[Zetack]

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I'm just wondering if anyone knows how much $$ some of the top online players earn? Take the top 5 guys for example. Are we talking $1,000,000 + per year?

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Realistically? Hard to say. My guess is that there are a handfull pulling in upwards of a million a year, but I'd also say that the internet phenomenon is too new to know if they can actually sustain that on a year to year basis.

When Mike Matusow talks about dropping 400k or 800k or whatever it was in a few weeks online, you know somebody's there soaking that money up. What it also means is that there are games going fairly regularly where that kind of money can change hands. Which means that the big winners in those games are looking at six figure type years.

I read somewhere that GOT's goal for the year is 450k. How realistic that is is up to you to decide, but put it at somwhere more than a handful but less than several dozen making half a mil or more per year, with the same caveat about sustainability.

Now when you start talking how many are making really good but not eye popping money money, say 175-200k a year, I too would like to know, its hard to figure. I'm guessing its a lot fewer than could be doing it but for discipline and money management issues but I'm out of estimates there.

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