Life's funny sometimes. Well, at least my life is. Back in January, I was a regular blog poster and a more regular online poker player. I was pretty much blogging every day, and playing poker even more often. In fact, I think I averaged about 4 hours a night on PokerStars during the week and more often than that on the weekends. In other words, I was a poker junkie. I couldn't get enough of it. I must have burned out pretty quick though, because as I write today, I went from the middle of January until the middle of July without even playing one hand of online poker, until...
...the Thursday night before our camping and canoeing trip, I was pretty bored. I got on the computer and noticed the PokerStars icon on my desktop and thought 'I haven't done this in a while, why not?' I played maybe about a half hour that night and won $20 playing .25/.50 limit hold 'em 6 seated. But more importantly, I think the desire to play had returned. For some reason or another, online poker had lost all it's enjoyment to me. I'm sure it couldn't have been the fact that I was playing 40 hours a week and burning myself out in the process... nah!
Anyway, now I'm a little older, and hopefully wiser. I've got the poker bug back, and this time around, I think I'll be going about things a little bit differently. I've been playing online here and there for the past couple of weeks, but never for more than an hour at a time. I'm playing lower limits (now up to $.50/$1.00 limit 6-seated) than I was back in January, and it's still really enjoyable. The results show that too. When I left the game back in January, I had $177 in my account. Today, I have $290 or so (had it up to $323 a couple of days ago, but took a few tough beats). The plan is to pace myself so I don't have any future long absences from the virtual felt.
Blogging again, poker again - it's just like old times!
By the way, I noticed back in January that I posted my best 10 hands, with a promise to post my worse ten. I'll do that sometime soon, with an updated list of my ten best.
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I haven't played much online lately either. Every once in a while, I'll play a SNG or something, but, I'd say once a month or so is about it. I was just getting bored with it and had been on a long enough loosing streak that I lost interest. I should log on and play one of these days.
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