Re: Losing the passion
Find a cocaine: Omaha/8. God, I suck at it, but I do enjoy it. I can afford to lose 5 to 10 bucks at .25/.50.
I am thinking of Ace on the River. Deep inside, we are all addicted gamblers, and how we deal with that is what makes us succeed or fail. We generally don't think of an addiction as something that is profitable, but that is what it is when you can stare at two cards for ten hours a day without thinking there is something wrong. The problem comes in when we no longer enjoy our addiction. It is important to rekindle our degenerate spirit with something else for a while, because once we allow ourselves to dislike our addiction, we punish ourselves for it: by losing on purpose.
Losing at Omaha/8 makes me feel better. I get to feed the degen without hurting myself. I get to enjoy the game I was once passionate about. The hard part is not over-doing it, ie., chasing my losses.
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