The figure came from someone who worked for one of the online poker sites, if most people had to play 30,000 hands they be bankrupt. Most of of the people who play 30.00 hands will be winners, not least because they they can beat the rake.

Which is why Party's stock price with based so heavily on the number of new signups they get each quarter, poker is a game that cannibalises its players in a closed system, as the rake % would eventually eat them all up.

Molina