Thousands? Haha. Yeah, that was pretty hilarious. I was trying to reach a milestone at the end of September and I put in over 5500 hands on 9/30 alone in about

Thousands? Haha. Yeah, that was pretty hilarious. I was trying to reach a milestone at the end of September and I put in over 5500 hands on 9/30 alone in about 11 hours of play. The only correction I have to your post is: They're almost as good as the TV pros, but younger. Most of the cash game Internet pros (and many of the tournament Internet pros) are much better than the TV pros (other than a select few like Ivey and Antonious, who also play online anyways) because the Internet pros have played so many hands and tirelessly gone over areas where they are losing money to improve. When you're playing 400-500 hands/hr, a small improvement in your game can mean a difference of over $25/hr for mid-high stakes players. Many of these players aren't "TV pros" simply because they make a better hourly rate playing online where they can put in 8x the hands in the same time span, or because they don't (yet?) have the bankroll to risk losing $100K+ on a single hand. I'm sure you (gizmo) know all this, but I thought some of these points would be useful information for the HN reader who is less knowledgeable about the poker world. Here's one more tangent point you might find interesting about deep stacks (http://www.twoplustwo.com/magazine/issue56/Savage-Deep-Stacks-Good-For-Poker-Tournaments.php http://www.twoplustwo.com/magazine/issue56/Savage-Deep-Stack...). Here a well-known tournament director points out that deep stacked tournaments typically hinder the pro. Of course this doesn't apply to cash games (which you were obviously referring to), but because of tournaments' increasing blind levels and the need to end after a period of time, deeper stacks at the beginning actually mean a more-pronounced lottery period later on.