After eight years of cashes, Las Vegas based poker pro Ben Yu finally got his first gold bracelet after topping a tough field of 117 entries in the $10,000 buy-in Limit Hold'em event. Yu, who bested a final table that had four former WSOP event winners on it, also received $291,456 for his victory. His WSOP earnings are now $714,310.
"It's really big to win this for me," Yu said in a post-tournam[...] Read more » 2015 WSOP: Ben Yu Wins Event #50: $10,000 Limit Hold'em Championship
I've read the sentence where he quit poker for three years to earn a college degree, then went work on Capitol Hill and Panama for some time before returning to the game - if this is not the copycat CV for every agents at the Cenral Intelligence Agency then I don't know what is. I guess he has a license to 'gamble'.
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