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I typically cycle through obsessions of one sort or another, so if it wasn't one thing it would be another. So I can't say I regret spending too much time in any one place, and I fully expect those places to change over time. I do regret that 2+2 often hasn't been what it could be, but then again, you have to balance that against the undeniable fact that it could also be so much worse, and so many places are.

If anything, I regret that my talent for hold-em seems to have a low ceiling. I never really got all that good at it, and I'm used to being able to accomplish things I put my mind to. That was especially surprising to me because I was able to count cards well in blackjack and also did quite well in seven-card stud. I'm better at my worst in 7-stud than I was at my best in hold'em. Oh well. So if there was a disappointing level of pay-off I got from the forums, it was on the poker side, and that blame can't be assigned to the forums themselves.

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Perhaps you expected too much too fast from yourself. Are you sure you put in the hours?

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I'm not sure I put the necessary quality of attention into the hours as consistently as I should have, though I put in plenty of hours. I think I could have done better on my end. But maybe only theoretically. When I took up hold'em I was in some extremely bleak and stressful years on the job and in my life in general, and I was so stressed I had memory and concentration problems. For whatever level of ability I have, the hours and the quality of concentration I applied were not enough. For someone with greater natural ability, or perhaps for me in a better period, what I brought to the table then might have been enough. I do intend to try again in the future, though, and haven't sworn off the game or anything. I'm actually hoping that the U.S. reverses its legal moves on the online casinos, so one day it will be easy to get into it again from the comfort of home.