[fearless2k]

Well to get ANYWHERE in life you must work. to suceed in school you must work to get good grades so u can get a good job, so u can get a good wage etc.. that is why around exam times students do "all niters" to cram as much as they can 2 pass their exams..
If you dont, then u wont get a job and ud waste all that time u spent in school.


same applies for a business, u start up need to get it going so u put in 80 hours a week to get it sucessfull, and why do they spend so much time? because its theirs. its what they want to do, its what they enjoy, and its whats gnna make them money.
but once its sucessfull u can relax can you not? u employ others to do your job and u can beome the "over seer" and relax in a nice mansion somehwere..


and yet again the same principle applies to poker, at least in my eyes, you have to work to learn the game, get experiance, move up in limits, eventually u wont need to do 60 hrs a week, a couple a day will be enough. and i dont understand your concept of "hollow". would you call a football player "hollow"? any tom dick or harry cannot become a good poker player, it requires a modest amount of brain power.

a good professional is not born a professional, he has had to learn the same way we all have to.. and a good poker player would mange his bankroll so he had enough to eat all times... its one of the basic traits required to be sucessfull!