We have something painful to admit: we have to take a break from poker. It’s not that we hate poker, but we kept writing about how you need to take a break if things are getting too hot in the world of poker. Summer is where a lot of competitions come up, and we think that we would be doing ourselves a disservice if we didn’t take a step back. When you’re constantly getting into tournaments, competition is all you see. Over time, it tends to mess with your judgment. You have to sometimes look at your hands and realized that if you played less poker, you would actually make better decisions. When you feel that everything around you has to be a battlefield, then you’ll make terrible decisions. It makes a lot more sense to do the right thing by just going through your options carefully and quietly to yourself.
Are you the type of poker player that isn’t even looking at your hand history? Are you the type of poker player that isn’t estimating your opponents? If you answered yes to either of these scenarios, chances are good that you need to take a step back this summer too. It can also help you stretch your bankroll when you play less. Not everybody has the type of money to just throw around. And if you’re not making good decisions, then you’re just flushing money down the drain.
We always find that we play much better poker after taking a few weeks off. Plus, it’s summer — this is the time to really go out and have a good time. Why sit around the house when you really don’t have to? You could have a lot more fun going outside for a change. Poker is so vast that it won’t leave you — it’ll be right there where you left off. You can’t go wrong with taking a poker break. It leaves you with the opportunity to get so much more done if you could just focus a little bit more than you are right now.
And we’re not even saying that you need to get out of the world of gambling. But you might want to make it a goal to look at playing something other than poker. With so many advertisements for poker around the Web, you might feel like poker’s the only game worth playing. But that’s not the case at all. As long as you’re truly looking at all of your options, there’s no way that you’re going to be bored. There is a very wide world of action waiting for you, so why not check it out for yourself? You’ll truly be glad that you did!