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  • According to my instructors, poker's easy when you don't have to make the tough decisions.

    Harmon Leon: Winning Tips at the World Series of Poker Harmon Leon 2011

  • "When poker's the only thing in your life, your happiness is totally dependent on whether you're winning or losing," Silverman says, "which is basically out of your control."

    In the cards: How teenage poker prodigy Steven Silverman won, and lost, millions Jessica Weiss 2010

  • "When poker's the only thing in your life, your happiness is totally dependent on whether you're winning or losing," Silverman says, "which is basically out of your control."

    In the cards: How teenage poker prodigy Steven Silverman won, and lost, millions Jessica Weiss 2010

  • According to my instructors, poker's easy when you don't have to make the tough decisions.

    Harmon Leon: Winning Tips at the World Series of Poker Harmon Leon 2011

  • Yet, Tunica Mississippi promotes its association with poker's "roots" in America, and it hosts poker tournaments with double the prize money of New Orleans 'WSOP circuit event.

    Archive 2007-05-01 2007

  • The other deep game, however, strikes me as rather like poker's: it is about the hidden, emergent, or unintended consequences of the rules or code that govern play in the world.

    The Lifetime to Master 2008

  • This is a cultural game, a social game: if you're good at it, it's because you can import sociality or emotional intelligence into the infrastructure provided by poker's rules.

    The Lifetime to Master 2008

  • I've decided that we're poker's Voltron, and I'm lucky and grateful to be part of this giant robot.

    In Exile 2006

  • This is a cultural game, a social game: if you're good at it, it's because you can import sociality or emotional intelligence into the infrastructure provided by poker's rules.

    January 2008 2008

  • The other deep game, however, strikes me as rather like poker's: it is about the hidden, emergent, or unintended consequences of the rules or code that govern play in the world.

    January 2008 2008

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