I used to be afraid to play poker. I wonder why?

Hello!) I’m Kate, and this is my author’s column on the TinyTunesAPP website. Here I will share with you my thoughts, experience, and in general everything that seems interesting to me from the world of making money on the Internet, or from life).

Today I would like to talk a little about poker: about my attitude towards it, and how I found out about it in general and why I was afraid to start playing poker for a long time)

Why was I initially afraid to play poker?

For all the time I was on the poker forum, I realized that poker is cool)). But on the other hand, for a long time I did not dare to study this game, and even more so – to play for money. In my free time, I watched videos on YouTube, studied combinations (for me it was a dark forest, and for the first few weeks I generally hardly understood which hand I would win and which hand I would lose). But, having made some efforts, I slowly learned to play (to be more precise, I mastered the rules of the game … I was still far from “learned”.)

I still didn’t risk playing, although, to be honest, my hands itched))). The reasons why I was afraid to play poker were very simple:

It’s a money game and I didn’t want to lose anything
I understood that this was a game of chance, and I was simply afraid to “stick” on it.
I was afraid that I would begin to degrade if I started to devote more time to the game than …. More precisely, most of my free time …
But, as they say, exactly what we are afraid of happens to us: my curiosity got the better of me, I started playing in one educational poker room, practically for “wrappers”, just out of interest, just for the sake of playing).

My poker in practice

To my surprise, in practice I was good at playing and winning … but not right away … At first I lost terribly, but then I worked on my mistakes, worked out my style of play and started to play well (plus +). I enrolled in a paid poker school, there I more or less learned certain information for myself (although, as for me, they don’t sell anything so secret there, in these schools).

Then I registered in several poker rooms and started playing poker for real money. I played mainly at nl2-nl5 cash limits, and small tournaments with buy-ins from $2 to $5.

In the poker room 888, I was lucky to somehow take 2nd place in an MTT tournament and win something like $200 with a buy-in of 2.2) For me, it was happiness. My first victory) In addition, there were many more small victories, somewhere plus 10, somewhere plus 50 dollars in tournaments, and also a little in cash … how much poker players earn is a moot point for me: it is influenced by many factors. Yes, you can make money playing poker, but you can earn much more by investing your time in something else…

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Plus time minus money

There were times when I entered the tournament, for example, at 7 pm, and by 10, by 11 pm – when I need to go to bed – I can’t fly out) I had to play until 3 and 4 in the morning, and in the morning Get up early and go to your “favorite” job. Sometimes I couldn’t sleep at all, because I played until the morning, and there was no point in going to bed for one hour (it’s very difficult to wake up later) …

There was such a moment that I played somewhere from 6 in the evening: tired of sitting at the computer – late at night I went to bed to finish playing from the phone, I was one of the first for a long time and I fell asleep on one of the breaks ..) )) …. I just passed out … my body could no longer withstand such “loads”, and sleepless nights playing poker … This went on for probably about six months: sleepless nights, tired appearance …. The further – the worse … The longer you play – the more tired you get and you win less….Tilt…upstreaks-downstreaks…eternal change of moods=nervous exhaustion…

STOP GAME

At one fine moment, I said to myself “enough, stop” …. In poker, after all, the main thing is to stop in time: to stop and come out with a win. Stop and come out… a winner… I don’t know why exactly I decided to leave poker: I reached the ceiling that I was able to achieve and realized that I couldn’t pull any higher, or I was just very tired… I still don’t know what exactly I am guided … But I know one thing: it was a very correct decision. I wrote to the support of eights to block my account for the hell of a damn thing, since I no longer plan to play poker, but at Pokerstars I just used the “responsible gaming” option and blocked my access to the game for a year.

And what is the RESULT?

My opinion: to play poker or not to play?

If I rewind time, given my experience, and ask myself the question “to play or not to play poker”, I would not play poker. I don’t see any point in it… At least, it’s definitely not worth playing poker so enthusiastically. It interferes with life.

Am I playing poker now? – Yes, I do, but this is a maximum of 1-2 times a month or less often, for a couple of hours, to unload the brain) … The rest of the time I simply have no time to play because there is a lot of work, there is always something to do – life is in full swing).

To everyone who has read all this all this nonsense to the end – low bow))