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-owe 2k to government
-owe 1k to parents for lending me money
-No job still considering poker was my primary source of income
-NO money in bank account considering everything to my name was online (10k)

Beat: I was better off Pre-BF, since I already had a balanced life.

I kinda find it hard to have sympathy for people who keep 100% of their net worth online.

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06-06-2011 , 06:31 AM

#77

THE M SHOW

grinder

Join Date: Oct 2010 Posts: 594

I decided to get a job for the first time in 2 years after black friday and im not from america. I wasnt playing midstakes or anything, just grinding micros for a decent chunk of change but now i barely play at all, and i do miss the grind but not as much as i originally thought i would.

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06-06-2011 , 07:29 AM

#78

AKingdom

Pooh-Bah

Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 3,520

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Originally Posted by ULOST2AKID

lol @ i duno how to balance life, lettuce b real most 2+2 population is skinny or fat nerds that are friends with other nerds and identify success in life at this stage with success in poker (making maney). Consequently, if they are making money everything's great, maybe they don't care about a gf, or need to get good grades, or have the desire to not be a fat pos....
:-)

Did you really just use lettuce instead of let us? Rofl. I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess you're on a diet.

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06-06-2011 , 08:28 AM

#79

poker edge

Pooh-Bah

Join Date: Nov 2009 Posts: 3,646

Grinding TV shows is always fun.

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06-06-2011 , 08:32 AM

#80

Krahv

grinder

Join Date: Dec 2008 Posts: 429

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Originally Posted by seat_empty

I've found that i'm much more productive now that i have little to no spending money:

- Got good again at quake 3 (quakelive)
- Got better at starcraft 2
- beat portal 2
- started grinding more TV shows (Game of Thrones is awesome btw)

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06-06-2011 , 08:47 AM

#81

kevbo

centurion

Join Date: Sep 2004 Posts: 144

I leveled a Rogue and a Druid to level 85

...sad really...

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06-06-2011 , 08:56 AM

#82

Tommy_Ho

banned

Join Date: Oct 2010 Posts: 1,206

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Originally Posted by Mecastyles

my life got def better, games on stars are ****ing soft

yeah babyyyyyyyy

Yea? How do you figure? The lower STT buy-in vs.rake increase is garbage.. The player traffic is dead and the games are filled with regs.. ROI is going down.

Yea, sounds like fun..

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06-06-2011 , 09:37 AM

#83

Dprimerib

newbie

Join Date: Oct 2008 Posts: 48

I was a breakeven recreational online player who played way more than I should have. Since BF I've had a much better social life and find myself going out and hanging out with friends instead of 4 tabling rush poker on my couch with a sporting event on TV in the background. Since I was a breakeven player, online poker was a bad habit that I needed to kick but probably never would have if it wasn't for BF. I echo the person who said this was a blessing in disguise!

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06-06-2011 , 09:59 AM

#84

Gullanian

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 14,014

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Originally Posted by MicroBob

OP - Wow. A lot of that sure does read like you were WAY too involved in poker while neglecting other aspects of your life. Treating your family better and they evidently are less annoyed by you now? Wow.

Consider the part about the swongs not bothering you so much. And then compare that to the bit where you didn't even use poker to support yourself. That just sticks out to me. Poker wasn't even really that big a deal for your life yet you were totally letting it make your life way more sucky.

In short: Playing online poker on the internet for recreation or full-time for income (or somewhere in-between) doesn't preclude someone from being cool with their family, getting a girlfriend, eating decently, and getting in shape.

Glad your life is better now and you are coming to some realizations. But the problem was most certainly you...and not poker (if you get what I mean there).

This is basically the problem I have with online poker, people doing that to themselves is ridiculously common.

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06-06-2011 , 10:16 AM

#85

milkywaykid

grinder

Join Date: Nov 2008 Posts: 593

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Originally Posted by seat_empty

best post in nvg

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06-06-2011 , 10:24 AM

#86

Lana_Lang

old hand

Join Date: May 2008 Posts: 1,988

im downswinging like a mother****er now, so yea.. i blame black friday in lack of anything else

/european

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09-21-2011 , 06:36 AM

#87

SlackerInc

journeyman

Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 317

I miss the thousands of dollars a year in supplemental income (very significant since I have three kids and we are below the poverty line) that came from grinding micros. But I don't miss being stuck in front of the computer for hours on end (since I played mostly MTTs and SnGs); the carpal tunnel issues that developed even with Table Ninja; and most of all, I don't miss the way multitabling poker colonised my brain.

I felt like a tweaker, all twitchy with the constant split second decisions, and tables flashing before my eyes like strobes. And even when I wasn't playing, just too much time and mental energy on poker books, poker strategy threads, or just mulling hands and tournament situations.

This is not to say that it was ethically correct, what the DOJ did. Online poker should be legal, I absolutely agree. But I do have to admit that in many ways, for me it was a blessing in disguise nevertheless.

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02-24-2018 , 01:38 PM

#88

eldiesel

Pooh-Bah

Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 3,585

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Originally Posted by CaptainRunGood

OP is a degenerate.

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Originally Posted by vvubanga

OP u sound like an arrogant prick

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Originally Posted by otis_nixon

You played freaking $100 NL at the absolute highest. You never made any real money at poker, and for you it was a waste of time

+1

+1

+1

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02-24-2018 , 02:45 PM

#89

SpinMeRightRound

veteran

Join Date: Jan 2016 Posts: 2,723

Many pro players from Western countries are grinding $100 NL for a living these days.

If you can beat $100 NL today, you could have easily beat $2k NL before Black Friday. Players have got so much better and average stakes have got lower. It's become a race to the bottom.

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02-24-2018 , 02:58 PM

#90

Sir Huntington

banned

Join Date: May 2009 Posts: 2,354

I've just been beating off constantly even when I bang my gf 3x a day. The trick is she's one of them blow up dolls so she doesn't mind me watching porn nonstop 24/7. I wast we lot of money on lube tho