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Originally Posted by Computerized
man, university just sucks up all my time. i've had like no time to play poker so far cause i'm either in class, studying or with friends.
For me it was the other way around...
I played fulltime (wouldn't really say professionally... just made enough to live so I didn't have to look for a job) for a year and I was getting really low volume (10-20k hands a month) and I was very unmotivated. Now (3 weeks ago) I went back to school and I feel much more motivated to play even though I have less spare time. I'm currently on pace for ~35k hands month.
It might be different for everyone, but I really need routines etc, having nothing to do was very hard for me mentally. I should've probably spent more time with hobbies/exercise if I wanted to make playing fulltime work, I spent most of the days just watching movies, browsing forums and playing like 1hr/day.
Also it's easier to handle swings when you spend 30+ hrs a week doing some non-poker stuff, I used to take even small swings really hard and now that I'm back to school I didn't really care that much that I started this month with 20bi downswing. It's just fun to play 2-3 hours after school, it doesn't feel like working in a same way it did when I wasn't doing anything else.