My wife plays poker herself for about an hour a night. That helps some. She still gets irritated with how much I play.

I've been playing about 200 hours of poker now altogether, and I'm up 150.00, so I don't have the luxury of having 1000 dollar checks coming in. I did win this money while learning, so I feel pretty good about it.

The one thing that really irritates her is when we do sit down and have a chance to talk, I usually want to talk about poker. This drives her crazy, and I know it, but sometimes I can't help myself.

I was halfway through telling her about a hand in which I flopped a straight flush. She stops me in the middle and says "Thats all you ever talk about these days, is poker". I guess I didn't successfully relay the thrill, because she didn't seem to enthusiastic. The same thing happened when I flopped quad Jacks the other day.

I guess I just need to learn to stop talking about poker, at least, when I'm around her. I've always been like that, whether my current obsession was chess, computer games, poker, or other hobbies.

So, poker is one of those things you just shouldn't talk about.