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for me!

I had/and have promised myself that I will play no more online poker once my current money on BPL goes, and, well, it just has...

I am registered for the next two BPL tourns and then that is that.

I'm not losing a massive amount of money but it has become more of a distraction, in terms of time, than I can afford to have at the moment, and, more of an extra cost per month than I would have liked. Rather than head down the 'online poker is rigged route' I have decided that I just can't take the 'variance' that is involved to play at a level that I enjoy... and being of a maths based background I just can't bring myself to terms with suffering anymore than my fair share of bad beats.

So I have two more tourns and that will be that for as long as I can possibly go. I will still play some live games once I have more time, but me and online poker are finished.... and so if you ever see TheAuditor or Rooky9 at a table then give him a shout and remind, na, barate him for being so weak and for going back on this self inflicted excile!!

GL at the tables....

Makes a refreshing change to see someone who knows when to give up after losing money.

Good luck to you.  Nothing to stop you coming back if you re-evaluate a few months down the line.

A great honest post - nice to see.

GL in life, and as MrMoves says, maybe you will be back once you re evaluate things at a later date.

Thanks for the replies... to be honest I wasn't sure if anyone would (2 from 86 views) - it seems to be a bit of a taboo subject and I can't recall anyone saying they were a losing online player on here!

Thanks for the luck. I think I am lucky in that I have been able to take any losses because of my income but I'm sure there are others who may not be able to. It's sometimes good to just stop and make sure we don't lose sight of that possibility....

thanks again...

A brave post mate, good luck.

Peeps don't reply because they don't want to encourage or discourage you in your decisions at what is obviously a delicate time.

gl anyway

I also thought this was a really interesting post.  It kind of chimes with a post I just made on the "Blonde Poker site honest opinions" board.  Maybe this is just an observation from people I know but I think more players who started playing online within the last two years or so are realising that you can be a pretty good player (if you've already spent some time developing your game) and also be profitable (or at least not loss making) without devoting massive amounts of your time to it on an ongoing basis.  (I note you focused on the time element rather than the losses).

In a way it's developing a properly recreational relationship with the game, realising that actually you are not a aiming to be a professional poker player so why are you playing every damn day!  It's supposed to be fun remember (even if it's really only fun when you're winning!).

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Red - This is not really a delicate time for me. It was an easy decision and one which i have managed to make without getting into any trouble. I put it on here for two reasons. firstly if i didnt i know i'd probably just keep playing. secondly i do believe there are a large number of people who lose money they can't afford to, and, it is this subject that never seems to be highlighted.

there a blonde poker honest opinions board?

and i cant find the caption comp thread!!!!!!!!!!!!!

WHAT THE HELLS GOING ON

Right i wanna see the income, expenditure, papers, tax bills, work reciepts, corporate sponsership deals and advertising deals. THE LOT!

wheres the mods i demand answers :D

Good post chris... I do think it has been taken slightly out of context as he has never professed to aiming to be the wsop champion, unless another one of his reraises gets thru in the home game!!!

With shouts of i was only ever a 2-1 dog echoin around the room. Chris has learnt alot about the game in a short space of time but he has his accountancy exams coming up and need to concentrate on them!

He will come back with a new lease of life and ready to be a 2-1 dog all over again!

Good luck in the exams mate, and i'll try and get a wsop won this year (your 15% managers fee is safe!)

So what you're saying that you want more spam?  ;ifm;

Lol.  Sorry, I was referring to the "Any unbiased opinions on Blonde Poker's poker room?" thread in the Internet Poker section.

i want to disscuss spam.

I'd like to entertain the idea that its more common than people believe it to be.

i'd like to posulate over the idea that spam is somehow the opitome of modern day capitalism.

i like to eat some spam.

i'd like to see some example spam(possibly earlier confiscated by the spam police still with its little hand spamcuffs on)

i'd like to share jokes about spam

i want to listen to spam doing a cover version of pj and duncans lets get ready to rumble.

