
Originally Posted by
tgull
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.