@emmitt2222
I do some "casino-whoring" as well, if you can call it that. Entering casino tournaments if the odds are good, and sometimes they are really good. I just try to do the basic math and check all the conditions. Sometimes you "win" money that you have to wager 40 times, and that's not much of a win. I made some money on the casinos last year. Yesterday I took my $2 I got from a poker freeroll and made €100 by winning two casino tournaments.
Everything gets a lot easier with the "no deposit" policy. First you don't lose track of your losses/winnings. I hear a lot of stories from friends that follows the pattern "I was up $X, but then Y happened and now I'm down $Z".
Second it gets a lot easier with your spouse/girlfriend/parents. When they see that you get money from playing poker and not depositing any of your other money, they get a lot more positive attitude.
