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Originally Posted by zozom
I think I'm experiencing this right now.
I haven't got a hunger for grinding and discipline, day after day, click after click. When I first started playing, I could play for months in a row. Nowadays, I'm getting bored more and more often.
I wonder what is going on... Any advice? Anyone else relate?
Yeah, if you aspire to be a professional poker player, or you actually are grinding it out, your life, at best, will become miserable, but what's likely to happen to you is that you lose focus, make bad decisions, and get bored.
Stopping my delusional aspirations to becoming the next Tom Dwan was the best thing to happen to me in re: to poker. I could stop playing when I was tired and I was no longer putting pressure on myself to meet certain benchmarks by a certain period of time.
There was a period I was grinding out 2-4/3-6/4-8/8-16 LHE live at various casinos and I had seriously turned into those old belligerent players constantly screaming at the dealer for a setup.
There was one exchange where something really trivial got me so irate I went on a verbal tangent on someone and the floorman, whom I'd go on cigarette breaks with, gently asked me to calm down. I was really just impatient I wasn't getting dealt and loathing the prospect of waiting for hands for another 6 hours.
This, on top of the relative little money I was making compared with the time I was putting in, made me realize I didn't want to be a grinder and I went back to my old job.