Imagine the life of a traveling tournament poker professional.
What do you picture?
Maybe it's first-class flights. Bricks of cash. Plush hotel rooms. Hopping from glamorous destination to glamorous destination, bagging the occasional trophy and adding more and more money to the bankroll, until the results graph climbs to the moon.
For a select few at the top perhaps that is the life they lead. The Daniel Negreanus, Antonio Esfandiaris and Fedor Holzes of the world — "retirement" notwithstanding — may enjoy such an existence. However, for most, the day-to-day motions of the professional poker life paint quite a different picture.