(英会話リスニングスクリプト)
Hiroaki Kobayashi earned \12 million last
year, appeared with celebrities on TV and wrote a regular
advice column for a specialist magazine.
Although he is only in his early thirties,
he makes as much money as company managers and has bought
himself a luxurious Mercedes Benz.
He makes this money by playing pachinko
and calls himself a "pachi-pro".
Hiroaki used to run a cake shop in Osaka
Prefecture until one day a customer encouraged him to try
pachinko.
He put \200 in a machine and won \10,000.
The 24-year-old Mr. Kobayashi then decided
to learn more about ball-hitting technique and how the machines
worked.
He spent around \70,000 developing his skills
and, after two years of selling cakes in the day and playing
pachinko in the evening, he decided to sell his shop and
concentrate on pachinko.
He says that because of new computerized
machines, the old playing techniques no longer work so he
has to find the machines with the highest probability of
paying out.
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