How do. I also have felt this way for last few months, pretty much why I havent been posting much.
I have always been a live player in the main, but do go through phases of pounding the hours online. I think just the sheer volume I was playing online just made me so robotic that much of the thrill went away. Committed to 4 - 6 tabling 6 max NL50 - 200 for a significant part of my day, depending on mindset and focus.
Thrill came back for a while studying to play 300+bb stacks but that evaporated pretty quickly also. I think maybe you hit the nail on the head talking of burnout. I mean its pretty common for all players to take a break from the table and freshen the perspective and take stock of things.
Frustratingly putting in so much time online has kind of killed some of my love for the live game.
My attempt at a soloution is that am trying to play a bit less, but taking time to sat into/or buy in direct to more meaningful live & online MTT's (which is my preferred format as a a whole) where each decision will be more thoughtful/situational rather than just crunching the hands.
But I think dabbling into alternative formats is great advice also. PLO ftw
I bet a mate of mine had wished he'd lost his poker buzz when a few years ago he got himself in to £30,000 worth of debt because A he was a bad player and B he played at stakes well out of his range.Last i heard he was still paying the debt off 3 years later.A lesson to us all...
i must thank you all for posting with suggestions, even the light hearted ones they made me laugh.
im going to play it day by day seeing how i feel. i have decided when i do log on to the tables i am gonna take a step back to begin with. its more to do with building some confidence back up.
there has been suggestions about withdrawing some money and spending elsewhere, well i had already done this since i had a decent month in july so my br is pretty much back to the min for what i would like to play nl10 so stepping back will help me in this respect.
when i hit these mini phases i always dabble elsewhere. i play a few tourneys (terribly) and muck about playing a little plo micro dyms just to change the thought processes so i kinda glad some of you made suggestions similar
once again many thanks and i will see some of you at the tables at some point.
So 90% said take a break and your not doing that ??? you cannot have lost your buzz that much then ? Posted by JPW33
i said im playing it day by day which means im not taking a set amount of days off, ie i not saying im taking the nxt 2 weeks off then in a few days time i feel good.
i also followed that statement up with " when i do log back on to the tables"
so as you can see i have said and following peoples advice that im stepping back from playing for how long im not sure
im not playing much at all now. im pretty much an "all or
nothin kinda person". spending most of my time either on or tinkering with my motorbike. i did a track day recently and got the bug for racing. going all in pre for your tourny life or hitting the nutz in cash whilst 300 bb deep is one way of getting your kicks, going round a bend at 100 + with your knee scraping on the ground is another.
Why not learn two new skills at the same time. One a new variant of poker and the other a skill, say golf. One has money rewards the other doesn't. As you start to learn and become better at each, you may see that contentment is key. If the buzz for poker in comparison isn't there then stop...simple. You then have something else to put in its place. I was the reverse. avid for golf and found poker. Golf is still there but in the background more because of recent medical probs/ moving further away from my course etc ut i still call it a hobby. At timesi'm not playing so much but still utting too much time into poker. Its a matter of BALANCE.... This may seem a mad idea but at least itsdifferent and may allow you to consider if the financial side is creating a problem. Pryce6 has written a very honest blog recently in which he is considering packing poker in complately. Read it as it isvery good and may help you to see whether you are at the same place as he is...good luck anyway...
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I have always been a live player in the main, but do go through phases of pounding the hours online. I think just the sheer volume I was playing online just made me so robotic that much of the thrill went away. Committed to 4 - 6 tabling 6 max NL50 - 200 for a significant part of my day, depending on mindset and focus.
Thrill came back for a while studying to play 300+bb stacks but that evaporated pretty quickly also. I think maybe you hit the nail on the head talking of burnout. I mean its pretty common for all players to take a break from the table and freshen the perspective and take stock of things.
Frustratingly putting in so much time online has kind of killed some of my love for the live game.
My attempt at a soloution is that am trying to play a bit less, but taking time to sat into/or buy in direct to more meaningful live & online MTT's (which is my preferred format as a a whole) where each decision will be more thoughtful/situational rather than just crunching the hands.
But I think dabbling into alternative formats is great advice also. PLO ftw
im going to play it day by day seeing how i feel. i have decided when i do log on to the tables i am gonna take a step back to begin with. its more to do with building some confidence back up.
there has been suggestions about withdrawing some money and spending elsewhere, well i had already done this since i had a decent month in july so my br is pretty much back to the min for what i would like to play nl10 so stepping back will help me in this respect.
when i hit these mini phases i always dabble elsewhere. i play a few tourneys (terribly) and muck about playing a little plo micro dyms just to change the thought processes so i kinda glad some of you made suggestions similar
once again many thanks and i will see some of you at the tables at some point.
good luck to you all
i also followed that statement up with " when i do log back on to the tables"
so as you can see i have said and following peoples advice that im stepping back from playing for how long im not sure
Why not learn two new skills at the same time. One a new variant of poker and the other a skill, say golf. One has money rewards the other doesn't. As you start to learn and become better at each, you may see that contentment is key. If the buzz for poker in comparison isn't there then stop...simple. You then have something else to put in its place. I was the reverse. avid for golf and found poker. Golf is still there but in the background more because of recent medical probs/ moving further away from my course etc ut i still call it a hobby. At timesi'm not playing so much but still utting too much time into poker. Its a matter of BALANCE....
This may seem a mad idea but at least itsdifferent and may allow you to consider if the financial side is creating a problem. Pryce6 has written a very honest blog recently in which he is considering packing poker in complately. Read it as it isvery good and may help you to see whether you are at the same place as he is...good luck anyway...