Are poker players the coolest people in the world?

fatguy wrote: »

You know what's not cool? Talking about yourself in the third person.

Listen up fatso and listen up good. Coolness is not measured by grammatical semantics. Coolness is being able to walk into a room wearing a pair of trousers that show off your hips and a shirt that is just the right tightness to be able to show off your toned masculine chest. Coolness isn't fat pants. Isn't wearing hawaiann shirts in an attempt to cover up your pudginess by trying to be zany. It definitely isn't having four doughnuts when one would suffice.

Pighead finds it very hard to believe you're a poker player fatguy. Just because you have a deck of cards doesn't mean you're the real deal. Maybe you're a wizard at "House" or "Old Maid" but not poker. You're like the guy who walks into a pool hall with his own cue but turns out to be rubbish. You're a false messiah fatguy. Not the real deal. A bad cover version. Not cool.

nicnicnic wrote: »

nuf said

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Not nearly "nuf said" nicnic. Pighead needs a password and username. PM it if you don't want the masses knowing your business.

c0rk3r wrote: »

Didn't Bernard Dunne knock that guy out of some poker tournament

Sure the top 2-5% of players who hoover up everyone elses chips are cool but the other 95% of players are losers. The pictures with millions of dollars are from thousands of players who payed maybe €5000-10000 for entry then lost.

I find the game boring and tedious. Fun with friends drinking and shooting the **** but a career... no. Too cut throat

Would have to disagree with you there c0rk3r. Pighead doesn't know many poker players in the real world as most of his evenings are spent playing indoor bowls with a bunch of decrepit cabbage smelling old people. But as a keen reader of the BBV thread in the poker forum it has struck Pighead over the years that the majority of posters in there are just cool. There's no other word for it. They just have their finger on the pulse and emit a certain coolness. Even the losers!

They have a sort of fatalistic attitude that gives them the ability to shrug off defeat with a joke and a cool word (busto). And far from being down and out degenarates they're actually really really clued in! Yer man kayroo and the boy hotspur wheel out paragraphs of words that make Pighead say stuff like "right on brother" or "you go girl". Pighead very rarely uses those sentences but those lads just make it happen.

And there's a guy called Armani Jeans. Really clever bloke who knows everything about everything and who somehow managed to make Big Brotehr sound interesting during the summer just gone! No way would a non poker player be able to achieve anything as impressive as that.

The poker players are far from gambling loser degenarates. Appearances can be deceptive. The poker players are this generations version of the drunken stinkin' literary rat pack that stumbled from pub to pub around Dublin in the 40's and 50's.