Students drop out to play poker
I've been playing too much poker online lately, so this article about students dropping out of school to play poker was interesting.
"It's like LeBron James cannot afford to go to college right now," says David Williams, 24, who left Southern Methodist 30 credits shy of a degree in economics after placing second in the 2004 World Series of Poker, which netted him $3.5 million. "I just can't afford to be in college right now either."
Ashok Surapaneni mucked his three years at Penn to migrate to Las Vegas and turn pro. Straight from the Ivy League to the Strip. It's a living. "I wouldn't say we're any more gamblers than day traders are," says Surapaneni, 22, who was a finance major.
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