Just reading about Cyrill Collins being killed. He was trying to buy 10 pounds of pot from some guy and the dude shot him. But just how prevalent are drugs in poker? According to a survey done in 2010 4 out of 5 "poker professionals" were on some kind of drug. Now that can range from caffeine to meth and cocaine.
You can go back quite a ways. Stu Unger, Chip Reese, Mike Matusow, Greg Merson I'm sure there are others.
To me drugs not just in poker but gambling in general have to be pretty common. Not because the number that use them or the names but because the amount of money involved in tourney and cash games.
Take zbxyc he played in a tournament in France this week. He flew over from America spent 5,600 dollars on airfare food and hotel. Paid 10,000 dollars for xxbbyc tournament and didn't win anything.
In one week the dude might of dropped 15,000. Now he flies back to America. Has bills to pay at his house apartment there goes another say 2,500. Now your telling me a average guy can just pull another 15,000 dollars in the next couple weeks to fly somewhere and play in another tourney come on. No working person has an extra 30,000 dollars a month to blow. Say he doesn't win anything there either that's 32,500 blow in a month x12 what roughly 350,000 gone in one year.
No possible way. Without some sort of illegal activity. Where does all this money come from? I can understand the top 1% that have sponsors but how some guys fly from one tourney to another and don't cash anything and still have some sort of money is beyond me. Think they should investigate the source where some of the money that people play in these tourneys comes from.
If your a normal working person and wanted to play in one of these tourneys making 9 10 13 dollars an hour its going to take you 2 to 5 years to save up enough to play in one tournament.
According to espn only 10% of poker players are winners in the long run. That means 90% lose money playing. "We calculated that about 15,000-to-20,000 players were winners in any given year, U.S. cardroom figures only," Dalla tells me. "This amounted to about 10-to-12 percent of the U.S. poker base, estimated roughly at 200,000, which we defined as the number of players who play in a public cardroom two-plus times in a calendar year."
And how much does an average winning poker player make in a year? Um try 30,000 dollars some one that grinds almost everyday and wins that's the average. A semi retired person that plays and wins almost everyday averages 20,000 dollars a year. So again I ask where does all this money come from to play in these tournaments. 10,000 dollars here one week 10,000 there another week, airfaire, food, rent, mortgage payment. I havn't been able to pull any money out of thin air.
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