Dusty "Leatherass" Schmidt is known as one of the most productive NLHE cash game grinders in the world. (I read his book Treat Your Poker Like A Business a few months ago and was intrigued with his general "professional" approach to playing poker for a living. Good read; I recommend it.)
Dusty has achieved PokerStars' Supernova Elite (SNE) status for years in a row. (To get to SNE status, Pokerstars says that have to play roughly 2.5 million hands of full ring $1/2 NL in a year. If you're a SnG player, the amount is roughly 100,000 $20 SnG's per year. Yowza.) Anyway, here's a blog post I read recently that proved to me that I simply don't have what it takes to become a professional grinder:
What advice would you give to anyone trying for Supernova Elite?
"First and foremost, get yourself a nice bottle to pee in! Actually, I am only half joking at best. Don't listen to what people will tell you; almost every professional poker player does it. Sitting out on tables to pee would cost me about 200 hands each time when you consider that I have to wait to sit out on 15 tables, wait to get back on and the time it takes me to pee, times the 3-4 times a day I pee, and that is just absurd to me to miss out on thousands of hands a week and over one hundred thousand hands on the year all for the "privilege" of my urine not being intercepted by a plastic bottle before it goes into the toilet. I'm sorry, but no matter how you look at it, that doesn't seem like a good idea to me. Either I will have to be at my office longer to play the hands I missed out on by going to the bathroom, which takes me away from my family or another way of looking at it is that in terms of EV, I make money every hand I play. So essentially I am spending a lot of money for the "privilege" of my urine going straight into a toilet rather than it sitting in a bottle for a few hours first! For those who are wondering, I keep water-free hand sanitizer at my desk, so cleanliness is not an issue."
Talk about dedication to your craft. Weird.
All-in for now...
-Bug
Dusty has achieved PokerStars' Supernova Elite (SNE) status for years in a row. (To get to SNE status, Pokerstars says that have to play roughly 2.5 million hands of full ring $1/2 NL in a year. If you're a SnG player, the amount is roughly 100,000 $20 SnG's per year. Yowza.) Anyway, here's a blog post I read recently that proved to me that I simply don't have what it takes to become a professional grinder:
What advice would you give to anyone trying for Supernova Elite?
"First and foremost, get yourself a nice bottle to pee in! Actually, I am only half joking at best. Don't listen to what people will tell you; almost every professional poker player does it. Sitting out on tables to pee would cost me about 200 hands each time when you consider that I have to wait to sit out on 15 tables, wait to get back on and the time it takes me to pee, times the 3-4 times a day I pee, and that is just absurd to me to miss out on thousands of hands a week and over one hundred thousand hands on the year all for the "privilege" of my urine not being intercepted by a plastic bottle before it goes into the toilet. I'm sorry, but no matter how you look at it, that doesn't seem like a good idea to me. Either I will have to be at my office longer to play the hands I missed out on by going to the bathroom, which takes me away from my family or another way of looking at it is that in terms of EV, I make money every hand I play. So essentially I am spending a lot of money for the "privilege" of my urine going straight into a toilet rather than it sitting in a bottle for a few hours first! For those who are wondering, I keep water-free hand sanitizer at my desk, so cleanliness is not an issue."
All-in for now...
-Bug
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