Poker

I started playing poker again. Well "started playing poker again" has connotations that I haven't really fulfilled yet. I used to play a lot of poker. For a month or two I supported myself by playing 2/4 and 3/6$ limit on the website PokerStars. I was worth about 7$ an hour. So, I was making minimum wage, basically, but it was fun. I burned out and didn't want to play anymore. I went through phases where I would go back to the past time, but I never took it seriously like I did back then. I lost money overall, I'm pretty sure. If you look my pokerstars name up on sharkscope.com (Azraeel) I show a profit of $600 or so dollars. If you go to trackmybets.com and look at my Beaver Dam profits, its well over $1000. I'm pretty good at poker. My number one problem with it is taking it seriously. I want to play big, deep stack tournaments, but the problem with those is that they last for like 5 hours and I just get kinda bored and burned out. I put $100 online before thanksgiving planning to spend the break pursuing riches (not really, my outlook on poker is realistic and pragmatic, and I know that playing the appropriate stakes with a $100 bankroll is a verrrrrrrrrry long and slow road to riches). I've been playing 180 man sit and go tournaments, and showing a healthy profit from those. I've also played some of the larger, 1000+ tournaments, and like always I succumb to the boredom and fall victim to my own apathy as far as game play goes. When you're in a tournament with 7,000 people, generally the top 700 get paid. It can take three or four hours to get to that point, and the good money doesn't start coming until the top 70. And that takes a verrrrrrry long time. You really need some concentration and drive to stick in it that long. When the buy in is $2.20 it is very easy to do stupid stuff knowing that it was cheap to do so. I really miss live games of poker. I was better at live games because of the physical chips in front of me. They held my attention a lot better than a screen can. All the money online is virtual. It is hard to attach realistic significance to those numbers if you don't feel the green in your hand.