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Reflections on Luck and Skill from the Part Time Poker Grind
In the early hours of May 13th, 2024 and after about sixteen hours of play over two days, I achieved one of my poker dreams and outlasted 773 entrants in the RunGood Poker Series $800 No Limit Hold’em Main Event hosted at Graton Casino and Resort to claim the outright win and top prize of $85,780.
You have probably seen or are at least aware of self promotion grifters who attempt to sell courses or a personal brand based on their short term results in high variance disciplines like options trading, crypto “investing”, or building a social media following. I hope the difference between me – a self admitted clickbait artist – and the average grifter is I can at least offer an important piece of advice when assessing claims made by people who work in luck dominated activities. There are plenty of scam artist gurus who run social media ads claiming they have a system for crypto / day trading / sports betting / real estate that you can only learn if you buy their course.
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