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Originally Posted by STJEAN81
This isn't 'sacrificing his social life' , its complete isolation under immense stress, pressure and frustration. For a full calendar year. It's not like he just has to hang out inside all day and not socialize. Even that would be extremely unhealthy. This is going to drastically affect him longterm mentally, it is a terrible idea and should obv just be done on a smaller scale for less money while still having some free time and to socialize. I am also forgetting that he said he has zero friends though, tough to imagine why.
so much this. i had a lockdown wtf-am-i-doing-with-my-life year in my mid 20s too, completely devoted myself to poker and turned 1k roll into playing HSNL by the end of the year. i get the spirit of what awice wants to do, shut out the world and make something of himself, wanting to make up for past laziness and use poker as the catalyst for the future pursuits etc. i was probably immersed in poker 80 hours a week that year between playing online, playing live (found that helped a lot to change it up and add a bit of social aspect) and reading/talking about poker. but it's so important to approach these things organically, playing only when you feel like it (even if you feel like it very often), genuinely learning and honing your craft, and basically just all around treating the game with respect.
this is just like trying to whore yourself out as a bot and deny the fact that you're human and your brain suffers in performance when under immense strain, pressure, and lack of enthusiasm towards the task it's performing. you're reprogamming yourself into a ****ty person and a ****ty poker player. you'd be so much better off with a goal like winning money for the year pre-RB and still getting 2-3 x SNE, or something along those lines. it's so important to respect yourself, respect what you're doing (rather than thinking of it as a cheap whore you're trying to exploit) and still have energy left to have some small semblance of freedom and a non-poker life. your performance is gonna suffer, you have a pretty significant risk of ruin, and even if you "succeed" and make the 8x you won't profit anywhere near the 1m, and you will be so alienated and dead inside by the end.