Offbeat: Show-off: 22-year-old ex-poker player makes our life seem boring
- I knew that I should stay in school, but in the back of my mind I was thinking, ‘This is so easy, why wouldn’t I just do this?’
- 22-year-old University of Maryland student Steven Silverman • Discussing his life as a high-stakes poker player, a lifestyle he’s since left behind. Silverman quit college to pursue the dream, and in the process won millions of dollars. He also lost a lot of money, too. He was robbed at gunpoint during a poker match. He even put in time on a reality TV show. But, after getting stressed out on the poker scene, he ended up going back to school and “retiring” from the poker scene. Dude has managed to live a lifetime in just a couple of years. source
