I used to love playing live or online back when I first quit working, I guess it was a novelty and obviously the fact everyone was giving money away helped.
I always enjoyed live because it's fun interacting and there can be so many interesting characters about. As said there is always someone with a story to tell, if you end up at a table with a bunch of morons you can always throw the earphones in and pretend you're listening to music.
In the last few years since I started working I can rarely motivate myself to play online and will generally only flash up a few little tourneys on a Sunday when I'm railing the NFL.
I always go to Vegas intending to play a good schedule of tournaments then get so exciteable at the thought of eating sick food and just getting smashed all the time it goes out of the window. The year just gone I played 3 tourneys in 2 weeks and that was 2 more than I did the previous year when there for 3 weeks.....
I think after reading about Tikay and Lil Dave's exploits in PLO cash this last month I might try to learn PLO and HiLo so I can play those in Vegas next summer. The thought of being able to sit/leave as and when I please is so appealing when there is so much other stuff to do.
I find that once I sit to play I'm fine and really enjoy it, it's just getting to the table that I struggle with
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