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http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2012/07/29/1 ... ayers.html

ACO BEACH, Costa Rica — From his oceanfront balcony, Tyler Forrester glanced out at the Pacific surf on the beach. Palm trees rustled in the breeze.

“Tough life I’m living,” Forrester said, cackling at his own humor.

Forrester is 28. He has a degree in Slavic literature from Duke University, but his academic life is a thing of the past. Forrester now makes his living in a bedroom before two computer monitors playing online games of Texas Hold ‘em for hours on end. He’s a professional poker player, and a very successful one at that.

Forrester, who grew up in Dillon, Mont., is one of probably 150 American professional online-poker players who flooded Costa Rica after Black Friday: April 15, 2011, when U.S. federal prosecutors went after the founders of the three largest online-poker companies, slamming a lid on the surging business.

Many of the Americans – who are generally male and in their 20s – aren’t happy about leaving their U.S. homes. Unlike Forrester, they voice anger at being denied the chance to earn a living in their home country even while paying taxes there.

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Smart guys but one mentioned he was homesick for his wife and family. So go home and get back to a normal way of making a living and be with them.

Hell some of us pro poker players are even CRT members.....

Many don't have a normal way of making a living. Was reading a story after the US really clamped down on poker last year where there were a ton of guys that dropped college and really had no resume because they had been grinding out a living at poker for years.