not enjoying poker

[MightyMouse]

I've been a long-term winner, and over the past couple days ive started tilting like it's my job. I get angry at myself and hate poker when I'm playing and when I'm away from it. But I can't stop playing. I get back to my room and it's all I want to do. This is more addicted than I was in the first two weeks of September when I was running so well it was laughable.

Anything I should be doing?

[revots33]

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I get angry at myself and hate poker when I'm playing and when I'm away from it. But I can't stop playing. I get back to my room and it's all I want to do.

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Not sure why you can't wait to get to your room and play a game that makes you miserable. But at any rate it sounds like a case of poker burnout and I think a break may be in order. Do something else you enjoy for a while. Playing angry is a sure ticket to wiping out months worth of hard-earned gains in a few days.

[Mike]

What are you getting for a payoff that keeps you running back to play more? Whatever your payoff (not $$ all the time btw) it must be worth the anger - unless anger is your payoff?

take a break!

[mosquito]

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I've been a long-term winner, and over the past couple days ive started tilting like it's my job. I get angry at myself and hate poker when I'm playing and when I'm away from it. But I can't stop playing. I get back to my room and it's all I want to do. This is more addicted than I was in the first two weeks of September when I was running so well it was laughable.

Anything I should be doing?

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Give serious consideration to the possibility that you may have a gambling problem.

If you can't control yourself as to when and how you play poker, it does not really matter if you are a winner or a loser. You have a problem.

Suggest you try taking a few weeks away from the game, and see if you have the same feelings.

It may be that you will have to give up playing if you cannot control yourslef.

[ZenMusician]

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If you can't control yourself as to when and how you play poker, <font color="red">it does not really matter if you are a winner or a loser.</font> You have a problem

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When the pain aspect of a vice overshadows the pleasure aspect
(drugs, weight-lifting, sleeping, gambling...) it is long past time
to quit. Beware of substitution also (don't, like, start playing BJ
instead...!)

Good Luck

-ZEN

[daryn]

do you play on ultimate bet under a name similar to your user name here?

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do you play on ultimate bet under a name similar to your user name here?

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I was just going to ask the same thing.