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How Winning Can Mean Losing in Poker and Life
Feb
7
2010
How Winning Can Mean Losing in Poker and Life
Shout out to Thomas Stridsman for sending me this Time article. An excerpt:
You can learn a lot about gambling if you’re willing to analyze 27 million hands of online poker. Don’t have time for that? No worries; sociology doctoral student Kyle Siler of Cornell University has done it for you. His counterintuitive message: the more [...]
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