Bored with chipping and sick of poker (3 Viewers)
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No real advice on how to reinvigorate your love for the game, but whatever decision you make think on it for a bit. Whatever chips you could sell tomorrow, you can probably sell in a few months at roughly the same prices. No need to rush it if you're not hurting for cash. Not that you need to keep what you have, but it's good to think things over.
legend672
Full House
Reminds me of that commercial
You- “ yellow makes me sad “
F. Lee Emery - “ do you know what makes me sad ? You do! “
You- “ yellow makes me sad “
F. Lee Emery - “ do you know what makes me sad ? You do! “
Well, if you are stocking up…. Chocolate …. and none of that sugar free crap. That is an abomination.
Frogzilla
4 of a Kind
Tonight’s episode of high stakes poker was an all-timer…
About as good as it gets for 2-card
About as good as it gets for 2-card
I have undergone the same feeling of boredom for the last year. I am a mouse on a wheel yearning for different scenery. What has held me back from getting done is the bonds that I have built with a small number of the players and the fear of being moved to the invite list as a consequence. (The host, my seat and five other player's seats are locked. The other three seats are filled weekly by players that are on his wait list.)
What did I do this month? Picked up another weekly game at the behest of another player that to date has proven to be very profitable. I frankly don't see my love or enjoyment for the game returning. The hard truth is the poker table is where my friends are at, even though everyone is there to win.
I don't know what the future holds. I am still sorting it out. I am not ready to step away from the extra money and part of me wants to preserve that one constant connection with my friends. My advice if your experience is similar, is to reinvest your time in an interest that is shared by one or two of your poker friends. That way you are not completely removed from the game. You are "poker adjacent." - All the best, whatever you decide to do.
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I'm feeling the same way.
I just bought a new table that should come in about a month, and I'm hoping that will re-inspire me to host more and pick it up a bit.
I just bought a new table that should come in about a month, and I'm hoping that will re-inspire me to host more and pick it up a bit.
WedgeRock
Royal Flush
Get a wife that disapproves of poker. That'll ramp up the love for the game!
ngmcs8203
Flush
Golf. That can be more time consuming than poker.
Edit: Started with a "Ben book" then deleted it all.
Eh,
The actual "game" of NLHE is soooooo boring & I have far more chips than I'll need (and honestly, want).
The PCF meetups where we get to experiment in the huge variants of the game of poker is, well, a dream to me, a very good dream!
I have no idea who you play with but I play every Friday (some Mondays, Saturdays & Sundays) with the same core group. Some players have come and gone but the core is great, the camaraderie is amazing as I've played with most of them over 10+ years. I look forward to every Friday night with them. There are decent players and there are bad players. but again, it's about the camaraderie. they are my friends and my enemies when we are in a pot.
For me, the "game" is old and dried up. The friends though? I LOVE
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- Mark
p.s. Don't sell . . .
Eh,
The actual "game" of NLHE is soooooo boring & I have far more chips than I'll need (and honestly, want).
The PCF meetups where we get to experiment in the huge variants of the game of poker is, well, a dream to me, a very good dream!
I have no idea who you play with but I play every Friday (some Mondays, Saturdays & Sundays) with the same core group. Some players have come and gone but the core is great, the camaraderie is amazing as I've played with most of them over 10+ years. I look forward to every Friday night with them. There are decent players and there are bad players. but again, it's about the camaraderie. they are my friends and my enemies when we are in a pot.
For me, the "game" is old and dried up. The friends though? I LOVE
.- Mark
p.s. Don't sell . . .
My interest in acquisitions has morphed into more interest in playing.
If you're bored with playing, maybe play something new. I love the diversity of table top games out there.
If you're bored with playing, maybe play something new. I love the diversity of table top games out there.
MrCatPants
Full House
I quit poker twice last week.
WedgeRock
Royal Flush
I think the problem is that you've played every permutation of starting hands+boards.
Time to start again.
Time to start again.
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ekricket
Royal Flush
Maybe read a book on poker? Not knocking your play, lol, I mean sometimes reading back to the basics gets me thinking about aspects of my game a bit deeper, and that helps motivate me.
