Kammala jumla mai zuwa: Ya kasance mai zaɓar Sarki Władysław IV wanda ke wakiltar lardin Bratslav a shekara ta 1632. Ya kuma kasance zaɓaɓɓen Sarki John II Casimir a 1648 daga lardin Podolia. A lokacin Khmelnytsky Rising, an yi imanin cewa Potocki ya ceci ran sarki kusa da garin Zborów. A shekara ta 1652 an nada shi Hetman na Commonwealth kuma bayan shekaru biyu ya umurci sojojin Poland da Rasha da Cossacks. A cikin 1655 ya yi yaƙi kuma ya ci yaƙin Ochmatów. A wannan shekarar an nada shi voivode na Kiev. Bayan mamayewar sojojin Sweden a lokacin Ruwan Tsufana ya kasance yana jagorantar rundunar a Gabas, duk da haka ba ya shiga cikin Yaren mutanen Sweden. Bayan shan kashi na sojojin Rasha-Cossack karkashin Gródek Jagielloński Potocki an tilasta masa mika wuya ga Sarki Charles X Gustav. Daga baya ya shiga kungiyar a Tyszowce. A cikin kamfen na 1656-1660 Potocki ba shine babban kwamandan dukkan sojojin Sarauta ba, duk da haka yana da iko akan sashinsa wanda ya shiga cikin yaƙe-yaƙe. Ya kasance daya daga cikin Hetmans da suka halarci
Yaƙin Warsaw a shekara ta 1656. A shekara ta 1657 ya yi nasara tare da George II Rákóczi, kuma ya shiga cikin dakarun sojojinsa kusa da Czarny Ostrów. A shekara ta 1660, tare da Jerzy Sebastian Lubomirski, Potocki ya yi nasara a kan sojojin Rasha da Vasyl Sheriemietiev ya jagoranta, ya tilasta masa ya mika wuya a Cudnów. Lokaci na ƙarshe da ya yi yaƙi shi ne da 'yan tawayen Lubomirski, wanda ya sha wahala a Częstochowa a 1665. A cikin aikinsa na soja, ya shiga cikin yaƙe-yaƙe 46.