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...saying goes, the next best thing to gambling and winning, is gambling and losing??and that bodes well for professionals. Forget skill and luck—all you have to make sure is that you’re better than the next guy, and the multitudes that have flocked to online poker in recent years have ensured that there is a consistent crop of bad players. One of Ian’s friends said he liked gambling because he is “surrounded by inept people, yet none of them are his boss, and if they...
...losing??and a tolerance for losing??is also an essential aspect of successful play. Players at all skill levels will have both winning days and losing days. It’s the interpretation of these events that can make all the difference and constitute divergent perspectives on the game. As a general rule, wins on individual hands cannot be interpreted as indications of future success. Novices often fall into the trap of thinking that they are performing well when they make money on a particular hand. They focus on the intermittent rewards, rising and falling with...
...spectator sport that I love to watch: baseball, America’s favorite pastime. I don’t love watching any old baseball team—it’s only the Boston Red Sox that I have come to adore. What other team—winning or losing??pulls together America like the Sox? (Answer: none...
...games in just over a week. “We will walk into the Wisconsin game [on Friday] believing we can win—the problem is they don’t,” Delaney-Smith said. “And it’s the cycle of losing??when you lose as many as we’ve lost, do you know how to win? Do you believe you can win?”But with the team still a month away from Ivy League competition, Delaney-Smith sees opportunity in the non-conference tilt...
...Like Paik, Goodkin knew he could make “like $30 to $40 per hour with little chance of losing?? in low stakes games. But Goodkin became drawn to the higher buy-in games, where there was simultaneously the challenge of playing better competitors and “the chance to make serious money...