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spstevens
Rock Star
Silver Level
Feeling introspective her so bear with me (or laugh at , your call).
When I first started playing poker for money it was on an industrial construction site. I was 18 and my brother in law who had gotten me the job noticed I was decent at cards and a bit of a chamelion in conversation told me to play at the break and lunch game of 7card hi lo split. I liked cards and thought why not, it was after I started to play he gave me some advice about the game. He told me that I should always break even or lose a bit (when asked about my session) and never boast as to anything.I didn't really think it out til later but when we all walked away everyone said the same but I was up a fair bit.
He also rightly noted that the foremen all played and no one at the table was laid off til the vey end. It was great advice as I took home 186.55 a week in wages and about 100.00 in poker winnings (my young wife ironed my money so it would lay flat). Never laid off first and made plenty of money in a game where everyone was "breaking even".Very loose game for a more serious player easy pickings, insane action.
OK to the lost, When I started internet play at first I would take a fair bit of work time to play cards at a level laughably below my wages . I just love the play so it seems a fair trade as I am niether homeless or gaunt but still would have made a lot more at my craft , so be it.
In the end I feel like I have made more playing poker than not when I add the money , experience, employment (if only because they needed a fifth), and just the pleasure of playing the game than it has ever cost me.
When I first started playing poker for money it was on an industrial construction site. I was 18 and my brother in law who had gotten me the job noticed I was decent at cards and a bit of a chamelion in conversation told me to play at the break and lunch game of 7card hi lo split. I liked cards and thought why not, it was after I started to play he gave me some advice about the game. He told me that I should always break even or lose a bit (when asked about my session) and never boast as to anything.I didn't really think it out til later but when we all walked away everyone said the same but I was up a fair bit.
He also rightly noted that the foremen all played and no one at the table was laid off til the vey end. It was great advice as I took home 186.55 a week in wages and about 100.00 in poker winnings (my young wife ironed my money so it would lay flat). Never laid off first and made plenty of money in a game where everyone was "breaking even".Very loose game for a more serious player easy pickings, insane action.
OK to the lost, When I started internet play at first I would take a fair bit of work time to play cards at a level laughably below my wages . I just love the play so it seems a fair trade as I am niether homeless or gaunt but still would have made a lot more at my craft , so be it.
In the end I feel like I have made more playing poker than not when I add the money , experience, employment (if only because they needed a fifth), and just the pleasure of playing the game than it has ever cost me.