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...called "Begs" enters the final table with 29.9 million chips, which is third most. He'll be competing against plenty of pros seated around the table, including Phil Ivey (9.8 million chips), who many believe is the best poker player alive, and another accomplished pro, Jeff Shulman (19.6 million chips...
Some of the pros, anyway, are licking their chops at the prospect of facing Begleiter. "He'll call big raises and reraises with hands that no pro would play," says pro Phil Hellmuth, who is coaching Shulman. He calls Begleiter "a loose cannon" who could lose all of his chips to Shulman in a single hand. "At some point he's going to make a mistake...
...Phil Hellmuth has forgotten more about poker than I will ever know," says Begleiter. "So if he says I will make a big mistake I presume he is a heavy favorite to be right. But I guess I'll still show up and see what happens." Begleiter acknowledges the X-factor dimension he brings to the final table but says it could be his ace in the hole; his unpredictability helps make him a dangerous player...
...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 to be the one to blink, or you'll lose. Says Begleiter: "When I'm good I'm processing everything that's going on around me and making good decisions under pressure." Wait a minute - is he talking about banking or poker? You guessed it: both...
...uncharacteristic of the typically cautious Reid. "I don't bring anything to the floor unless I think I have the votes," he said on Oct. 21. Yet Reid isn't sure he has the votes to bring this bill to the floor, and it's looking unlikely that he'll have enough support to overcome a Republican-led filibuster. Snowe has said the inclusion of Schumer's provision makes it "difficult" for her to vote yes. Senator Joe Lieberman, a Connecticut independent who caucuses with the Democrats, has said he cannot vote for the bill as it stands, and moderate...