I feel like taking a shot at answering this question based on my personal experience. My first year in 2001, I made about $2,000. My second year I made $9,000. My third year I made $18,000. My fourth year in 2004, I made $37,500. My fifth year in 2005, I made about $30,000 so far.99% of my games were limit holdem. I started out at the $1/2 or the $2/4 tables 10-handed. They didn't have anything lower back then. Back then, paradise poker was the site to play. Then I came to party poker because they had a lot of bonuses. I was there when they had only 900 players. Exposure on WPT made