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Farewell to the felt - Quitting the full-time Poker scene - Nikhil R

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I used to play Poker for a living from 2018-2021. These days whenever I recount my past with new people, everyone inevitably asks me why I stopped playing the game (full time) if it was profitable to do so. Its understandably hard to comprehend why anybody would stop pursuing a money making endeavour. So, I want to write this post to summarily answer most questions around this topic and mostly because I am tired of repeating myself again and again. I was working as a product manager at Flipkart.com back in 2020 and around that time, I quit my job to pursue the game for two main reasons: I stopped playing full time because both of the above premises turned out to be false. Let me explain Imagine sitting in front of a screen for 12-16hrs a day, clicking buttons (without tilting) for a living. Money has lost its meaning long time ago. You don’t care about the wins anymore and the losses still hurt. Winning is not fun because by now you are very conscious of the fact that you can lose 10x

Farewell to the felt - Quitting the full-time Poker scene - Nikhil R Farewell to the felt - Quitting the full-time Poker scene HN discussion This post is mostly about the shortcomings of a professional Poker career I used to play Poker for a living from 2018-2021. These days whenever I recount my past with new people, everyone inevitably asks me why I stopped playing the game (full time) if it was profitable to do so. Its understandably hard to comprehend why anybody would stop pursuing a money making endeavour. So, I want to write this post to summarily answer most questions around this topic

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