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 Meeting your mate at the tables, stdioh, 5. Feb 2003 08:35 | ||
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| Just a note about Mr. Cooke's latest article in cardplayer. He talks about the difficulties of meeting women and keeping relationships going when you're a pro player. I'm very much an amateur player, scraping out a positive game at the 5-10 outside of my day job. I love playing the early morning sessions where you find only lucky fish and sleepy pros in their oversessions. This would cause relationship problems, except that my girlfriend is a player too and we go to the cardroom together. We met at the poker table and have a wonderful relationship. Yes, we work odd hours, but in a sense we are also coworkers, in a world where you have no boss, employees, or coworkers. If anything, I think that poker will hold our relationship together - it certainly gives us something to talk about and do together. -Doooook | ||
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| Re: Meeting your mate at the tables, Roy Cooke, 11. Feb 2003 16:11 | ||
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| I wrote in the article that people who care about each other should be able to come together on issues such as work. I think many players use it as an excuse for being alone and are not caring enough about their relationships to make them work! Roy Cooke on 5. Feb 2003 08:35 stdioh wrote: > Just a note about Mr. Cooke's latest article in cardplayer. He talks about the > difficulties of meeting women and keeping relationships going when you're a pro > player. I'm very much an amateur player, scraping out a positive game at the > 5-10 outside of my day job. I love playing the early morning sessions where you > find only lucky fish and sleepy pros in their oversessions. This would cause > relationship problems, except that my girlfriend is a player too and we go to > the cardroom together. We met at the poker table and have a wonderful > relationship. Yes, we work odd hours, but in a sense we are also coworkers, in a > world where you have no boss, employees, or coworkers. If anything, I think that > poker will hold our relationship together - it certainly gives us something to > talk about and do together. > > -Doooook | ||
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| Re: Meeting your mate at the tables, stdioh, 12. Feb 2003 16:00 | ||
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| on 11. Feb 2003 16:11 Roy Cooke wrote: > I wrote in the article that people who care about each other should be able to come > together on issues such as work. I think many players use it as an excuse for being > alone and are not caring enough about their relationships to make them work! I agree, but I think that that most women (and likeky most men too) don't understand why we (poker players) spend so much time in cardrooms. I think that there are some people that would make perfect partners except that they will never understand our poker playing. Being with somebody like this is a no win situation. Poker and a partner who just doesn't understand don't go together and I've known people who have given up the one, then the other. Poker players play poker and my point is that the best mate for a poker player should be somebody who understands...ideally another poker player. | ||
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