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 Originally Posted by boost
Yeah, I mean, it's definitely a spectrum and not a linear two dimensional one. I do like the thrill, but I strangely get almost zero thrill out of casino games. I think more than anything it's the thrill of competition, and I don't get that playing black jack.
The reason I feel I have a problem is that I have, on multiple occasions, played for way longer than I had planned, chased losses, and gone over self imposed limits. I can get into a one track state of mind-- I'm prone to becoming fixated on things. It's really a competitive thing though, but when the competition involves betting it turns into a gambling problem. Or at least that's where I'm currently at with my self analysis, maybe others have some different insights?
This is exactly how I am. I have a very addictive/obsessive personality in general. Just look at the thousands of words I just posted in the abortion thread; I stayed up til 3 in the morning reading and making notes on the thread and then woke up at 8am and wrote my responses basically non-stop until nowish. You think that maybe there were other things I should have been doing? This is how I was with poker: staying up all hours of the night arguing hand histories, spending entire lectures in my grad school classes writing out ranges and maths and event trees and such, etc.
I am also very competitive. So, all-in-all, I certainly was obsessive when it came to poker; it just so happened that gambling was my least favorite part of the game.
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