Following the heavily reported Disney layoffs, political polling journalist Nate Silver might soon have more free time to play poker.
FiveThirtyEight (or 538) is the site founded in 2008 by Silver, who had previously played limit hold'em online for a living. In 2013, he sold his sports and political analytics website to ESPN (later taken over by ABC News) and then was retained as the editor-in-chief.
The data-driven journalist told his co-workers via a Slack message that he forecasted that he'll be gone from 538 "soon." As part of the second round of layoffs at Disney, ESPN's parent company, Silver's contract isn't expected to be renewed.