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Originally Posted by Elrazor
OTOH, how many tens or hundreds of thousands of players have bust out and never achieved anything?
OP. You might be an introvert, but that doesn't mean you can't make a career for yourself outside your bedroom. One of the reasons I quit poker was because I'm an introvert by nature and for a while working at home playing poker was ideal. However, humans are still social animals - we need connectedness to self-actualise regardless of whether we are introverted or extroverted, and ultimately never seeing anyone for days at a time started to take it's toll on my mental health.
So, think about what you want to do for the next 20-30 years, and start making plans to do it.
Yeah the majority do bust.
What I really waNt to communicate to OP is that the poker culture/industry is based on winning and success. What nobody seems to talk about is how much struggle there is. Players talk about their winning sessions, but they keep their losing sessions to themselves.
When we see famous players on TV or read about the latest tournament they won we are only getting a microscopic piece of the story, the reality is that every winning player has suffered and lost especially at the beginning of their career. This is true almost without exception. If you dig into the stories of any good player you will find that they were losing players for a long time, and that they have lost almost everything at some point.
The struggle is a normal part of the game. Since poker is a solitary endeavor it is easy to feel defeated and like it is impossible to win consistently.
Last edited by +EVillain; 09-24-2018 at 03:06 PM.