Ryan Wiseman, author of Earn $30,000 Per Month Playing Online Poker: A Step-by-Step Guide to Single-Table Tournaments, began playing online poker while a university student in 2003. Within a year, having studied many poker books with his poker-playing friends, he had become successful. Eventually they settled on one type of game — the no-limit Texas Hold'em sit-n-go (single table) tournament. The game’s predictable durations (40-60 minutes) fit well into their daily routines. More importantly, SNG could be defeated systematically. By the middle of 2005, Ryan had won more than $100,000. He currently lives in Toronto.