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Yeah, the important thing is to ignore any number you ever see in a headline about poker winnings, because it basically just means gross revenues. It says noth
by splonk 8y ago
Yeah, the important thing is to ignore any number you ever see in a headline about poker winnings, because it basically just means gross revenues. It says nothing at all about whether someone actually made money. (Okay, so it's pretty hard to lose all of a really big score, but the sort of people who make them are also disproportionately likely to be able to lose them in a hurry as well).
- rightbyte 8y agoThat's true. I never though about it that way. Where I live there's a commercial for online Casino ("Mr Green") where a woman hit a 2,5 million approx. USD jackpot, and 2 years later she won 5 million USD. The commercial was reported for fraud by someone of the public because it was unbelievable, but the casino showed for the investigators that the winnings were real. However, guessing that the woman probably played for a lot of her winnings, a second jackpot is not that improbable. And I guess she didn't stop there either ... That was a game of pure luck though, and Poker seems to be somewhat equal that off golf in skill vs luck at top level. https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/9469/72de84cd72f5f7edbcedf4d950f990473312.pdf https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/9469/72de84cd72f5f7edbcedf4...