Wholeheartedly agree that volume is important. It doesn't matter how good you are at poker if you don't play and APPLY your edge. Having said that, we run across a subset of players who grind TOO much - to the exclusion of other very basic and important things - for example a life outside of poker, setting aside time to study and improve etc. etc. One risk is burning out, but a more crippling risk we've seen is players who end up getting depressed during downswings because their identity is so wholly wrapped up in playing poker / winning. Usually we advise players to play at most 5 days a week, setting aside 2-3 hours for study on 1 of the days off, and staying away completely from poker the last day.

abarone68

1) Volume Is King One of the biggest mistakes poker professionals and aspiring ones make is simply not playing enough. “Never miss a Sunday” is a fun mantra, but that doesn’t allow you to skip other days of the week. MTTs are a high-variance format. Even great players can go through prolonged stretches where their results don’t reflect their ability. The great equalizer? Volume. Every hand is another opportunity to realize your edge. The more you play, the more opportunities you get to see that edge translate into actual profit. During this challenge, I played 562 tournaments (Excluding rebuys) in 6 days. For some MTT players, that’s an entire month’s worth of volume. You can’t control short-term variance. But you can control how many opportunities you give yourself to overcome it.

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