Word: wind
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...wins the players tallied were for relatively small stakes. But the longer they played - and the more confident they got - the likelier they were to get blown out on one or a few very big hands. Win a dozen $50 pots and you're still going to wind up far behind if you lose a single $1,000 one. "People overweigh their frequent small gains vis-à-vis occasional large losses," Siler says...
...people who leave Somalia are minorities," says Maalim, who has put up more than 20 non-relatives in his house, all of them people who had nowhere else to go. "They belong to weak tribes, and most of them are not well-educated. For that reason, they sometimes wind up in the conflict zones, because they don't know better...