or3o1990
Legend
Silver Level
I enjoy watching the wsop and EPT as much as anybody. After watching hours and hours of professional poker players do their thing, a lot of the time that thing is busting out of these super high buy in events I got to wondering. How is it they all have the means to play these stakes??
Some of these buy ins are 50k euros or even the One Drop is 1m. A lot of these players are very young, in their mid twenties. How the heck can they afford to buy in at these limits? I know there are a lot of very good young players like Gruissem, Haxton, Dan Smith, Severt and Coleman obviously but I find it hard to believe that they all just grinded their ways to the top.. I don't mean to be a hater or anything but my mind races to say, "They must just have been rich kids and had a hell of a BR to start."
I haven't found any decent bio's on the players I've searched that talks at all about their upbringing or parents. Just that they made x amount their first couple years and moved up. What I read on Coleman said he made millions his first couple of years but that's probably not so hard to do if you have a 100k BR to start with. Obviously they can't all be trust fund babies like Bilzerian and I realize most have sponsors or backers at this point but I'm assuming most of them had to have been pretty well off to start..
What do you think?
Some of these buy ins are 50k euros or even the One Drop is 1m. A lot of these players are very young, in their mid twenties. How the heck can they afford to buy in at these limits? I know there are a lot of very good young players like Gruissem, Haxton, Dan Smith, Severt and Coleman obviously but I find it hard to believe that they all just grinded their ways to the top.. I don't mean to be a hater or anything but my mind races to say, "They must just have been rich kids and had a hell of a BR to start."
I haven't found any decent bio's on the players I've searched that talks at all about their upbringing or parents. Just that they made x amount their first couple years and moved up. What I read on Coleman said he made millions his first couple of years but that's probably not so hard to do if you have a 100k BR to start with. Obviously they can't all be trust fund babies like Bilzerian and I realize most have sponsors or backers at this point but I'm assuming most of them had to have been pretty well off to start..
What do you think?