Career Prioritizing: $2/4 -> $1/2

I have been through a lot of things during the past a few weeks of my life not only one poker and I have to say it has been tough and traumatic but I am writing this blog to appreciate, record, and remind what I have learned and gained from my past experience.

Now I think about it playing $2/4 is the border line where one needs to decide to play poker pro for living or not. I have decided not to take that path and defined playing poker as my secondary job. However, I love to play too much winning consistently beating the $2/4 game almost 4BB/100 during last 3 months. Let's just say that I figured out the better way to live my life aside from money gained from the job or poker by going thorough my tough time.

I had a same type of decision back in the day when I first transfered to CU from CSU while playing Warcraft III professional sponsored by AMD. I was playing with Dayfly, Fov, Showtime, Lucifer, and other korean programers back in the day. I decided to completely quit playing Warcraft III after messing up the finals. I hadn't spent over 5 hours during that semester and my grade was all good (A-B+) then I messed up the final exam and put my GPA on jeoperdy.

I thought about the outcome of this and I convinced myself that I have to choose one or the other and I quitted Warcraft III (As LuxuryMaster quotes: "All or Nothing"). I have never looked back on myself back ever since same way I have never deposited money again on Pokerstars after losing 2-3 times of $50-100 deposits back since 3 years ago and probaly will not happen anytime on future.

Withdrawing over 75% my online bankroll from my online account was overall smart decision as it makes myself almost debtfree on my credit cards which I was forced to accumulate as I barely managed to pay my last tuition bill from CU. This however, is not saying "I am quitting Poker". I feel like I can never be able to quit as I see this game never get boring to me and socializing aspect is just amazing especially on Las Vegas live tables =)