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Postby Felonius_Monk » Tue Feb 08, 2005 4:33 am

... A reader's wives section :lol:
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Postby TheUnknownPlayer » Tue Feb 08, 2005 10:31 am

You mean a cyber-kitchen? ;)
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Postby Rhound50 » Tue Feb 08, 2005 10:57 am

I dont think you really want that. The only post about poker life that you would get from my GF is bitching about how I play to much and should spend more time with her.
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Postby TheUnknownPlayer » Tue Feb 08, 2005 11:11 am

Rhound,

Let her rub your shoulders while you play. That should make you both happy. ;)
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Postby k3nt » Tue Feb 08, 2005 12:13 pm

My wife is supportive of my poker playing. She gets nervous but she says it's my money. I started with 25 bucks -- she said to herself hell, we spent more than that buying the software for the last online computer game he was obsessed with. Later I put in another $50 from an Xmas present. I promised her that no more $$ goes into the poker bankroll without talking about it with her first. (In fact I have no plans to put more $$ in, ever. I want the rest of my neteller transactions to be withdrawals, thank you very much.)

From her POV, one good thing about poker (compared to other computer games/obsessions I have had) is that she can talk to me while I play. Sometimes I have to say hold on this is a big hand. But there's no headphones, no total concentration, no "I can't talk to you for the next 20 minutes" situations like there are with Warcraft etc.

She's delighted that I'm winning. She's happy for me because I'm happy.

Also, her whole family loves to go to casinos and play blackjack, roulette, etc. Her grandmother is addicted to the slot machines. So she's real understanding. :)

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Postby Rhound50 » Tue Feb 08, 2005 2:54 pm

TUP I wish. She has two aunts that are degerate gamblers. Who live in reno and do nothing but play slots, blackjack, and craps. When my GF's father was in a coma after having a brain anyersm one of them actually told my GF's mom that she couldnt come and visit him because there was a slots tournament that she had been looking forward to playing. From this i can see why she has it in her mind that people that gamble are bad. She doesnt say anything about me playing anymore we have had that fight a few times already. The fact that I am playing poker on weekends instead of working was not her favorite idea either.
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Postby TheUnknownPlayer » Tue Feb 08, 2005 3:18 pm

Rhound,

Well.... (absolutely knowing I should keep my mouth shut but not going to anyway) ... I don't understand fighting with the gf (from a personal point of view) ... this is what I do. You don't have to like it but you don't get to give me shit about it - the door is over there on the other side of which is somewhere in the vicinity of 3 billion other men.

I can certainly see why your gf has issues regarding gambling (loose interpretation of gambling to fit poker in) but my opinion would simply be that they're her issue's - not mine. Might sound kind of cold but I've recently discovered that I'm not God and therefore can't fix anyone elses stuff.

I'm sure glad this thread is in the "Anything Goes" dept or I would have had to go kick the goldfish (I have no dog) instead of responding. ;)

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Postby Rhound50 » Tue Feb 08, 2005 3:29 pm

So TUP when you kick the goldfish I hope you take it out of its bowl. Otherwise that has gotta hurt.

Seriously my GF has gotten better with it. She still fears that I am going to drop out of school and move to vegas and play full time even though I have told her over and over that, that will never happen. We havrn't argued about poker in a while which is good. I think she has started to accept it as part of who I am. Maybe after another year of consistant winning she will realize it is something I am good at and can make good money doing.
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Postby iceman5 » Tue Feb 08, 2005 4:37 pm

My wife used to complain about poker.....until I started throwing money at her every month.

She seems to like the new laptop.
Shes spent more time planning our trip to Hawaii than we'll spend IN Hawaii
The new kitchen chairs look nice
That new recliner sure is comfy for her to snuggle up and read her many books.
etc............

Poker doesnt seem to bother much anymore. :lol:
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Postby kennyg » Tue Feb 08, 2005 4:40 pm

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Postby TexasKowboy » Tue Feb 08, 2005 4:46 pm

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Postby Rhound50 » Tue Feb 08, 2005 5:05 pm

"Its a pink handbag not backpack damn it." Godlikeroy

"From playing full tilt I wanna smash every garden gnome I see. That travelocity commercial puts me on instant tilt."
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Postby Sunbob » Wed Feb 09, 2005 12:54 am

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