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Message: [QUOTE="Katie Dozier, post: 5429422, member: 68869"] People that know I play poker seem to have a natural understanding that I don’t fit the standard demographic for it and are perhaps more curious about why I like to play, how I started etc. Maybe it is my imagination but the tone of the conversation often seems to shift once they realize that I play professionally—they instantly seem to be more suspicious, sometimes even asking boldfacely if I “even make any money doing that” (to which I like to reply, “do you make money at your job?” [emoji28] to point out the rudeness of the question that somehow escapes a lot of people). The tone is almost as though it is quirky/intriguing of me to play poker if it were just as a hobby, but playing professionally seems to make me instantly a degenerate in their eyes. [/QUOTE]