Recommended read, from a fellow ex-poker player. I was expecting a bad beat story at some point, but you got around it nicely :) This kind of emotional roller-

Recommended read, from a fellow ex-poker player. I was expecting a bad beat story at some point, but you got around it nicely :) This kind of emotional roller-coaster is your every day life as a poker professional, especially if you play tournament poker which is the highest variance form of them all. Even as you get used to a certain amount of pain, your worst downswing is always ahead, if you play enough hands. The one way I know to handle it is to train yourself to never think about what could have been. What's in the past is in the past. You decided not to do that and quit though, which is always a sensible decision and I'm glad you wrote about it so beautifully.