Word: skillful
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...getting into Harvard are approximately one in ten. Instead of playing cards, the gamblers have a hand of actvities and scores. For the interview, they put on a poker face, knowing that their fate lies as much in the luck of the draw as in their intelligence and skill. Pulsating with adrenaline and anxiety, they play their best game, unsure of how it will end. The letter comes, and abruptly the game is over. Acceptance is the jackpot...
...really enjoy games of choice,” Damm says. “I play a kind of poker called ‘Texas Hold’em’. It has the least chances required and it’s the most betting intensive. It’s skill-based.” This form of poker, he says, is prevalent among Harvard gamblers with quantitative skills and attracts computer science, economics and applied math concentrators...
...only two games that you can make money at are blackjack and poker. Blackjack is a lot of brain gymnastics. Poker also involves a lot of math, but it also involves reading people. The human element in addition to mathematics makes it a game of skill as opposed to purely a game of luck. And I suppose that appeals to a Harvard...
...most closely to someone who’s addicted to working out at the gym. Because it’s something that when you put in your time, you get better at it. And if it’s something that you enjoy, it’s a skill that you develop. So if you can control it, the only thing it costs you is time. Because if you play regularly you should not be losing a significant amount of money...
...capital and the non-Pashtun north. To this day, the Taliban rules only 90% of Afghan territory and is still engaged in fierce fighting to capture the rest. So far, however, the alliance's often feuding units do not have the numbers, the ethnic backing or the political skill to constitute a serious opposition...