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Message: [QUOTE="Arjonius, post: 1881736, member: 5332"] Playing bad opponents isn't a waste of money; it's a recipe for profitability. If you're losing to bad players over a significant sample size, it's either a highly unlikely statistical anomaly or the level of play isn't as bad as you think it is. In the latter case, it may be that your subjective memory of bad plays that worked out makes you think the rate of occurrence is higher than it actually is. As for wasting your time, that's a pretty subjective matter. That said, if you're discouraged enough to be in such a negative state of mind, it's more important to address how you feel, be it by changing to live play, combing your records to determine how much variance has actually affected you, or other methods. My main method is only playing when I know I'm in the mood. I don't play out of habit or just because I have nothing else to do - at least not nearly as much as I used to. [/QUOTE]