BUT BY NO MEANS DO I WANNA SEE SPAM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 :pop: ;goodvevil;

You ain't foolin' anyone, admit it, you're a spamaholic.

what is it?

Or you could just play for fun and pleasure(too many people talk about becoming winning players and iam a winning player etc etc Zzzz)
Buy a £20 quick cash voucher at William hill every now and then, deposit it and play the Mtt sats to the 10k/15k if you get it GREAT if not you have had a bit of fun !!!!

Interesting thread and one close to my heart just lately.
I came to a decision a few months ago relating to online poker in that i just can't win consistently, i feel this is for several reasons:

Firstly you need the bankroll to play the better events, when i say better i mean with better and fewer players. You enter a $10 comp and you invariably get 200+ players, enter a $100 comp and you are looking at a more manageable field (and better players, i suscribe to the view that better players are easier to play against).

I have been trying too many different games, some cash, some sng's, some multis and various variations, PLO, PLO8 etc.
I am trying to find MY game but don't stick to any long enough to find out!.

I am too impatient.

I have lost more than i ever expected or wanted to and now i think i try too hard.
So i decided to stop it, stop trying to make copious amounts of money and just have some fun, i think we all dream of hitting a winning streak and walking into work, smacking the boss and retire 30 years early, the truth is very few have the ability or determination to do it.

My decision is to just play the smaller games, sng's and multis for less than $10 and a lot less than i was, i have a bankroll now of about $1000 shared amongst many sites so i can't play the bigger events anymore.
I also want to go back to more live poker as i was for the majority of last year, i'm only talking £10 and £20 rebuys and the odd fessie event but these i have far more success in.
Last year i was plus £11k in live events but this year i have just been too lazy to travel.

Wow gotta be one of my longer posts :)

long or short it doesn't matter, its a bloody good post

enjoy the compliment, i do compliments once every six years for you Ian!!

 :goodpost: though I can't believe you could concentrate for this long. :D

Swoon *thump*

 :goodpost: *g :)up ;iagree;  :respect: ;goodluck;

Well, you're pretty stuffed then.

UPDATE....

I passed my exams that I was studying for, even managed to please the big boss with an 84% and 78% - three months until the next set!

I tried to deposit some money once they were over on Pokerroom, the site I first played on..... three bloody weeks later and the money hasn't turned up in my account even though it left my bank account the day after the deposit! I have had so many phone calls and live chats to ppl from pokerroom all over the world with no success to date! I asked for the contact details for their internal audit department because I wanted to see if there was anything more fraudulent in this hold up but they wouldnt give me them...

luckily I have managed to play at my old level on another site without depositing and playing to play and build a roll is working far better than my old chuck some money on when i see a comp i want to play!

I played a live game the other week and came third...

So I am back Playing poker until the exams get too much but i will not be going down the route of putting small amounts of money on to play a specific comp (unless there is really value and Tikay has a bounty on him!)

Anyhow, the point of the post is...

STAY AWAY FROM POKERROOM!

great results - well done!

Funilly enough i too gave up serious online poker for at least 2 months on Monday. I want to take at least a month off from playing on pokerstars before the world series as i want to get some practice on my live game instead. I believe even though the live and online game are exactly the same you need to play a different way to be successful in both and i dont want to be taking my online game over to Vegas with me.

I'll still play the odd blondepokerleague event and the occasional $100000k freeroll on stars before i go but apart from that - NO MORE!!

(i'll probably start getting serious withdrawal symptoms by sunday!!  :D)

I've had a losing cash game streak for about 8 weeks prior to 3 weeks ago of about £4k
and my poker calculator says the hands i lost with don't compute lol

Decided to only play a few hours a day here and there until after WSOP and play lots whilst i'm out there and maybe only play live here when i get back

Well done on your exam results Rooky  :)up

At the weekend when Blonde was down I found myself browsing the net when I came across positive PROOF that online poker is rigged.

This is quite an old post so I expect many of you will have seen it but for those that havent

http://www.billrini.com/index.php/2004/11/30/proof-that-online-poker-is-rigged

PS am I allowed to post that? Please delete if not.