Having just read soupies blog (Please SEE: And now for something completely different by soupie Oct 15th) I sit here questioning how many poker players have serious trouble with g/f, wife possibly as a result of poker playing habits. Discussing Soupies situation with a friend and friend says he thinks soupie wife wasn't getting what she needed at home b/c of soupies online poker play. Of course I immediately leap to my fellow poker players defense but silently I think..Soupie how many late nights were you up playing poker leaving wifey to go to sleep alone? How many days of the year were spent grinding instead of spending time with the family? Now i'm not saying soupies wifes dalliance with the neighbor was acceptable but there was a reason for it. I'm sorry soup I feel your pain..
One of my good friends wife threatens divorce about once every two weeks b/c she gets fed up with her husbands constant online poker playing. So he plays only when shes at work or asleep for a couple days but evenutally goes back to his regular level of play. Wife soon gets pissed again and the cycle starts all over again. Does this sound familar to any of you?
I know soupies case is extreme but seriously how many of us will say goodbye to someone we love b/c they couldn't stand another bad beat story, the weird hours we keep, the way we yell at our computer when Full Tilt 2 outs us again, our financial ups and downs, our "huh?" and our constant "what did you say?" when they try to talk to us b/c we are 6 tabling and didn't hear them.
Any of you pocket5ers want to speak up about this? If any of you have a great relationship and still manage to play a ton online let us know your secret. How do we keep our g/f or boyfriend from going on tilt about all the time we spend playing?
What about teaching your significant other to play? You know what they say.. the couple that plays together stays together. I know that will not work for everyone but shouldnt we all strive to be lucky in love and poker?

I started at step 1 with pokerstars points. Made it to step 4. Decided to use it to play the Sunday Million on stars. I went pretty deep gettting 225th place out of 7364 players. I made $690.00 off of points so i'm cool with that. Would have loved to gone alot further but at least now I got a decent bankroll and this horrible run of cards I have been getting is over. Cashed in the $3 Rebuy as well. Also final tabled an $8 Rebuy and got $145.00 for that. I should have gotten better than 6th but was extremely tired as it was around 2:30 AM and I had been playing since around noon Sunday. Made a bad call with a weak ace. A good day all in all..Bankroll went from $125 up to $990.00.

This is the question I keep asking myself. My results are so bad lately I can't even believe my eyes when I force myself to look at opr. Seems like the only final tables I make are $2 or $5 tournaments. I'm playing alot of volume and not really getting anywhere. My concentration has been a little shaky to because I quit smoking 41 days ago.
Just had my JJ beat by K6o on Full Tilt. All in preflop. I know this is going to happen playing low stakes like I do but it's emotionally draining when it goes on day after day. Maybe I should try to play cash games at the same time? I usually play all MTTs. Any advice for a player who really wants to succeed but is stuck? I get really far in alot of tournies but cant seem to close the deal. I feel my reads are getting alot better but i'm still paying off too many hands. I spend so much time playing poker..I just hope eventually there will be a payoff in the cards for me. :)