Sunday, February 19, 2012

The morality of poker

A friend of mine showed me a news article today

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1375966/My-husbands-obsession-online-poker-gambled-away-1million--idyllic-life.html

If you can't be bothered to read it then some guy basically blew over £1,000,000 playing online poker over a period of about 3 years and is now in rehab for it.

Now to be honest, my concern is not that this is going to happen to me. If I ever started losing long term at a particular game I'm smart enough to know if it's me and can change to a different style and because I'm a long term loser on sports betting I set deposit limits everywhere so can't lose much on it at any time.

A friend of mine who also makes a living playing poker has said that this kind of thing makes him feel guilty. Should poker players feel concern?

Jen once commented that what I did for a living didn't change lives and I joked that it does change others lives, it makes them poorer. These people know the risks involved when they play the games so why should I feel guilty? Does a bookmaker feel bad when someone puts their dole money on a horse? or does a landlord care when come pay day someone is filling up his fruit machines? Of course they don't. The warnings are there and if you're getting addicted there are things you can do.

Every site will let you set deposit limits or even totally exclude yourself from using the site and it's not hard to spot when someone has a problem with gambling. I don't think I could possibly feel guilty from what I do or I just wouldn't do it. To me, the opposition players are just computers. I don't see them as people, it's almost like it's just a computer game to me. And I very much doubt that anyone feels guilty when they get lucky against me.

So how has poker been going? I've been seriously pushing myself to try and get to 300k vpps by the end of February and then 500k vpps by the end of March. It works out around 500 games a day til then which is a lot of effort, around 7/8 hours a day, including weekends. Friday and Saturday I managed 600 games each day and made some decent profit too.

Sunday I only did 360 games, first session of 200 games was a $1100 profit session but at one point I was at $2k up so a tad disappointing. 2nd session was a total disaster. I have to play tighter over the weekends and that set I was very card dead and also ran badly. Ended up $1400 down for the session so it was a losing day but only marginally. Tried to get an early night but woke up at 3am. Played some multis, lost some multis, did the washing up and am about to go back to bed.

I've got an appointment at 5:30 this evening with a personal trainer. I'm gonna try and fit four sessions a week in at the gym. I've noticed the site starts dying off around 2am so I can get up at 10am, go the gym, come back, play 12-4. then have tea with Jen, play again 6-8 (if going out) or 6-10 (if staying in) and then finish with an 11-2 session. Should get me well on track if knackering me out slightly but I can ease down if I can hit 500k by the end of March and that would put me around $50k up for the year I think even if I'm stil breaking even.

Not had much of a social life this weekend so really looking forward to footie and the pub tonight, got a cleaner coming this afternoon too which is much needed, Jen can deal with that though.

Nowt else to report, comments are still moderated but my facebook isn't so comment on that or if you do want to post a comment I can then approve it.

Hope everyone is happy in whatever they're doing

Jon

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