BTW, don't most actuaries make at least $500 a day. I went to school with one who was clearing that a day... while we were both still in school.
Why'd the Wizard wind up doing a job he admitted he didn't like doing for so many years? The piece-meal slot stats for casinos. And then hosting such a forum, and trying to write meaningless reviews for online casinos? For relative "peanuts" for a coupon company.
In my opiniion, half a mil a year as a practising actuary to considerably less was another desperate trade off. No one else accomplished such. I guess it takes someone with a genius's faith in himself.