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How Did Bernard Huang Make $120,000 Playing Online Poker?
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Bernard Huang started playing in college, in the years after Chris Moneymaker won the 2004 World Series of Poker from a small PokerStars satellite. He says PokerStars and Full Tilt glorified that path, and he decided he had to try it. He made a little over $120,000 playing no-limit Texas Hold'em. Friends then asked him to put the money into a foreclosed Dickey's Barbecue Pit in Austin, where he was a student at the University of Texas. He tells the poker win as the stake for that first business. It is the chapter before the restaurant, not a career he says he stayed in.
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