Quote Originally Posted by Tyde View Post
Quote Originally Posted by tgull View Post
Tyde,

I am not moralizing here, but how can you stand working as hard as you work for 3 months in a row, only to come home and blow it all gambling, especially on games you cannot win like Stars? With all the bots you have to be in the upper 1% of players even to scratch out a living. Going to Mexico to play internet poker? WTF?

You could get a nice 900 square foot apartment for like $1000 a month in Arizona or Nevada. Yeah, you would not live there 5 months a year, but so what, you have something to come home to. Plus, I know you know this, but its just a matter of time before you have some type of medical event. You really want to battle a medical event with $1,400 in the bank, then what?

It would only take 2 years to get a substantial savings account given your line of work. But going to Mexico and blowing your hard earned money on Stars? I personally would be monumentally depressed going back on the ship. Not sure what you are doing but it makes no sense. I am not saying you cannot play poker again, but a few hundred bucks here and there not a few thousand. You are flat out too old for that shit.


thanks for your response


the truth is that money means shit to me


I refuse to live my life chasing it


I'm fortunate enough to have a great paying career now, but I don't equate life success with how much money I have in the bank


money should not be the measuring stick for success in life


unfortunately you need money to survive


but I don't equate financial success with happiness


some of the happiest times in my life coincided when I was dead broke


by the same token, some of the most miserable times in my life were at the same time when I was flushed with hundos


money is a necessary evil to me


I do appreciate your genuine question


plenty of miserable pricks out there with 7 figure bank accounts
I get where you on coming from, but you are not chasing money, rather going out of your way to waste it big difference. Look, I don't give a shit either way. I am merely commenting on how you can stand wasting your money after working so hard to earn it. I was in the same boat back in 2005 blowing it on Party as fast as it came in. But I was young and stupid then. I just could not imagine at my age now going out an dumping $20,000 on a game where I am almost certain to lose.

It would be different if you were getting back from sea and hopping on a plane to go to some all inclusive resort in the Caribbean for a month. That would be a waste as well, but you could chalk it up to living life. But to go to Mexico and sit in an apartment and play Stars, I just don't get it. But who gives a fuck what anyone thinks its your money.