How long does it take…

…for a poker obsession to wear off?  For me?  Apparently, roughly 10-11 months.

Pretty soon, I’ll be coming up on my one year anniversary of really starting to play poker.  To be sure, I haven’t quit.  Not even close.  I love this game and I can’t imagine giving it up entirely.  However, I have definitely, without even trying, cut way back.  I never set any kind of goal for how many hands I would play or how often.  I just played as much as I wanted.  If anything, for a while I should have set an upper limit.  But, at this point, I realize that it has been about 8-9 days since the last time I played and even then I didn’t really play that much and only because I was bored.

I have some solid plans to play live in the next couple of weeks and I’m sure I’ll hop online again soon…maybe even tonight.

But that’s not the point.  In one year, I have felt compelled almost every night to play some poker.  But that has finally worn off.  It isn’t related to any downswing or game change or anything.  Just natural…perhaps changes in my life or work or whatever, but none-the-less, this is where I am.?

Now I wonder, will the desire come back?  As stong as before?  When?  For how long?  We’ll see.