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...muppets,” and “idiots.” By all accounts, “Darkhawk-2000” qualifies as none of these. But that didn’t keep him from losing $8,000 in a single sitting one fateful night in the summer...
...what changed between that summer night of freewheeling gambling and his current success as an online player? When Darkhawk tries to explain the emotions he experienced when he saw $8,000 slip away, he struggles for words. The feeling was similar to what he imagines drugs must be like, he says finally. Something distilled, adrenaline-heavy, “scary,” even. He had messed with the wrong person, the wrong situation, the wrong set of “sharks.” For a moment in time, Darkhawk-2000 was a fish. The experience was a turning...
...fact, Ian makes about as much as he did when he was teaching—around $50,000 a year. But there’s certainly a great deal less stress than before. The self-professed “night owl” likes that he can stay up until five a.m. and sleep in until noon. Ian suffers from mild carpal-tunnel syndrome, but that doesn’t stop him from playing five or six days a week, occasionally eight hours in a day. He usually has no more than 10 tables open (He has a friend with...
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...
...employee, who would not give his name to The Crimson, said yesterday in an interview outside of CVS that he had been working the night of the stabbing...