3L Not Interested in ‘9 to 5 Thing’ After Big Poker Wins
A 25-year-old 3L from Pace University Law School is a young millionaire, thanks to his poker-playing skills.
Jeffrey Papola won the $5,000 buy-in Six-Handed No-Limit Hold’em championship in Las Vegas over the weekend, according to stories in the Las Vegas Review-Journal’s World Series of Poker blog, Poker News Daily and OnlinePoker.net. His prize money is $667,433.
Just three days before, he won second place in another event, the $2,500 buy-in Six-Handed No-Limit Hold’em championship, where he earned more than $391,000 in prize money.
Poker News Daily describes Papola as an “online poker guru.”
Papola says he’s learned a lot of things in law school, but he’s not sure what he wants to do with his law degree, according to Poker News Daily and the Review-Journal. “As far as practicing law, I do not see myself being able to do that, because I really do not like the 9 to 5 thing,” he said. “That’s one reason I was so drawn to poker.”
