After eSports Team Ember founder, Jonathan Pan, revealed his players salaries to the rest of the world, Lee Davy ponders the value of the same happening one day in poker.

People always ask me how much I get paid for writing about poker. I always tell them the truth. I tell them what my salaries are with a gentle caution that it’s not necessarily a benchmark for average earnings.

This Christmas the eSports industry has been awash with blog posts and counter blog posts after Team Ember co-founder Jonathan Pan wrote on Medium revealing the wages of his playing staff. The highest of which was a gamer called Goldenglue who was paid a $65,000 base salary with $27,000 in bonuses. Pan believes the transparency of this information is paramount for his players because the flip side leaves eSports companies with greater leverage when negotiating player salaries.

It got me thinking about poker.