People around me never understood why I quit because they knew me and the amount of income I had made, but the thing is no one can understand what it is to live on a grinders schedule like that. At one point I looked at how much money I had made/compared to how much I hated what I was doing and decided that I was done. This combined with the massive amount of marketing that was going on for television, tons of people were addicted to the thrill of the game.Įvery single year the game became more difficult as more people studied and I continued to move up into higher and higher stakes. Back then the money was absolutely absurd, because the game was very new online and very few people understood basics. I played back during the glory days of 2000-2004 and through the net-teller shutdown for America.