no.. its almost a job now.. but still better so i play

no

nope, seriously NEVER expect to win a hand anymore

I can't really relate. However, with the exception of a few months, I've loved my jobs and looked forward to coming home to grind S&Gs for a few hours (and the occassional MTT if I was up for it....).

My suggestion for you would be to set up a schedule and stick to it. That way you don't feel like poker is taking over your life (at least that's the tone of the post I'm getting, if incorrect I apologize...).

Nope, bigger LIVE tourneys and juicy LIVE cashgames is pretty much the only poker I actually look forward too these days. Online poker is a real grind for me now.. dont really enjoy it that much anymore - I'm taking a break and playing live , I reccomend this to all of you who are getting sick of the online grind.. Youre probably not playing your best if you are burnt out anyways I'll be back to playing 12hours a day in no time, just need a good break.. I have great respect for some of these ballers who have been playing their best day in and day out for years now. Some of these guys are just freaks with unbelievable mental stamina. People dont understand how hard poker is on the mind.. outsiders think its all fun and games - such lies.. its fucking brutally stressful sometimes.
A 'pro' player who 4+ tables 8+ hours a day for 300+ days a year has a much tougher job than the average person if you ask me.. Poker is a mindfuck and it requires a mental stamina that very few people have. I respect ''hard working" poker players as much or more than any other peron working at any other occupation.. I guess I'm biased for obv reasons; I just wish the people who know nothing about the game realized how hard we actually have to work for our money..

Hell yeah it is.

I've played most everyday for the last 3 years and short handed NL cash games don't get old near as fast as everything else. Tournaments and sit and gos can get boring, but I never get tired of stacking someone in a cash game. But, I'm not 21 either. I might feel differently if I were still young.

I am so with you. I think I could buy in at any stakes now and not feel the same thrill I did when I first started playing $10 buy-ins with friends. These days I'm dealt Aces and I don't even flinch. I miss the days when a big hand had my heart pounding.

stop playin for a couple months, and comeback to it. You'll feel much better and excited again.

I'm exactly like this....lately, Ill sign up for tourneys just because theyre there; not because I actually want to play. This keeps me from focusing and playing well.

I'm taking off for 30 days, so I actually appreciate and enjoy playing.

its a grind when u lose an fun when you win

more fun when drunk.

wait, ive been drunk at every final table ....in a decent size tourney. That must be why i finished with two tables left a few times lately. need more beer

probably something do with the difference in chromosomes

One word. Divided by a hyphin.

Re-Suck. Greatest Feeling in Poker.

Well, just like most things, if you repeatedly do the same things over and over again, it can get pretty boring/dull after a while.

There are a few tricks however that can spice things up a little and make poker less boring.

Okay here is one example:

Say you normally play poker for 6 hours a day 5 days a week as a job. Say your normal grind is to 8-table turbo sngs or 1/2nl or something. Lets say the only game you have significant longterm profit in so far is texas hold'em. You now have two exciting options as far as making things more fun. You could:

a) Learn a new game, to the point of being able to crush it, maybe omaha hi/lo for example. What you would be that instead of playing 6 hours a day 5 days a week, you could instead play 6 hours a day, 4 days a week, and spend the 5th day of your poker workweek reserved strictly for the new game you are trying to learn. Or you could just play for like 5 hours a day 5 days a week for your normal grind and then the 6th hour of each day play the game you are trying to learn, etc.

b) This is the one I would recommend the most highly, but it works best for heads up poker, so hopefully you find heads up poker at least somewhat fun. What you do is this:

Say you have a bankroll of $10,000. Okay well, you would just play your normal grind, and then every few days, or maybe once a week if you are a control freak and need to "schedule" this into your workweek, whatever, but basically, with at least some frequently you should be doing this:

Enter $50 heads up sng. If you lose, fun is over for the day. Go back to normal grind or whatever.

if you win though...

Enter a $100 sng. Same deal, you lose, its over for that "fun-session" but if you win...

Enter a $200 sng. Ditto...

Here is where it gets messed up. Normally your next move would be to enter a $400 sng, but since most of the sites dont have $400 heads up sngs, just $200, $300 and $500, it fucks everything up. If they had it where you could just doube stakes each time, you could shoot all the way from $5 sngs to $5,000 sngs if you got lucky enough without ever risking more than your initial $5, however once you do something like jump from a $200 sng win into a $500 sng, you now are risking both your initial $50 buyin AND another $100 due to the enxt sng being $500 instead of $400. So here you can either say fuck it and just enter a $500 sng, followed by a 1k followed by a 2k followed by a 5k. Or you can puss out and do a $300 followed by a $500 followed by a $1k followed by a 2k followed by a 2k followed by a 5k, to ensure that its impossible to lose more than your initial $50. This would also make it four times harder (2^2) to "go all the way" but would make it impossible to lose more than your initial $50 buyin. Obv it could take months, or even yeaers before you ever went all the way, but I think its a pretty fun game to play. It is really NOT unsafe bankroll management because if you simply play twice the stakes after each heads up sng-win, and call it quits after your first loss, its mathematically impossible to lose more than your initial buyin. However due to things like rake, and the fact that they don't have $400 sngs or $4,000 sngs, it kinda fucks it up. Because of this you would need to insert a couple more sngs in, making it 4 times harder to go all the way, but ensuring that you cant lose more than your initial buyin.

Yea. Try that. It's fun.

Although poker is still very fun to me, these are a few things that i find are very fun:

- (similar to the heads up SNG idea) however in NLHE cash game form - i prefere cash - just start small with an insignificant amount of you BR on the table and play extremely fun agressive poker and try new things out and be fearless - then if you double up or more move up limits.

- or.... if you normally 8 table $1/$2 try and one table $5/$10 - this will have your heart pounding when you get dealt a monster/try to bluff - you will find poker amaising again! (im sure there are massive flaws BRM flaws in this idea, but it will get you loving poker again).