You Might Have A Poker Addiction When...
From a thread on rec.gambling.poker

• You don't get "road rage," you start driving "on tilt." -- Terrence Chan

• You start classifying people on your life as "weak-tight" or "loose-passive," even when they've never set foot in a poker room. -- Terrence Chan

• You can stack $10.00 worth of quarters into 8 perfect stacks of 5 quarters each in three seconds flat. -- Terrence Chan

• You yell, "Send it!" at the ATM when you withdraw cash. -- Terrence Chan

• You go out to a restaurant and tip the waitress the second she brings your food. -- Terrence Chan

• You use the phrase "bad beat" when lending a sympathetic ear to a friend. -- Terrence Chan

• The guy on TV didn't win the lottery, he had the "nut ticket". -- Terrence Chan

• You drive 35 miles with a bad battery and know you'll need a jump when you leave. -- SYeates485

• But you pawn your jumper cables for a buy-in. -- Gary Carson

• You fill up your gas tank before going in almost like a savings account you cannot lose. -- SYeates485

• You tip your wife $.50 when she brings you a beer while watching baseball on tv. -- NoPairKid

• You intentionally start a fight with your spouse so you can righteously storm out of the house saying "I don't have to take this!" and head to the poker room. -- Claude

• It's been more than 24 hours since the first time you told yourself "Just one more round and then I'll get some sleep." -- Claude

• Your two ATM cards and five credit cards have all reached their maximum cash advance for the day. -- Claude

• You figure if your family leaves you that will give you more time and money and you can move up to a bigger limit. -- Claude

• You figure there's still another higher game to get you unstuck after you started at 10-20 and moved up to 15-30, then 30-60, trying to get even. -- Claude

• You finally get back to even on IRC, check the log in the player info, and see you've been playing for 19 hours and 59 minutes. -- John Cervanyk

• You get an invite to a new home game and play until 3:30 am. It takes a solid week of begging and promises to your wife to get to go to the second game, and you play until 6:00 am. -- John Cervanyk

• You lose down to two chips and you still can't make yourself get up and go home. -- John Cervanyk

• You check for new posts in RGP more often than you check your e-mail. -- John Cervanyk

• Your kids are named Check and Raise. -- John Cervanyk

• You have 12 games on your computer, solitaire, minesweeper, and 10 poker games. -- John Cervanyk

• Your bathroom library consists of Card Player and Poker Digest. -- John Cervanyk

• You are a charter member of alt.cheap.bastard but you have $600 worth of chips in your collection. -- John Cervanyk

• The only reason you go to your in-law's for Thanksgiving is for the nickel, dime, quarter game after dinner. -- John Cervanyk

• Or because they live closer to Oceans 11. -- SYeates485

• You are having such a bad day at hold 'em that you decide to take a break... and play Omaha. -- Michael Geifman

• The only time you play tight is from 11:40 p.m. to 12 so that you won't lose your seat before you can hit the ATM for your next day's withdrawl. -- Ken Kubey

• Your sweetie gets a certain look in her eye and you think it means that she want to go to the cardroom. -- Ken Kubey

• You have nightmares about your cards changing during the hand. -- Ken Kubey

• You have dreams about poker where you bet food instead of chips. -- Ken Kubey

• You fret over whether you should get a medium or large Coke at McDonald's, but laugh at the $3 ATM fee at your local cardroom. -- Ken Kubey

• You play all night, drive home, take a quick shower, go to work, leave work eight hours later and go play five hours of live no-limit hold 'em. -- Ken Kubey

• You have a poker chip in your pocket right now. -- Ken Kubey

• You nearly explode your bladder because, "That next hand might be the one where I get back to even." -- Ashley