50k VPP, girlfriend issues, philosophy of gaming

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vltava United States. Oct 15 2010 16:33. Posts 1742

Man, girlfriend + piano lessons + poker is hard. Add in the fact that I waste time doing stuff like playing random games on the side, and I don't know how I even manage to survive. Bought a new laptop a month ago, but then procrastinated about getting HEM up and running because it tends to be such a pain in the ass to set up, so I didn't play any poker for three weeks or so. However, about a week ago I finally got HEM working and I've started hitting the SNG's and $4/$8 8-game again, hitting the 50k VPP mark for the year today. I'm up close to $3k in that time. I also uninstalled MTG Online yesterday, to reduce pointless distractions.

Obviously my supernova goal is trivially easy at this point, thanks to getting up to the $60's. So I think I need to focus on just playing a lot. I can use the milestones as little motivators, but it would be irresponsible, I think, to only just barely make supernova by the end of the year. Also, Carol and I have agreed to break up, but at the moment, I'm not planning on moving out until after the semester ends, so I can focus on school, and so I will be able to devote a decent amount of time to apartment hunting. So I think that it would be wise to make it before the end of the semester.

I definitely need to live alone in a house or apartment, not rent a room or have a room mate. I need the freedom to play poker, practice the piano, and go to concerts on my own schedule. Barring the unlikely event that I meet a liberal atheist female who likes poker and classical music, I'm going to need to be single in order to do the things that matter to me. C'est la vie, although I'm not completely giving up hope.

WoW is very tempting with Cataclysm coming out next month. I've never tried to figure out what my hourly winrate is all that precisely, but I should probably do that soon, so I can estimate how many hours per month WoW would take away from poker, so I can calculate how much playing the game generally costs me (hint: it's more than $19.95 per month). I guess I should remember the general principle: My obsession with games and my perennial difficulties in life finally started to resolve each other when I discovered poker. Although poker isn't huge loads of fun like it was when it was fresh and new, I keep myself playing by reminding myself how much better it's made my life, and how tough my life was before it.

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tooker: there is very little money in stts.

Last edit: 15/10/2010 19:19

dogmeat Czech Republic. Oct 15 2010 16:48. Posts 6374

ban baal

vltava United States. Oct 15 2010 16:54. Posts 1742

I didn't say alone, I just said without a live-in girlfriend. =) FWB and the like are hardly out of the picture.

tooker: there is very little money in stts.

morph1 Sierra Leone. Oct 15 2010 16:56. Posts 2352

Man, girlfriend + piano lessons + poke .. so u have a boyfriend and girlfriend... interesting

Always Look On The Bright Side of Life

vltava United States. Oct 15 2010 17:02. Posts 1742

LOL

tooker: there is very little money in stts.

SPEWTARD Peru. Oct 15 2010 19:31. Posts 4306

piano lessons are awesome, im takin those aswell

Rise and Shine

YoMeR United States. Oct 15 2010 21:00. Posts 12438

man, I'm glad poker makes your life better. Took me forever to finally make poker a positive force in my life rather than a self destructive tool for the lawl self-implosion.

eZ Life.