[Closed] What do your family members think about you as a poker player?

Good question.

They think I'm good, because I trash them every time we play.

EDIT: And my sister thinks I'm going to gamble away all my money because gambling runs in the family, several relatives going broke in -EV games etc... she once went crazy because I called a preflop all in SnG with KK... I mean stupid crazy. She was yelling at what a bad play it was because I was chip leader and that call eventually made me bubble out blah blah blah...

EDIT2: So I'm gonna say addicted, should concentrate on studies, and that I'm gonna gamble all my money and house and laptop etc away.

Everyone says I'm addicted and poker is game of pure luck. But no one knows I've been winning some money with it! ♦
Except for my parents, but they don't say anything about it. And my grandmother doesn't believe I play for real money!

My mother, as expected, is against such "gambling" activities(of course poker is not PURE gambling, but how to explain it to her?) but doesn't really stop me from playing - it's ok with her.

The reaction of my father when mother told him I play poker(my parents are divorced and my father doesn't live with us, so he doesn't know what I am doing unless me personally or somebody else tells him) was "Really? How much have you lost?". I said "Would you believe that I have made an average monthly salary for the past 30 days?". And he didn't really mind it, just said to be cautious and that poker should not distract me from my studies. Which is the thing they care about, and with right, so I hope I will manage to combine things with ease.

i am addicted, i am stupid,
BUT: i should give them some money

i should concentrate on my studies hehe

Originally posted by finchybg
My mother, as expected, is against such "gambling" activities(of course poker is not PURE gambling, but how to explain it to her?)

Buy her the "Theory of poker" by skalnsky as a Xmas present))

I voted for "concentrate on studies" but they also asked me to cash out 15k ♦.
Anyway the results prove that poker's image still is very bad.

Mine hate me playing it.
I should concentrate on my studies and I might get addicted yadda yadda.

Originally posted by xylere

Originally posted by finchybg
My mother, as expected, is against such "gambling" activities(of course poker is not PURE gambling, but how to explain it to her?)

Buy her the "Theory of poker" by skalnsky as a Xmas present))

Hahahahah, imagine it ♦

By the way, with 58 Votes already, obviously none of the parents approve of poker ♦

I got my first chipset from my father and my mother is a member of pokerstrategy. We used to play poker for coins when I grew up.

So in other words : even if you run into the worst downswing of us all, you are the luckiest guy on here ...

I go to work, study university, so my family think poker is fine- just harmless game where I could win or loose couple of $. My friends although think that I'll gamble away all my winnings and the first place I should make withdraw and never play poker again;)

To be honest, I couldn't care less what they think.

My mom: Fears I might get addicted, and thinks that studying is a priority. But generally she's convinced that I'm a good player and doesn't oppose to it (anymore).

My dad: surprised that I made so much money out of it already, but thinks it's great.

Let's not mention my 3k loss over the last 3 weeks ♦
I casually dropped that if I were able to live from it, I would, and I at least didn't receive a negative reaction. I think they realize that no matter what they say, I'm doing it anyway (as I always do ;)), so they stop bothering to lecture me and just let me go my way

My friends, who are mostly poker players themselves, are a little bit divided: some think it's great, some don't understand and still see it as "gambling", no matter how many times I explain the concepts (BRM, TA-game).

Heh, took advantage of myself beeing home and affiliated my mom to PokerStrategy)) she is studying FL articles to pass the quiz at the moment and won 10$ from me in our first HU session ♦

My mother thinks Im going to gamble away all my money, my dad thinks its great and wants to sign up here too and my gf says i should give her money.... Thats what I imagined it to be like.

Addicted, concentrate on studies.

My grandma is strongly against gambling.

My dad thinks its all a big scam and that the poker rooms will steal my money

im trying to let him see now how everything works and why i got an edge on most online players cause im using good strategy i learn here
He sees now that im not loosing (nor winning alot yet :P) but its slowly groing

My mum just laughs at it, probably doesn't understand

I just asked my mom's this question. She said you will become a professional player but uptil then you will lose all your money ♦ Made me laugh