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...time poker has had its share of successful amateurs in recent years, some of them simple garage gamblers with a dream of getting in a high-stakes game and, when they finally do, riding good cards and tight play to a money finish. Indeed, the current chips leader in this event (with 58.9 million chips) is Darvin Moon, 45, an honest-to-god logger from Maryland. (Read "The New King of Poker...
Begleiter says his poker success, which includes a ninth-place finish in another World Poker Tour event last August, hasn't been about some special mastery of probabilities and risk. "There are plenty of people who are very good poker players who never worked on Wall Street and may have even dropped out of their community college," he says. To him, success is more about reading the opponent. He likens entering an all-in Hold 'Em showdown to a bidding war against some other investment firm trying to buy the same assets he wants to buy. You don't want...
Forced to overcome biting, difficult conditions this past weekend at three regattas, the Crimson stepped up in its biggest races, notching a fourth-place team finish at the Erwin Schell Trophy to qualify the co-ed squad for the Atlantic Coast Championships at home...
...match was a battle from start to finish, as both teams had seven corner kicks, and both goalies had four saves. Dartmouth outshot Harvard...
...have not had a great time dealing with prosperity as a football team,” Murphy said. “We have to finish better. We have to play for 60 minutes...