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Another renowned Harvard gambler was Vic Marma who invented a brand of poker known from Dartmouth to Princeton as Miami Marma. A.B., the Webster of Harvard poker, introduced a number of new terms including "K and L" --the game we all Know and Love (seven-card-stud-high-low), which is the type of poker most commonly played at Harvard...
...losses were more than he could afford. But on his last hand he was golden--a blue bicycle (ace to five of the same suit). He called his father long distance and described his hand. His father agreed to back him if he would promise to stop playing poker. The student ended his career as a poker player several hundred dollars ahead...
Walking past Cahaly's one evening, a poker player pointed to a freckled face bent over Time Magazine. "That is Raging Thurmond," he announced, "one of the Dunster greats." A legend in his own time. Thurmond has flown in professionals from New York and even New Orleans to sit in at some of the Dunster House games...
...professional but instead decided to come East to graduate school. "It took me three months to psych out the casino players." The Machine explained. "They are all quite good; they follow the rules. But they don't think about a hand the way the guys at Harvard do. The poker here is definitely of a higher quality...
Larry looks like a character out of Richard Jessup's Cincinnati Kid, which is to a poker player what St. Augustine's Confessions is to a Catholic. Larry has the pallid face, the light-colored eyes ringed with yellow--signs that mark the man who spends his days sleeping off the exhaustion of a night at the table...