How many times have you wanted to quit. |
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Posted Sat Mar 25, 2006 8:05 pm GMT by Implied_Odds
How many times after a crappy losing streak have you said, "this game is stupid, I'm never going to play again."
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Posted Sat Mar 25, 2006 8:07 pm GMT by zinn0
At least once.
Posted Sat Mar 25, 2006 8:46 pm GMT by supafrey
I've wanted to take a couple breaks, but never quit. One time I did put a money stopper... Saying that if i lost the last hundred or so off of my site that I'd quit for good. Went up many thousands after that, though.
Posted Sat Mar 25, 2006 11:12 pm GMT by Moon_Child
enough times... i'm actually playing small stakes right now since i'm on a losing streak.
Posted Sun Mar 26, 2006 4:57 pm GMT by kainARGH
twice VERY seriously. But i love poker too much to ever leave entirely.
Posted Sun Mar 26, 2006 5:51 pm GMT by Johny
I've never really thought of quiting for good, but I have cut back on my playing by a lot recently. I let the game control my life too much, it took a horrible first semester to make me realise it.
I would usually play 20-40 hours a week, now I usually only play around 10-15, if that.
I think I'm starting to actually like poker better now that I don't play as much. Basically, breaks/ less hours playing help a lot.
Posted Sun Mar 26, 2006 6:27 pm GMT by xDiamond_CutteRx
Don't know if I've ever said "I want to quit forever", but I've definitely taken breaks, usually for the better. At least once a week though, I think to myself, "you know, I just may not have what it takes to be a top-shelf player in this game." Hopefully I'm wrong.
Posted Sun Mar 26, 2006 9:48 pm GMT by greathuskie
every time i say i quit i normally take a 4-6 month break from depositing online.
Posted Mon Mar 27, 2006 4:44 am GMT by JohnnyCache
I think about quitting every time I have a losing session. It really chaps my ass.
Posted Mon Mar 27, 2006 10:08 pm GMT by starfishblue
I'm thinking of taking a short to medium term break right now.
I have no idea what I'm doing wrong so I think it's just the Gods telling me to stop for a while.
I soughta just started playing poker online for real dosh last month after months and months of reading many many books and looking at various poker forums. I wanted a strong theoretical background before tackling with real money but everytime I play though, I'm always way up in 15 minutes and then slowly but steaedily, bad beats, or some other reason on my behalf always seem to come and eventually I go down. It keeps happening and even if I swap to lower limits, the same thing happens.
I know many of you will say.. 'obviously you're doing something wrong'.. sure I make the bad calls and bad folds now and then, but it's only occassionally that I see that I make mistakes. I analysis my tight-aggressive game, check my pot odds under the circumstances of my marginal hands.. but everything just doesn't seem to go right. I know that poker is all about the long term, but my short lived short-term game has been horrible.
Maybe a few weeks off will make me think more clearly. Any advice?
Posted Mon Mar 27, 2006 10:12 pm GMT by zinn0
A few weeks off never hurt anyone, trust me.
As a matter of fact, I'm not really feeling the poker vibe at the moment. A few days off are in order.
Posted Mon Mar 27, 2006 10:26 pm GMT by matthewardo
I've just decided to take a break myself. I was sitting at Commerce Saturday night when I realized that I am just not having fun anymore. It seems as if the bad beats just piss me off a lot more, and having a winning session doesn't make me as happy. It's strange because in the last month I have been on a $4000 upswing after a long, long downswing, so it's not a bad run of cards that has made me lose my desire to play. I think maybe it's because I had been playing too much. I was averaging at least 40 hours a week total between online and Commerce. In the past I had taken breaks after bad losing streaks, but I couldn't stop playing for more than 2 days before I got the urge to play again. Now, I guess I should be happy because I am not addicted anymore, but it also is kind of sad not to have that desire and excitement that poker used to bring about.
Posted Tue Mar 28, 2006 10:13 am GMT by BeerWench13
| Quote: | | How many times after a crappy losing streak have you said, "this game is stupid, I'm never going to play again." |
Every time I play PL Omaha8. Actually, it's "I hate this damn game. I'm never playing again!" I've wondered on occasion if I should be playing Hold'Em, but never said I'm never playing again. I'm not quite that self-delusional. I'm hopelessly addicted and I know it.
Posted Sun Oct 22, 2006 1:32 am GMT by JMX360
Once a while ago, and right now.
I just couldn't believe the horrible luck I was on tonight....4 hours of poker and the only pocket pairs I've gotten were 3's and 5's.
Posted Sun Oct 22, 2006 2:17 am GMT by MrDarling
Wow, that an old revival .
Been playing too short to want to quit. But am reading Super System and Doyle says, take breaks, even if you are winning take a break as often as needed...
Posted Sun Oct 22, 2006 1:59 pm GMT by groton
thread necromanina
i fiqured somthing up when i was scrowing down and SAW HUSKY 
well i took basicly a two mounth break from foxwoods went up yesterday
Set in a 4/8 game since the 1/2NL Game had a huge list
WELL POKER SUCKS 
Ace's four times only one one decent pot with Aces one Smalish pot and lost two HUGE POTS With Aces
only other pocketpairs i got was Jacks Twice lost one med size pot with them and won a small pot.
8's and 5's like six times each.
won like 4 hands nothing big thoe
ended up losing 170
should of gotting up when they called my name for 1/2 about a half hour into the session
Posted Sun Oct 22, 2006 4:04 pm GMT by shorn7
O took a few weeks off in September after losing $7k the first two weeks. I was really down.
But, came back fresh on 10/1 and am up over $7k this month. So, the bottom line is that you wil get your fair share of bad runs. Taking a break to evaluate your game is always a good thing.
Posted Sun Oct 22, 2006 4:39 pm GMT by supafrey
If you don't mind me asking, shorn. What are your regular stakes? And bankroll size?
pm me if you're a bit secretive.
Posted Sun Oct 22, 2006 5:35 pm GMT by groton
i think shorn plays the 2-5 at Foxwoods
i know he does play at foxwoods
Posted Sun Oct 22, 2006 10:07 pm GMT by ORGrinder
| Quote: | | How many times have you wanted to quit |
pretty much everytime i lose? hehehehehehe.
Posted Mon Oct 23, 2006 8:51 am GMT by kingetje
never
Posted Mon Oct 23, 2006 8:58 am GMT by MasterShake
Ugh. I lost both buy-ins while two tabling last night. On one of them, I was sitting with ~$15 and the other guy had around $8 playing micro NL. He makes it about $1 to go and I raise to $3 with pocket QQ. He was a pretty loose player who liked to overplay small pairs and aces so he pushed and I called. He's got AK and I lose half my stack when the Ace hits the flop.
A few hands later I pick up AKs and cleanup a small pot when all the limpers fold to my raise.
ERY NEXT HAND I get AKo and make a 5x raise. Two callers, flop comes 256rb. Check, check, I make a continuation bet of about 2/3 the pot. Fold, call. Turn is a blank (10 I think?). He checks and I figure he might be trapping and I check (maybe a mistake in retrospect, but I didn't really have anything.) River is an Ace. He checks, I bet around the pot and he pushes all in for another $1 to me and I call to see him flip over A6o.
Did I play those hands well? Maybe, probably not. But it still sucks to lose. I fell better now though. :D
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