Should I Quit?

[Trees879]

Been playing for around 6 years, only more seriously for around 6 months. Lost $2000-$3000 over those years. When I first started playing poker it looked like a promising way to make a living. Then, as I started playing more and more, (culminating this past week), I realize that poker is a very difficult (and somewhat miserable) way to make a living. I can't tell you how many thousands or even tens of thousands of hours that I've spent playing poker with nothing to show for it. And those lost hours are something that I'll never be able to get back. (and I'm only 18). I'll be attending university in September (for math/finance) and I was hoping to play poker during those next few years as a way to make a living. I want/wanted to be a winner at poker, and have put in many hours of study, but sitting in front of a computer screen for 9-12 hours, only to breakeven or even lose 10+ buyins is frustrating as hell. I decided to post it here, seeing as the advice is generally alot better than in other parts of the forum. I know that ultimately only I can answer this question, but I'm looking for feedback from other people who are in, or have been in, similar situations. I'm leaning towards calling it quits, as most pros probably don't make over $100K, and yet there are so many other professions (within the realm of entrepreneurship and financial management, which I someday hope to enter) that do. In other words, it seems alot more +ev to be the operator of a poker site (or any business for that matter) than a player.

[deadlydaveLDN]

Re: Should I Quit? You don't enjoy poker, you don't win at poker and you'll be going to uni where there are so many better ways to spend your time that playing poker. Pretty obviously, you should at least be taking an extended break to enjoy uni, if not quitting entirely. Edit : take this from someone who wasted a lot of time/opportunities at uni. It's all worked out ok in the end, but I still wish I'd put a lot more into/got a lot more out of that experience.