Election Polling Expert Nate Silver Cashes in WPT Seminole Poker Showdown
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The probability of Nate Silver winning the WPT Seminole Poker Showdown was low, which he probably knew. But the election polling expert and founder of FiveThirtyEight reached the money in the $3,500 buy-in event in Hollywood, Florida.
Nate Silver once made a career in poker. (Image: WPT.com)
Once upon a time, before his days crunching pre-election polling numbers, Silver was a professional poker player. During the early parts of the poker boom era, he grinded the high stakes limit hold’em cash games on PokerStars. And he made some solid money in that profession until the limit hold’em games dried up.