Hi guys,
It’s finally time to make a 600th post for the PLO community. I hope you will enjoy reading my post and I apologize in advance for my bad language but I hope you will understand my key points. Since I start playing poker at 2015 and start reading in this forum my dream was always to make some kind of interesting story post for you guys out there.
I wish this post would be about a great poker success story, about how I finally crushed PLO10z, for example and how I became a better PLO player, I really wish it…but its not!
All this is still a dream and I finally realize it, I have lived for a long time in this dream and its time to wake up and to realize the reality. So this is a story about how we fail and why to quit.

As I start playing poker, I didn’t even know what poker is all about, I didn’t see the whole picture but now more than 2 years later, I see through…
At the beginning it was just a game of cards and it stays for a long time but than suddenly it become more and more interesting.
In the last couple of months, if I have played this game, I was struggling in it. It became a mental and physical challenge for me to master it and finally to realize I can’t make it.
I don’t even know why, but after a long break from January 5th to January 7th, where I didn’t play one single hand, January 8th I came back to this game and was trying to prove something and now I know what it was.
Poker was teaching me a lesson. Something about my self about my abilities to let things go, if you are going to realize you can’t make it.
I lost about $500 in the whole last year (Its not about the money, I can handle it, because of my day job).
All my winnings came from PLO5z and I lost it all at PLO10z. I get crushed so many time there. I have just enough to try it again.
I get hit hard and I can’t handle it, I don’t wont it anymore.
I can't handle the situation that I can't move to the next level. I just can't.

So finally I have to ask the question to my self, why I have failed in this game?
Why I can’t handle the variance, the swings, why I have a huge lack of discipline which is so important and why I have no emotional control-set to make the most rational decisions at the tables and to make +EV decisions the whole time.

The fact is: I have not the right character to master the game in the long run.
To be successful in the game, you have to have the right mindset, the right character, the right personality, the right passion and a massive work ethic to work on your skills everyday.
If you don’t have all of those things, you always struggling. Its just your big ego who still let your believe amd it is just a lie to say, if you really work hard you can make it. Maybe this is working in 5% of all cases, in the right environment and under the right circumstances, but many times we just fail and didn’t even realize it, because its more easy to believe in the illusion: if you work hard, you can still make it.
I am one of these guys who don’t make it and quit, but I am not one of these guys anymore who still believe you can make it, who try and fail and fail over and over again.
I am not this guy anymore!

I was just not suited for the game; my abilities were limited to become a better poker player from the beginning. I just had no chance but didn’t believe it for along time.
I was just only competitive enough to try it over and over again. But poker was the wrong area for me to put the energy.
Its time to quit. the most challenging time is to quit and let things go. I am still young and can achive more things in my life than became a good poker player..
There is a lot more things in life outside of poker and I will finally move forward to discover all those things and let the game behind me.

I always enjoy read here in 2p2 forum, but its time for me to move forward.
I have deleted all my poker stuff from my desktop already…
I will come to lurk sometimes here but not posting anymore. I am done with this game, it gives me some fun, but it was also an important lesson on my way: let things go and don’t try to force it.
This was my last post here guys.

Bye, have a good time and good luck.

nice meme

Quitting is the easy option to a tough situation, and the more times you choose that option, the more hardwired that option becomes when failure arises, to the point that fighting failure never enters your mind as an option. This is why you should always push children to fight the "I can't" mentality so that they grow up to be warriors and not pussies in the face of challenge.

You need to do some shrooms before it's too late tofu.

You'll be back in a week 4-betting 2344ss

tldr mindset is something you can work on and improve just like any bad habit. Change is HARD but if you give up you will never change.

That was me don't give this fish credit for my GTO plays

haha, much love Grethe <3
PLO is a drug, you don't just simply quit it.

I did. Took me about 3 years to do it.

I've quit PLO like 30 times and I'm still playing

Best of luck with whatever is next, OP.

I find at times when I get disillusioned with this game to just take a nice prolonged break and come back fresh.

Also, if you do come back don't put any huge targets up there reaching for the stars. Just play the stakes you are comfortable with and try and enjoy the little victories.

I thought you were crushing the game

crushing is relative. still, there are reasons to quit regardless (or at least take a break)

I'm really looking forward to that GOAT 700th post!

Back to become Doctor Griffin?

Thought you had reasonable success with the game? Other reasons?

You're quitting after getting some quality coaching, improving your game a bunch? I'm a bit suspicious, see you at the tables in a few days

yeah, finally about to become Doc Griffin

Play live if you can - After 50,000 online hands and the upcoming legislative changes in oz i have decided i cannot beat it and just withdrew my roll today . However i still beat live PLO which is so much softer and if im honest so much more enjoyable. The equities run so much closer online especially in zoom. There are easier ways to grind. Best of luck and thanks for all your input on this forum thus far.

A whole 50k hands wow

Equities confirmed different online vs live

^LOL

im gonna try some live shortstacking in 2 months.

Hey you sound like me 3 years ago. I only play live games here is aus and I've never looked back.

I believe we may even have met ;-)

Bromance in progress