[Albert Moulton]

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1. I have $52, do I withdraw that and just take a break till I get $60 for rakeback in 2 weeks?

2. Do I quit forever because I can not handle it?

3. Play 10NL with $5 BIs like I had done previously?

4. Withdraw the money and rakeback money and get new video game system instead of Poker?

5. One last thing. I have nothing to do besides tennis, house work and a job 1 or 2 days a week (which is boring as hell.)

6. I do not like hanging out with the kids I do AT school OUTSIDE of school because I do not like drugs/alcohol because again I would feel like I let my parents down.

7. Keep my boredom in mind, because that is what helped lead me to my current state.


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1. Withdraw your money. Close your accounts. Don't play any games for money on line until and unless you don't have to say things like, "I asked my parents if..." Moreover, even if you were an emancipated minor bent on internet gambling, inadequate bankroll management is a master plan for bankrupcy. When and if you play, keep at least 10 (and preferably 20) times the buyin for the level you're playing for ring games.

2. No. But you need to quit while you live at home, go to school, and don't have enough of a bankroll on your own to fund the level you want to play. Wait at least until college.

3. No. You're too immature from the information in the OP to be playing online for money. Grow up a little. Get a job and an apartment. Or, better than that, go to college.

4. Sounds good. Or buy chips and a card table so you can set up some ring games and tourneys for your friends that prefer cards to drugs and alcohol. Play a ton of low stakes games with friends. Make it HORSE and have fun. But stay off the computer poker sites. At least live, you'll have some interaction with others. You sound like you can use it. But keep the stakes low.

5-7. Find some friends who don't do drugs and alcohol. Maybe a girlfiend. Get out of your own head.