Monday, August 07, 2006

Quit Your Day Job For Online Poker

"Last summer, Ben Foster quit his $110,000-a-year job as a senior product manager at eBay to play online poker full-time."

"Over the course of hundreds of games, simultaneously playing eight of them per hour on PartyPoker.com, he averaged $15 a game. (Despite all the talk of poker bots, his earnings held steady.) If he played 20 hours a week, that $15 per game would translate to about $125,000 a year for a part-time job. The in-laws were still skeptical."

Read the wired.com article here.

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