Wednesday, August 04, 2004

Leaving Poker to work in the City

The card life

In an amusing distortion of the norm, the BBC website reports on how Poker wunderkind, James Vogl, is about to give up poker for a job in the City - a bit like running away from the circus to become a window cleaner.

James, a mere babe in the poker world at 24, recently won $400,000 (and a chunky gold bracelet) at the World Series of Poker and is one of the circuit's rising young things. He was the only European to win a stage at this year's WSOP.

He broke into the poker world after exhausting the backgammon circuit and realising that some people in the game just didn't pay up - unlike poker which is played at casinos and debts are enforced. He found himself 'naturally talented'.

However, he doesn't seem to like the not-so 9-to-5 lifestyle required by poker players. The North London kid wants to settle down, take off his chunky gold bracelets and is planning to retire from the pro poker circuit for the more mundane reality of a job in the City.

He may find his new City colleagues more interested in the cards than trading shares

More Links:
- UK Online Poker Guide
- World Series of Poker

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