Writer wins $140,600 in poker after learning how to play the game

Writer has made the jump from amateur to full-time poker professional, complete with a sponsorship from the online poker site PokerStars. As PokerNews reported in May, she extended her year-long book leave from the magazine after winning more than $140,600 cash in two major tournaments this year, as well as a $30,000 credit for a future tournament. Her participation and unexpected ascension to elite poker are part of the immersive research for her upcoming book The Biggest Bluff, which includes studying and learning from professional players like Erik Seidel and Jason Koon.

“No one could have expected that I would have succeeded at the rate that I did,” Writer told CJR while at a tournament in Monte Carlo in early May.

The Writer first major win was the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure tournament in January, beating 230 players in a $1,650 buy-in event and earning $84,600, according to PokerNews. The win in the Bahamas, which required Konnikova to play 12 to 13 hours a day over three days, also came with Platinum Pass worth $30,000 to the PokerStars Players Championship next January.

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What that mean?

That meant ramping up her competition schedule to an average of two weeks of every month, and studying even more intensely when she wasn’t at the tables to prepare for the tournament in January. “I’m just living and breathing poker, just working my ass off and doing everything I can to become as competitive and as good of a player as I possibly can,” she said.

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• “No one could have expected that I would have succeeded at the rate that I did,” Wrtier told CJR while at a tournament in Monte Carlo in early May.

Now completely focused on making the most of her opportunity to compete in the championship next January. “It’s huge for the book, it’s huge for my development, my story, for kind of all of the themes that I’m trying to go for. Why don’t I just go for it and really try my absolute hardest?”

Conclusion

As for the future, and whether she’s considering switching to a life as a pro poker player full-time after the completion of the book, Writer’s answer was an emphatic no. “Fundamentally, I’ll always be a writer. I’m never going to give that up. That’s not on the table.