Might take a break

[Reel Deal]

^^ This is why JD is going to be scary good one day... hell, he's scary good now, I shutter to think of an improved JD. That would be, dare I say, quite awesomer.

[BrianSwa]

that is exactly why I quit playing online poker, just wasnt fun for me anymore. Playing $50 nl and under was just boring to me and I didnt have the bankroll to go up (not like that really stopped me). I still enjoy playing live and I do whenever I have a chance to but as for online im pretty much done with it.

been like a month now since I have even loaded a poker site and I do miss it a little but not as much as I thought I would. I say if you are like me and dont enjoy it anymore quit.

[Boobie Lover]

As a grinder, I'm sure most people would not enjoy playing as many hands as I do. Others would bore at the monotony of the game, and as a result make some horrible decisions because of the boredom. I, though in a sick and twisted way, actually enjoy the grind. I enjoy putting hands in, and, of course, the expected financial returns that accompany it.

There is something about myself that I just enjoy about moving up the stakes and the extra challenges that accompany each step up. I also get satisfaction in just building my bankroll exponentially. I believe if I ever played some massively-multiplayer RPG (like WOW), I would be one of those junkies that plays for 48 hours straight. Luckily though, poker is not as addicting as that. If it was, I might never venture outdoors.

[lightfungus]

Yeah, don't do that. I was recently curious about an MMORPG, and I got pick-pocketed out of 12 days of my life (thats play time btw, hence my absence the earlier part of this year). I fear that once I leave the proximity of a real casino, online just won't appeal to me as much. I enjoy the social atmosphere, and I enjoy reading people. Heck, I do it in real life to pass time and operate normally. Akverno, if you are near a real casino, maybe you could give that a shot.

[Akverno]

Oh, what I would give to be near a real casino fungus.

I tried moving up in stakes, so far it's working I'm actually having fun. It's weird risking that much money at the tables. I'm definately not playing scared money, but it's nice to actually be risking something again. My game these days is 6-max lim. Shabi had mentioned earlier that playing 300xbb bankroll in these games is a little risky so I was trying to adhere to having more then 300x bb in my bankroll to play these. There's just something boring about playing for twenty bucks when I've got 4-5 hundo in the account, so after I got 4th in the heads up I moved up to 1/2 lim which is was still boring (but after a couple k hands I was still a winner at these levels). So I bumped it up again to 2/4 lim six max with between 2-300 x bb in the bankroll. So far so good I'm up a couple of hundred (started with right at 200bb and i'm nearing in on 300 now). If I take a slide I can move back in levels again, but 2/4 seems very beatable, the players sit down with less then optimal cash at the tables more often and people tend to be more passive then at the lower levels I was playing.

So, we'll see, if I continue to do well you might be hearing that I bumped it up to 3/6 after I near in on 300x bb for that game.


Disclaimer: I know it's risky to be playing 6-max without a huge bankroll to back it up, but I can risk the loss if need be now, before I couldn't.

[lightfungus]

Thata boy, sometimes a little risk isn't too bad as long as you are having fun and know what could happen.