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This luck-factor can detract from poker??s meritocratic sensibilities. But the fact remains that there are bad players. And then there are professionals whose faces make repeated appearances at the final table of World Series events. It’s dangerous, many professionals say, for people to play poker with the idea that luck will constantly provide an edge. More than three-quarters of all poker players are losing players (“There are a lot of people playing,” Darkhawk says. “A lot are bad”). In 2007, gambling...
According to Bernhard, the UNLV sociology professor, gambling constitutes any activity in which valuable items are wagered with no guarantee of the outcome. The description sounds a lot like poker??every hand has a good or bad outcome. It’s the mere possibility of the former, coupled with the ease with which it can happen, that draws legions to the game. But many experienced poker players chafe at the use of the term “gambling,” wincing as soon it’s mentioned and politely interrupting to clarify the distinction between...
Hawrilenko—who used to work in finance but now makes his living playing online poker??says that after he had played a large number of hands, he ran different kinds of win-rate analyses and determined that his chance of going bust was “pretty much zero,” which meant that he would win in the long run. And it’s safe to say that he has: at the 2009 World Series, Hawrilenko won more than a million dollars when he came in first place at an event. He took...
...Lithuanian identity garroted by Soviet rule. This ambitious endeavor is admirably achieved. Gavelis’ writing is a paragon of surrealist creativity and an intensely interesting read, filled with effortlessly intelligent prose and a wryly macabre voice. What’s at stake in “Vilnius Poker?? is the namesake city, Lithuania’s capital, which is first introduced through the eyes of the most fractured player at the table, Vytautas Vargalas. Vargalas, a labor camp survivor turned librarian, serves as a paradigm for post-Soviet interstice. He sees life through a lens of feverish...
...problem gambling.” Since founding the Global Poker Strategic Thinking Society, an organization at Harvard Law School and elsewhere that promotes poker as a test of skill, Nesson has worked to introduce the game to academia. The society has held multiple discussion panels at Harvard concerning poker??s legality on the national and world stage. The group also plans to introduce a poker-based curriculum into a school in Dorchester, according to Nesson, who hopes that it will be viewed as a “positive, educational game...