Jane Willis and Jeff Ma
Jeff Ma ’90 didn’t play much blackjack at Exeter. For Ma and his friends in Webster, poker was the game of choice most of the time someone pulled out a deck of cards.
But if he’d stuck just to poker, he wouldn’t have made a fortune living a dual life as an MIT student and a high-roller in Las Vegas. He wouldn’t have gained the notoriety needed to start ProTrade, an online fantasy sports experience that projects players and teams into a virtual stock market. And he certainly wouldn’t have spent much of the spring promoting 21, a blockbuster movie inspired by his experiences that opened March 28.
His days playing poker in Webster did foreshadow the seven years Ma would spend with a team of MIT
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