This is it...D-Day

[ACE2M]

I think people aspire to the wrong thing.

Why should suzanne not stop playing so much and not just play occasionaly with the knowledge that she knows what shes doing and just enjoy the game?

Most of us work full time and trying to make an amount of money that matters is just pie in the sky.

For people who can't roll out of bed mid afternoon and play a 1000+ hands a day it's just not going to happen for 90% of them.

Without having a go at any one, i think this take a break and come back refreshed etc line is a load of old bollocks. Re adjust what you aim to achieve seems far more realistic to me.

I think a lot of people should face the reality of playing poker, it's gambling with a skill element and most people aren't going to win because they don't have the time or inclination to put in the kind of effort it takes to make serious money from it.

I don't know who suzanne refers to as a bully but if shes right they should be banned for life.

[kinboshi]

I think the "take a break" was an alternative to her packing up for good - which she'd stated she intended to do.

Well, that's what I meant anyway.

[thetank]

I think people aspire to the wrong thing.

Why should suzanne not stop playing so much and not just play occasionaly with the knowledge that she knows what shes doing and just enjoy the game?

Most of us work full time and trying to make an amount of money that matters is just pie in the sky.

For people who can't roll out of bed mid afternoon and play a 1000+ hands a day it's just not going to happen for 90% of them.

Without having a go at any one, i think this take a break and come back refreshed etc line is a load of old bollocks. Re adjust what you aim to achieve seems far more realistic to me.

I think a lot of people should face the reality of playing poker, it's gambling with a skill element and most people aren't going to win because they don't have the time or inclination to put in the kind of effort it takes to make serious money from it.

Good post

[Graham C]

I think people aspire to the wrong thing.

Why should suzanne not stop playing so much and not just play occasionaly with the knowledge that she knows what shes doing and just enjoy the game?


Most of us work full time and trying to make an amount of money that matters is just pie in the sky.

For people who can't roll out of bed mid afternoon and play a 1000+ hands a day it's just not going to happen for 90% of them.

Without having a go at any one, i think this take a break and come back refreshed etc line is a load of old bollocks. Re adjust what you aim to achieve seems far more realistic to me.

I think a lot of people should face the reality of playing poker, it's gambling with a skill element and most people aren't going to win because they don't have the time or inclination to put in the kind of effort it takes to make serious money from it.

Good post

:iagree: and was just going to post something similar, in less words obviously

Seriously, no need to quit.  You don't have to be playing for thousands to enjoy it and you don't have to set your heights high to have motivation to play, just play it for what it is, a fun game.

[suzanne]

I think people aspire to the wrong thing.

Why should suzanne not stop playing so much and not just play occasionaly with the knowledge that she knows what shes doing and just enjoy the game?

Most of us work full time and trying to make an amount of money that matters is just pie in the sky.

For people who can't roll out of bed mid afternoon and play a 1000+ hands a day it's just not going to happen for 90% of them.

Without having a go at any one, i think this take a break and come back refreshed etc line is a load of old bollocks. Re adjust what you aim to achieve seems far more realistic to me.

I think a lot of people should face the reality of playing poker, it's gambling with a skill element and most people aren't going to win because they don't have the time or inclination to put in the kind of effort it takes to make serious money from it.

I don't know who suzanne refers to as a bully but if shes right they should be banned for life.

I was going to let this thread die a death because I regretted posting it but I thought it deserved a response.

To be honest ACE2M ive have got to the stage where it isnt an enjoyment anymore, it has become an obsession.

I read and watch anything and everything to try and improve my game. When I won that mtt I felt like it had finally all clicked into place and I was on cloud 9 that all my hard work had finally paid off.

Im a sensative wee soul and shouldnt have taken those comment to heart but I have sorted it out now.

My reason (right or wrong) for making the original post was because my sister who has only been playing a few weeks made the final table of a $50 mtt and cashed big time. I had looked at the game and thought it was out of my league.

It just got me so mad and i thought what is the point !!!

THANK YOU all for your positive comments and the pms

I love the game too much to give up but I am going to try and ease up a bit and not take it so serious.

[Colchester Kev]

THANK YOU all for your positive comments and the pms

LOLOLOL @ pms ....  

