Word: darkhawks
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...what changed between that summer night of freewheeling gambling and his current success as an online player? When Darkhawk tries to explain the emotions he experienced when he saw $8,000 slip away, he struggles for words. The feeling was similar to what he imagines drugs must be like, he says finally. Something distilled, adrenaline-heavy, “scary,” even. He had messed with the wrong person, the wrong situation, the wrong set of “sharks.” For a moment in time, Darkhawk-2000 was a fish. The experience was a turning...
...after that harrowing experience, Darkhawk didn’t quit the game. He vowed to play smarter. And he seems to have kept his promise...
...Series events. It’s dangerous, many professionals say, for people to play poker with the idea that luck will constantly provide an edge. More than three-quarters of all poker players are losing players (“There are a lot of people playing,” Darkhawk says. “A lot are bad”). In 2007, gambling industries—including card rooms, commercial casinos, and lotteries—grossed revenues of $92.3 billion. In other words, the streets of Vegas are paved with our losses...
...that information. For all the conceptions of poker as a sport of luck, most professionals emphasize the importance of decision-making in the game. “Do I fold, do I raise, or do I call? Whoever makes better decisions wins over the long run,” Darkhawk says. “You’re always executing decisions, and you’re trying to make profitable decisions every time...
...don’t think poker is gambling,” Darkhawk says. “Everything I’m doing, I know and have calculated—not completely, exactly. But over the long run, I’m going to make money.” A skilled poker player will have reduced his risk until he is confident of the results of his game, according to Darkhawk. With all its connotations of irrational risk-taking and unpredictable outcomes, gambling is no longer an applicable term when the game of poker has a firm foundation in analytics...