When did you realize you were hooked on poker?

The game was primerno3-4 months when I started to win small prizes, 9 days in a row, so I realized that poker is mine.

when I started to make debts in the clubs where I played poker, and there came a time when I stopped paying rent to try to recover what I had already lost.

From the start th.

I actually like roulette as much, I can play both always.

I think I realized I was hooked on poker when I gave up the hard drugs and began
to just play poker instead. So now it koolaid with rum and poker!

When I started to buy things with my poker profits

Hooked on poker

I guess I first realised I was hooked on poker was when my bank kept screaming at me to leave it alone 😂

Recently, poker has become an outlet for me. I have difficult living conditions, little entertainment, and I have to stay at home, so poker has become the main distraction from my problems. I'm not playing very well yet. That's why I play freerolls more. But I can say that I have a certain dependence on poker as a means of escaping from reality.

I realized when, I won my $ 100 and then I got carried away in this area))))))))
I advise everyone to play poker sometimes, it distracts from all the fuss

Though I've discovered poker 10 years ago online, its only 2 years ago was The Moment I first held chips in my hands, sat on a chair at a poker table and literally won my first ever pot in a 1/2 live cash game during my first 5 or 10 mins with 7 4 of clubs flopping a flush ( I shouldn't have even played that hand). I tripled up and immediately walked out while some at the table laughing and some having a smirky smile thinking how the hell did we let this fish.. first time ever playing live.. walk out with our money. I look back at my time playing at that poker club and I cringe at the way I've played, I was the nitiest player ever known to mankind, a complete fish but rarely lost all my buy in, also I've rarely made a profit too. There is so much one can learn in 2 years and each day I'm getting hooked even more.

Hooked on poker for maybe 3 years, really fun game to play!

i had this feeling since the first time i discovered texas holdem playing live with friends, then right after a few years, i was in cash game tournament in Bulgaria, and in Bucharest, and now continue to play online on Unibet almost everyday...

When I was playing all of my free time

My first real tournament in a casino was a free roll u had to gave 80 hours of live play to be qualified I barely made it with 83 hours.for every ten hours over u got an extra thousand in chips there a lot of guys there with way more chips my first hand i played I lost half my stack to ace king with my ace queen..but then I didn't lose another hand and won the whole thing 5k I won.woke up broke late on rent and wondering what I was gonna do..walked out with rent paid and 3,500 in my pocket.one of my favorite days ever..after that I was hooked as hooked can be.

When I realized?....

First...…….anyone on this post that says they are not addicted just hasn't owned up to it yet. I won't admit it to those who aren't gamblers. Like, I'll never tell my family because they'll start imagining all kinds of stuff. ONLY FELLOW GAMBLERS CAN UNDERSTAND THE NORMALICY OF BEING ADDICTED TO POKER. They get it. They understand it. There's a healthy addiction to poker and there's a bad addiction to poker. Knowing when you've crossed over is important and staying on the healthy addiction side is KEY!!! I knew I was addicted when I crossed over to bad addiction and then crossed back over to good addiction. I'll never forget it!.... I was sitting in my car in front of my townhouse playing texas holdem. I had a Full House but my opponent had an even BIGGER Full House!!!!!. I lost my Car Insurance money with that hand!!:icon_pale:icon_pale:icon_pale:icon_paleThat was when I knew I had crossed over to the bad addiction. Luckily, I have a wife who doesn't watch the money. She just pays the bills. So I moved some stuff around and made it work. I told myself I needed to take a break and I did......for three months! It was once I started playing again when I realized I was addicted...….I crossed back over to the healthy addiction BUT...…….never-the-less I was addicted. Then there was one more time I crossed over to the bad addiction but...…….it was NOT bill money. That money was just extra extra. No one even knew about it so...…...no harm no foul. I figure as long as I stay on the healthy side I'm fine...…..How am I now? Well, after the second time (even though I did NOT jeopardize ANY bill money) I had decided to exclude myself from online play because it was just way too convenient soooooo) I put myself on exclusion for 5 years! I didn't know but it excluded me from EVERY SINGLE ONLINE SITE!!!(PokerStars, wsop, 888, etc. I started getting letters in the mail. It was serious!!) So now I can only play live until the year 2024!:icon_pale The fact that I even did this proves to me that I was able to cross back to a healthy addiction. It also helped me achieve my goal to play more live games and to make a name for myself in the live circuit. Now that the Corona Virus hit I can't do neither so I use play chips online and watch Daniel Negreanu play and I study the game. Waiting for the day Whodahustla can break free and be unleashed again!

Because I spent every waking moment of my 2 week vacation playing non-stop poker (it's 3am!)