I'm an academic. I teach undergrad level stats and game theory (amongst other things) which definitely helps with poker! I only get time to play about 10 hours max a week and often a lot less as I'm too busy with work plus I have two young kids.

I mainly play low stakes holdem, prefering the shorter 6 seater turbos although I'm playing more 9-seaters now having realised you can maintain a higher ROI on them.

I'm currently ranked 4th (1st on Stars) on the sharkscope Holdem 5-6seated turbo $5.01-$15 average profit leaderboard playing a mixture of 6$ and 12$ Holdem tables on Stars. My last 500 game average is $3.50 with an ROI of 28%

I did also reach 12th on the Holdem 5-6seated turbo $2.01-$5 average profit leaderboard playing 3$ holdem on Stars averaging $0.87 over 500 games. I've since slipped right off that leaderboard. I'm currently making another run at that leaderboard on Cereus playing $5 tables.

223 games in I'm averaging $1.80 per game with an ROI of 33% which would put me on course for 1st.

I'm also making a run at a few other leaderboards

Holdem 5-6 seated $5.01-$15 average profit - 131 games in playing 6$ and 12$ tables on Stars I'm averaging $4.19 a game with an ROI of 39% - which would put me 3rd on that leaderboard.

Holdem 9-10 seated $2.01-$5 average profit leaderboard - 124 games in on Stars averaging $2.26 per game with an ROI of 41% - this would also put me 2nd on that leaderboard.

I also play a few higher stakes (well for me!) in the 20-36$ range on Stars but only after finding out of their depth donks using tournament selector. Once you've reach the $15 level tournament selector is a must on Stars as there's lots of sharks circling at this mid-range level.

I uncovered a major collusion ring on Cereus. I originally spotted the anomoly using sharkscope and with the help of sharkscope admin and another sharkscope user uncovered the full extent of the cheating. Hundreds of players got $10,000s back. I received nothing as didn't even play on Cereus at the time. It was all thanks to sharkscope that I picked up the ridiculous stats this guy had on a leaderboard. It's all described in detail on thestatistician's blog.