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[orange]

good luck. real world > poker.

[Sponger.]

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oh and I haven’t gotten laid in 2 months, so that would be nice as well.

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You're like Wilt Chamberlain compared to almost everyone on this forum.

[J-Mac]

wtf? i feel like this post was written by me 10 months ago. Same academic decline, intellectual decline, generally stilted atmosphere. I cashed out and didn't play at all for months.

Flash forward to now, and I feel much better. I played much better when I got back, I graduated, I started seriously reading again, I go to the gym regularly, I re-connected with lost friends, I traveled, lost twenty pounds, I've got plans to get an interesting job and establish poker in a better balance in my life...

I feel better about myself now than I have in a long, long time. I feel f--king great, to be honest.

Point is, the transformation can be done. All you have to do...is do it. I wish you the best of luck in your mission to re-prioritize your life.

[lapoker17]

uh, wrong forum?

you bbv guys have turned into girls - look at all the responses wtf?

[ahnuld]

damn you pussy, [censored] alot of bitches, [censored] school and [censored] kill poker! [censored] ur life, u [censored] nit!

better la?

[gboro]

great post ansky. best of luck with everything.

[Toro]

Ansky, is there any way that you could have your cake and eat it too? Unless you're totally addicted to Poker, you should be able to resume your studies and get back in shape for soccer and still be able to play poker recreationally, for a few hours on the weekends.

The key is having some balance in your life and not have Poker dominate.

[ahnuld]

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Ansky, is there any way that you could have your cake and eat it too? Unless you're totally addicted to Poker, you should be able to resume your studies and get back in shape for soccer and still be able to play poker recreationally, for a few hours on the weekends.

The key is having some balance in your life and not have Poker dominate.

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this is very true. But I find at the higher limits the rust that forms when you can only dedicate 5 hrs a week to poker/poker theory will really hurt your game. Thats from personal experience. I believe I will be quitting 2+2 and poker for the whole month of april, maybe part of november due to time contraints.

[Gildwulf]

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Ansky, is there any way that you could have your cake and eat it too? Unless you're totally addicted to Poker, you should be able to resume your studies and get back in shape for soccer and still be able to play poker recreationally, for a few hours on the weekends.

The key is having some balance in your life and not have Poker dominate.

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this is very true. But I find at the higher limits the rust that forms when you can only dedicate 5 hrs a week to poker/poker theory will really hurt your game. Thats from personal experience. I believe I will be quitting 2+2 and poker for the whole month of april, maybe part of november due to time contraints.

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Not to rub it in or anything, but I was able to play 10-15 hours a week my last term at McGill and have a very satisfying social and academic life. There's no reason this can't happen eventually. But for right now it sounds like Ansky is addicted to poker or at least it is affecting his life so negatively at this point it would be good to take a short break.

[Barrin6]

Ansky,

Good move. Alot of players can't admit that poker has taken a big chunk of thier life.

See you in a month