Cold Turkey Quitting

[MJ4H]

I've been trying to do this for awhile now. A recent streak of bad luck has sealed it for me. As of now, I have withdrawn my funds from all poker sites and uninstalled all poker software from my computer. I hereby quit all forms of poker, real money and even play money, cold turkey.

Expect the withdrawals symptoms soon.

I actually had done this before, but when the WSOP main event happened back in May I picked it back up. Im hoping just watching the main event (which I will still do) will not hurt me too much. Wish me luck (I want out).

[Pumpy Tudors]

I've felt the same way before, even as recently as a week ago, although I didn't do anything about it. Since you want to quit, I hope I never run into you at a poker table. Good luck.

[Suicane75]

I was at that point a few weeks back, my intial $35 was down to $1, so I played and won a few .50 tourneys, won them and got my confidence back, moved up to $2 and $5 when i had enough funds and now I'm sitting at around $300. My main thing is not to ever spend more than I have, if i had run out of that money then it was all over.

[MJ4H]

Update: I caved and played a little NL at Absolute this afternoon. This is worrisome.

[Deattribution]

Update: I caved and played a little NL at Absolute this afternoon. This is worrisome.


So - 7 hours? Impressive :)

[RGunner]

I've felt like this many times, but then about a week ago I got bored and played a $100+9 multi table tourney on party poker and picked up 1st in it, netting me a nice $4500 bucks, which put me up over 3k+ total, so I'm set for a while, just dont let it frustrate you, and suicane's idea is good too, thats what im doing now if i ever run out of the money i have earned, i am done for sure.

[MJ4H]

So - 7 hours? Impressive :)

I went longer than I thought I would :)

I thought posting it here would help me stick to it.

[robbgmaier]

I have actually done this about 4 times, each time I stayed away from between 1 and 3 months. They were each caused by some sort of tilting that I just couldn't seem to back away from. The good news is that each time I came back and started making money again, and seemed to have aquired a higher degree of patience and perspective on things. I've been back again since May and have more money in the accounts now than at any previous point.

So just dump it all for at least a couple weeks, it will surely do you some good :)