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Originally Posted by bwslim69
LOOOOOL...most people ITT do all the same errands, maybe a few more, maybe a few less so gtfo with that. Some of us work at an office a lot more than 50 hours a week, meet payroll, keep clients/customers happy, deal with vendors, etc.
I mean I'm sorry you haven't had any time for recreation...I guess big boy pants are needed...IDK
It also sounds like your planning of time is for **** if you are doing a 23 hr session and 26 hr session to hit your hours. But sure you can be tired...I'll allow.
There are certainly a lot of snowflakes ITT.
One of the issues with errands as a poker pro is that, if you play the night shift or the overnight, you may have to disrupt your sleep to run errands or have them jammed into a 2-3 hour window right after you wake up. This is obviously an issue anyone working nights would have.
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Originally Posted by bwslim69
I mean 300 hours in a month is a lot and not sustainable obv. But getting 4-1 and for only 31 days it just isn't that hard really. Point is there are plenty of people in the "real world" that work more than ~75 hours a week (some for short stretches of time others every week) and don't make a huge deal out of it. It is what it is. And every job has other headache/BS factors that add time, stress and drain energy on a daily basis. If you think only poker has those things then I think you are being a little self serving.
TBF I don't think you drama bombed the 300 hour mark as much as I thought you might so w/e.
Not sure what you mean about drama bombing, but I think the big thing is people who work 75 hours a week in regular jobs aren't actually
working 75 hours. They're
at work for 75 hours. If they take one hour for lunch, 15 minutes in the morning and afternoon, and two trips per day to the bathroom/coffee maker, along with swinging by a co-workers desk to talk about half work and half the game last night/the news/whatever, that's about 2 hours per day they aren't working. Plus time they spend surfing the net or whatever.
I'd say if they work six days, easily 12-15 hours a week are not active "work" hours. So 75 hours of a regular job is closer to 60 hours of poker.
Plus you're not accounting for the stress and what it does to the body. The comparisons that make the most sense, in my opinion, would be day trading or running a business.
Also, it's easy enough to say 300 hours at 4-1 is not that hard... But the point along the curve where the degree of difficulty starts to drastically ramp up is between 290 and 330 for most people. You can easily come back with, well X is possible if Y money is on the line... But I'm just talking realistic amounts here. For life changing money, sitting and folding and watching TV all day every day changes the formula a lot.