Get rich playing poker

Chris Ferguson, a.k.a. Jesus – has won $7 million playing poker. He also helped to start Full Tilt Poker, the second-biggest online poker site today. Online poker is a $4 billion business.  Unlike other online gambling companies, Full Tilt Poker didn’t panic when the U.S. enacted its absurd ban on online gambling, and it still allows Americans to play and to sign up on the site.  (The companies’ servers are located on an Indian reservation in Canada). Since 2000 –  Chris Ferguson has won more than seven million dollars playing poker, and that’s less, apparently, than what he’s earned as *something like the chairman of the board* of Tiltware, which developed and licensed the software for Full Tilt Poker, where people play online poker, sometimes against Ferguson and other professionals, for money. According to HR Gambling Capital, the online poker business made about $3.8 billion last year. It’s not clear that any law governs online poker. By remaining open after the Safe Port Act of 2006 was passed, Full Tilt and Ferguson *made the best bet in the history of poker.* Ferguson believes that game theory protects him from making intuitive judgements that might fail or from being distracted by information that’s not necessarily germane. In the 2008 World Series of Poker, Ferguson played poker ten hours a day for thirty-five days in a row.