Sad Day

Today has been tough for me,on the eve of a brand new year i took the decision to remove myself from all poker forums i have been actively a member of!This wasn`t an easy decision for me or one that was taken lightly.pretty much every year i have similar thoughts of spending more time with my children and less at the online poker tables but in all honesty i never stick to it and end up returning hitting it harder than ever before! It has become a habit,one that has increasingly become harder to break and even i can see it has become a very unhealthy hobby,or at least for me anyway!

When i first started out playing i was very much a recreational player,firing up a few tables for fun and hoping i could donk my way to a nice score.That nice score did indeed come but with it was an invite to an online poker forum where everything pretty much changed for me i believe! Now i was a member of a league of very good friends and very good poker players who played regulary together in numerous league events.I guess i was still playing for fun but i was now thrust into a new world of chasing glory such as POW resulting in the volume of games i played rising to achieve bragging rights within my new community of friends and i guess believing im a better player than i actually am on the few occasions i managed to win player of the week.Before i knew it,i was a member of several forums where pretty much daily games within the forum are on offer,POW,POM,house games it`s pretty much endless.I have contributed to many forums over the past 2 years and i just guess finally i have become tired with it all!This is not the forums fault or those who run them but ultimately my own as i allowed myself to join them and i guess become addicted to it all when my family and children should be getting all the attention they need and not playing 2nd fiddle to a game of poker.In recent months i vastly reduced my playing of forum games and today`s decision to remove myself completely was a decision that should have been done long ago!