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The Top 8 Richest Professional Video Game Players In The World

As it stands today, the highest paid athlete in the world is boxer Floyd Mayweather. His earnings, with no endorsements, total some $105 million dollars. Footballer Christiano Ronaldo comes in second, with his bank manager gleefully overseeing around $80 million a year. Imagine that. Getting paid such substantial amounts for doing something you love every day, something that could hardly be considered a "job" at all.
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Published: Jun 26, 2014 12:04 pm

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3) Danil Ishutin – Ukraine

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Danil Dendi Ishutin

AKA: Dendi    Total earnings: $452,841

Yet another Natus Vincere player, many consider Dendi to be the greatest Dota player in the world right now. Not much is really known about Dendi, other than that he has amassed over 26 podium finishes in the last couple of years, with more than 15 of those being gold medals. Umm… yes, that’s it.

In order to fill this second paragraph, here’s a list of things he could buy with his $450,000 in earnings since he went pro in 2009:

– A luxury South African villa, with pool
– An unfeasibly small apartment in London
– Several college degrees
– A round trip to Mars with SpaceX
– A Lamborghini Aventador
– A BGM-109 Tomahawk missile
– 900 Xbox Ones. Not that he’d be caught dead playing a console.
– 450,000 hammers from the dollar store

And so on. I promise, I’m a qualified writer.

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Ciarán Utting loves video games and books with pictures of speedboats on the cover. There's plenty more of his drivel on Twitter.
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