Dating a Poker Player- Good or Bad?

Being a female poker player and socialising in the poker scene, the odds are stacked higher that you might end up romantically involved or even marry a fellow poker player. Being able to talk the poker lingo may be a bonus to the relationship but it may also spell disaster.

Before getting gooey eyed over a fellow player, first check out his poker. If his chips are a mess at the table then you might spend your time picking up after him in the relationship. Messy chips could mean messy in real life. Same too if his poker chips are neatly stacked then he might be tidy in real life. Dress code, is he smart or casual? This can mirror his dress code in everyday life. How does he deal with bad beats etc? If he gets angry easily then he might easily get angry in real life. Most the actions at a poker table can be small hints of what he is like in real lif.

As for living with or marrying a poker player, well you will have to be prepared to hear every single bad beat he ever gets. There will be the mood swings that will follow his poker swings. This all may be tolerable if he is willing to sit and listen to your bad beats and understand your mood swings. It would probably be a good idea to keep to very separate bankrolls for your poker. His and yours.  

Then there is the sticky situation of playing against each other. If you both enter the same tournament how would you feel if it ended up heads up and was down to just you and him? Could you stand being beaten by him or worse still would he get over it if you beat him? I dated a poker player and although we understood each others mood swings and listened to the bad beats, it was a disaster if we ended up on the same table. We knew each other so well and with one of us being highly competitive it just turned very messy to say the least (in case you were wondering yes I won all his chips and no he wasn’t very happy) 

So I would say proceed with caution. Every person and relationship is different.

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