How Many Make $50k a Year?

Date:
From: Jim Geary
Newsgroups: rec.gambling.poker
Subject: Re: How many make $50,000 or more playing poker?


 On Thu, 23 Sep 1999, Jeremy A Siegel wrote:
  
 > so your a 50,000 dollar a year poker player...
 > 
 > lol
 > 
 > Jim Geary wrote in message ...
 > >You'd be wrong.
 > >
 > >
 > >On Thu, 23 Sep 1999, Jeremy A Siegel wrote:
 > >
 > > > very many of us???
 > > >
 > > > i would say nobody...


 Is this meant to be a repudiation of my statement?
 You need to do better than a strawman and a lol if
 you want to try to discredit me.  I have certainly
 not made that statement and anyone here who has
 given my vanity web page a cursory glance would know
 this not to be true.  However, anyone who knows me
 or has paid attention to anything I have written in
 these parts over the last five years would probably
 agree that my statement was based on experience and
 knowledge of poker that you are belying you possess
 not.  That's OK.  It's just foolish to continue to
 advertise this.  And just in case we got lost there,
 to clarify: I know a number of people greater than
 zero who do in fact make more than $50k per annum
 and have done so for a statistically significant
 period of time.  And to go one step further, if
 you really know about poker, it's just not that
 hard.  However, this may be difficult to see unless
 your(note spelling) game is at or near the appropriate
 level.  And if not, that's OK, too.  At this point,
 you may think(correctly) that it's just my opinion
 vs yours.  However, that does not make it a 50/50 prop.
 If you'd really like to ascertain if I might know more
 about the game than you(which given the discourse so
 far, Bayes' theorem tells us is about 17:1), I suggest
 you check out Dejanews to see if any of my posts bear
 information that may shed light on whether I know of
 what I speak.  Have a nice day.
  

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