Word: holdã
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Dates: during 2001-2001
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...really enjoy games of choice,” Damm says. “I play a kind of poker called ‘Texas Hold??em’. It has the least chances required and it’s the most betting intensive. It’s skill-based.” This form of poker, he says, is prevalent among Harvard gamblers with quantitative skills and attracts computer science, economics and applied math concentrators...
Unsurprisingly, this economics concentrator’s game of choice is poker—Texas Hold??em, to be exact. He used to play with his own money, but that stopped when he met a wealthy man looking for a player to back. Impressed with his natural ability, the man offered to pay him a fixed rate to play in high stakes games. “Under his money, I played amongst the biggest players in the world,” he recalls. “The structure of the game was ‘10/20 no-limit...
...lose $400-$500 a night. As for the evolution of the game, we started off playing lots of wild card games and draw poker. As the stakes got higher and higher, we played fewer and fewer games. It’s pretty much limited down to Texas Hold?...