OT: How long to get tired playing poker?

[lacky]

I try to get up and take a short break after every set (about every hour). If I'm playing ring games I stop after 2 hours. If I do that I can take 10 min to an hour off and be ready to play again. If I try to push on and play 3 to 4 hours straight I'm generally much more fried.

Try short sessions with breaks/naps. If I do have to play long sessions (on a mtt day it can run 12 hours straight or more) I only play 3 or 4 tables usually.

[ChrisV]

I have no idea how you're not leaderboard already playing 6 hours per day. Too many thirds?

Anyway yeah. This doesn't reflect on anyone else's capabilities, but personally 9-tabling 6 hours per day brought on a recurrence of anxiety symptoms for me. I've dealt with that in the past and yeah, when my mental health is at stake, forget about it.

But so what? I've made 5K already this month, I can do what I want for the rest of the month.

[pineapple888]

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I have no idea how you're not leaderboard already playing 6 hours per day. Too many thirds?


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I'm somewhere on there now. I meant like Top 4 as a future goal. Although who knows, that might be too much. But I do want to have a couple of big months soon regardless of the leaderboard just to give myself a real nice monetary cushion. Then I'll probably become a dilettante like curtains. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

[anklebreaker]

Meditate for 15 mins a day (I'm not talking abt new-age fruity stuff).

[schwza]

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Well, at some point, the party has to end

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definitely a big part of what motivates me. if it can hold on for a couple years and i can end up with a big pile of money in the bank for kids' college/retirement/etc, that'd be awesome.

[ChrisV]

Agree. This is definitely on my agenda.

Not sure where to go to get started, though.

[pineapple888]

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Meditate for 15 mins a day (I'm not talking abt new-age fruity stuff).

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Yeah, 15 minutes sounds about right, depending on the attractiveness of the particular objects you are meditating on.

[AMT]

yo this isnt even a joke, but for those of you that are single and horny guys like most of us, you need to consider porn. not even kidding, itll help if you arent thinking of nude women when you play a set of 12 sng's.

[pooh74]

I can hardly play more than 2 hours a day anymore...I hardly play MTTs anymore cas its simply a waste of money.

Its over 2 years now and I'm burning out. My eyes literally start to close while im in my second set...

So, yeah I get tired.

[Newt_Buggs]

I can't play more than a couple of hours a day, and it doesn't bother me much. Being rested and playing my A game as well as balancing poker with everything else in my life is far more important to me than squeezing in more hours at the tables.