How many hours do full-time players average?
Is it too varied to perceive?
I've heard rumors that live pros often struggle to put in good hours. How true is this? Are many people putting in 70 hour weeks?
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Obviously depends on what games you play. If you're a 1/3 pro around a bigger casino there's a good chance games run all day, every day (or even 24/7) and you can put in as many hours as you want/need.
If you play in local private high stakes games there's a good chance those games don't even run for more than 20 hours a week because people have other stuff to do in life like working to fund their gambling.
Where's less than 20
It also depends on whether you include the actual time you are playing compared all the time you take getting to the room, waiting for a table, breaks, etc. If you want to really know, I'd read some of the blogs to give a sense of what people are reporting.
Yeah, suitedjustice has a nice blog. Documents his ups & downs/hours/etc, plus some other interesting stuff about music and his life in general. Good read all around.
If you play 70 hours a week you have no life. If you need to put in that many hours a week consistently to make a living I think you're doing something wrong and you should re-examibe your priorities.
Always a good topic, just no way to cover all the bases ..
Both Online and Live available? How to qualify study hours?
Stakes? Game quality? Diverse or Reg heavy Pool?
In Michigan between Online, Charity Rooms, Casinos, and Home Games it would be really easy to find 30 hours if not 50-60 hours a week of poker with little effort. That being said it's very difficult to find anything above 2/5 in stakes outside of specific Home Games. Lots of games play like 2/5 (5/10 even) but you have to be willing to build your stack from the start. GL
