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Re:Matt Maroon: Why I Quit Playing Poker For A Living by rms on Monday December 03, 2007 @08:40PM (#85771)
There are still some sites that will give you a free $50 to start playing. I made more money exploiting affiliate schemes like that than I did playing poker. For a while, Party Poker required a $50 minimum to open an account and paid out $65 for referred account + around $25 in bonuses + free polo shirt, hat, and jacket. So I bought a Fark ad and gave out a bunch of Party Poker accounts.

Party Poker wouldn't pay me my money for 6 months, but they got a new affiliate manager who eventually cut me a check. I wonder if they cut their losses or if my players actually generated enough rake to pay me back.

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Re:Matt Maroon: Why I Quit Playing Poker For A Living by mattmaroon on Tuesday December 04, 2007 @12:01AM (#85827)
He he. Some time I'll tell you the story of why I would be a millionaire many times over by now if Neteller had not stopped accepting Americans. And why, after they did, I ended up driving home from Canada through a blizzard.

And why I own a whole bunch of cheap Dell PCs and registered copies of VMWare.

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Re:Matt Maroon: Why I Quit Playing Poker For A Living by mrtron on Tuesday December 04, 2007 @10:55AM (#85959)
I had a similar setup back in the day, and I think you did just tell the story.

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