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🗓️ 6 February 2022
⏱️ 32 minutes
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0:00.0 | Today's episode of The Daily is sponsored by BetterHelp. |
0:03.5 | Why not take the next 10 seconds to focus on your breath, whatever you are doing, wherever |
0:08.1 | you are. |
0:09.1 | Breathe in. |
0:10.9 | Breathe out. |
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0:28.4 | My name is Keith Roemer. |
0:35.4 | I'm a contributor to The New York Times magazine. |
0:39.0 | So I've been playing poker recreationally for a couple of decades, not anywhere near |
0:43.5 | on the level of the people in this story, but enough to understand what they are trying |
0:49.3 | to do and what they're trying to achieve. |
0:52.7 | I have probably played hundreds of thousands of hands of poker in my life. |
0:57.3 | And it is a game that is fundamentally about decision making, about when to bluff, when |
1:04.3 | to call, when to raise. |
1:06.3 | And we do this over and over hundreds or thousands of times in a single game of poker. |
1:13.3 | For a long time, poker strategy was something that you learned by reading books, or you |
1:19.2 | could watch other good players playing and see what they were doing. |
1:22.5 | And it was kind of an open question. |
1:24.3 | That is the right way to play a particular hand in a particular spot. |
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