An Agreement With the Better Half
Well after some hemming, hawing, and basic arguments the better half (Becky) and I have agreed to come to some sort of agreement about me playing poker. I had ended up cashing out my previous meager bankroll anyway to help get her groceries and other things needed for her new house.
She's had quite a few friends and family members in her life that have a number of addictions. These include alcohol, drugs, and of course the part that pertains to yours truly, gambling. She just plain doesn't like it at all in no shape or form. Plus her sort of adopted family father type said that after going with me to AC that he didn't know if I was good at setting limits for myself. Not sure about why he had thoughts on that as we weren't sitting at any of the same tables or anything. Maybe it had something to do with me talking about poker and listening to Phil Gordon's WSOP podcasts the entire way down there? :)
Anyway, she's agreed to be fine with it as long as I don't do it all of my waking hours or talk to her endlessly about it. Her main concern is money budgeting in general. So I'm going to figure out a nice small amount per paycheck or month that will be poker related and also start actually setting aside some savings too. I deposited $84 into Ultimate Bet as they were offering a reload bonus and I like their micro-limit tables. Why $84 you might ask? Well I did some sort of fuzzy math with percentages and such and thought that was a good small restarting amount.
Ultimate Bet doesn't offer the best bonuses in the world. But they do clear at micro-limits, albeit slowly, and they also release an amount every time you leave a table. These are both very important playing at some of the lowest limits and with a tiny bankroll. So from now on I'm going to keep a running total of my bankroll in a block on the right of the poker section of the site.
So I'm going to post this in both the poker section and personal blog so that she can see that yes I'm glad that she is letting me play (kind of like DoubleAs wife) and that I'm also going to follow her advice / wishes and get my act together. I mean I guess I don't want to bankrupt her if we get married to I? :)
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