Long Version (Short version below):

Recently (6 of the last 7 weeks), Ive been playing Texas Hold Em poker with my workmates. If youre not familiar with the game, then you probably havent watched ESPN in the last year or joined the TA poker craze. I wont go into the details on the game now, but rather how we play. 5 of the 6 weeks, we have played tournament style, that is, everyone throws in an equal amount (10 dollars), and everyone receives the same amount of chips (usually 20-50 dollars worth of chips). Once you're out, youre out until the next game. The other week, we played a cash game, where the amount of money you put in, you received in chips (everyone started with 20 bucks in the pot). If you were eliminated, you could buy back in, for up to 3 hours.

5 of the 6 nights weve played, Ive come out ahead. Two times, I came out over one hundred and fifty dollars, and tonight, I came out ahead two hundred and thirty dollars. After I come out ahead more than 50 bucks, I usually try to do something nice for the crowd (usually buy beer, cigar/ettes(s), or food). However, I feel like my co-workers are really resenting the fact that Ive done so well. Several of them gloated over my elimination from one round of tournament play, and they talk shit to me all the time. Sometimes, their comments get personal, and if I tell them to chill out, they get quite snipy with me. Anyone who knows me well knows that I dont really talk alot of shit, or really much at all, and I try to maintain that manner on the poker table. Im starting to feel like they dont want me to play, or maybe that should courteously stop going to poker night, but having won so much from everyone (5-7 co-workers), I feel like I should give them the chance to win their money back. These people are really cool with me at work, and while we have extreme culture and personal differences, we get along quite well everywhere except for at the poker table.

This reaction has been recent (over the last 2 weeks) and Im not sure if Im reading too much into it, or if theyre just upset because theyre losing significant amounts of money to me. If anyone has any opinions or thoughts, im glad to read them. If you have smart ass comments, post them here too, I could use a good laugh.


SHORT VERSION: Ive been owning the fuck out of my workmates at the poker table (im up over 450 dollars for 6 weeks). Theyve been acting quite bitter and im not sure if i should step away or if Im over reacting. Thoughts?

just stop playing. that will give others a chance to win.

bleed the suckers dry

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awkward position
i was in a kinda analagous situation this summer with some friends
we're all mostly broke so playing for money was a big deal for most of em
i've honestly only played for money a few times, but treated it seriously and did well
so there were 8 or so of us
unfortunately, most of the people i was playing with had a decent knowledge of the game and whatnot, but EVERYONE was playing with the mentality of 'if i never bet i never lose'
everyone would get really really pissy if i raised pre-flop
we play with a ten dollar buy in and they expect me to just sit and let everyone have a crack at the pot, betting skill or no
so i kept raising pre-flop and the few times people would call i got lucky and had good hands and won
once or twice i bet big and lost, i was down to 60 in chips at one point (we started with 500 i believe, not directly comperable to any dollar amount), and before much longer i was back in the lead with some odd 1800
so anyways, people started to talk and bitch because i was playing mean and raising pre-flop and whatnot, and i told them half the time i've been raising with jsut like 4-7 offsuit, and they just get madder, especially my friends gf( also one of my best friends), and she seemed to think i was lying mbbe when i mentioned the 4-7 offsuit
so my quasi-gf is also sitting there watching and rooting for me, and as the hand's dealt, i whisper to her 'i'm gonna win this hand'
i look at my cards, 4-7 offsuit
figures
i stay determined
for once, my friends gf raised pre-flop and i raised back, she called
i knew she had something good, she wouldn't do that unless she had a damn good hand
she had something like QK suited
flop comes: 4 7 Q rainbow
i bet, just to piss her off really, and she goes over the top and goes all in
i call of course
she sees my two pair and is pissed
then the turn: 4
i got a full house, she ended up just with the pair
holy lord she was pissed
and no one else bet the rest of the night really
8 people, started at around 9, didn't end until 330am, and that was me finally knocking out someone and getting it down to me and my best friend
although i have the lead i offer to split just cause i'm pissed off and tired as fuck, and we leave
moral of the story: if you don't bet, you won't lose...yet. but you won't win either
bitches

Maybe you should go on TV if you're really that great at bluffing.

Logically, they are just being sore losers. If you're totally legit in how you play, then they're just (understandably) sad that they're losing their money - and perhaps using you as an excuse for the fact that, truly, they were the ones who lost the money. After all, who can really be blamed but yourself when you intentionally gamble and lose. If there's anything that's been proven time and time again though, it's that people are often definatly ignorant to reason. They won't care if it's their fault, they'll just choose to not like YOU because YOU have their money.

No matter how moronic people seem to be though, idiocy has got reason beat by numbers - that is, nobody will save you, even if you are totally in the right, from people beating the shit out of you or hating you for no justifiable reason. You're not entitled to anything in this world.

In short, stop playing poker with your co-workers, or beat the shit out of the next person who gets all in your face. That'll teach 'em!

Oh wait, fightning might not be the best thing to show up in court for...uhh, better just stop yer gambling and start womanizing more!

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There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

Methinks you should stick to playing with your hot female coworkers and play strip poker instead.

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Originally posted by Tranc3 Methinks you should stick to playing with your hot female coworkers and play strip poker instead.

I only have one hot female co-worker, and she has been at every game Ive played at. Of course, everyone has figured out I have a type of crush on her, but she (like the last girl i dated) has a boyfriend. She isnt necessarily supportive or negative towards me, but i wish they wouldn't slag me off so in her presence, particularly questioning my sexual preference because i listen to EDM, whilst I stare at her boobs. Like i was saying earlier in an unnamed chat client² theres a large and interesting mosaic of understory here too...

Just say that the next person to say you're gay is gonna get their wish fulfilled, then when someone says it (assuming it's a guy) if he's sitting down you hump his back, otherwise you hump his leg.

That should stop the current remarks.

..hehehe, then the fight begins...

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Dude...fuck that. If they dont like losing tell them to learn how to fucken play or stop playing. My broke ass has lost about 100$ with Boomer at his poker parties...but I have a good time, and its fun. Boomer won a good bunch the first time I went, and his friend Dan won 300$ last time I was there...but I thought that was awesome for him...he played well, and even though I was in the game till almost the end, I lucked out with shitty hands for the last hour or so.

If they were cool about it they'd be happy for you, and practice at party poker in their free time to get better. Sounds like a bunch of pansy ass sore losers to me.

lol

As long as you arent cheating, and arent arrogant about it, you have no reason to be subjected to that crap just because you're good at something...

-Clove

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Originally posted by ******** Seplling don't demonstrate intelligence and educatoin - knowing does.

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Originally posted by tribu SHORT VERSION: Ive been owning the fuck out of my workmates at the poker table (im up over 450 dollars for 6 weeks). Theyve been acting quite bitter and im not sure if i should step away or if Im over reacting. Thoughts?

tell them to stop playing poker if they don't like losing.

maybe they think you were cheating?

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MUGGETS

on second thought, you probably cheated didn't you?