Once On Tv, Now Just Another Gamer

Yazan Ammari, 23, earned nearly a quarter of a million dollars as a professional video-game player. Now he's back at Mom and Dad's. var flashvars = {}; var params = {}; params.scale = "noscale"; params.salign = "tl"; params.wmode = "opaque"; params.allowfullscreen = "true"; params.allowscriptaccess = "always"; params.allownetworking = "all"; var attributes = {}; attributes.name = "playa"; attributes.id = "playa"; swfobject.embedSWF("http://www.latimes.com/includes/inaugeration/dplaya.swf", "flashcontent", "500", "306", "9.0.0", false, flashvars, params, attributes); /* playlist variables pstr = poster image path thumb = thumbnail path vid = video path tip = text to be displayed in tooltip, keep short */ var playlist = [ { pstr:"http://www.latimes.com/includes/voices/gamerposter.jpg", thumb:"http://www.latimes.com/includes/voices/gamerthumb.jpg", vid:"http://www.latimes.com/media/flash/2009-03/45437927.flv", tip:"A Gaming God's Hard Fall" },{ pstr:"http://www.latimes.com/includes/voices/drakeposter.jpg", thumb:"http://www.latimes.com/includes/voices/drakethumb.jpg", vid:"http://www.latimes.com/media/flash/2009-03/45316763.flv", tip:"A Performer's Second Act" }, { pstr:"http://www.latimes.com/includes/voices/funeralposter.jpg", thumb:"http://www.latimes.com/includes/voices/funeralthumb.jpg", vid:"http://www.latimes.com/media/flash/2009-02/45178175.flv", tip:"A funeral director's reality" }, { pstr:"http://www.latimes.com/includes/voices/edge_poster.jpg", thumb:"http://www.latimes.com/includes/voices/beets_thumb.jpg", vid:"http://www.latimes.com/media/flash/2009-02/45053905.flv", tip:"Thelma May Beets" }, { pstr:"http://www.latimes.com/includes/voices/edge_poster.jpg", thumb:"http://www.latimes.com/includes/voices/gold_thumb.jpg", vid:"http://www.latimes.com/media/flash/2009-02/45053626.flv", tip:"Bertha Greenstein" }, { pstr:"http://www.latimes.com/includes/voices/edge_poster.jpg", thumb:"http://www.latimes.com/includes/voices/louie_thumb.jpg", vid:"http://www.latimes.com/media/flash/2009-02/45053908.flv", tip:"Lemuel Arthur Lewie Jr." }, { pstr:"http://www.latimes.com/includes/voices/edge_poster.jpg", thumb:"http://www.latimes.com/includes/voices/harding_thumb.jpg", vid:"http://www.latimes.com/media/flash/2009-02/45053912.flv", tip:"Rev.