How many hands / month can higher-volume players handle??

[okayplayer]

I average ~35-40K hands/mo.

[TStoneMBD]

i think that counting hands is more important than counting hours for this because 120 hours of 2tabling is alot different than 120 hours of 6tabling.

[Cosimo]

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i think that counting hands is more important than counting hours for this because 120 hours of 2tabling is alot different than 120 hours of 6tabling.

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Both are important. 30,000 hands per month 1- or 2-tabling would make me want to kill myself from the glacial pace (online, much less live). Online, I can't take more than 10 seconds to make any decision, and there's a lot less info to process (so I can't even try to detect tells). 30,000 isn't even possible live; 15k is probably tops there, and that means spending every waking hour at the tables. So hands alone isn't the only measure.

Take the other extreme; 30,000 hands per month 8-tabling is about 15 hours a week, or about 2 hours a night. That's an intense 2-hour session, at least for me. Doable, but not easy, and that's cuz I'm used to 6-tabling. I think many forum denizen couldn't do it. 120 hours 8-tabling in a month might fry my brain. I've sometimes (rarely) worked 100+ hours a week at my day job; a 300+ or 400+ hour month 8-tabling would probably be way -EV for me, in addition to -life expectancy.

Right now I'm at about 80 hours 6-tabling, for about 25-30k hands. I think that's above average for number of tables and hands, but about average for number of hours put in.