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POKER SHARK 2.0
ABC News Reports on the Success of Teen Online Poker Players
Submitted by Luckylizzy on Mon, 2010-08-30 15:02
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If you think that poker champions are getting younger these days, you aren’t imagining things. Poker pros like last year’s World Series of Poker champion, Joe Cada have attributed the internet to the growing trend of young poker superstars. A whole new generation of teens are using the internet to hone their skills long before they turn 21 with some players averaging 2,000 or more hands of poker a day.
A recent study by the national Institute for Research on Gambling Disorders estimates that over 70 percent of American teens between the ages of 14 and 19 have gambled in the past year and a separate study done by Researchers at University of California-Berkeley estimates that 19.6 percent of young men gamble online regularly.
Last week, Nightline aired a story on the recent phenomenon which included several interviews with young poker pros. Here are a few highlights from the story:
"I was always the quieter type. I didn't really go out much and I just stayed in and played cards," said WSOP champion Joe Cada. "One day I just kept winning and I won $4,000 ... I remember I went to school and told my friend Mike I was going to get to $10,000 by the end of the week. I went home, kept winning, next thing I know I got up to $15-$20,000 by the end of the week."
"If I didn't have online poker, I'd probably have to get a 'proper' summer job ... I wouldn't be able to teach the drumline, which is something I really love and it's really important to me," said Blaine Brount.
"I'm looking at some degrees [now] where I'm not going to be making as much money…[But] I know that I can supplement my income by playing poker or I can take it on as a full career…It's not like I'm going to win $5 million in a year and then I can stop ... If I win $1 million tomorrow, I'm not going to stop playing. I'm going to push myself to higher stakes to play against better players and try to win more money."
Visit abcnews.com for the full story.
If you think that you have what it takes to be as successful as Joe Cada and other young poker players, log on to PokerStars.com today and try your luck at the virtual tables.
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