Grebbsy
Enthusiast
Silver Level
This isn't an attempt to start a fight or anything, but I'm starting to get dispirited.
I won't call it tilt because if anything it's the opposite -- tilt (as I understand it) is plunging back into further poker games when you're emotionally on edge from a bad beat or a piece of poor play that you know was poor and you should have avoided, whilst what I'm experiencing is more the feeling that I'm never going to be a poker player worth a damn and I ought to just get out and stop wasting money on the wretched game.
This is partly due to a long run of rotten results, but partly also due to the sheer level of the discussions going on here on CC. Many of them make me feel like someone with a first aid at work qualification who's wandered into a conference full of brain surgeons and is trying to keep up with the conversations and debates. The thought of trying to get to the point where I can even begin to engage in any kind of meaningful discussion on here, never mind the point where I can hope to make anything more but the odd few cents from pure chance at poker, seems more and more daunting.
Did any of you guys have to overcome a similar hurdle when you were new to poker, and if so how did you manage it?
I won't call it tilt because if anything it's the opposite -- tilt (as I understand it) is plunging back into further poker games when you're emotionally on edge from a bad beat or a piece of poor play that you know was poor and you should have avoided, whilst what I'm experiencing is more the feeling that I'm never going to be a poker player worth a damn and I ought to just get out and stop wasting money on the wretched game.
This is partly due to a long run of rotten results, but partly also due to the sheer level of the discussions going on here on CC. Many of them make me feel like someone with a first aid at work qualification who's wandered into a conference full of brain surgeons and is trying to keep up with the conversations and debates. The thought of trying to get to the point where I can even begin to engage in any kind of meaningful discussion on here, never mind the point where I can hope to make anything more but the odd few cents from pure chance at poker, seems more and more daunting.
Did any of you guys have to overcome a similar hurdle when you were new to poker, and if so how did you manage it?