Biggest pots

So since i've imported all my hand histories, I went through my biggest pots.

Biggest pot, that i was involved in and lost



Biggest pot that i was in and won



And one pot that i really enjoy remembering

Should i play or should i quit online poker?

May 31st, 2010, my first year of university is almost done and looking for more activities i decide to deposit 30$ on pokerstars. Looking back to that day i don't regret doing it as poker gave me a lot of good emotions while also getting me some little cash. However, today more that four years have passed and i am trying to reevaluate everything. I am facing last year of my masters, I have no job and am 99,99% sure I'm not poker pro material :) .

So my option is to play poker recreationaly, but i don't want to be a loosing player as that would be a waste of money.

Therefore yesterday i contacted the PS support and requested my all time hand histories. Now i have them all on my database and hopefully at the end of this post i will be able to make some conclusions and decide what is my plan.

Lifetime graph and stakes breakdown

So the obvious thing is that i am overall a slightly winning player but can't beat 25nl stakes and above. Also the last ~600k hands i am breakeven which looks very bad.

Yearly results

2010

So the first half year went ok, as i moved up from 2nl to 5nl and was winning some there. Volume was kind of low ~10k/month.

2011

2011 was certainly my best year pokerwise. I moved up to 10nl then to 25nl where i had some difficulties and had to move down for a while. Then at the end of the year i had a great run at 25nl and moved up to 50nl which is the reason of the big uptick in the graph. At that time my bankroll management was absurdly aggresive (20 buy ins). No wonder i wouldn't stay at the 50nl for a long time. Volume went up to ~17k/month. While i was up in the 50nl it was the first time i withdrew some money from PS which was nice as poker started giving me money.

2012

This is the year where the graphs begin to go all over the place. That is because my run at 50nl ends and i move down to 25nl where i wasn't a consistent winner. Therefore there are some hands at 10nl. I believe this is the year when PS released the 16nl tables where i started winning some money again. Volume that year went down a bit to 15k/month.

2013

Another swingy year. The first year where i have a slightly negative winrate. Played more zoom games after the  zoom and boom promotion. Volume went up to nearly 20k/month.

2014

Very good start of the year which happened at 16nl, then shot taking at 25nl did not work so for the most part of this year i stayed at 16nl. However started swinging there also. Volume is about 17,5k/month.

Current limit

So currently i am playing 16nl which was going quite nice for the first ~90k hands, but now i am still on a ~100k breakeven strech.

So now i have to look through all these graphs and numbers and decide weather i think it is worth continuing. Any suggestions or insights are wellcome :)