I’ve never mentioned this before - but I play poker. I mostly play live and have a good ROI. One of the problems I have is online poker - I used to play back in 2007, banned myself in December for a year after it was taking too much time that I wanted to put into blogging.

Oh, and I was also a losing player - I donked about $500 total in online poker. So I said better quit before it becomes dangerous as well.

A few days ago I got hooked again, after playing on a table with few of my friends I went into the poker site, logged into my account, and deposited $200. I didn’t even remember blocking that account.

Wait, my account is blocked until December 2008, right?

Right. But somehow I was able to deposit. I lost $100 of those and stopped before I lose the other 100. I then logged in today, only to find out that I can’t login. I called customer support - and they said that it’s because my account was blocked.

I took a long breath, and instead of shouting at the representative - I said “Okay, guess I will be back on December!”

Even though this poker room’s act was unethical to say the least, I really can’t afford to be messing with my online gambling addictions right now, and who knows - hopefully I won’t even log in December.

I’m finally back at making around 4 figures with my online assets, I don’t need this unnecessary pressure…