the experiment has failed

[roswell_42]

My venture into the world of professional poker has lasted almost a year now, and it's time to reassess. Overall things went very very badly for me. When I first moved to California, I was pretty excited about poker. I had a job for six months and played a ton at the Bike and the Commerce. During this time I went on a decent run, doing well in the

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[howardtreesong]

The real question is why. It's possible that you may not be smart or perceptive enough. It's possible that you aren't emotionally even enough and tilt off when you start losing. And then it's possible that you worry too much about the money if you're not working at the same time. Have you thought about going downlimit, to try and improve game selection? For me, I always liked the stability of the work environment, particularly when that was going well -- it gives you the stability that permits you to just not care about any particular poker result

[roswell_42]

I'm sorry Howard, I haven't read that book, so I'm not sure how to answer that question about Chen/Ankenman.

The cat is awesome and I will not vaporize it. I could post some more pictures if you like.

[howardtreesong]

>The cat is awesome and I will not vaporize it.

One would suppose that depends on price, no?

[savemyskin]

yeah, i'm thinking the things you said. about myself i mean.

Poker Time?

[anonymous]

Well I have one question for you. If you don’t have the desire to play any more, why would it matter if you are a winning player or not. Poker gets really miserable when you NEED to play and don’t LOVE to play. I would say hand up the hat, sweat shirt and sun glasses and take a long break. I took a year off (not a single hand of online or live poker) and when I came back all the fire was back in me.

On a side note, I would love to swap links with you. Let me know if you do that kind of thing.

http://www.1struleofpoker.com