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Quiz
A “two outer” means that you can win the pot:
A) if you hit one of two cards
B) if you hit both of those two cards
C) if you hit a two
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Nate Silver on Online Poker
by Erik Fast, Card Player.com
Before Nate Silver’s political prediction prowess landed him a gig at the New York Times and guest spots on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show, there was once a time when he largely relied on his abilities as a poker player to make ends meet.After quitting a job as an economic consultant in 2004, the founder of the incredibly popular FiveThirtyEight political blog primarily played online poker to make money while also working on a system for forecasting the performance of Major League Baseball players for Baseball Prospectus.
After leaving Baseball, Silver founded his political blog in 2008 and correctly predicted the winner in 49 of 50 states in the 2008 Presidential Election. By the next year, Time Magazine had named him one of its 100 Most Influential People of 2009. That year, he played in the World Series of Poker main event. In 2011, he wrote about Black Friday on his blog on the New York Times website.
Now, in the wake of correctly predicting the winner in 50 of 50 states in the 2012 Presidential Election, Silver is riding a wave of popularity and using it to promote his political blogging and his new nonfiction book, The Signal and The Noise. On Wednesday, November 14th he did a Q&A session at popular sports blog Deadspin and the topic of Federal online poker regulation and its viability was brought up.
“My hunch is that the poker community probably underrates how difficult it is to get ANYTHING done at the federal level, especially in the near term,” said Silver. “But the intersection of the need for more tax revenues, poker having become increasingly mainstream, better lobbying efforts on behalf of the poker community, etc., bodes reasonably well in the medium-to-long term.”
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In 2002, after maintaining a great positive attitude through a terrible WSOP, I was ready to win the Main Event and the accompanying $2 million prize. Monday and Tuesday (Day One and Day Two) I played as good as I could play, and I caught a lot of big hands as well. I went smooth, Cadillac smooth in fact, from $10,000 right up to $127,000 without ever being low on chips or close to all-in. I really thought that moving from 130 players down to 45 players on Day three would be a piece of cake. And then…
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