Phil Gordon’s books are always a great upbeat read, a good mix of stories and analysis.
Phil Gordon’s books are always a great upbeat read, a good mix of stories and analysis.
Over the last twenty years I've lived and breathed poker and also dropped out a few years here and there but I always come back. What you love about the game narrows as the years go by but you will never leave if you have the true bug. Don't do anything in a rush that you will regret and when you find that spark again go with it. It will come back
RadicusScout
Flush
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Ah dammit, you have to sign in for this...
F it, I'm goin' bowling.
AlbinoDragon
Flush
It's very easy to get burnt out on things, especially hobbies.
I've spent a lot of time doing astrophotography as a hobby, but in the last year I hit a mental wall with it and haven't set up my imaging rig during that time. I think about finishing the processing on data that has sat on hard drive since before then and I can't bring myself to even do that.
I left this place many years ago and didn't log in or even visit for four of five years. I'd run out of patience with some of what was going on and felt I needed to distance myself from it for a while. I came back a couple years ago "refreshed" and have enjoyed getting back into the fray.
The short version of what I'm saying is that stepping back from here, from poker and from chipping isn't necessarily a bad thing. Don't think of it as a permanent separation, but just time to get some fresh air and get yourself into a different mind-space. I know my time away from here gave me a new and renewed interest in the hobby. I'm hoping that's the same case for my astrophotography hobby, but like I did here, I'm willing to let that take years if necessary.
It looks like you've had similar responses already, but I wanted to add another vote to the pool of options. Don't do anything rash like selling your sets, just set them aside, even out of sight, and take some time away to find your love of this insanity again.
Best wishes. We'll be here once you decide you're ready to come back.
I've spent a lot of time doing astrophotography as a hobby, but in the last year I hit a mental wall with it and haven't set up my imaging rig during that time. I think about finishing the processing on data that has sat on hard drive since before then and I can't bring myself to even do that.
I left this place many years ago and didn't log in or even visit for four of five years. I'd run out of patience with some of what was going on and felt I needed to distance myself from it for a while. I came back a couple years ago "refreshed" and have enjoyed getting back into the fray.
The short version of what I'm saying is that stepping back from here, from poker and from chipping isn't necessarily a bad thing. Don't think of it as a permanent separation, but just time to get some fresh air and get yourself into a different mind-space. I know my time away from here gave me a new and renewed interest in the hobby. I'm hoping that's the same case for my astrophotography hobby, but like I did here, I'm willing to let that take years if necessary.
It looks like you've had similar responses already, but I wanted to add another vote to the pool of options. Don't do anything rash like selling your sets, just set them aside, even out of sight, and take some time away to find your love of this insanity again.
Best wishes. We'll be here once you decide you're ready to come back.
Everyone is being nice and supportive (which is a check mark for "this is a community not a marketplace") but I also expect it to look like this if chips get sold.
louBdub
Full House
This is actually good to see from a weird perspective…. Hear me out.
If @Hornet ends up being absolutely finished with poker and chips, I applaud his ability to simply release his clay circle toys so that they bring joy to others.
Some people quit a long time ago, and still have 20,000 chips that haven’t been touched in a decade………………. (That just touched some feelings )
Reminds me of my disdain for barn find 1967 Shelby’s - because the owner fell out of love with the car but didn’t want anyone else to love it…. So they just box it up and toss the key….
Hornet, I echo everyone with the sit tight approach to see what you truly feel. But if it’s an exit, I applaud you for being able to spread happiness to others by shedding your chips that won’t be used.
If @Hornet ends up being absolutely finished with poker and chips, I applaud his ability to simply release his clay circle toys so that they bring joy to others.
Some people quit a long time ago, and still have 20,000 chips that haven’t been touched in a decade………………. (That just touched some feelings
)Reminds me of my disdain for barn find 1967 Shelby’s - because the owner fell out of love with the car but didn’t want anyone else to love it…. So they just box it up and toss the key….
Hornet, I echo everyone with the sit tight approach to see what you truly feel. But if it’s an exit, I applaud you for being able to spread happiness to others by shedding your chips that won’t be used.
I haven’t seen you buy any chips lately, direct correlation to boredom.