Do you know the best thing I have found out since starting this poker lark ..... "Evertyhing is relative"

What I mean is this,

us hobby/recreational players throw a few quid about playing a game we enjoy and we get an amazing buzz when we see our bankroll increasing by $30 here and $20 there, our aim is to play the game and have some fun, and to try and maintain a bankroll. to go for 3 or 4 months without depositing more money ...even if we are just maintaining our bankroll instead of increasing it .

Of course we enter some comps with a massive field hoping to score a top 3 or 4 place and get a decent amount of money .... but what is a decent score for us poker wise, is chicken feed to others and they will stake more than some can ever hope to draw from 1 comp in a day !!

So I never look at other peoples results with envy, I have my bankroll and my level of play, they have theirs. the good thing about playing small stakes poker is that getting a decent result means so much more to us ... Take Singapore, an amazing win for someone like me who plays $15,20 and 25 dollar STT's , that was a trip of a lifetime, it never cost me a penny piece ... and i truly enjoyed it, Contrast that with some of the "bigger stake" players that were over there, they looked stressed ,harrassed and downright bloody miserable ... it is work to them, It is their living .... I play the game for fun and enjoyment, and if at the end of the month, i can draw a few quid out to pay the gas bill and the phone bill etc ... HAPPY DAYS !!  if i cant, well so what, I have spent a month doing something that gives me pleasure and makes me happy .....

I suppose what I am trying to say is that although we all have dreams and aspirations in poker, you have to be realistic, unless I win the Lottery or something, I will never have the money to buy in to the comps that i regularly go and watch my friends play in, they are simply beyond my means.
would i like to play them ? yes too right I would !!  but I cant and have accepted that fact.

I will keep on plodding and enjoying a game of poker knowing that if i lose this game, It doesnt mean that im stuffed for the next month and will have to be nipping of all and sundry to try and get into the next game to feed my family...
Like I said, its all relative.

[ifm]

Bloody hell Mugly, that's actually a good post.

[steeley68]

Bloody hell Mugly, that's actually a good post.

  you know, I agree (I will hate myself, but, I agree)

[Sark79]

THANK YOU all for your positive comments and the pms

LOLOLOL @ pms ....  

Do you know the best thing I have found out since starting this poker lark ..... "Evertyhing is relative"

What I mean is this,

us hobby/recreational players throw a few quid about playing a game we enjoy and we get an amazing buzz when we see our bankroll increasing by $30 here and $20 there, our aim is to play the game and have some fun, and to try and maintain a bankroll. to go for 3 or 4 months without depositing more money ...even if we are just maintaining our bankroll instead of increasing it .

Of course we enter some comps with a massive field hoping to score a top 3 or 4 place and get a decent amount of money .... but what is a decent score for us poker wise, is chicken feed to others and they will stake more than some can ever hope to draw from 1 comp in a day !!

So I never look at other peoples results with envy, I have my bankroll and my level of play, they have theirs. the good thing about playing small stakes poker is that getting a decent result means so much more to us ... Take Singapore, an amazing win for someone like me who plays $15,20 and 25 dollar STT's , that was a trip of a lifetime, it never cost me a penny piece ... and i truly enjoyed it, Contrast that with some of the "bigger stake" players that were over there, they looked stressed ,harrassed and downright bloody miserable ... it is work to them, It is their living .... I play the game for fun and enjoyment, and if at the end of the month, i can draw a few quid out to pay the gas bill and the phone bill etc ... HAPPY DAYS !!  if i cant, well so what, I have spent a month doing something that gives me pleasure and makes me happy .....

I suppose what I am trying to say is that although we all have dreams and aspirations in poker, you have to be realistic, unless I win the Lottery or something, I will never have the money to buy in to the comps that i regularly go and watch my friends play in, they are simply beyond my means.
would i like to play them ? yes too right I would !!  but I cant and have accepted that fact.

I will keep on plodding and enjoying a game of poker knowing that if i lose this game, It doesnt mean that im stuffed for the next month and will have to be nipping of all and sundry to try and get into the next game to feed my family...
Like I said, its all relative.

I like this post Kev. n1

[byronkincaid]

"i think anyone that has the ability to walk away from the game when things are going badly and that can control tilt can beat 5-10nl (assuming they are maybe average intelligence or even slightly below)."

taylor caby (green plastic)

[thetank]

I think you may underestimate the skills you have Byron. (I don't know though, having not played much of that sorta cash)