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Is it possible to work full-time, spend time with your other half, do some other self enriching activities and be a big winning poker player?

Anyone know of one?

Since the mrs moved i think my game has gone to complete shit, is there really no substitute for playing 1000's of hands, 80hrs+ a month?

Big -  not sure.  But you can be a winning player. 

No, you need to put the hours in.  When my missus was away for a few days, I had better results

How many hours on average does an internet pro play in a week?   over 40 hrs? 

It's table hours that are important as well.  So 40-hours 4-tabling is obviously a lot more than 60-hours on a single table.  That's assuming the win-rate doesn't suffer significantly when multi-tabling.

No.

It really does vary in my experience, one week you can play close on a 100 hours. Next week its like 20, the joy of the job is you decide how long you want to play for.

I think most internet pros are lazy sods and play less than you think. There are of course exceptions to this.

Some of the well known stars players seem to play constantly. Makingmoves for example must play well over 40 hrs per week. He has an interesting story compared to other players profiled on p5s

Since splitting up with my b/f my results have gone through the roof. Played 4 tournaments at luton won or finalled in all 4- my reads improved, my confidence grew - its all good.

Would I exchange it for a sunday morning ....   not sure - how sad is that?!

Nah - not sad.  More to life than poker. 

But great results :)up

I honestly think it is so difficult to juggle..I would never put anything before my kids and that means I miss festival after festival, comp after comp

Add to that a "job" that I give a lot to, and my desire to maintain some balance in my life (some, and I often fail), and its tricky

Do I begrudge it? no


It either lengthens the date until I go skint or it reduces my earning potential!

agreed..my game has gone to pots since I got married..and most of it has to do with spending poker time on non-poker related bollox like going out and pretending to have a life.

Dale does it doesnt he?

runhotlagtardpushbot sicko though whos brains one day will inevitably start to melt and seep out through his ears

Dale lives with someone?  I assumed (no offence Dale, purely because of your sickness) that you were single or at least lived alone

conversely, I had great results. Each to their own.

I have to admit that my online results have gone way down recently due to commitments at home ..ie change of life style..I can no longer choose when to play ....but have to try and play as and when is possible really. My live reults are still good as when I get that time out I try to maximze it to my full potentioal but like I said my online is a different matter ..maybe picking at loose ends ...when i get 5 min's..which as we all are well aware is no good.

No.

This is probably the key reason why it is very difficult to work full time / be a big winner.

How many of us work all day, then, after spending time with the kids, get them to bed and try and play our best game (after being awake for 14+ hours already)?

My online results have suffered due to work committments - so I choose not to play so much online.

Live results getting better and better - but too many bubbles for my liking atm :(

During 2004 & 2005 i found no problem in working full time and being a winner playing online (with the occasional girlfriend thrown in :D), sometimes it meant i changed my sleeping patterns to fit round the tournaments on Pokerstars because they were mainly geared around the US market - apart from the 8pm $50 freezeout and the 9pm $10 rebuy there wasn't much else by way of mtt action.

They did have a decent $100 rebuy which kicked off at 12.30am monday morning (3 hours after big one kicked off) which meant making final table at around 5am and also they had $100 freezeouts on Wed and Fri at 4am which meant setting the alarm clock for 3.50am and playing the first 2 levels half asleep waiting for the coffee to kick in. The freezeouts were ideal because if you got knocked out in first hour you could go back to bed for another 2 hours, if you made it deep then the tournaments used to finish about 8.15-8.30 which gave me enough time to get ready and get in work for 9am. This meant that it was still possible to go out Monday, Tuesday and Saturdays with Thursday being a complete day off from poker and chilling out with mates at home.

Not really played the bigger buy in tournaments recently with arrival of babymonkey but that is something i am trying to rectify now - have put some of the bankroll back into stars having pulled it out incase it was needed for extra bananas or something but now because most sites have tried to gear tournaments around the European market it is easy enough to find decent tournaments at any time in the evening so i can keep a decent sleep pattern too.

Whether i can get back to making the kind of figures i did in 2004 and 2005 only time will tell :D

I also find it very hard to play online with distractions, this is something I have always had a problem with, Darren likes the TV on, I don't really do TV and I find the sound to be very disstracting, I prefer to play whilst alone with total peace and quite, which is a rarity now in our home, once we have found Stacey and Reece a new home a little normality may return and maybe I shall start playing more online again, but there's no rush much more important things to think about. But I am missing it badly.

lol.

I have thought that for many years. I wish i had the balls and had a go at pro when i didn't have all this baggage.

lol baggage :D

I take it the missus doesn't read the  forum :D

careful what you say now!!

I reckon a sponsorship deal is right around the corner  :)up  C'mon sponsors, whos going to make the offer first?  :)

Well done tracey:)

LOL - they would write into my contract no kissing the boys.........I know Mickey Wernick is laying off the cigarettes for a better sponsorship deal but I'm not sure I could sign........ ::)

I don't think it's just the immediate distractions when playing online, it's whatever thoughts are hanging over from the workplace or whatever emotional state it's drawn you to. If I'm playing online I need peace, quiet, no distractions, and my head needs to be clear.

We have just had a baby daughter and the few times that I have played its usually ended in some kind of vomit or excrement related emergency, that really breaks the concentration, and boy do i need to concentrate when I play.  ;flushy;

don't see any problems there - that foreplay malarky is vastly overrated anyway!!

 ;whistle;

I bet your baby daughter is a distraction also.

You should send mango99 a PM - there's barely a set of breasts in British poker that aren't covered by one of his poker room's T-shirts at the moment. :)

Yes

Yes she is, and how did know that it was me who has a dirty protest every time I get my money in behind.  :)up