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Originally Posted by WannaBeLag
How many hours is number 2? You say full time. I have a full time job. So I gotta commit 40 hours to a job a week.
If I'm putting in 40 hours of MTT play on top of that plus 20 hours of study you reckon that's possible to earn some decent coin? min wage you say? how about after 5 years?
Probably not, because you will burn out in about 2 weeks, maybe a few months if you're though.
I'd advice playing and studying when you have the energy for it, don't push yourself.
If you work full time, play like 5-20 hours / week and study like 1-2 hours, until you're a solid winning player.
A lot of people will tell you to study more than you play.
I don't believe that works for beginning players and even low/mid stakes players.
I would advice studying 1-2 hours for each 5-10 hours you play.
Study something for a bit, then go learn how to apply it while playing.
If you learn fast you could be a winning player doing this after a few months.
If you're a bit slower (which is perfectly fine) it might take you a year or two.
After that you will have enough experience to decide where to go from there.
I once read a general theory that you need to spend 40+ hours on something each week to improve at it beyond average.
You can definitely become a winning player playing/studying just a few hours a week, but if you want to improve past the micro/low stakes, you'll have to spend a ton of time working on your game.