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Old 05-23-2013, 03:38 PM
 
Location: Viña del Mar, Chile
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I did date someone a few years back who made a living playing poker, but would not consider it again. Long nights among bad company don't make one a better person, you know? It's the whole company you keep thing.

not always bad company, but yeah the hours can be rough.. and it's also a very stressful game so I could see how that would rub off on the s/o too.
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Old 05-23-2013, 03:41 PM
 
Location: Viña del Mar, Chile
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Ok let me ask you this? What stigma is linked with alcoholics? Young women don't mind them either.

an alcoholic and a winning poker player are two different things.

i'm not asking if you'd date a gambling addict. this has absolutely nothing to do with it.
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Old 05-23-2013, 03:43 PM
 
Location: Pa
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an alcoholic and a winning poker player are two different things.

i'm not asking if you'd date a gambling addict. this has absolutely nothing to do with it.
A gambler is not a stable person.
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Old 05-23-2013, 03:45 PM
 
Location: Viña del Mar, Chile
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A gambler is not a stable person.

thats really not true, but it's your opinion.
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Old 05-23-2013, 08:36 PM
 
Location: Center of the universe
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no, i know...poker is like my go-to hobby. i'm always down for a hand.

and at one point i was close to going down to vegas and profiting off the tourists who view it as a gambling game.

but there are better uses of my time.

why not put that intelligence to work and do something useful? last i checked the world had many problems...some of them solvable, even.

fwiw, i wouldn't say 'never' to a professional poker player life partner...but, she'd have to be involved in something else.
Or do like Barry Greenstein and give away some of the millions he's won on the felt to good causes. It's a win win situation.
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Old 05-24-2013, 12:36 AM
 
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I knew two professional gamblers. They both eventually crashed and burned, but when they were in their glory moment and winning $$$ it was all good. lol
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Old 05-24-2013, 12:40 AM
 
Location: Viña del Mar, Chile
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I knew two professional gamblers. They both eventually crashed and burned, but when they were in their glory moment and winning $$$ it was all good. lol

hahahah, probably poor bankroll management. spent too much money when the times were good and moved up their stakes too quickly and hit a cold streak.

it's very very easy to go broke in that game... itll make you age quickly
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Old 05-24-2013, 01:06 AM
 
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My buddy and I thought about doing it in our early twenties. We were trying to get our BR started online and we were doing a good job of it, but then they shut the online play down. We didn't have the roll to start doing it legit and feel comfortable about paying rent so we abandoned it. If I ever come into money my first goal is to get my friend a WSOP buy in. He's got the chops to do it.
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Old 05-24-2013, 03:29 AM
 
Location: Democratic Peoples Republic of Redneckistan
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and if they're making double the money you do?
Personally I've only known one guy to try it..he left a job we were working overtime on and clearing about $1600 a week when he decided to go to Vegas and become a high roller..all I know for a fact is that he drove out there in a $20,000 pickup truck and came home a few months later on a half million dollar Greyhound bus..so depending on how you look at it,was he a winner?
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Old 05-24-2013, 06:00 AM
 
Location: Viña del Mar, Chile
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Personally I've only known one guy to try it..he left a job we were working overtime on and clearing about $1600 a week when he decided to go to Vegas and become a high roller..all I know for a fact is that he drove out there in a $20,000 pickup truck and came home a few months later on a half million dollar Greyhound bus..so depending on how you look at it,was he a winner?
did he own that grayhound is the real question :P
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