The Perfect Summer Job

For most teens their summer job consists of doing yard work or flipping burgers, but one teen and the sun of a kindergarten teacher his summer job was playing internet poker.

Eighteen-year-old Chris Benton a Sonoma State sophomore decided for his summer job he would neither have a boss nor hours that conflicted with his summer plans, so he played online poker. A job that he says averaged him approximately forty to fifty dollars an hour. Now at nineteen he feels playing online poker is not just luck but makes him use strategic thinking as well as advance his knowledge in psychology.

This is a growing field of employment for some teens and young adults who feel it is a way to earn money without the restraints of a regular part time job, and they are treating it as such by studying gambling books and other information to prepare themselves for their job, leaving luck for scratch of lottery tickets. Benson states that of his former classmates close to a dozen consider online poker as a way of employment rather than a way of entertainment to pass time.

As for the current laws in effect this does not hamper their way of earning funds, in order to bypass regular neighborhood banks that by law cannot make transactions with online gaming sites, so instead they purchase prepaid gift cards at local stores to play at us poker sites and other gaming sites like us online casinos.