I hope that you will not have to come back one day and reread this post and see how ignorant it is because that will mean that you will not have had the experience of introducing a friend into gambling and having had them ruin their life.
All of this intellectualization of addiction will mean nothing to you when someone you care deeply for is in a hell that you to which you led them. You will wish that you could help them, but you will not be able to help them. You will wish one thing, "I wish that I had never introduced them to poker." And then you will see that your wish could have come true. If you had listened.
You can do what I did. You already have met a bunch of people playing poker. You already have a little network built up of poker people. There are web sites of people who play poker that you know about. Meet people there, who already play. Don't get your family members and loved ones involved proactively by going on about how great poker is. That is all I am saying to you. Do whatever you want other than that. Then you are not responsible for them and you are protecting them and caring for them.
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Date: 2006-02-28 15:19 (UTC)All of this intellectualization of addiction will mean nothing to you when someone you care deeply for is in a hell that you to which you led them. You will wish that you could help them, but you will not be able to help them. You will wish one thing, "I wish that I had never introduced them to poker." And then you will see that your wish could have come true. If you had listened.
You can do what I did. You already have met a bunch of people playing poker. You already have a little network built up of poker people. There are web sites of people who play poker that you know about. Meet people there, who already play. Don't get your family members and loved ones involved proactively by going on about how great poker is. That is all I am saying to you. Do whatever you want other than that. Then you are not responsible for them and you are protecting them and caring for them.