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...only his college friends know him as a mediocre poker player...
...Sigma Chi brothers were enticing Spring 2001 rushes with pool, Playstation 2 and poker at the chapter house, a broker was fielding offers from prospective buyers...
...early IBM PC and it came with BASIC,” Nesson recounts. “I programmed the machine to play five-card draw jacks-or-better poker and I loved it, figuring out how to make it deal and shuffle the cards. I was able to sell that and buy a summer house...
...veteran's benefits ran out, and when the government refused to give more he started making trouble." He paints Liang as a loudmouth who police have detained three times: first, for swiping police handcuffs and truncheons, then for swearing at officers he accused of corruption and finally for playing poker in a restaurant. (Gambling is illegal in China.) Liang denies only the thefts...
...didn't quite expect: every night, dependably and wonderfully, they deliver small, verifiable results. There's suspense first, of course, but it's tolerable suspense--nothing like waiting for Congress to vote on campaign-finance legislation or sitting through a year of Enron hearings to find out whether the poker-faced Ken Lay is history's biggest con man or sorriest dupe. It was nip and tuck there for a while before Bode Miller finally took the silver in the men's combined downhill, but only for a while...