Quote Originally Posted by euphoricism
Sir, you sound exactly like I have for the last x number of months.If youre living off your roll, not playing enough is just as expensive as tilt is. This fact has cost me most of my bankroll in a time period where my bankroll is of supreme importance (switching from LHE to NL and paying the learning curve). I offer you no words of wisom but be careful and cognizant.

Winrate + Hands played = profit.
no kidding euph

in my situation, my poker roll won't be touched anytime soon so I don't even "have" to play as I'm not living off my roll and won't be anytime soon.

The obvious formula you mentioned flashes through my mind quite a bit when I read or party or waste my time running after girls on many nights... which leads to the whole "feeling guilty about not playing" which... makes me not want to play.

Maybe I should just stop trying to have my cake and eat it too and accept that playing won't always be fun.

But it seemed like playing always WAS fun when I was mindlessly chasing bonuses/learning to not be a donk/building my roll without tracking it.

I think I'd be more prepared to accept the grind of it all if I was playing out of necessity...