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Originally Posted by ark_angel
The way he talks about these sessions where he was "grinding" makes my head want to explode. He treats himself like a fisherman rather than a poker player. He's literally just waiting for coolers to stack normal players and praying to get in a game with a maniac who will just gift him a stack all-in-pre with his AA vs the whale's any two.
The dynamics and mental challenges of poker keep it interesting to me after many hours, if you're just mindlessly bumhunting the dregs of society at the Iowa 1-2 tables obviously you are going to get burnt out.
Same for me as well. I have well above 8000+ livehours at this point and i could not bring myself to play every week if i wasnt challenging myself along the way. Starting to play PLO regurarly for like 4 years ago was a big one.
Poker for me is also a battle against myself and my own fears in life as well. Being comfortable stacking off lighter in maniac games, buying in deeper and working to get comfortable,working on tailored exploits over time and see them succeed++ There is alot of stuff that i feel gives back to a person when playing poker, but you got to be willing to challenge yourself moving forward constantly. Ive found that most players is not.