Prose from a Poshboy

[tight4better]

Heh and I thought I put in a lot of hours!

 

[NEWY]

Wow 191 is huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuge

[  ] huge

Really? Sne is 140/month? 190 really is a lot. If you grinded 200 hours a month playing 200nl on I poker or somewhere I think you'd get over 10k a month just in rb, maybe more. Meh 190 feels a lot to me anyway :p guess I love sleeping too much

Where is best to get best rakeback deal on Ipoker and what wud be a realistic deal? TY

[pleno1]

im sorry but i cant say because blonde are sponsored by a ipoker skin, ill get banned.

dtds offers are extremely good and offer as much value if not more than 99% of people offering any kind of deals.

[TightEnd]

im sorry but i cant say because blonde are sponsored by a ipoker skin, ill get banned.

dtds offers are extremely good and offer as much value if not more than 99% of people offering any kind of deals.

thanks, I appreciate it

ban's a bit harsh, i'd have to delete the post though!

[gouty]

191 hours isn't "huge" in terms of the length of time, roughly 48 hours a week which I believe is actually a pretty standard (maybe a touch above "normal") working week.

However the comparison between a month of poker play and a month of work in a job isn't quite accurate, I might get a little stick for this (Hi Woodsey ) but poker is, in general - not in every instance - a lot more intense than an average job, and requires 100% of your focus 100% of the time you are working. In the regular jobs I did I worked 40-50 hours a week easily but was prolly only fully engaged for about 70%~ of the time, so 50 hours a week prolly only 35 at the same level required to play poker. You could always play poker without 100% of your focus, but in that case you're way better off just sat on the sofa watching TV.

Unless you've been auto-piloting or playing awfully 191 hours is an impressive amount of "work" for a month.

This post is pretty much it.

[NEWY]

im sorry but i cant say because blonde are sponsored by a ipoker skin, ill get banned.

dtds offers are extremely good and offer as much value if not more than 99% of people offering any kind of deals.

LOL, nice response, have u been having media training or something?

[mondatoo]

It really isn't that much, just 90%+ of young pro players are really lazy. I've done over 200 hours for each of the last two months, probably last three, I'm about as lazy as it gets.

[tikay]

191 hours isn't "huge" in terms of the length of time, roughly 48 hours a week which I believe is actually a pretty standard (maybe a touch above "normal") working week.

However the comparison between a month of poker play and a month of work in a job isn't quite accurate, I might get a little stick for this (Hi Woodsey ) but poker is, in general - not in every instance - a lot more intense than an average job, and requires 100% of your focus 100% of the time you are working. In the regular jobs I did I worked 40-50 hours a week easily but was prolly only fully engaged for about 70%~ of the time, so 50 hours a week prolly only 35 at the same level required to play poker. You could always play poker without 100% of your focus, but in that case you're way better off just sat on the sofa watching TV.

Unless you've been auto-piloting or playing awfully 191 hours is an impressive amount of "work" for a month.

Alex 191 hours is a huge amount of poker, I certainly couldn't do it..

Suuprim - This is clearly subjective and depends on the role that you're in.  In poker if you do a bad job it usually only impacts you/family but in the roles that I've worked in, if I don't do them to the best of my ability it has an impact on other peoples lives, so we could argue intensity. 
*Actually let's not argue intensity I'll just end up wound up... *

I have to agree with you here Mr Bangx2, &, rarely for me, because he is generally a model of common-sense in these matters, disagree strongly with David.

There are many real-life jobs which require intense concentration, 40 or 50 hours per week for an entire lifetime, & when failure would not cost MONEY, but LIVES.

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[pleno1]

Yes but David is talking about 99.9% of jobs ofc. He just means that if Alex want a poker player he'd be in some form of work, likely In an office where times when he's working he's not 100% switched into working mode.

[tikay]

Yes but David is talking about 99.9% of jobs ofc. He just means that if Alex want a poker player he'd be in some form of work, likely In an office where times when he's working he's not 100% switched into working mode.

Yes, I know, but 99.9% may be a tad high........

[Doobs]

Yes but David is talking about 99.9% of jobs ofc. He just means that if Alex want a poker player he'd be in some form of work, likely In an office where times when he's working he's not 100% switched into working mode.

Yes, I know, but 99.9% may be a tad high........

Is playing poker much tougher than trying to save someone's life at 4am after a night shift, or working at a London Bank, or starting out as a Corporate Lawyer, or any number of Finance/consulting jobs with fairly murderous hours and study on top?  I have done several weeks of 7 hour days when self employed, including days when I have worked through the night.  Toughest thing I have done is probably doing a 10 hour day with a baby a few weeks old in your house.  I have done that and a few hours poker on top.  You can feel close to the walking dead after a couple of months of that.  There must be any number of physical jobs that push people to their limits too.

