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Well for someone like Tiger Woods it's a bit different, because he makes tons of money and enjoys very high social status (which almost guaranteed he would cheat on his wife, but that's another story).
Also for Tiger there's no one single thing, it's just being the overall best player year after year. For Michael Phelps though it's basically 4 years of training for a week of meaningful competition. Who knows how he feels, I could be dead wrong, but it would not surprise me if he wakes up the next day (after some sick partying no doubt) feeling empty and lost, and then gradually shakes off these feelings as he enters another cycle of training, eventually forgetting entirely how hollow victory felt. But yeah people vary. For many athletes I'm sure winning is pure sustained elation. |
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Yeah, this captures it better than what I was saying. It's all about the anticipation and yes, the journey (gag). Actually achieving a goal is more often than not a pretty hollow experience, at least after the immediate elation. Imagine how any aspiring actors waiting tables believe they will be truly happy if they can land a role on a TV series or something. A season or two later they are bitter B-list actors yearning for a chance to make it in movies. |
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If you love the game but hate the swings...get yourself backed. You have the skill to do very well and there are prob many that would have no issue putting you in the biggest games.
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Enough money is relative. He will still make a lot of money, but if youre hourly decreases it still sucks. |
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I think the money thing varies from person to person, and definitely with age. I previously cared very little about the money and was all about crushing bitches and stroking my ego. Nowadays I'd rather just make 10 mil tomorrow and retire.
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I've been playing poker for about 9 years, worked very had at it, I'm satisfied w/ my accomplishments and I get annoyed every time that I read a post like this.
Wah, wah. I won a million dollars, but now life is hard, please feel bad for me... yada, yada, yada /rant [until the next one of these] |
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Meh. If OP were asking for pity you might have a point, but he's not. He's asking for advice. |
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The problem w/ a lot of poker players especially is that they're never able to get enough satisfaction to fulfill them. My brother hated poker for the last few months. On Sunday, he ran KT through AA w/ 11ish left in the UB 200k. With 3 players left, he had 600 vs. 1.3 and 1.3 million. One of the players busted the other w/ quads vs. top full house on QQ778. He ended up getting 2nd. Yet, when him and I talked the next day, he kinda rolled over the already mentioned quickly to talk about how he got owned headsup even though he went in as a 4 to 1 chip dog. I pretty much hung up on him. It's amazing to me how he still had something to complain about after so many things going right to get 2nd and 26k. In poker, you have to be happy w/ what you have/recieve otherwise you're going to be the next 20-something to retire even though you've done more or better than over 99.5% of those than consider themselves a poker players. I'm going to outlast most that I know and most of those on 2+2 not because I'm a better player, but because I'm more realistic than and willing to accept what just simply is. Cliffs: We're always going to have a new set of problems no matter where we are in life. The op is most likely in a better place now than where he was prior to his success in poker. Suck it up and stop having expectations w/out a ceiling. |
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I think self-hatred is the no. 1 reason for this pattern, but i always say that those that can seal the deal are winners, those that can't (or won't) are losers(life fish, if you will). |
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Visit Costa Rica!
Best advice I can give you (God it's so beautiful here) :) Deldar I haven't been as successful as you although I did play 25/50 and 10/20 regularly. Now that the games are getting tougher and tougher poker became less appealing to me. After a bad run I decided to quit altogether and travel for 6 months through Latin America. Best decision I ever made. If all goes well I will start college after the summer in London. I don't know much about Australian universities but I would go to the US (preferrably Austin). Hope you will find what you are looking for but definetely look into that Costa Rica advice.. ;) |
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lefort, great post sir.
deldar - for the love of god please stop hit and running the shallow games =( thirdly - how has no1 pointed out the huge non thinly veiled brag in OP lastly - POLO! |
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Deldar,
If I was in your situation and feel depressed and want to know what is the meaning of life, I would get my back pack and put in as many things that would fit and book a flight to Africa or a third world country and spend time with children at orphanages in those country (via Red Cross). No excuses. No buts. No reasons. Just do it. |
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honestly you're smart enough to make your own decisions without the help of any of us, so i'm not going to try to give you advice.
okay that's a lie, i'm going to toss my hat in the ring. chill the **** out for a while. do something you've "always wanted to do" whatever it may be. take at least a year where you don't play poker for income and do random ****. do what you want. just relax man. when you're hyperfocused on something, you aren't going to be able to see what else is there for you. take a deep breath, wander around aimlessly for a while. you'll figure it out. don't rely on others to do it for you. |
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I spent a year at UTS, commuting an hour and a half each way, each day. It felt just like a full time job, going there, clocking in the hours and leaving as soon as possible. For the last couple of years though, I've been living in Armidale attending UNE. With about a 3rd of the cities population coming from univerisity students it has such a different feel to it. |
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How is this being delusional Gordan? cant think of a more exciting time in my life when i realised the proteinal to earn in poker when young and broke, not by any means saying i would rather be back there but certainly was one of the best points in my life, would like to be in this "spot" now with say a real life bussiness. interested to hear others thoughts on this as well, cant jst be me and fees!? |
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Maybe you should organize an after school program for disadvantaged youth involving Scrabble. Who knows, maybe you'll find some underprivileged kid and help him become the next world champion. That would probably be more satisfying than grinding out money at poker. Even if you didn't mentor the next world champion, you would probably contribute to improving the lives of dozens of people. Building Scrabble skills would undoubtedly help kids improve their vocabulary, mathematics, and reasoning skills, all of which are useful in life. It would also be an intellectual challenge for you to figure out how to effectively provide Scrabble instruction to kids of widely varying aptitude for the game, differing personalities, and differing degrees of competitiveness, and to keep them interested in it long enough for them to realize some of the benefits of learning it.
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