[Zetack]

I don't the answer, and I suspect nobody else has a real good idea either.

However, I would note that if you assumed that there were a hundred players making at least $500,000 a year (and thus that at the top of the bell curve there were players making a lot more) you have to assume those top hundred players, collectively, are taking home a somewhere in the vicinity of 80 to a hundred million dollars a year. Possibly more, depending on how well and how big the top of the bell curve is and how much those top top players are making.

Intuitively, I think that's probably not happening.

I would also note, in response to a post in this thread, that the pool of players logging a million plus hands a year has to be pretty tiny (and the pool of repeaters who do more than a million hands a year more than once is gotta be even smaller).

Finally, the folks who put together hypothetical winrates times hypothetical numbers of hands, and conclude that its easy for large numbers of people to make huge bank, just aren't factoring in real world considerations.

--Zetack