[jaywks]

What sites are you playing on where you only average 70hands/hr? Is this full ring? Even playing full ring and having 4 tables running you should be getting much more than 70 hands/hr. I'm a full time grad student, so I don't have as much time as I would if I was playing full time, but 8 tabling I can get in about 30k hands a month on average. If you want to be a full time pro I suggest that you learn how to get more hands in per hour. The more hands you get in, the more money you can make.

As far as your working buy in, I think that that depends on the player. I have about 40k online, and play anywhere from 2-4nl to 5/10nl, so it is in a sense a 100 buyin bankroll. But I'm also live in the states, and I find that it's much easier for me to get money off the net than having to deposit money on. So that's why I like to keep this safety net for myself. But if you can easily move money around, there's really no reason why you should keep that much online.