WildHungarian is a 26-year-old from Budapest who decided last December to give up her job and attempt to make it big playing poker.
She now claims to study the game for two hours every day, on top of playing at least 40 games online. Some 120,000 people have viewed her streams on Twitch, a live-streaming video platform for gamers. When I asked what drove her to take such a huge leap of faith she told me that nobody can expect to be successful in professional poker while still working a 40-hour-a-week job, especially not starting from zero. "If I do something, I do it with 100 percent," she said.