How many Spin & Go a day does it take to be a regular?

The question comes up constantly, and the honest answer has two halves: the volume it takes to live off the format has nothing to do with the volume it takes to know whether you are a winner.

Spin & Go is the highest variance format in poker. A large share of a regular’s profit comes from the rare high multipliers, and you can go weeks without hitting one while doing nothing wrong.

The volume that makes a result readable

Over 100 games, luck decides almost everything. Over 500, a winning player can still be down. It takes several thousand games before a ROI means anything.

At 100 games a day, that is a month of play for a first opinion and a quarter for reasonable confidence. This is the real reason to keep a history: without one, you judge your game on a sample that says nothing.

A regular’s volume

Orders of magnitude, for a format where a game lasts five to seven minutes: a serious part time player runs 30 to 60 games a day on two to four tables. A full time regular goes past 200 games a day, on six tables or more, and adds work away from the tables.

Volume only counts if it does not degrade decisions. One more table always costs a few percent of accuracy, and in Spin & Go a few percent of accuracy are worth more than a few extra games.