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she anwers the title question in the last paragraph: "curiosity is everything, losing is a part of playing, and our opponents in life are less important than th
by Tarsul 5y ago
she anwers the title question in the last paragraph: "curiosity is everything, losing is a part of playing, and our opponents in life are less important than the choices we make ourselves."
I don't know why I expected more, guess I'm still prone to clickbait. Nonetheless, her story is interesting anyway. But she doesn't answer the real leading question of her story, which was whether she won against the misogynistic Dan B. (quick google search didn't help me with that..).
Actually, the best advice in the article is in the middle: "don’t play when tired, stressed or distracted."
- oh_sigh 5y agoAlmost certainly Dan Bilzerian. But that shouldn't even be particularly special, because he is a rich guy who plays poker, not a guy who got rich playing poker. (his dad is corporate takeover specialist/criminal Paul Bilzerian)
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- Tenoke 5y agoI believe he is a rich guy playing poker with other rich guys who play even worse so he's still made some money from it. That was at least the word in high-stakes poker circles back then.
- SuoDuanDao 5y agoI thought it was an open secret that he laundered money his father embezzled via poker.
- serf 5y agoa bit more context for those that don't know the story (I didn't, and i'm into poker.) ( I don't know the info host nor their credibility, was just the top-most answer on google for 'Dan Bilzerian laundering') https://easy.poker/dan-bilzerian/ https://easy.poker/dan-bilzerian/
- VectorLock 5y agoMost famously known as that dude who had the gal to ask a police officer for a gun during the Las Vegas mass shooting.
- koolba 5y agoMisspelling “gall” for “gal” in that sentence is very confusing. Especially knowing Dan Bilzerian’s background!
- emerongi 5y agoDoubt it. Many decent poker players have moved into areas where they can make money off of rich guys. From my minimal research many years ago, nobody knew of Dan B.
- garbagetime 5y agoThere are games in which such players are not allowed to play.
- tedunangst 5y agoTo disambiguate, the question is who won, not who Dan is.
- the-dude 5y agoHis name is all over the article. Why are you referring to him as Dan B. ?
- labster 5y agoBecause Dan B doesn’t deserve more publicity. That’s what he wants. The news organization has a duty to publish his name so we know the facts, but we have no obligation to increase an influencer’s reach.
- 1_player 5y agoI guess they've never heard of the Streisand effect, and caused many people, including me, to google "Dan B" to understand who they were talking about. I probably would have skipped over and forgot after half a second the existence of this person if his name was written in full in the first place.
- labster 5y agoSo… you admit to not reading the article.
- overboard2 5y agoDan Bilzerian?
- Tarsul 5y agoactually, it was simply because I didn't want to write the name wrong :)
- the-dude 5y agoHahaha. That is actually very funny.
- agumonkey 5y agoa subtext of that advice, don't play too big you don't feel curious if you bet your house on a poker game, but 50 bucks you get to enjoy the downfall
- User23 5y agoRisk management is the most important life skill, with rhetoric (persuasion) being a close second. If your risk management is sound then you can play as much poker or options trading or futures or any other hairbrained dipsy-doodle you like. But if your risk management isn't sound then you can still lose everything in a game (broadly construed) with an edge < 1 in your favor.
- agumonkey 5y agodo you have suggestions on books or others ?
- mkmcde 5y ago"Skin in the Game" by Nassim Taleb
- User23 5y agoThe Kelly criterion[1] is a good starting point. When it was run as an experiment, a game with a .6 player edge had 28% of players go bust. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly_criterion https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly_criterion
- willhinsa 5y agoAnd just to add: > If the bettors had followed the Kelly bet, 94% of the participants would have been expected to reached the cap [of $250 after starting from $25]
- phkahler 5y ago>> . But she doesn't answer the real leading question of her story, which was whether she won against the misogynistic Dan B. If you care weather she won or lost that match, you haven't really internalized the lessons yet.
- boomboomsubban 5y agoThey seem to have internalized the major lesson that "curiosity is everything," and (if the duel has happened) by not mentioning if she won is ignoring the lesson that "losing is a part of playing."
- imback 5y agono, "losing is part of the fun". i learned that from nethack.
- cubano 5y agoWell then, can you at least care if she played all of her hands perfectly and won "in spirit"? And I think its safe to say that when a women is playing against a misogynic douche like this guy seems to be in spades no less, that she actually does want to take as much money from him and crush his ego.
- Traster 5y agoDan B isn't a poker player, he's an instagram influencer who is most likely just laundering his father's money into legitimacy. There won't be a match.
- dakial1 5y agoBeing not from the US, when I first heard about Blizerian and did a quick search on him, it kind of became clear that his fortune came from the money his father stole and that the poker story is total BS. But my question is why is the SEC/FBI letting it slide? Too much time has passed?
- cubano 5y agoObviously, they don't have a solid case against the father. In general, the FBI doesn't let criminals just slide when the scumbags steal a bunch of money and then launder it in the open if they have enough hard evidence to convict them.
- Fezzik 5y agoThey had a great case against Paul Bilzerian - he was convicted and the government got a $60+ million judgment against him. It seems he is just exceptionally good at hiding his money during the bankruptcy processes. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Bilzerian https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Bilzerian
- ojbyrne 5y agoIn a linked article it’s mentioned that the son’s money is from a trust, so I wonder if there’s some kind of loophole like the Florida principal residence exception.
- spoonjim 5y agoThey should have debtor’s prison at some point. Obviously going bankrupt from medical debt should not send you to prison but running a $60 million fraud should.
- geon 5y agoA friend of mine, who played poker was very strict about only playing friday and staurday evenings, when a lot of opponents would be pre partying and drunk. He won a lot.
- spurgu 5y agoI used to play professionally and played weekends religiously as well. On a less serious note I especially loved playing on Friday 13th as I'm not superstitious and would rake in everything from the "unlucky" players.
- spurgu 5y agoDon't know if it's been edited since you posted, but at the end of the article, second to last paragraph: > If this was a fictional sports movie, this story would end with a blow-by-blow account of my match against Bilzerian. You'd see me struggle, battle and beat him, despite the odds, then the credits would roll.