What is poker?

Get a beta key for SC2 imo.

it's all about hon guy

On May 13 2010 03:12 CrownRoyal wrote: it's all about hon guy

ya hon is rly addictive, i wouldnt even touch it if your that addicted to dota lol

where are you playing dota?

BABY DON"T HURT ME



DON"T HURT ME



NO MORE

It is very difficult to get motivation back when you are not running so good. I guess one way of getting some motivation back is reading a Poker Book.

I agree with you whole-heartedly. When I run bad, I tend to stay off of poker and grind out hours of sc/sc2/etc. Good to realize I've been doing this too, thanks for the blog. Gl with it, and keep us updated on your future =)

if poker isnt your main source if income and you don't enjoy why the fuck are you even playing it

Can relate to what you're saying bout getting "doomswitched" then go do something else for a month. I almost did it last week, I lost 7000e in a week, and I felt rly down, but I felt I was just getting rivered, coolered, unlucky, bad beat, and that if I just kept at it, It'd be alright, and actually last night, some weird thing happened, and for like 1 hour straight, I kept hitting everything, people kept just instagoing all in each time I had AA or KK, and sets left and right, like I had almost forgotten it could happen. And in 1 hour, BLAM 5000e, such a rush lol.

Glaaaad I didn't do what I normally do, and go in hiding for a month, then come back xD

On May 13 2010 05:04 Steal City wrote: BABY DON"T HURT ME DON"T HURT ME NO MORE

beat me to it

I'm sorry but this is like your millionth "step back, take a breather" post.

get sc2 bro

dont play dota...

it happens. when the last memory you have of poker is a doomswitch, breaks can last for a long time. sounds like that's what's happening to you. usually when it happens to me, what gets me back to the game is watching some poker show, mostly if my gf is watching poker after dark in the livingroom and i can just hear the action.. stuff like that. gets me thinking about the depths of poker again and how fun it really can be.

if you get back and your first session is good, the problem will be completely solved.

but games that youre addicted to is a bitch, i have mine too. i feel like they've cost me a looot of money through the years, but then again not everything is poker and if you had played every day while not being up for it, there's no way you would have played your A-game anyway.

good luck!

I've got other extra-curricular activities but essentially I agree with what you said -- as the games get rough and money is not the motivator I'd rather spend my leisure time on something else.

tl;dr

On May 13 2010 07:10 fenner wrote: if poker isnt your main source if income and you don't enjoy why the fuck are you even playing it

exactly

Poker has always been my hobby, a game that I play for fun and I never really played it for money since I started my job (you know me people, I make intentional -ev decisions that are fun, the last thing you want to do after a long stressfull day is to play long stressfull tight session).

And when Dota is more fun then poker is not worth playing... at least until I come back to my studies and I will be able to start taking it seriously.

When you have money for your BAU needs, drinking and a holiday here and there its pretty tough to enjoy poker as much when you get to play a varied game like dota... the thrill and doom of the monetary value is missing.

As Tommy Says, the best poker player is someone with POKER PRO mentality, Imagine that you would have to win at poker, or die.
You would do everything from healthy eating to joga pracing to strategy reviews and would inevitably crush the game.

Just something thats hard to achieve when you have a very limited time and a competing hobby, and don't really give a crap.



Btw nothing has changed on my plan of going pro after university for a year - Dota is better now because of the lack of stress, but I know that If I can play full time and can focus everything on poker then no video game on the planet can compete with it

The more more you're losing the less you want to play. Pretty natural. You'll come back eventually. It's also obviously clear you don't enjoy playing.