Stats guru Nate Silver made most of his money playing in the boom years
(NEWSER) - Nate Silver offers a lengthy primer on the online poker industry and its prospects for survival after the recent crackdown by the feds , with this interesting reveal from the stats whiz: "Between 2004 and 2006, I played a substantial amount of online poker, using it as my primary source of income despite playing essentially in my spare time," he writes at his FiveThirtyEight blog in the New York Times. He cleaned up because so many newbies had joined in the great boom that started in 2003. Alas, restrictions then went into place that weeded out many novices, and "I went from a significantly winning player to a modestly losing one, giving back about one-third of the money that I had made during the boom years, and withdrawing the other two-thirds." More»
