THE WORLD'S #1 POKER MANUAL - Card Games

Poker Book, Professional and Public Poker
High
Draw
$ 5-$10
$20-$40
$30-$60
Low
Draw
$ 5
blind
$ 20
blind
$100
blind
Professional
Cheating
(estimates)
Little
Some
Considerable
Some
Considerable
Extensive
Earnings of Best
Professionals *
(with cheating)
$ 10,000
$ 25,000
$ 40,000
$ 10,000
$ 30,000
$100,000
Earnings of
Good Players
(noncheating)
$20,000
$30,000
$50,000
$15,000
Uncertain
Possible loss
House Cut
+
per Player
$15,000
$30,000
$42,000
$15,000
$30,000
$60,000
Earnings of
Good
Players in
Equivalent
Private Games
$ 30,000+
$ 80,000+
$100,000+
$ 35,000+
$ 90,000+
$250,000+
* Earnings are estimated for the best professional players observed in Gardena. The average professional in
Gardena (including house shills and proposition players who are paid by the club for starting and maintaining
poker games probably nets less than $15,000 per year. The net average earnings of all the professional poker
players in Gardena are estimated at $15,000 per year per professional player.
+ The average Gardena table extracts an estimated $109,000 per year from its players, as shown in Table 33. The
house-collection schedule is shown in Table 34.
TABLE 32
EFFECT OF CHEATING AND HOUSE CUTS--
LAS VEGAS CASINO POKER
(For 3000 hours of poker per year. All data are estimates based on author's direct experience.)
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