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Message: [QUOTE="Pantheon, post: 1269106, member: 59523"] I think the primary lesson for you here is to not talk about poker with people who have no clue about poker. If you are an experienced player, your friends will be clueless to many concepts and ideas that you take for granted, and holding a conversation based on that can be an immensely frustrating experience. I avoid poker conversations with my friends like the plague. If someone I'm just meeting for the first time asks me about my hobbies, I'll tell them that I play sports, enjoy hiking in the countryside and I may or may not just throw "I play a bit of poker too" in as almost an afterthought so I don't end up either getting quizzed for hours about basic things or have to listen to a half-hour long bad beat story about how my new acquaintance once lost 5 bucks in a home game when his Aces lost to J3. :) [/QUOTE]