That was such an awesome read.

(11:25:02 AM) Bbickes: but then me being the ass I am, Finally show them my hourly over the last month and my graph
(11:25:06 AM) Bbickes: and their mouth's drop
(11:25:13 AM) Bbickes: and they shut up and walk away
I quit my full-time job last March to take up Poker. My birthday is in May, and I got a birthday card from my grandfather where he called me a "lost soul."

I've been with my gf for nearly four years now. Her mother knows what I do. She fights with her probably twice a month about how I'm a bum addicted to gambling gonna loose my monies and end up in hell.

She says she's willing herself to one day tell her dad..... old school traditional religious Portugese, you know the drill.

I'll never go through an intervention with my family. The current running joke is that I'm the baller in the family. My younger brother loves poker, so he was never an issue in converting. My father was skeptical because online gambling can be very dangerous. Then one day I showed him a graph and now he promotes is. My mom is slowly coming around (a lot of help from her sister I believe). It's her that I think I want to really make proud because she worries most out of the three.