teaching the wife how to play..

[mike l.]

"And hopefully she'll have "it", like you do."

i keep giving "it" to her morning noon and night so if she doesnt have "it" by now she never will.

[Sponger15SB]

that sounded exactly like the conversations me and my girlfriend had the first time i tried to teach her how to play poker.

nh

[andyfox]

A friend of mine knows ex Los Angeles mayor Dick Riordan. One day, while Riordan was still married to his now ex-wife, my friend and Riordan were playing golf. My friend asked Riordan, "Does your wife play golf?"

Riordan replied, "I don't know, I never asked."

[Lawrence Ng]

Hi Mike,

Your girlfriend is going to own poker. Please tell her to stop playing. If she can already instinctively detect her TPTK is no good and really, really wants to fold on the turn I do not want to play with her.

Lawrence

[SA125]

"go broke. Rinse, lather, repeat. Still won't listen to me though"

Hysterical. They're all the same.

[MaxPower]

You should teach her to play no limit

[surfdoc]

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Your girlfriend is going to own poker

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Mike,

Some people have all the luck. You get to teach your wife to play and your girlfriend too. Damn bastard.

Maybe if I gave "it" to my wife as often as you I would be able to have a girlfriend (who owns poker) as well.

[tolbiny]

"she doesnt think it's very fun, her idea of fun has nothing to do with sitting at a card table w/ a bunch degenerate gamblers, but she does want their money"

I can't see playing poker if i didn't enjoy it at all. Of course i have days when i don't want to play, but do anyway, and those are the struggles not to tilt. They are good for me in a way- and help to improve my A game probably better than anything else.
But not enjoying poker and playing anyway? if she's smart there are dozens of ways to make money... find one she actually likes maybe?

[roy_miami]

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she says "can i fold?" i say "NO! you should call! call!"

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Dude!

You missed out on some major "Mike is God" points with your wife here. Instead of saying "call, call, call you idiot CALL!!!", you should have said "dam, it looks like he has KK, its OK though an A or Q will give it to us on the river. COME ON A OR Q!! A OR Q!! A OR Q!!

Then on the river tell her to pay off just to make sure, he'll turn over KK and you'll be getting extra lucky tonight. [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

[na4bart]

Oh God, been there! LOL! Absolutely great post. You were in worse shape than she was. Thank you God, I'm not alone!