remembering wrong, but I thought it was you.Anyway, for my answer, its in that thread somewhere :)Mark

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Whatever you do DO NOT neglect your family, friends and loved ones. I've seen too many people try and live the dream and lose everything, whilst being totally absorbed in poker for a long period of time. At the end of it all when they had nothing left and they went back to their friends they weren't there.........Good luck

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I feel like a criminal in my house for daring to play on play money tables.My dad would kill me if i he even realised that i play poker for money with friends, he's very stubborn.

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I wont +1 you, but I swear you posted this same thread like 6 months ago? Maybe I'm remembering wrong, but I thought it was you.Anyway, for my answer, its in that thread somewhere :)Mark
OMG you are a meaney! :insertjustkiddingface:-SteveAnyway like the first poster said, there are way more recreational players here than pro's so you might only get a few responses you give a shit about. My mom doesn't care. She asks me about it from time to time. I don't think my father knows I play as we never really discuss it. My wife doesn't care. She enjoys watching me play and doesn't get mad when I go play at my monthly home game.
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My friends never take it seriously. According to them it is just gambling. When they ask me and i tell them that i was playing poker last night , i always see this weird smirk like i have been doing something naughty.However my 50 year old mother (who doesn't know much about poker or internet) is very supportive. She knows i never deposited and i keep withdrawing. She sees me as a college boy who earns some money while doing something he enjoys.

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My parents think that this is just something that I do while i'm in college. I haven't had to work in 2 years becasue of my poker playing. In fact, my father asked me a year ago, when he saw 4k in my pocket, "Jon, I need to ask you a serious question, are you dealing drugs?". I LOL'ed out loud and explained to him what I do and invited him to the casino to watch me play. But obviously when he was there and started watching me, I had a losing session, but he got the point. I think a lot of the "tv" pros have an easier time with their parents accepting what they do simply because they were on tv, have a lot of money from big buyin' tourney results and can basically live anyway they want to. Guys like me need to do a lot of explaining to family and friends.

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I wont +1 you, but I swear you posted this same thread like 6 months ago? Maybe I'm remembering wrong, but I thought it was you.Anyway, for my answer, its in that thread somewhere :)Mark
Hard since he joined like 2-3 weeks ago :club:
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i play pretty recreationally, but my friends and family all understand my enjoyment in playing poker as most of them do the same. My advice might be teach them how to play or find a way to involve everyone, maybe then they will understand what it is you do and how important it is to you.

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Some great replies, but what my mom says is. POKER CAN GET YOU ADDICTIVE AND IT WILL RUIN YOUR LIFE!
that can be true for some people. her concern is a legitimate one, and i'd probably fight against my own kids playing poker for a living, honestly.if you want to convince your parents that poker is a good thing for you, you're going to have to tailor your argument to what they're concerned with. for my parents, this was largely surrounding me not becoming a worse person just because i play a lot of poker and am generally playing against some, uh, undesirables? when i was ballalikeryland, i donated some money to charity and that did a lot to allay their fears. you know your parents better than any of us, so tailor your plan to what you know.
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Man.. I'm 29 and I'd still be scared to actually tell my mom I'm even remotely serious about playing poker.I guess I've always approached it as: Generate income through a regular, boring job. Play poker on the side, and hope someday the tables turn.

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I am not a pro, and not a "degenerate"......but I do have obsessive/compulsive tendencies and enjoy adrenaline rushes, I am also a competitive spirit. My wife knows and understands this and even enjoys the fact that I am partly defined by those personality traits. She has told me that I was "born to play poker". She has never complained when I go to the Casino and come home stinking of "casino" and sweat at 2 AM. She helps host he occasional home game by not just being a beautiful hostess, but makes the best chili EVER and stays out of the way while we take over the house. I've gone to Vegas without her to supervise while I played hours upon hours of Poker. When we went to Vegas together, she had no problem with me disappearing to Play Poker while she shopped or went to shows with friends.

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With all the trouble I would get into as a kid, not that much but it my moms eyes it was, poker isn't that big to her. She doesn't like it but she would rather me do that than spend all my time drinking

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The really question I'm asking here is what do your family and friends think about you pursuing or trying to become a poker player as your main income source. What do they feel about you travelling to places in the world after you win a tournament to play for a week. Would your girlfriend/boyfriend mind at all if you're gone for awhile trying to win some money?For me I'm in a tough position. My mom is an anti-gambler but my dad says, "If it can make you money, DO IT!"My girlfriend doesn't mind poker but is more into hockey hockey hockey and if I have to go some place in a tournament on the weekend, she gets sad because I didnt go to the Canuck game with her.Soo....post away. Try to keep the sarcastic down even though the first poster will be a jerk and say +1 or +1 before lock..
I'll take your girl to a hockey game. :club:
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Some great replies, but what my mom says is. POKER CAN GET YOU ADDICTIVE AND IT WILL RUIN YOUR LIFE!
You could mention that her sentence doesn't make any sense.Poker can't get you addictive. Addicted, maybe, but NOT addictive.That should quiet her down some.
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Everyone hates it. My family thinks im a degenerate gambler and my friends even hate on me half the time. Playing poker has been a major issue in my relationship with my gf of 6 years, so much so that we have almost broken up over it. So needless to say its not taken that well.

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well, i live at home and play profesionally..at first, let me tell you, they hated the idea. now (1.5 years later), they're becoming o.k. with it. My family would never kick me out of the house for it or anything, but they were completely against it....until i started winning money, lol. then they said i should do it recreactionally..and i said, it's my life and i'll do what I love to do...I don't want to work for 'the man' , i told them...i told them this is my dream and if they can't see it that's too bad but i'm still doing it.They thought (and maybe still think) that it's just a phase. But they've grown to understand it as I went to israel a month ago to visit relatives and they all loved me, and the idea of me playing poker for a living. They wanted me to teach them...lol...and when my mom talked to them, she was surprised but she became much more open minded..anyways im out...in a rushGabe.

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I'm by no means pro, but I am unemployed at the moment and have managed to scrape together my rent and bills from playing for the last few months.My Mum used to hate me playing, but I had a chat with her about it and I think she understands that there's skill involved and that I can't end up in huge debt. This seems to have made her a little cooler with it. I think it is worth explaining poker a little bit to people if you get initial resistance from folks. If they still think it's terrible after that then there's not much you can do about it and you either have to go against their wishes or stop playing. Oh, she is however like poker Kryptonite. If she calls me up while I'm playing I can pretty much guarantee that I'll go out to a spectacularly disgusting bad beat in a matter of minutes.My Dad seems to quite enjoy me playing. He's a night owl like me, so if I'm ever staying over at my folks and playing he tends to sweat me and asks questions as I go. Unlike my Mum, he seems to be my lucky charm. I think I have about a 200% ROI with him watching over my shoulder. I should probably play at home more often!Definitely get mocked by my housemates and their friends about it from time to time. I guess when they've come back, pissed up from a club and seen me multi-tabling on dual monitors it can look a little like I'm a total degenerate. Always best to get the games done with at that point and join them for a couple of drinks to show them you aren't a total social outcast!

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