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Greg Lavery worked at a McDonald\'s in Wisconsin. He nursed a video game addiction. He collected Simpsons figurines. Then, Chris Moneymaker won the 2003 World Series of Poker and everything changed. Greg became \'Captain Zeebo\', a menacing force of poker talent feared by every player on the Internet. In three years he amassed a staggering poker fortune before everything changed again.
In 2003, an unknown amateur named Chris Moneymaker won $2.5M in the World Series of Poker Main Event: the world\'s most prestigious poker tournament. Suddenly poker was everywhere. Moneymaker\'s rags-to-riches victory quickly became the new American Dream. Overnight, the struggling online poker market exploded into a multi-billion dollar industry as millions of hopefuls around the world began logging on and anteing up with dreams of winning the next online poker fortune. Out of this poker boom, a golden opportunity was born. Bright, young minds in universities everywhere soon discovered the keys to a winning strategy and many students who began playing for fun were suddenly earning more money than their parents. As the online poker economy continued to expand, hundreds of thousands of young people made the decision to play online poker professionally starting the journey from busto to robusto. These are their stories. |
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