Sorry to hear this David.
Like others above I went through the same thing and took a break for awhile. I don't think I'd sell anything, unless you really have a need to, or just want to rotate something old out and something new in.
Sometimes doing "trade loaners" with another member for a change of scenery can be a nice option and not result in a sale. Nothing says you have to host or play if you're just not feeling it. Personally, I don't go to a game if my head and heart aren't in it, ends up being a waste of time.
I would also agree with a change of pace in a new hobby or revisiting an old one. Sometimes you forget/don't realize the joy other hobbies can bring to your life.
Just a ripple in the ocean that will pass.
Like others above I went through the same thing and took a break for awhile. I don't think I'd sell anything, unless you really have a need to, or just want to rotate something old out and something new in.
Sometimes doing "trade loaners" with another member for a change of scenery can be a nice option and not result in a sale. Nothing says you have to host or play if you're just not feeling it. Personally, I don't go to a game if my head and heart aren't in it, ends up being a waste of time.
I would also agree with a change of pace in a new hobby or revisiting an old one. Sometimes you forget/don't realize the joy other hobbies can bring to your life.
Just a ripple in the ocean that will pass.
For me the boredom wasn't lack of buying, it was just that, disinterest.
Yeah I was just joking lol
ekricket
Royal Flush
Do you think it’s @Windwalker, cards mold, or nagb’s to blame? They cause everything else around here.
Double dibs on the 67 Shelby David! Will pick up!
Ben8257
Royal Flush
Ben book waring*** Ye Be Warned!**
Looked at this thread last night, followed up this morning and honestly I think many can relate... especially for many mediocre players like myself... some wins/ some losses... try to find the "fun" in it when on a loosing streak, on the chipping side drooling over sets we will never own and envious... but what about the player on top of his game, owns the trophies and the best chips out there...
I guess what strikes me differently with this one is that David is one of and if not the best poker player I have ever played! So in my head it's not the loosing steak lull, but more of the "I've been on top, beat the best in the game, own the best chips... so what else is there for me here when I have hit the plateau??"
I have been a "collector" of things my entire life... nothing has ever kept my attention like the chipping hobby... many know I took about a year off and worked on putting together a "better Ben" honest to God someone that lived and breathed poker chips 24/7/365... to "I don't even want to look at stupid poker chips!"
But that time away allows for the reset... and yes I was drawn back in to the local poker scene, back to chips... this hobby always finds a way to pull you back in... the part I feel like I can't relate with David is that I have NEVER felt like I mastered the gane.. obviously David never said that and maybe doesn't even feel that way (a trully humble and amazing person) but the reality is you have indeed been a very successful poker player... but also having visited your residence I feel you have been extremely successful in many facets of life.
A break is absolutely FINE David... I think the comerodery of the game, friendships built in the traveling scene of PCF will continue to draw you back as time goes on... we all miss our friends*
As far as the hobby if chipping itself excuse my ignorance but I would ask have you ever taken on a project of building unubtanium a chip at a time? I remeber your slow TRK build and that rack of Hundos, i remeber your long hunt for PCAs. I did the same thing with my PH fracs, a chip at a time... and over all a VERY expensive rack to build.
But what about a larger and even more rare project, example I would use is that I started with 3 Trump AC chips, the Taj was the first casino I ever played in and many told me it would be impossible to build a playable set... 6 years later of turning over rocks I built this out of 3 chips!
I get that those in a different financial bracket can buy the "good stuff" ready to go and in playable quantities... but there is another level of accomplishment that comes from building one from scratch. If you chat with the veterans that have undertaken these types of builds I think maybe you might find that one part that is missing. For me it keeps "the hunt" alive... always serching for something to finish up multiple sets... it takes extreme patience, and maybe NOT what you are looking for at all. Just maybe something to consider when you do come back.
I also acknowledge that as this hobby has continued to grow with new collectors and many hunting "the good stuff" that even if everything above does somehow speak to you... it leaves wondering "ok I like this idea... but what the heck should I start hunting?" But they are out there... I know others are building Bingo Palace, Yosemites, Silver Saddle... a build that is more like fine coin collecting than chip set building... something that keeps the hunt alive.
