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[QUOTE="PhilGalfond, post: 4781623, member: 360431"]
Hey, you're very welcome and thanks for the questions!

15 years ago was a much different time in online poker, so my journey started a bit easier than most others.

I started by playing 1 table SNGs.  That's essentially the only thing I played for the first 1.5yrs.

I started playing $11 and $22 SNGs on Party Poker with a $50 deposit (bankroll management!).  I quickly found some online forums - reading posts, and sometimes books, was how I learned.  Lost my $50 and redeposited, and was lucky from there on out.

I wouldn't say that I did a lot of "studying," but reading and absorbing whatever I could.  I was fascinated by the game, so it was easy to retain information.  Back then, you didn't have to be a great player to beat the games, and I very quickly soon I found myself playing $33 SNGs and averaging something like $25/hr.

I realize I'm not answering your specific questions, but I honestly don't have much of a clue how many hours it took before I was a winning player.  I was in school at the time, but I focused a lot on poker.  I know that it was 3-6 months into it that I was confident I didn't need a part-time job during college.

I never played small stakes cash games because I first rose to the "top" of online SNGs.  I was playing $109s through $1k SNGs, and after advice from a poker friend, jumped into the $5/$10 NL cash games online and never looked back.

Though I've played them for a very long time now, I never played MTTs "professionally" - what I mean by that is that they've never made up more than 5% of my play, and I never relied on them for income or focused on them.  Life as an MTT pro sounds stressful!
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