Well, I guess this is as good a thread as any to introduce myself, especially since it's usually norm to state why you started/like poker.
Funny thing for me, I'm not really a gambler, or I didn't use to be. My husband (yes, I'm female
) is the one who played poker online all the time. But then I went on Maternity Leave from work and was bored sitting at home all day. He let me sign into his account and play a few rounds. That's all it took for me to fall in love with Hold'em. I think it also helps that I am very competive and love to win and I seemed to do fairly well for a beginner.
So, the "why do I do it" and the "what do I get out of it?" is that I can prove that I am better than the others out there.
My goals right now are just to win more often than not. It took me a while to learn that I can't win every hand I go into, or to win every tournament or SNG that I join. But as long as my win percentage is higher than my lose percentage, I'm happy. But then shouldn't that be everyone's goal? I'm sure people don't play poker just to lose money.
Eventually, I'd love to make it to a WPT or WSOP, but that is definitely a long way off. I'm not even close to playing poker like a professional yet.
Right now, the majority of my play is online, since that is where I started to learn, that's where I play best. I'm sure I have huge tells and I need to lose those before I play too many live games. As well, I need to learn to read live tells, I haven't mastered that yet. Although, now that both my husband and I play, we've started hosting our own home games.