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NewbSaibot United States. Aug 27 2010 23:18. Posts 4948

So weird. Lately I can barely muster up the spirit to log into any poker site. My stomach turns in knots, my heartbeat starts racing, i start gnawing on my finger nails. The whole thing is just one big miserable experience. It's not the result of any particularly bad sessions or bad beats or anything either, it's just the whole faceless aspect of it all. I just get personally offended when someone calls me with K8o or 92s and all I can see is this faceless icon + screename. I feel like theyre hiding from me or something. I dont know how to describe it, it just bothers me. When I play live I take all sorts of bad beats and it doesnt bother me that much at all for some reason. Maybe it's just because I'm already in a good mood from the social atmosphere, maybe it's because I'm usually enjoying a free meal + drinks on the house. I enjoy talking to people, listening to people joke around and be funny bastards with their table talk, etc etc. All I know is when I go to play live I go feeling pumped. When I sit at a microstakes table online I just feel miserable. Maybe it has something to do with the money or something. It's not that I'm underrolled or anything, but I think it's just rather a lack of meaningful results. It's a real chore to play for an hour to win 80 cents or 2 bucks or whatever. Poker already sucks the life out of me, both live and online. I'm feverishly focused on every hand, to the point of wearing myself out when I get home. I think this extreme stress with no real results just runs its toll on me. At least live I can book a few hundred dollars in a winning session and get that sense of accomplishment. Online it's just another "uhhhhhhg gaaaawwwwd back to the grind, and for what? Pennies? Christ". I feel like how a McDonald's employee probably feels, just "please kill me now" kind of feeling.

Think I'm gonna hang up online play for awhile. I wonder if this has anything to do with why so many online regs have become live regs in the end.

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bye now

Last edit: 27/08/2010 23:31

Arirang Canada. Aug 27 2010 23:47. Posts 1673

Sounds more like money related by the end of it.

Perisie . Aug 28 2010 00:10. Posts 801

very common feeling for long term low stakes players, u just burn out, and i dont really know how to recover. its been 3 years or whatever (4?) since i played seriously, a few times a year i sit down to play 15,000 hands and i end up losing and feeling miserable every time. but thats the game

LsDDeaD Bulgaria. Aug 28 2010 02:15. Posts 165

I'm completely agreed with what you say.I used to play live poker before the online bum, and being a PC addicted I tried to switch to online poker after a couple a friends persuade me what a big deal it is.But as you said the feeling to sit down in fron the PC is way different from that of the live room, maybe, as I read in some Doyle Brunson's book, the feeling of the money is just not the same when you play online,In livve poker you know - at any time you can sit out, take all your profit and do whatever your heart desire with the money you've won, While there are situations when you may have a lot in your vritual bank and nothing in your pocket and that feeling just sucks.And yeah, the money from online poker will never be as easy as those from live.Playing 1/2 live is like playing 5/10 online, and I'm talking about the profit, not the difficulty of the game.So I think there's a piece for everyone, no need to feel blue if online isn't your game, just stick to whatever pleses you most and that's the best guarantee you will make money.If you don't enjoy the game it's way harder to turn a profit long term.