<p>Poker is like my night activity..
i used to enjoy winning and all that.. buying me whatever i want</p>
<p>been on a huge slump lately lost 600 this month only
im getting the feeling that i feel bad for people who i take money from.
WHATS WRONG WITH ME??.. 3 seconds ago i take your money and laugh at you</p>
<p>nowadays i feel bad for the 30 something year olds</p>
<p>YES, CC is my BLOG</p>
<p>do you play online?</p>
<p>Maybe you should stop gambling and earn some well deserved money by contibuting to society? hmmmmmmmmm?</p>
<p>Bassmaster, OP is contributing just as much as any hedge fund manager or stock broker would, a job many people on this board would aspire too.</p>
<p>Plus, its not his job.</p>
<p>OP, you probably aren't feeling bad for the people, you are just experiencing a bad run. It happens to the best of us. If you are a winning player (which you need to ask yourself and make sure you are), then the law of averages will return you to money. Thats why you keep a decent sized bankroll to deal with such swings.</p>
<p>"Poker is like my night activity.."</p>
<p>-this isn't his job...</p>
<p>if you are.</p>
<p>i feel really bad for you.</p>
<p>Make sure you're an actual winning player, and wasn't just running hot in the past. You may have won a couple of hundred dollars over like 5,000 hands or something, but without a larger sample size, it is impossible to tell if you are a winning player or not. I think you should probably do 1 of the following</p>
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<li><p>If you aren't actually a long term winning player but want to be one, you should learn how to play better. you should never feel bad about taking your opponent's stacks in poker. you should always remember that your only goal is to recognize +EV situations and take advantage them as much as possible. (there are plenty of excellent online poker forums that can be found)</p></li>
<li><p>get a real job, then you don't have to feel bad about taking other people's money (this is a much better alternative, as even winning players can sometime lose their entire bankroll just due to tilt and bad BR management)</p></li>
<li><p>just play some micro-stakes poker as a hobby, and play for fun, and do not care about the money aspect of it.</p></li>
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Make sure you're an actual winning player, and wasn't just running hot in the past. You may have won a couple of hundred dollars over like 5,000 hands or something, but without a larger sample size, it is impossible to tell if you are a winning player or not. I think you should probably do 1 of the following</p>
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<li><p>If you aren't actually a long term winning player but want to be one, you should learn how to play better. you should never feel bad about taking your opponent's stacks in poker. you should always remember that your only goal is to recognize +EV situations and take advantage them as much as possible. (there are plenty of excellent online poker forums that can be found)</p></li>
<li><p>get a real job, then you don't have to feel bad about taking other people's money (this is a much better alternative, as even winning players can sometime lose their entire bankroll just due to tilt and bad BR management)</p></li>
<li><p>just play some micro-stakes poker as a hobby, and play for fun, and do not care about the money aspect of it. </p></li>
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<p>Poker is not fun unless you bet more then you should.... IMO</p>
<p>When I had a gambling addiction I would put my entire networth into a hand and thankfully almost always got paid off. I stopped before I ran into a cold streak....</p>
<p>Now I trade stocks for a living... What a leap lol....</p>
<p>Difference between stocks and gambling is, when you buy stocks you own a certain percentage of the business, when you gamble you don't even own the deck of cards :). The company might go down or up in value, but if you invest in useful companies, they will probably make money for you. And no matter what, you own a part of the company and can sell it if you want. </p>
<p>Anyways, yeah, I don't advise gambling. Law of averages says you'll probably get the money back, but I would say as soon as you have, stop playing for lots of money. If you want to play for small stakes that's cool because it can't really ruin you. :) Good luck with it!</p>
<p>The important part of online poker is managing your bankroll. Go to the full tilt online poker forums and go read up on it. There's a plethora of information and I found it quite useful. I haven't been down in online poker for awhile.</p>
<p>imo poker for small amounts of $ is the most it should go unless ur rich or something</p>