Charles Hawk: What is the toughest or most challenging about being poker pro?
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Zak 'BOOMF' Wray: The biggest challenge is YOURSELF! It has to be the variance part of the game, of which, we're all exposed too, especially as games get more and more tougher. It will effect different people in different ways but how you respond to disappointing results might just be the defining factor for me. It can push some people on to play more, study more, get better or it can force others to different formats, for better, for worse.
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Ankush 'pistons87' Mandavia: The most challenging thing about being a poker pro is dealing with downswings in my opinion. You never know when they are going to come and how long they are going to last.
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Daniel 'Pl@yerABC" Sklar: After reading your question, I paused for a while a thought about it. Answers like bankroll management, tilt control, handling downswings, etc. immediately came to my mind. But none of them sounded right.
Daniel 'Pl@yerABC" Sklar: I have read recently about rice farmers. For most of us, it's hardly imaginable to work that hard under such conditions. Compared to that, playing poker is easy. So maybe if we see things in perspective - we can change the narrative in our mind - and hopefully next coolers, bad beats, bad sessions, downswings will not be as tough and challenging for us as they are now :-)
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Knut 'smatt' Turk: (Spin reg) I think the most challenging part at this point is to have a decent strategy for all the different situations in spins and actually to be able to implement them ingame when playing x amount of tables vs z amount of different players all the while being from 8bb to 37bb deep.
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