decreased interest in poker

[crazyhands]

For the past year or so, I've played poker almost every day and had such a desire to play. Recently, I've lost almost all interest in poker.

I think part of the reason is because I am so busy with school, but I know thats not the only reason. I'm just slowly getting the feeling, idea, or realization that poker is mostly luck and only partly skill. Previously, I had the idea that poker was largely skill and that is the MAIN reason which drew me to the game to begin with.

There are several reasons for why I'm shifting my view of poker and feel free to critize me as I know you guys will.

I feel as though there is no such thing as a "poker pro". It SEEMS as though some of the pros got to where they were by getting lucky in huge tournaments and then going on from there. Just look at Jamie Gold. It seems as though he had a huge positive varience swing during the 4th day onward and won. He was the "champion". When I hear people say that I'm thinking, no he just got the luckiest out of the 8,000 or so players. I'm not talking about his level of play. Now he is considered a poker pro, just for this spurt of incredble luck. Look at that Demetri Nobles guy. He proved to all of us that he was not a good player by any means, yet he was the chip leader for some time. And whatever happened to Chirs Moneymaker? Same thing; got on a huge pos. variance swing while the blinds of the tournament where 5 billion and 10 billion. I never see him on the WPT, world series, etc. I only see him drving a fancy car on a poker stars commerical.

There are other reasons for my shift of thinking. One is that I've been on a negative varience swing playing limit hold'em. I feel its pointless to play against average to good players, because it seems as though luck determines who is ahead and behind at the end of the session.

Please don't flame me or think I am a troll. I want people to argue against me to change the way I am thinking about his. I want to have the urge to play again. Right now, the only place that I have the desire to play is in a casio against bad players willing to and don't mind losing. Other than that, I feel like I might as well playing slots.