Re: Time Consumption
I know where you're coming from.
I used to like to stop by the casino - very occasionally - to play some stud or something. Last year, I started playing casino Hold 'Em.
Everyone here - I mean absolutely EVERYONE - told me that to improve my game, I should play online. I really didn't want to, because I thought it could take on a life of its own.
Well, it did. My game's improved to the point to where it's sucked all the free time out of my life.
Disclaimers:
1) It doesn't stop me from doing my job or doing all the legitimate things I have to do to get along with my life
2) I haven't lost any money. Most of the money I have deposited online was built up by grinding out the $2 that Paradise gave me a year ago. Other than that, I've made two $50 deposits at Stars and Party, and have never needed to make additional deposits.
3) It's all micro limits, and I'm definitely not playing for anything important. If I lose it all, I'm out $100 of my hard-earned income, and to tell the truth, I've done worse than that in a single day in a B&M.
Thing is, my B&M visits are maybe one per month. Twice a month if I'm really "getting into it," but I'm just as likely to go two or more months between B&M visits.
Yet, when I get home from work, I naturally gravitate to one online room or another, and it's pretty much what I do until bedtime.
This has seriously cut into all the other things I could be doing with my time: cleaning the apartment, working on other toy projects (writing, messing with hobby mode programs I write), or even wasting my life away playing video games.
This isn't the first time something like this has happened. I lost about a year and a half of free time to Half-Life once, but I got over it.
Still, I'm getting to be seriously concerned that online poker is completely sapping my will to do anything else outside of work.
Which is pretty much why I fought the idea of playing online tooth and nail in the first place.
Maybe I should have listened to myself.
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