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...you’re conscious you’re wearing Harvard clothes leave ’em home. I have a sweatshirt I got freshman year that is still around 19 years later...
...know--let's make 'em all bathe...
...play dice with the universe," McManus writes, "but serious gamblers...prefer no-limit Texas hold'em," a particularly hard-boiled poker variant. McManus gives the reader a riveting over-the-shoulder view of the hand-by-hand action as he scours his opponents' poker faces for "tells"--nervous tics that betray their true emotions--while betting his next mortgage payment on the turn of a little cardboard rectangle...
...national game--baseball's seedier older brother--and the story of a local Vegas gambling prince whose murder is a cautionary tale about the price of forbidden pleasures. Positively Fifth Street--the title is poker slang for the last, and often crucial, card in a hand of Texas hold'em--takes us into a mesmerizing mirror world peopled by lost souls for whom a game has become more important than real life. It's a fascinating place to visit, but you wouldn't want to die there. --By Lev Grossman
...courses may be put under the authority of the Extension School. While he says he’s somewhat wary of making them so “official,” he admits “you have to know when to hold ’em and when to fold ’em...