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Though he is careful to establish that he doesn’t experience a typical gambler’s rush—money is not the stimulant of his game. “I’m not a gambler,” he maintains. “It’s something more than gambling. It’s intellectual warfare. You must know your opponents better than they know themselves...You must know how they’re going to react. Poker’s all about being able to synthesize the psychological and quantitative aspects...
...this student gambler, making the money is at times more important than making the grades. “I gamble as a combination of making money and having fun,” he claims. He admits it’s a pretty nerve-racking means of making money, but the thrill usually outweighs the anxiety. “Though it’s not something I’m willing to do if I’m losing a lot of money,” he says...
...wily Ergen, a Tennessee native and a onetime professional gambler, isn't giving up. His initial offer gave shareholders an 18% premium (that bonus decreased when EchoStar stock fell on the news), an amount that forced Hughes' management to take notice...
...with Ben Bradlee and others) made it great. She presided, at crucial moments, over a radical transformation of American journalism and its relationship to government and power. The publication of the Pentagon papers in 1971 and the Woodward-Bernstein investigation of Watergate starting a year later were acts of gambler's courage and historic significance...
...American that one cannot see elsewhere. Here all the music and shadows of the country flow together. Here thrives the figure of the adorable con artist, like Harlem's Mr. Rinehart in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, whose "world was possibility." He was "Rine the runner and Rine the gambler and Rine the lover and Rine the Reverend." His multiple identities occupied "a world without borders...where Rine the rascal was at home...