Another question is how do you stop burn out. Such at tikay and Neil who've been playing for years and other players. Does it not take a toll on your health? Playing and grinding till early hours day after day. Posted by Darkangel7
Both Neil & I have been playing for a very long time - Neil far longer than me - but I doubt we have played as much poker as many modern day online players. They can play as many MTT's in a single night as we'd play "Live" in a year.
"burn out" is impossible for me, as poker is not a chore, or hard work, or anything like that - it's a hobby, where I have fun, so burn out is impossible.
"playing & grinding?".......well I play, but I don't "grind". I loathe the term, it has negative connotations. Plenty of humdrum jobs in life must be a "grind", life must be a grind for many, but poker can never be a grind for me - if it ever became a grind I'd snap quit. It's fun. "grinding" does not sound like fun to me.
I play the hours I feel comfy with - usually 4 or 5 hours per evening. If the games kept going longer (they don't in my preferred format) I'd play a lot longer, but that'd be a problem, as I like to get up between 5 & 6am every morning.
I was in Vegas recently, & I hope this does not sound chirpy, but some of the playing days there were extremely long. I made 5 Day Two's, including 3 x WSOP Day Two's, so that means Day One would be 14 hours or so, & then we started again at Midday or 2pm the next day. I played one little (by Vegas standards) Big O Comp that cost $240 (about £180) to enter, & it started at 2pm in the afternoon & we finished at 0630 the next morning. So that was 16 hours straight (minus breaks, but breaks are a pain & are not really breaks at all). And so those days were mentally exhausting, keeping concentration all that time, but adrenalin is a wonderful thing & hypes you up. And the next morning, when you are due to start again, the adrenalin hangover kicks in, & you feel a little flat. But it's abso not a grind, its why we play poker for days like that, surely? Not sure I've ever played any online sessions of even half that length, but "live" is so different, so interesting, so exciting.
Health issues? This sounds a bit bizarre, but I'm not a young man, & I'm not well-maintained, far from it. And I took the view that this might be my last ever Vegas trip, so I actually trained for it. I started trying to get fitter & lose weight on January 16th, & walked between 2 & 4 miles every single day until June 2nd, the day before I left for Vegas. (Over 300 miles in total). I lost almost 3 stone, & was in the best nick I'd been for years. And I genuinely believe that helped me have my most successful Vegas trip ever. So yes, it helps to be healthy if you plan to play a lot of lengthy poker sessions.
Thank you for the reply Tikay. Live and online playing are two different kind of animals, so having so little live experience and playing online are totally different. Live you've got the cards and the chips to physically touch where as online it's all buttons and sliders. Also live your probably chatting to people at the table and can see tells etc. Online none of that just chat or abuse (when you either ko someone or "play a bad hand and win") and can multi table.
Vegas won't be the same without you Tikay. I know how hard you worked and loved the reporting from everyone. It felt I was there living the dream with you and the rest of the sky players. Thank you for that too.
Get up to date woman.Devil binked something the other day after your gl post. Its a good job i live in the south innit. Wednesdays main event.Good lord youre a scatterbrain at times.lol Posted by chilling
Scattiest brain going at the minute but have a heart of gold :P and no you can't weigh it in
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"burn out" is impossible for me, as poker is not a chore, or hard work, or anything like that - it's a hobby, where I have fun, so burn out is impossible.
"playing & grinding?".......well I play, but I don't "grind". I loathe the term, it has negative connotations. Plenty of humdrum jobs in life must be a "grind", life must be a grind for many, but poker can never be a grind for me - if it ever became a grind I'd snap quit. It's fun. "grinding" does not sound like fun to me.
I play the hours I feel comfy with - usually 4 or 5 hours per evening. If the games kept going longer (they don't in my preferred format) I'd play a lot longer, but that'd be a problem, as I like to get up between 5 & 6am every morning.
I was in Vegas recently, & I hope this does not sound chirpy, but some of the playing days there were extremely long. I made 5 Day Two's, including 3 x WSOP Day Two's, so that means Day One would be 14 hours or so, & then we started again at Midday or 2pm the next day. I played one little (by Vegas standards) Big O Comp that cost $240 (about £180) to enter, & it started at 2pm in the afternoon & we finished at 0630 the next morning. So that was 16 hours straight (minus breaks, but breaks are a pain & are not really breaks at all). And so those days were mentally exhausting, keeping concentration all that time, but adrenalin is a wonderful thing & hypes you up. And the next morning, when you are due to start again, the adrenalin hangover kicks in, & you feel a little flat. But it's abso not a grind, its why we play poker for days like that, surely? Not sure I've ever played any online sessions of even half that length, but "live" is so different, so interesting, so exciting.
Health issues? This sounds a bit bizarre, but I'm not a young man, & I'm not well-maintained, far from it. And I took the view that this might be my last ever Vegas trip, so I actually trained for it. I started trying to get fitter & lose weight on January 16th, & walked between 2 & 4 miles every single day until June 2nd, the day before I left for Vegas. (Over 300 miles in total). I lost almost 3 stone, & was in the best nick I'd been for years. And I genuinely believe that helped me have my most successful Vegas trip ever. So yes, it helps to be healthy if you plan to play a lot of lengthy poker sessions.
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