What a crummy thing for that agent to do. BTW, Omar Sharif (now deceased) played bridge for a living, as a sideline to his film performances, and did quite well in co-writing a bridge column for national distribution in the papers. Maybe James can get a writing gig out of his poker playing.
Interesting, Gabe Kaplan played poker and was a minor league baseball player, made a lot of money in poker’s much that he preferred it to acting.
Had a great acting career too.