[Tomte]

Because they could spot and enter many small markets with "fish".

In finance and investment there is (to a first approximation) only one big market, and you are the "fish".

Those guys wouldn't have made their tuition walking into the Bellagio and entering the Big Game.

[douche]

One of the guys actually did go pro and made a pretty good living at it for a while, besides writing some books and video series on texas hold 'em

http://www.businessinsider.com/how-andrew-seidman-started-pl...