I mean sure Tigers, Indiana Grand, Sunset Beach and others are great sets... but with the right amount of $$ they are obtainable... sure you love them like the rest of your collection, but what they lack is uniquness... your mark on the hobby where some one sees a particular set and says "ohh those are xxx's chips" that sense that you built something no one else did... all I'm saying is that may be the next step when you come back!
As far as your poker game... I am of no help there... it has been a ture Honor to share some felt time with you over the years brother! Amazing game, amazing chips and you trully inspire me to be a better player!
As always, I am around if you ever need a friend to chat with or another person to tell you about their abysmal poker playing so you can feel better about yourself! Lol
Push through and don't sell shit David! The hobby wouldn't be the same without you brother!
Forever your chippin brother,
Ben
Looked at this thread last night, followed up this morning and honestly I think many can relate... especially for many mediocre players like myself... some wins/ some losses... try to find the "fun" in it when on a loosing streak, on the chipping side drooling over sets we will never own and envious... but what about the player on top of his game, owns the trophies and the best chips out there...
I guess what strikes me differently with this one is that David is one of and if not the best poker player I have ever played! So in my head it's not the loosing steak lull, but more of the "I've been on top, beat the best in the game, own the best chips... so what else is there for me here when I have hit the plateau??"
I have been a "collector" of things my entire life... nothing has ever kept my attention like the chipping hobby... many know I took about a year off and worked on putting together a "better Ben" honest to God someone that lived and breathed poker chips 24/7/365... to "I don't even want to look at stupid poker chips!"
But that time away allows for the reset... and yes I was drawn back in to the local poker scene, back to chips... this hobby always finds a way to pull you back in... the part I feel like I can't relate with David is that I have NEVER felt like I mastered the gane.. obviously David never said that and maybe doesn't even feel that way (a trully humble and amazing person) but the reality is you have indeed been a very successful poker player... but also having visited your residence I feel you have been extremely successful in many facets of life.
A break is absolutely FINE David... I think the comerodery of the game, friendships built in the traveling scene of PCF will continue to draw you back as time goes on... we all miss our friends*
As far as the hobby if chipping itself excuse my ignorance but I would ask have you ever taken on a project of building unubtanium a chip at a time? I remeber your slow TRK build and that rack of Hundos, i remeber your long hunt for PCAs. I did the same thing with my PH fracs, a chip at a time... and over all a VERY expensive rack to build.
But what about a larger and even more rare project, example I would use is that I started with 3 Trump AC chips, the Taj was the first casino I ever played in and many told me it would be impossible to build a playable set... 6 years later of turning over rocks I built this out of 3 chips!
I get that those in a different financial bracket can buy the "good stuff" ready to go and in playable quantities... but there is another level of accomplishment that comes from building one from scratch. If you chat with the veterans that have undertaken these types of builds I think maybe you might find that one part that is missing. For me it keeps "the hunt" alive... always serching for something to finish up multiple sets... it takes extreme patience, and maybe NOT what you are looking for at all. Just maybe something to consider when you do come back.
I also acknowledge that as this hobby has continued to grow with new collectors and many hunting "the good stuff" that even if everything above does somehow speak to you... it leaves wondering "ok I like this idea... but what the heck should I start hunting?" But they are out there... I know others are building Bingo Palace, Yosemites, Silver Saddle... a build that is more like fine coin collecting than chip set building... something that keeps the hunt alive.
I mean sure Tigers, Indiana Grand, Sunset Beach and others are great sets... but with the right amount of $$ they are obtainable... sure you love them like the rest of your collection, but what they lack is uniquness... your mark on the hobby where some one sees a particular set and says "ohh those are xxx's chips" that sense that you built something no one else did... all I'm saying is that may be the next step when you come back!
As far as your poker game... I am of no help there... it has been a ture Honor to share some felt time with you over the years brother! Amazing game, amazing chips and you trully inspire me to be a better player!
As always, I am around if you ever need a friend to chat with or another person to tell you about their abysmal poker playing so you can feel better about yourself! Lol
Push through and don't sell shit David! The hobby wouldn't be the same without you brother!
Forever your chippin brother,
Ben
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