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Originally Posted by Rococo
... or hanging out in casinos all day are even bigger contributors. There is an emptiness to passing huge amounts of time in that way that is hard to describe.
I guess i am different as I loved hanging out in Poker rooms all day.
After the 2002 Dotcom crash I was able too not jump in to working full time right away due to some successes and instead decided to seriously up my live poker play to see how well I could do. I play with 100% discipline. Zero alcohol while I play. No phone distractions. I want to see every hand and more importantly how each player played every hand.
I was consulting with a few companies and did so generally Mon-Wed and every Wednesday night I would take off down to Niagara and play poker, like a job, Thursday until Sunday night.
And I treated it like a job. I would play from about 5pm'ish-2am'ish, go sleep from 2am to about 5 or 6am, go back to the tables for about 2-3 hours and then back to the room to sleep again until starting again around 4pm'ish.
The 7pm-2am were just the busiest hours, and anytime after midnight you were just hunting guys who were drunk, or stuck. A lot of guys stuck playing table games who saunter in to the poker room as they lose less money per hour there but they cannot help but try to bully the game splashing tons of money into pots.
5am+ was hunting the guys who were really stuck and playing desperate chasing every big pot just trying to catch up.
I guess I was lucky as one of my gifts is sleep. I put my head down and I am in deep sleep with 10 minutes, in almost any instance. Even after a long nights sleep. That really helped with an irregular poker schedule as I was never playing tired.
And I love the mental games sitting at the table. Assessing the opponents. Studying them, sometimes for hours for a single exploit. The Chess aspects of it.
I found nothing empty about it. For me it was invigorating.