The greats

[Leonardo]

How much time do you think they spend analyzing situations, replaying hands and making calculations etc? It seems to me that great chess players spend the majority of their time not actually playing chess, but analyzing different situations, moves etc. The best golfers practice putting, chipping, hit balls at the range for almost infinately more hours than actually playing. Same for most sports. How many minutes does Kobe spend practicing jumpers for every minute spent on court? Tonnes. My point is, how long does Chan, Seidel, Negreanu, Helmuth, Reese, Brunson, Varkonyi(lol) spend away from the table analyzing , per hour spent playing. To me it seems like not so much. Lots of pro poker players seems to play 40 hours a week (+ or - ) and maybe a few hours analyzing. Will this change with the introduction of such large prizes at tournaments (> 2 mill eg). I think that although these players are considered great, we will see a whole new type of player over the next ten years, who will be on a whole new level.