44 hours poker a week isn't as easy as many outsiders think, but lets not get carried away.  Alex has shown a good work ethic, but beating 99.9% of other "jobs" people do, get out of here.

To be fair, SNE on top of a normal job is going to be very hard work for anybody.  Pleno might be able to rightly claim tougher than 99.odd percent of jobs.  I wouldn't try it and suspect something will have to give somewhere down the line.

And surely nobody counts their lunch hour in their hours worked?  Not that I have ever had such a thing in years. 

[George2Loose]

So many generalisations. U telling me Alex put his heart soul blood swet an tears into those 191 hours??! This isn't a dig at Alex btw but yesterday he was pretty much having a good time and drinking whilst doing so.

Pretty sure most jobs don't afford you that luxury.

And the point people seem to miss also is that he can play one hour a day or 12 hours a day. He can wake up at 2pm or go to bed at 5am. Poker may be tough granted but lets not get carried away.

[SuuPRlim]

Disagree strongly with David.

There are many real-life jobs which require intense concentration, 40 or 50 hours per week for an entire lifetime, & when failure would not cost MONEY, but LIVES.

I knew I'd never explain this point properly, yes I know there are lots of very high pressure, intense jobs out there but they wont expect you to work 10 hours straight in one day at full intensity surely?

Surgeon for example, obviously lives depends of his/her levels of focus and if they were performing life-saving surgery from 8am to 6pm straight without a single break then that sounds like it would be very dangerous*. Comparing poker to a job like that is a complete disgrace but this point point is defo the one similarity, and just refirming that when someone has played 191 hours of poker it's defo a good bit more than 191 hours in most jobs.

*I'm not saying that a big chunk of a Surgeons working week is spent being idle, and I don't really know as have no practical experience outside of watching scrubs, but assuming there are less intense, focus heavy aspects to the job which will take up a chunk of their working week, as well as breaks/lunches etc

[BangBang]

Disagree strongly with David.

There are many real-life jobs which require intense concentration, 40 or 50 hours per week for an entire lifetime, & when failure would not cost MONEY, but LIVES.

I knew I'd never explain this point properly, yes I know there are lots of very high pressure, intense jobs out there but they wont expect you to work 10 hours straight in one day at full intensity surely?

Surgeon for example, obviously lives depends of his/her levels of focus and if they were performing life-saving surgery from 8am to 6pm straight without a single break then that sounds like it would be very dangerous*. Comparing poker to a job like that is a complete disgrace but this point point is defo the one similarity, and just refirming that when someone has played 191 hours of poker it's defo a good bit more than 191 hours in most jobs.

*I'm not saying that a big chunk of a Surgeons working week is spent being idle, and I don't really know as have no practical experience outside of watching scrubs, but assuming there are less intense, focus heavy aspects to the job which will take up a chunk of their working week, as well as breaks/lunches etc

So not intensity, or pressure, we're talking prolonged focus..

I've always played poker for recreation, so probably not in the best position to answer that first hand, but 'Phil Ivey' who's regarded as the best player in the world always seems focused and I'm pretty sure I read in an interview somewhere that Johnny Chan would suffer from Migraines after long poker sessions because of the amount he has to concentrate..

[jakally]

Disagree strongly with David.

There are many real-life jobs which require intense concentration, 40 or 50 hours per week for an entire lifetime, & when failure would not cost MONEY, but LIVES.

I knew I'd never explain this point properly, yes I know there are lots of very high pressure, intense jobs out there but they wont expect you to work 10 hours straight in one day at full intensity surely?

Surgeon for example, obviously lives depends of his/her levels of focus and if they were performing life-saving surgery from 8am to 6pm straight without a single break then that sounds like it would be very dangerous*. Comparing poker to a job like that is a complete disgrace but this point point is defo the one similarity, and just refirming that when someone has played 191 hours of poker it's defo a good bit more than 191 hours in most jobs.

*I'm not saying that a big chunk of a Surgeons working week is spent being idle, and I don't really know as have no practical experience outside of watching scrubs, but assuming there are less intense, focus heavy aspects to the job which will take up a chunk of their working week, as well as breaks/lunches etc

So not intensity, or pressure, we're talking prolonged focus..

I've always played poker for recreation, so probably not in the best position to answer that first hand, but 'Phil Ivey' who's regarded as the best player in the world always seems focused and I'm pretty sure I read in an interview somewhere that Johnny Chan would suffer from Migraines after long poker sessions because of the amount he has to concentrate..

The intense bit is mass multi-tabling online poker.
Live poker is the least intense way of making a living that I can think of.