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...probably should have known that it was time to quit once his bankroll had dwindled to $500. But at the time, playing it out seemed like a fine idea: lose it all or win everything back. The lights flashing from his computer screen, the adrenaline, and the late hour made the whole enterprise seem like a video game—with dollars as the points system. How simple it seemed. And yet, how perilous: his entire bank account gone in the time it takes most people to get a good night’s sleep...
...It’s definitely been a rollercoaster ride. You live and learn. There are mistakes I’ve made, but I’m okay with it,” he says. “I’m pretty proud of what I do.” But Darkhawk, who still lives at home, can’t really say the same for his parents. They’ve been nagging him to find a “real” job, and perhaps they have a point: “Let?...
...innumeracy of Americans really makes this possible,” Ian says about his poker profession. The “over-inflated self-esteem” of the country, combined with the seeming “disdain for math,” has made the environment opportune for learned players like himself, Ian says. More than 75 percent of players are losers, and, according to Ian, less than 10 percent of players play mathematically—in essence, fundamental mistakes that can be eliminated with simple instruction pervade the amateur scene. “Most people don?...
...single dip or rise in the Dow Jones and seeing it from a few feet away as a simple hiccup in a concerted (and, for the expert poker player, orchestrated) upward trend. You’re not really a gambler until you’ve gone broke and made it back. “Losing is normal. You’re supposed to lose,” Darkhawk says. “Winning has to be detached from how well you’re playing...
Taken to a more extreme level, it’s a pattern of behavior that calls to mind the drug-user analogy that Darkhawk made as he searched for a way to describe the night he lost it all, a mindset that he associates, pointedly, with “gambling” and not poker-playing. For the pros, the Hawrilenkos and Darkhawks of the world, riding a long smooth curve of expected value and carefully weighed percentages, the adrenaline rush is largely a thing of the past...