Originally posted by Ganalon
<tens of thousands now in my bank account>

Hey, even though I have a hard time believing that, it could possibly be true (maybe) [perhaps] {no way in hell}.
I've got absolutely no reason to lie to people on the internet. There are so many sites out there just throwing money at you to simply play at them. It wasn't all pure winnings, alot of it also involved promotions, free money, risk free money, etc. All this free money just for signing up offset any rake they may have been collecting. No free money or incentives? Just sign up at another one of the hundreds of sites out there.

I tried to get PB in on a few things, but he was too weary. I was making on average $35 an hour playing poker, sometimes more. If I spent 30-50 hours a week doing it for 7 months...well...you do the math. It was a 2nd job for me after my 45 hour work as an insurance monkey at my uncle's company.

I also have an $800 poker table, about $500 worth of poker chips, dozens of pieces of poker paraphenalia, and won a an all expenses paid Carnival Cruise for 2 to the Caribbean earlier this year. All free.

I also made an insane amount off of online casinos and my average hourly return was higher (but obviously, downswings are worse and risk is higher than with poker). But with them, it was often a hassle getting money out of them, and they'd stall for weeks at a time asking for proof of ID, changing requirements, etc. It's very easy to turn a game (like blackjack or video poker) from having a slight house advantage to a decent player advantage when they're giving you some money to gamble with once you deposit.

I could do a screen shot of the transactions in my Neteller account if I really felt the need to prove myself to a random stranger on the internet.

Meh, completely off topic now. Anyways, not that I'm saying I trust this guy...but there's a ton of ways to make money from poker on the internet.