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Originally Posted by 6bet me
Quitting live poker for a while
Just lost $1200 today. $600 at 5/10 NL and $600 at 1/3 PLO. It's not even worth me going over the hands. I didn't spew. They were just coolers.
Liferoll is around $2500 now with another $1100 in my online poker account. My plan now is to deposit another $1000 into my online poker account and grind 50NL online. Then that leaves me with $500 for the Sydney trip next week and $1000 as a liferoll.
Pretty sh*t that it came down to this. Couldn't even last 2 months as a live pro. I feel like a marathon runner that spent 2 years training for an event, only to compete and break his ankle in the first 1km and then have to forfeit the race.
Well f**k it. It is what it is. Variance didn't go my way and, whilst I'm still 10k up for the year at live poker, I just couldn't keep up with life expenses.
I know it sounds irresponsible to waste $500 on a Sydney trip when I'm this close to busto, but if what people in this thread say is true, then I'm going to go busto anyway, so I might as well at least take a shred of happpiness and good memories out of it, so that it wasn't all for nothing.
I had contemplated whether I wanted to just take one big high variance punt at 10/20 NL live with what little I have left. Maybe variance goes my way this one last time, and maybe I walk away with a roll that will allow me to continue grinding 1/3 NL and 2/5 NL. But I ultimately decided that I'm not going to give in this easily. I'm going to take the online route and battle my way through. It's not going to be easy, but life is never easy. I'll do my best.
I'm not going to set any specific goals. I'm not going to expect anything to come out of this. I'm just going to grind and study and grind some more. And whatever happens happens. If I bust then I look for a new job. No big deal. Whatever happens happens.
You must be trolling, I cannot wrap my head around how someone can be this thick headed and dumb.
You should stick to 1/3 live since you can beat it. Why play PLO or deviate to online. You should be playing 1/3 till your last dollar. You already had a good bankroll for this shot at 1/3 and you wasted it, what makes you think it would be different next time.
Work ethic and discipline is the key. Someone who has high skill and low discipline and work ethic will always fail. Where as someone who had low skill and high work ethic and discipline would very likely succeed. If Kobe Bryant had your work ethic and discipline he would of been flipping burgers at 20.
Who cares what people think, they are not making the bad decisions, it is you. You could be gifted 100k today and you would not make it as a full time pro. If you were serious about chasing this dream you would start looking for a part time job the least to help offset expenses and continue to grind 1/3 whilst studying harder, working harder than everyone else.
For sme people egos make them, for others it breaks them, for you it is the latter. You need work ethic and discipline, if you cannot find that or that is not for you, then giving up your poker dream would be one of the smartest decisions.