If you want to play poker for a living then your overall diet and fitness come into play. Many people would be surprised by this because they would assess that poker doesn’t require any level of fitness at all because you are sitting down to do it. This much is true and it takes far less fitness to play poker than to say run a marathon. However poker is after all a mental game and the better players are able to stay sharper for longer periods of time and the end result is that they earn more money. But a lack of physical fitness is linked to mental stamina.
Imagine if you tried to run 5 miles without any sort of training and you hadn’t run that distance for ages. You would unlikely have to stop within the first ½ mile but this wouldn’t have anything to do with your legs or arms. It would simply be to do with the fact that your stamina levels had dropped through a lack of physical exercise. This stamina knocks on to your level of concentration and focus as well and when you play online poker and play numerous tables then you seriously need to be on it mentally.
However it is difficult to play long sessions of poker if your mind isn’t tough enough and this gets back to the subject of fitness and fitness can be both mental and physical.
