I've lost the desire to play poker

[Tizerd]

I thought I would post this here to get some of your thoughts.... I see alot of posters I don't recognize, for those of you who haven't played with me I was a long time regular, winning player on the party 5/10 and 10/20 games, under the names "liquidfarts" and later "tizerd." Been playing now under "mizzles" on FT. I'm sure at least some of you have an idea of who I am...

Not sure the reason but over the past 6-8 weeks I've lost all desire to play poker. WTF? I've gone from a "can't wait to get in there" 12-tabling freak to almost nothing. I play for 10 minutes now and I want out. I guess it's no coincidence I'm running horrible, but I've been through bad streaks before and never lost the urge to play like this. I've even stopped monitoring (for PT) which is something I've never done. And there have been no significant changes / distractions in my life I can blame it on.

In a way I guess it's good (frees me up to do other things), in many ways it's bad, regardless I just don't understand it.

Have any of you been through anything similar? Just a phase? Permanent? Should I force myself to play? Try changing it up to stars? I was so into this game, I think I still love poker and "want" to play just don't have the desire anymore. I think the loss of sparks has affected my game (dropped a notch), no longer do I analyze my mistakes, think about ways of improving my game, etc...

Obviously impossible questions for you to answer but just wanted to get your thoughts...

Thanks

[Prevaricator]

mizzles.. i knew it

[aejones]

yea, i've got school to try and deal with but i'm going through some of the same things. i don't mind talking about poker, but when it comes to actually grinding, i really don't wanna [censored] with it.

[beachbum]

A lot of it for me basically since October is that the government has sucked all the fun out of the game.

[billyjex]

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A lot of it for me basically since October is that the government has sucked all the fun out of the game.

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this is 100% me as well

it's not just that i've lost the desire.. i really hate the game.

[Apathy]

Some ideas:

-1 week vacation where you go somewhere nice

-Learn a new poker game (PLO, 2-7 TD, etc)

-PLay a different site

-Spend A lot of money on something like propery etc, so you have to work

[Trix]

Think learning a new game is good. Vacation too.

[snugglez88]

start playing plo, fun game play for a week or something and come back to your regular game.

[ahnuld]

2-3 week break. do nothing related to poker

[thedustbustr]

stop reading 2p2