Why did you feel obligated to grind it out? Guilt? Friend backer? JW since you were planning on quitting poker either way why you would waste your time or if you were still looking for a glory shot in an mtt or something when you were back to really low makeup (Ie binking wpt or something for 700-1m while only 5k in makeup, etc)
Guilt and realistically i will want to play here and there and would not be able to do that if i "left poker and left my makeup"