Way Too Competitive: Tech Gurus Flock To World Series Of Poker
TechCrunch Jul 05 096,000 or so people have congregated at the Rio hotel in Las Vegas for this year's World Series of Poker to fight for $50 million or so that will be split among the last 10% of players left standing. Among them are a number of tech startup entrepreneurs. We're tracking four of them, plus any others that pop up. This is David Sacks' third WSOP. Sacks, a former PayPal exec and the CEO of Geni/Yammer, walked away with nothing two years ago. Last year he took home $25k in prize money, and twittered every hand. This year he's way up after the first day, with $91k in chips. That likely puts him in the top 10% of players. Full story...
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