[DonkStrike]

This story gets repeated hundreds if not thousands of times each year.

Step 1: Go deep into a few tournaments when you start out

Step 2: Over estimate your poker and money management capabilities

Step 3: Come to the realization that live tournament poker, after expenses and taxes, is almost impossible to come out ahead on (esp. since losses cannot be carry forward)

Step 4: Wake up to reality and start having a productive life and relationships.

You've got to at least give Shannon props for going through all of these steps on a public forum, whatever his original intentions for doing so were.