Random Thoughts from elipsesjeff (CodeRedRulez in IRC)

[elipsesjeff]

Hello, my name is Jeff, and I'm addicted to online Poker!!! (and loving every minute of it). Alright, i have some free time, so lets make some random posts.....


It gets to the point now, that everything I do, everything I think about, is related to poker. I swear I eat, drink, think, work, and yes, even play, poker. I have a one track mind, and its not women. In fact, right now I can even care less about finding a girlfriend. Why bother right? Heck, poker was here first.

Does anyone else have this problem? I mean, I'm able to finish all my homework on time (albeit lackadaisical at times) and I'm still dedicated to both my jobs (when I made almost 6x my monthly wages playing poker). I seriously cant think of anything but poker. Its strategies, replaying old hands, random thoughts: It is what keeps me going through the days and the weeks! I only play like 10 hours a week, all between like thursday and sunday, and its something I look forward to every week. I want to play more, but my damn time constraints keeps my demand high and supply low. My mom offered me a job at her work over winter break at my school, it paid probably $8 an hour, which, actually is pretty good for a job in my area. The work was an 8-5 job standing in a basement area scanning medical records into a computer ALL day. Fuck that man, fuck that. I told her I could make at least $20 an hour playing 2/4. Id have to work so much more than the 40 hours a week for 4 weeks that they were offering me (when, keep in mind xmas and new years) to make what I made in the month of January playing poker. Fuck that shit. Wheres the life right? Where were they LAST winter when I didnt even HAVE a job, or last summer when I didnt have a job and I had to scrape by.

I'm not impressed by some hot drunk bitch that wants to cut in line at the bar. I SAID TO THE END OF THE FUCKING LINE, BITCH. I dont even care if I go out and get drunk anymore at a bar/party. I just like telling people how much i've MADE online, watch them make this 'holy shit' face then they rush to play online as fast as they can! I tell them they will lose, and I make it sound a lot easier than it really is, but yet they don't listen. They just keep adding to the food chain. None of my friends actually play poker, they ridiculed me last year when before i learned how to play and just lost some money. Yeah, I let them know about it too today all the time, why wouldn't I right?

How can I make anything in my life seem significant, when I'm making my average salary when i graduate from school by playing poker RIGHT NOW, and i'm still like 2 years from graduation (the longer I stay, the more poker I can play ). How can you seriously take it seriously? If some fucking prick gets on my nerves or really pisses me off in life, I just tell them: You know you little shit, I make more now than when you will fucking graduate, deal with it.

Which leads me to another point, I've started to become more arrogant in real life (i'm usually just an ass in real life, but arrogance plus an ass people start to get pissed). I'm sure some of you are surprised to hear that I'm not, or wasn't at least, an arrogant prick in person, I usually am just that way online (or used to be, I like to proclaim ).

Anyway, just a rambling thread of shit thats going on that I really wanted to say. I really dont care if you care or not, but, its good to say things.

[a500lbgorilla]

{Moved to NOBODY CARES}

j/k j/k

Yah, I think about poker way to much and sacrifice a lot of study or homework time to play it. Though, I still manage to go out sometimes, get drunk and see boobies!

I don't think you have any sort of problem. You keep a good balance between your normal life and poker.

If you want, come on IRC and I'll give you some nice guy lessons.

-'rilla is a nice guy.

[jmrogers7]

www.gamblersanonymous.com

www.rageaholics.com

www.arrogantprick.com

I'm so helpful I should be nominated for saint-hood.

[JeffreyGB]

Holy crap dude! You only play 10 hours a week and you're bringing in that kind of cash? If anything, it sounds to me like you're playing too little!!

I'm the same way - most of what I talk/think/do involves poker. I'm still pulling A's in my classes, but there have even been a few times that I've put homework on the backburner (ex. Yesterday morning I woke up and just couldn't force myself to do the day's Physics assignment...poker instead for a few hours, then I hit the books).

I don't really have a solution. But I've come to think of it as less of a problem than I used to...of course that could mean that it's actually more of one...

- Jeffrey

[gabe]

Cash some out and treat all your friends to dinner. It is something that will impress your friends (without you having to remind them how much you make and how they were wrong) and it will be a time for you to relax and just enjoy yourself. I admit, the poker obsession has started to become a problem with myself (like thinking about it at random times and skipping work to play it). I cashed out some money I won in a MTT that I played when my boys were cheering me on and took them all out to dinner (kinda cheap restaurant, but thats besides the point!). It was a blast and it reminds you that you play poker for the money so you can have enjoyable times like this.

[Waggho]

I was just thinking about how much I must have saved the last months, playing poker instead of doing expensive things like getting drunk (that´s really expensive in this country) or going to the movies. The drawback is that online poker is such an asocial activity. I feel like maybe I should go out and meet more people. But then I think that I think that way just because I think that others think that that´s the way I should be thinking. I have a girlfriend, and she is pulling the break sometimes. But I swear I play more than ten hours a week, not 20 though I think. Somewhere inbetween. But I guess that if I´ll reach your level, Jeff, I´ll be even more addicted. Time to get cautious?

By the way, the other day I talked to a guy in my class, and he said he played poker too. I told him about my bankroll and the games I´m playing and he said "sounds good". Then I asked him, and he answered "I play fixed limit 15/30 and have $20,000 in my bankroll". Yeah I know that some of you guys have those kinds of bankrolls, but a guy in my class? Hey, if someone like him can do it, then I can. New goal: 20k in 2k7!

[SmackinYaUp]

I cant believe this you sound so much like me. You should feel special because I never dish out such flattering compliments to others. I cant wait to make enough money that I can quit my part time job, cash out and pay the next 6months in advance the rent on these really nice apartments down the street, and quit my shitfucked job by grabbing the next prick piece of shit scumbag by the throat that comes in to order some nasty tacos. Then I will continue to finish school because its expected of me.

If it's any consolation, poker seems to have brought out the arrogant side to me, I find me thinking pretty apathetically sometimes at school. But I'll get over it

[whileone]

I find me thinking pretty apathetically sometimes at school. But I'll get over it

Why bother?