Word: pokerã
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Dates: during 2001-2001
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...March as a prep cook. “The worst part is cleaning up—It’s my job to clean the deep fryer at the end of the night.” He draws a diagram of the deep fryer and the “poker?? instrument he uses to clean it. Cooking is actually not all that glamorous. But Danny’s not complaining. “I get to do fun stuff—using squeeze bottles to make squiggly lines to plate up stuff...
...gambler,” he maintains. “It’s something more than gambling. It’s intellectual warfare. You must know your opponents better than they know themselves...You must know how they’re going to react. Poker??s all about being able to synthesize the psychological and quantitative aspects of the game into a coherent reasoning. I like that...
Unsurprisingly, this economics concentrator’s game of choice is poker??Texas Hold’em, to be exact. He used to play with his own money, but that stopped when he met a wealthy man looking for a player to back. Impressed with his natural ability, the man offered to pay him a fixed rate to play in high stakes games. “Under his money, I played amongst the biggest players in the world,” he recalls. “The structure of the game was ‘10/20 no-limit...
...course, there’s more to win than money too. He loves the sensation that comes with making high-level decisions. “Poker??s an emotional rollercoaster—the greatest rush in the entire world,” he claims...