Is it possible to make true friends at a poker table?

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Friends away from the table, but enemies across the felt I enjoy coming up against Friends in a tourney because they know if I check-raise I am usually holding the Nuts! and I can use this to my advantage against them and other players when I show the nuts, and use the same check-raise when I miss the flop and bluff with air.
Doesn't always work but most of the time I get a few more bluffs through.

When the fun Stops, STOP!
 
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Yes, friends happen if they played a lot of games together. It’s good at the table.
 
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For sure but you better be checking down hands or that friendship might not last long!! 🙂
 
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I believe so. in all sports there is competition and true friends.
 
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I personally think live poker is to make friends, and I got to aquire a few good friends. Playing, dealing and directing tournaments.
 
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Even if making money is the most important thing to you, I still think you can make friends if you are willing to put aside differences that happen while playing. If you conduct yourself in a reasonable manner and not go out of your way to disrespect others in the game. I think it can happen. Just yesterday I met a guy that I have never played with in a live game. We both would talk about other players in the game when we were not in the hands. I gave him tips on how a person in our game was raising only his big hands more money preflop and his lower raises I noticed he had weaker holdings like QTs, KJ, AT.
 
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Is it possible to meet real friends at a poker table?

Hmm... for me I'd say NO! But then again it is difficult for me to make friends anywhere as I typically do not like most humans. I do have some friends away from the tables but I am sure each of them has a special amount of patience to be able to tolerate me.
(As an ex-Int'l xxxx xxxxxxxx I had many friends at one point in my life but all were only there looking for $$'s (work), wanting a piece of the pie. They 'seemed' friendly enough... at least until it was all over, lol)
 
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I'm sure, and I have one. Since I have started to play we chat all the days, talking about poker and about life, family, politics, science, and others subjects.

We live distancing something about 1500 miles. And nowadays is the only friend I talk everyday.

I hope u all get at least one friend like that. GL

Cheers,

meagain00
 
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If course

I have several good friends I meet playing poker. We talk all the time and rarely about poker. We just talk about life and enjoy each other’s company.
 
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Riccoboni said:
I believe so. in all sports there is competition and true friends.
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no way is poker a sport lol, but yh agree
 
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I find it difficult ,because most players are not willing to talk during a tournament for example .
 
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For sure Met some very cool people but it seems the a holes are far more numerous on poker sites unfortunately
 
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well for me i think its possible to make friends everyware so i say yes
 
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I'm glad most of the replies are "Yes". Cos that's what I think.
I've made a couple of friends through poker and I play poker with good friends all the time and it's always been fine.
 
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Yes definitely i made very close friends at the tables
 
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Easier than being a enemy as such . Bad beats test the character lol
 
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Yes, I think it is possible but only when the friend you are playing with can deal with loss pretty well because at the tables there aren't really friends, you win or you lose, no mercy. If you play cash games with money you can afford to lose then I think game could be really fun with your friends.
 
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You could meet friends everywhere you go, it is up to you
 
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If you can, then only when playing in live tournaments, online it will be problematic, since it is very unlikely that you will intersect at the tables, and communication as such in online tournaments is much less than in live ones
 
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No. Why the players actually are very angry with others. Sad but true. I dont believe that can change.
 
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If your true friend is the person you want to get to know in order to beat the cards, then, first of all, I would stay away from you.
At the card table, only players who can communicate quite nicely, but not friends.
 
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I think so, sometimes bourn from a mutual dislike of another player who is disrespectful etc or from their own respectful interactions with each other.
 
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True friends I think it is very difficult, other than having a good vibes and being able to chat a little about poker during a game or during breaks, I do not think that you can take that to a friendship outside the poker environment. I believe that friends are achieved or given in other areas of life.
 
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I don't even think that adults can make really "true friends" as when you are a kid, but it's totally possible make good friends.
 
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