A Little Break Part II

Well, as promised in my last blog entry I have taken an entire week off poker. I won't get my first play time in till tonight, so I don't yet know if the time was well spent or a waste, but I thought I'd talk about the experience itself and what I learned.

I think what struck me most during the course of the week was just how much time I am spending doing non-playing activities. I have long been telling myself that I don't do enough of such things, but this week certainly changed my mind. Often I would sit down at the computer, be done my non-poker activites in just a few minutes and then be left with - well now what? Other times I would turn on my tv and think there's nothing I want to watch other than poker. At bed time I would look for a book and the only things that would be jumping out at me would be poker books.

I guess the reason not playing was so easy in comparison was that from the beginning I had a plan for that; anytime I would otherwise be playing poker I was instead playing a Wii game that I had asked for at Christmas, been given, then had not removed the plastic from for two months (because it was always competing with poker, and losing)

I think if I do this again, I will make sure that I have a plan for all aspects of my poker life; I will buy some non-poker books for me to read, I will pick some movies for me to watch, and I will find something for me to be doing on the computer.

So its great to be here again, see you all at the tables.