{"id":1286,"date":"2006-07-27T18:46:11","date_gmt":"2006-07-28T01:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=1286"},"modified":"2006-07-27T18:46:11","modified_gmt":"2006-07-28T01:46:11","slug":"stay-at-home-poker-dad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2006\/07\/27\/stay-at-home-poker-dad\/","title":{"rendered":"Stay At Home Poker Dad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tired of your job?  Good at poker?  Do what my friend <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.wired.com\/wired\/archive\/14.08\/posts.html?pg=3\">Ben Foster did<\/a>, quit your job and play poker online for a living.  From the Wired articled linked above:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nLast summer, Ben Foster quit his $110,000-a-year job as a senior product manager at eBay to play online poker full-time. In the months leading up to his decision, the 28-year-old with a degree in statistics had been tracking his winnings on a detailed spreadsheet. After checking and rechecking the numbers, he came to the conclusion that he could earn more money playing poker than working at eBay. Plus, his wife was pregnant with their second child, and he was needed around the house. Foster decided to become a stay-at-home poker dad.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>[As a side note, Ben has indeed taken much money from me at poker.  But that was before I learned to play poker.  That was when I learned that I just shouldn&#8217;t play with him.  &#8220;Strange game Dr. <del datetime=\"2006-07-31T15:12:07+00:00\">Falcon<\/del>Falken, the only way to win is not to play.&#8221;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tired of your job? Good at poker? Do what my friend Ben Foster did, quit your job and play poker online for a living. From the Wired articled linked above: Last summer, Ben Foster quit his $110,000-a-year job as a senior product manager at eBay to play online poker full-time. In the months leading up &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2006\/07\/27\/stay-at-home-poker-dad\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Stay At Home Poker Dad&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-self-meet-center-center-meet-self"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}