sangheilios
Master Don Juan
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I haven't posted a thread on here in a while, honestly been pretty busy and overall doing well in my life.
The beginning of the year, around late February/Early March, I had a long time gym friend that ended up moving and I honestly didn't really have anyone to talk to. I don't have any other friends or family in the area and I started getting bored/lonely and around this time I started going to the casino to play poker. I enjoy playing and it got me out of the house and around people and I usually would have a good time. I did well enough through the spring and summer to make some money doing it that allowed me to play with "house money". However, over that time it started becoming a distraction from other things in my life, not fully but I wasn't as fully focused on working towards achieving my goals, bettering my life, etc. At this time, I wasn't losing money but all I was getting out of it was some quick hit of dopamine and entertainment for a few hours.
I had a vacation around labor day and was away from the tables for a couple weeks and honestly never felt the need to play, as I was around family members and good people. However, when I came back home, where I'm isolated, I started playing again once or twice per week on the evenings I had that were free. In August I had made about $1000, not a big deal to me in regards to my actual life, but through September I literally blew through that entire poker bankroll. I had one session in the latter part of that month where I made $600 and then just proceeded to lose my buy in every single time I've been there since. A lot of this was just crazy bad luck but I'm also not going to say I'm the world's poker champion, at the end of the day I saw this as just entertainment. Since that last winning session, I've blown through somewhere a little over $1000 of my own money and not house money. This isn't life changing or something that is a huge deal but it's made me heavily reconsider this, especially if I was going to continue on.
I tried posting about this on the poker reddit forum and they say to "study" and devote all this time and energy into bettering your game. Then I was seeing threads on there from one of these idiots talking about after all of this and his hours playing he was netting a profit of $7.50/hour lol. A normal winning session might be $200, something I can make with my job in a few hours, yet with poker there is still obviously a chance of losing that. I'm also in school right now and after graduating will be in a healthcare field where I can make over 6 figures. At the end of the day, this has never nor will ever really bring any real benefit into my life but has exposed something.
The problem I have is I've made poker fill in this void of loneliness I have going on due to having no real social life.
The beginning of the year, around late February/Early March, I had a long time gym friend that ended up moving and I honestly didn't really have anyone to talk to. I don't have any other friends or family in the area and I started getting bored/lonely and around this time I started going to the casino to play poker. I enjoy playing and it got me out of the house and around people and I usually would have a good time. I did well enough through the spring and summer to make some money doing it that allowed me to play with "house money". However, over that time it started becoming a distraction from other things in my life, not fully but I wasn't as fully focused on working towards achieving my goals, bettering my life, etc. At this time, I wasn't losing money but all I was getting out of it was some quick hit of dopamine and entertainment for a few hours.
I had a vacation around labor day and was away from the tables for a couple weeks and honestly never felt the need to play, as I was around family members and good people. However, when I came back home, where I'm isolated, I started playing again once or twice per week on the evenings I had that were free. In August I had made about $1000, not a big deal to me in regards to my actual life, but through September I literally blew through that entire poker bankroll. I had one session in the latter part of that month where I made $600 and then just proceeded to lose my buy in every single time I've been there since. A lot of this was just crazy bad luck but I'm also not going to say I'm the world's poker champion, at the end of the day I saw this as just entertainment. Since that last winning session, I've blown through somewhere a little over $1000 of my own money and not house money. This isn't life changing or something that is a huge deal but it's made me heavily reconsider this, especially if I was going to continue on.
I tried posting about this on the poker reddit forum and they say to "study" and devote all this time and energy into bettering your game. Then I was seeing threads on there from one of these idiots talking about after all of this and his hours playing he was netting a profit of $7.50/hour lol. A normal winning session might be $200, something I can make with my job in a few hours, yet with poker there is still obviously a chance of losing that. I'm also in school right now and after graduating will be in a healthcare field where I can make over 6 figures. At the end of the day, this has never nor will ever really bring any real benefit into my life but has exposed something.
The problem I have is I've made poker fill in this void of loneliness I have going on due to having no real social life.