Wednesday, November 23, 2005

Why do I bother?

This isn't a oh, wo is me kind of post, but a serious question. What makes me play poker? What drives me?
And what led me to this question I hear no-one asking very quietly indeed, well this is what happened last night...

I logged in to Party poker, not really wanting to play, but knowing table time might be limited in the next month so I wanted to keep my account active, and they offered me a reload bonus. 15% up to $75 and play 7x hands to release. OK, that's achieveable... So I moved some money around to enable me to reload here. But then I thought, do I really want to grind out all these hours at a low limit hold-em table when I'm enjoying playing Omaha at the moment? Why am I playing poker? Sure I could probably make a little while clearing this bonus and get $75 of free money, but where is the fun? I won't make that at omaha that's for sure. Playing 5c/10c O8 is never going to make me rich, but perhaps that is another story ;-)

Perhaps it is because I feel like I've reached a plateau with my Texas Hold'em and I'm just not prepared to put the time in to improve... Certainly the money is a little important, but it's more winning the money and not the amount that I seem to care about. I'm kind of freerolling on my poker right now and not making any further investments so am happy to see the level grow slowly. I'm just enjoying learning something new.

So, what am I going to do?
Probably take the bonus! I figure I can still get a little Omaha in and I'm going away in a weeks time where I will only have my mac with me and seeing as pacific poker has become my Omaha home I can play that through their java interface when the conference gets boring. Hope they don't restrict access to gambling sites!

Difficult decisions...
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