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08-14-2005, 02:50 AM
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Poker is my best friend, girlfriend and family in one
All I ever do is play poker. Poker all day, poker all night. If I'm not playing, I'm thinking about it. The problem is, I just moved to a new state for a job and I know no one. I'm still relatively young, but POKER IS CONSUMING MY LIFE. Any poker, tournament, live, online and I also play every form of poker that is spread in card rooms these days, including NL holdem, limit hold'em, 7 stud, 7 stud hi/lo, Omaha Hi/Lo... I've managed to break even mostly but have small sporadic spurts where I double my bankroll or get some insanely huge wins, then I slowly drop some and win some back etc. Anyone been in my situation before? Ever meet a girl in a card room? Ever made some friends you hung out with in a card room? I figure since I eat, drink, and sleep even sometimes in these card rooms, I can do just about everything else there like meet people. Bad idea? Suggestions? Comments? Help?
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#3
08-14-2005, 04:10 AM
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Re: Poker is my best friend, girlfriend and family in one
I'm gonna guess you're relatively young. For a year when I was in my early 20's all me and my friends did was smoke weed and play video games. We wondered if we were gonna spend the rest of our lives like that. We didn't.
Chances are you'll eventually move on to something else. How long has poker been consuming your life like this?
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#4
08-14-2005, 04:43 AM
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Re: Poker is my best friend, girlfriend and family in one
I hear that Kathy Liebert is single...
Seriously though, most people you meet in casinos are gross.
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#5
08-14-2005, 05:52 AM
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Re: Poker is my best friend, girlfriend and family in one
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most people you meet in casinos are gross. [/ QUOTE ]
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#6
08-14-2005, 06:24 AM
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Re: Poker is my best friend, girlfriend and family in one
i made plenty of friends through poker..... at college one of the guys i knew said him and his room mates always had poker games at night and invited me to play. I think poker can be a great way to meet people... its a social game. At my school when all of us get together to play poker its more social and fun than anything else. Even when im home for the summer all my friends and I play poker. If your play is solely online then yeah, won't be able to meet any friends that way. But if you're in a casino and see other guys your age just get into a convo with them about other places they play and ask if you can come to some of their home games or something.... poker's kinda cool like that because you won't seem like some desperate sap looking to hand out... getting invited to play in a poker game with a buncha guys is not as ackward as getting invited to go out to a club with them.
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#7
08-14-2005, 01:05 PM
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Re: Poker is my best friend, girlfriend and family in one
My two part series in our magazine, "Don't take poker too seriously," was aimed right at you.
You have allowed poker to take over your life, and it is destroying you. Get help quickly. Regards, Al
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#8
08-14-2005, 02:31 PM
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Re: Poker is my best friend, girlfriend and family in one
[ QUOTE ]
I'm gonna guess you're relatively young. For a year when I was in my early 20's all me and my friends did was smoke weed and play video games. We wondered if we were gonna spend the rest of our lives like that. We didn't. Chances are you'll eventually move on to something else. How long has poker been consuming your life like this? [/ QUOTE ] About a year.
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#9
08-14-2005, 02:50 PM
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Re: Poker is my best friend, girlfriend and family in one
[ QUOTE ]
[ QUOTE ] I'm gonna guess you're relatively young. For a year when I was in my early 20's all me and my friends did was smoke weed and play video games. We wondered if we were gonna spend the rest of our lives like that. We didn't. Chances are you'll eventually move on to something else. How long has poker been consuming your life like this? [/ QUOTE ] About a year. [/ QUOTE ] If after a year your not tiring of it yet and losing some of the interest you expressed I would by all means follow Al Schoonmaker's advice. PLEASE get some help for yourself. He knows what he's talking about.
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#10
08-14-2005, 04:10 PM
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Re: Poker is my best friend, girlfriend and family in one
I agree with Al.
But I'll also make a simpler suggestion. Sit down and make a list of all the things you used to like to do. Then add two or three new things that you would like to do to the list. Every day pick something off the list and force yourself to go do it. This won't work if you're clinically depressed or a compulsive gambler, which is why I agree with Al that you need help to evaluate your situation, but maybe you're just lonely and bored. Anyway it can't hurt to vary your routine. [ QUOTE ] Ever meet a girl in a card room? [/ QUOTE ] I suggest you put this issue aside for a bit. I don't mean this in an unkind way, but why would you want a girl who was attracted to someone in your mental situation? Improve your life and the opposite sex will probably take care of itself in time. BTW, you mentioned a job. What do you do? The fact that you don't say anything about it suggests that at best you don't enjoy it. Is your horrible job the real problem? Is poker just your inappropriate way of coping? BTW #2, it sounds like you don't keep records of your results. That's very bad. You need to know if you are a winning player or how much this habit is costing you.
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