Poker – Millions to be Won

A 26-year-old student from New York has used his poker winnings to pay off his student debts.
Matt Matros, a graduate student from New York, used his gambling winnings -- about $1 million -- to pay for his Yale and Sarah Lawrence education.

Matros, whose game is poker, scored $706,903 in winnings at the World Poker Tour Championship in Las Vegas, the New York Post reported.

"When I started playing this game, there were plenty of people who told me I was wasting my time, that I had a gambling problem," he said. "But I discovered I was good at it. And there's so much money to be made - millions."

Matros said he was looking for a way to pay his student loans as a math major at Yale, so he joined a student poker club and after he became its top player, he moved on to the casinos in Connecticut and Atlantic City, N.J.
Now that Matros has paid off his student loans he's about to buy a condominium in Brooklyn.
He's also publishing a book, "The Making of a Poker Player," from Citadel Press.