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...wrestler must win a majority to avoid dropping in the rankings. It doesn’t materially affect him whether he wins 14 matches or eight—just that he emerges with a better-than-even winning percentage. Knowing this, Levitt looked at the last matches in tournaments??when a wrestler with a 13-1 record going into the final round was matched with a 7-7 wrestler on the edge. He found that the 7-7 wrestlers, with more at stake, prevail far more frequently than one would expect—indeed, the winning percentage...
...contract basically says ‘If you want to play in our tournaments??then you also have to give up all of these other rights,’” Bloch said, adding that professional poker players are making efforts to organize into a union of sorts...
...another protective factor, I’m not entering tournaments??it took a lot of restraint not to drop ten dollars on the college’s first campus-wide tournament, which began last week. But as a reward to myself for that show of restraint, two roommates joined me for a friendly game on a Wednesday night. So what if we don’t have a fourth? Good way to kill an hour, right? The three of us huddled around a ratty little Habitat for Humanity ottoman we bought for a dollar—which...
...They came to select events of my senior year through April,” Green said, including his SAT preparation, his long hours of study, his extracurricular involvements in water polo and knowledge bowl tournaments??and finally his elation when he found out he was admitted to Harvard...