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Online poker players are a unique breed. Ask them to make dinner and it might- quite rationally –
be toast served in a bowl. Ask them what day it is and they might struggle unless it’s a Sunday. Ask them to go to the toilet every 60 minutes at 55 minutes past the hour and they’ll happily comply.
During this enforced lockdown due to the Coronavirus lockdown, however, we honour the poker widows and widowers
who are abiding their poker partner at this difficult time. Here are seven ways that you, the poker player, can make their lives easier. Much easier.
1. Resist Telling Bad Beat Stories
Bad beat stories don’t help you, they really don’t. They can often feel like you’ve vented at the time and letting go of stress can help. It’s like swearing when you stub your toe on a piece of Lego discarded by a child as if to land perfectly under the sole of your bare foot on the stairs as you descend them for breakfast.
2. Stay Fresh
One of the biggest annoyances you can inflict upon your better half (face facts) is not to smell your freshest. Despite what some spouses might say, online poker sessions lasting eight hours or more are hard, intensive work, they really are. Unless you’re extremely quick in the shower then you’re going to try on deodorant
3. Share the Wealth
If you are successful at the online felt, then the best thing you can do with your money is to help other people. Of course, for many people this will start at home, as their nearest and dearest may have lost jobs or are feeling the pinch of using more energy now the whole family are at home.
4. Spend More Time in Reality
When you’re not playing online poker, one of the most important things you can do is to engage with your family and friends in their daily life. From using your garden for exercise or connecting over a board game or playing alternative card games that others might enjoy, stay rooted in reality.
5. Hand Over the Remote Control
If your other half has been donning the teacher’s hat all day, then they should probably decide whether you’re watching Prison Break or Pottery Throwdown. It just makes good sense to defer this decision at this time of crisis.
6. Ask About Them
Helping them stay in touch with others is a good idea, but now is the time to step up and be the person they share a coffee with, or chat over the water purifier. You’re both going to need to be each other’s best friend, but while you still have the same outlets to communicating with others, they might not.
7. Wash Your Hands
Online poker players are a unique breed. Ask them to make dinner and it might- quite rationally –
be toast served in a bowl. Ask them what day it is and they might struggle unless it’s a Sunday. Ask them to go to the toilet every 60 minutes at 55 minutes past the hour and they’ll happily comply.
During this enforced lockdown due to the Coronavirus lockdown, however, we honour the poker widows and widowers
who are abiding their poker partner at this difficult time. Here are seven ways that you, the poker player, can make their lives easier. Much easier.
1. Resist Telling Bad Beat Stories
Bad beat stories don’t help you, they really don’t. They can often feel like you’ve vented at the time and letting go of stress can help. It’s like swearing when you stub your toe on a piece of Lego discarded by a child as if to land perfectly under the sole of your bare foot on the stairs as you descend them for breakfast.
2. Stay Fresh
One of the biggest annoyances you can inflict upon your better half (face facts) is not to smell your freshest. Despite what some spouses might say, online poker sessions lasting eight hours or more are hard, intensive work, they really are. Unless you’re extremely quick in the shower then you’re going to try on deodorant
3. Share the Wealth
If you are successful at the online felt, then the best thing you can do with your money is to help other people. Of course, for many people this will start at home, as their nearest and dearest may have lost jobs or are feeling the pinch of using more energy now the whole family are at home.
4. Spend More Time in Reality
When you’re not playing online poker, one of the most important things you can do is to engage with your family and friends in their daily life. From using your garden for exercise or connecting over a board game or playing alternative card games that others might enjoy, stay rooted in reality.
5. Hand Over the Remote Control
If your other half has been donning the teacher’s hat all day, then they should probably decide whether you’re watching Prison Break or Pottery Throwdown. It just makes good sense to defer this decision at this time of crisis.
6. Ask About Them
Helping them stay in touch with others is a good idea, but now is the time to step up and be the person they share a coffee with, or chat over the water purifier. You’re both going to need to be each other’s best friend, but while you still have the same outlets to communicating with others, they might not.
7. Wash Your Hands
